St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-09-30
GENERAL 4. II WRY.

General Lowry rather with playful irony
than ndignant rebuke. Some have attrib--,
uted this to fear q, Of respect for his wealth,
position, and aristooratic airs. This was d
mistake. s.s n " s..@
For. q year previous to that burglary, he
had been an invalid, the health,of' body
and mind greatly impaired BY q life Of
dissipation which he was wisely forsaking.
Our leniency towards him was for q suffer
ing fellow mortal struggling towards a
better, and purer life; not for . Southern
lordling, oyeraWing his nnsophistioated
neighbors with his airs and graces.
We knew our press was destroyed by
him and his laqueys, in person, to ayenge
his wounded vanity; but We looked upon
him somewhat in the light Of lunatic,
while his two accomplices were in the full
possession Of all the little measure Of sense
| the Creator had ever given them. We
therefore blamed them more than him,
but since that event his course has been a
natural curiosity, and exhibits much more
Of the low cunning which characteristics
the monkey tribe than any. mark Of enlarg-
ed human intellect. Anything so utterly
devoid OF maniness, candor, honor, and
generosity we certainly never have wit
messed. -
After inducing one Of his laqueys pub
licly to assume the responsibility Of his
| act, he, TO appearance, broke off all COM
munication with them. Hejoined church,
grew pious, mingled in the most conde-
scending style with pious people, took
special pains to be gracious with our best
friends and most public, and active sup
porters, induced his family to ningle with
the people as they had never done before,
and played saint with astonishing effect.
Men of undoubted honor assured us that
no man, more than General Lowry, regrett-
ed and condemned the outrage upon the
liberty Of the press; that his opinion Of
shepley correspondent exactly with our own;
and that bis cowardly act never would
receive any countenance from General
Lowry. We could not know what to
think, but had very good evidence that
ne had been trying to get a government
appointment for the man he protested to
despise, and with whom he appeared to
have no communication. Fl !" ag
Well, he played fox until he thought he
had re-established his old dictatorial au-
thority; when he hitched teams with the
Land Office, arranged the campaign for
the fall election, brought out his men,
took possession Of the Democratic caucus
meeting; and the very first thing to be
done was, endorse Mr.. Sheply.
His right hand man, Col. Caruthers,
Register Of the Land Office, rose and pro-
posed that Mr.. Sheply be elected Chair
man Of the meeting, because, Che had
been attacked by paper not thousand
miles off," and branded as burglar There
it was. His business and that Of his
master, the business of that meeting, was
to get the citizens of St. Cloud to say that
breaking open house at midnight, and
destroying a printing press which had
offended the Southern chiyalry; is not
burglary The first business Of the
Moccasin party in Stearns County is to
endorse HOUSEKEEPING, threats Of personal
violence to women, and wholesale distribu-
lions Of type!
The majority Of the meeting were Ger
man Democrats, who had no fancy for the
CUISINES. So they voted down the Gen
erals Jeemes with an indignant storm Of
IN ~" When the little donkey doubled
down his ears and SUNK off; but his master
was not going to give it up so.
Next, he had himself proposed for the
place refused to his laquey. He had play
ed saint so successfully, that the people
were not ready, with one voice, to cry him
down; and some voted "Aye,n. though a
majority "Nay," he took the chair, and
with the aid Of his Land Office allies, sue
ceeded in disgusting the Democrats until
they left the Hall in a body; when the old
snaky eyed Indian trader, elected two Of
his laqueys, Dr., Palmer, and Col. Caruth-
ers, both house-breakers -to represent
ST. Cloud in the District Convention to Be
called I'D IN ocratic."
Some Democrats attended that Conyen-
tion, and proposed De Hamlinf for leg