Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-15
Much Cry and Little WOOl.--The Awful
Disclosure!

much Cry and Little WOOl...The Awful
Disclosure!
The Pioneer has got hold of paper which
1t dubs "Secret Circular" and which it
seems to consider something very awful!
On S turday last it gave notice that it had
possession of the tremendous document-as-
serting that it had been transmitted from
this city to Republican members of Con-
gress by RAMSEY, COOPER, BABcocK, FOSTER
and others in order to defeat the admission
of the State'-and giving notice that it
would publish the "vi,lianous thing" the
next day, yesterday
of course, we supposed from all its pre-
vious hourishes ON this subject, that Mr..
RICE had got something up in good style and
with a p,usible face upon it to divert atten-
tion from his own disgusting bargain and
sale on the Lecompton question and to &C
count for the failure of the Democratic Ex-
ecutive and Democratic Congress and of
an entire Democratic Minnesota Delegation,
to brig us into the Union in double quick
time, with no postponement on account of
the weather, nor on any other account what
sotver.
We expected, for instance, that some at
tempt at ecidcnce duplicating the gentlemen
named, would be produced along with the
document that was to be paraded in the
Pioneers columns as having so atrociously
fmled all Mr.. RIcE's efforts to get Minnesota
into the Union!
The public, it was thought, would hardly
be thus excited 10 anticipate whitening dis
closure. and tten be put off with the reprint
merely ola fatherless paper, found wandering
by Mr. RICE about the streets of Washing
ton ard sworn t. by him as a genuine Re-
publican production and sent on here to be
printed by the forgery organ so as to offset
his Ship-ofState letter and induce forgetful-
ness of the disgraceful sell-out of himsel
and his colleagues in Congress to BUcHAN-
ANS Administration.
And besides, many persons in their in
nocence of political wies were of the opin-
ion, that the names of citizens Occupying
private stations, wouldn't be thus seized hold
of and paraded from day to day, with vitup-
era,ire epithets as parties to certain trans
actions to keep Minnesota cut of the Union,
without, at the same time, the authors of the
charges being able to adduce some strong
proofs sustaining in the most ample manner
the naked assertions of Mr.. Indian Trader
RICE and Mr.. sub-edtor Mills!
In anticipation, therefore, of beholding 90
clear case, gotten up with care equal to the
Ottertai canvass forgery, with irrefragible
and indisputable testimony backing up its
allegations as TO the authorship and trans
mission of the document in question whatev-
er it might be; which testimony should
overwhelm by direct evidence all the citizens
against whom the organ had made its false
charges; the yesterday Sunday morning
issue Of the Pioneer was most eagerly sought
for and sedulously scanned over, to ascertain
the head and front and whole extent of their
offending.
But 0, what a falling off was there nv
countrymen! The readers of that paper,
found themselves set down to O different en-
tertainment from that to which they had
been invited. They found themselves fed
with lentils and water instead of turkey and
cranberry sauce. They bchelI only an isolated
paper, with no name or names amended
MISUNDERSTANDING facts, generally fairly
stated, with some mistakes, and with aruu.
ments good and bad based on those facts and
on those mistakes-allurgcd in opposition to
our admission. at this time, under our present
constitution, into the Federal Union.
This was all. n lot a title of eridence to sus.
tan one ofthe assertions in which the Pionee,
for some time past has been SO freely indulc-
ing! The mountain labored and had brought
forth mouse!
But, what ought to be the doom in public
estimation of press that thus for weeks pours
out its s'arders OH private citizens-drags
them into the gladia.orial arena of its con
n'ct OF falschood and winds up its assaults
with such miserable abortion to sustain i!s
unjust course
mat press, as we'll as Mr.. RICE from whom
TINS circular AMI these ' private advices" in
'"0 ""fer are now understood to come
very well knoo hat Governor RAMSEY was
absent from Minnesota the entire winter
that his scjonrn at Washington was b.re,v
two DAYS in February and that whom ha
was there. the .adminis'ration and the South
were the parties who were down on the .d-
mission of Minnesota into the Union while
the Republicans in Congress were in Our "a.
vor; ard that it was after or about tho tim,
he left Washington that Mr.. RICE and thret
of his colleagues made his disgraeefM cell ou
to LecOmpton, and thus caused ALL pARr1r