The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1858-05-20


to selling negroes, but have no objections to
bartcrng the interests of tens Of Thousands
OF whites. in order 10 obtain place and plum.
der. Gu, upon such hypocries
The Habcock .po"dr"e'-Ths uab-
eo.L Circular aud the usb,osh L''-
t.,--Iiabcock 90 Gorns" aud ir'""'h
Gco-,ni,y.
That Mr.. /. A. BAucooK IL no longer
" candidate for iniamy,' but That bo has
achieved ns full measure of disgraco IN or
dlnarily falls TO the lot of one man. we pro
pose briefly to show Ills communication,
20 ostcuta,iousy paraded in the N'nne'o''dn
Of Yesterday We declined to publish, simply
because il Is vindicntion of u document
denounced by our c,zrns, Of every political
party, az reasonable TO the beet interests OF
Minnesota and for the further reason, that
while on its face Il appears 10 bc designed to
remove the odium which has Justly fallen upon
the RAMSEY CoorrR clique, II contains vio-
lent, irrelevant and untrue assaults upon the
Democratic party Of Minnesota, accusing
Leading men Of the party Of every deScrip
ton Of rascai,y aud fraud. This is intro
duccd too, in the defence Of n man esteemed
| as the mere go.between or stool-plgooD OF
partie~ concerned in disgrnccful md trcn.
sonabIc acts The criminal assumes 10 be
the nssaiaDi. and attacks his betters with
the venom and scurrility Of the fish market.
II IL for these reasons we refused TO
allow yndication OF the Secret Cir
calar to appear in this paper. IL The
writer had possessed greater regard Tor
truth, and dealt less in Impudent lnlscbood,
our determination might, possibly, have been
different.
Although Mr. Bancocw claims the entire
honor Of the authorship of the Secret Circu
lar, we do not propose by any means To nd
nit his claim and shall, therefore, while
treating Of the document, refer to II NJ here
tofore--as the production Of clique of dis
appointed politicians embracing such men
~ RANsrY, CoorsH, ALDmcn. and others
The only reason IL strikes us, that could have
induced Mr.. BAgcocK 10 claim its author.
ship, il the possible fact that he cares less
for the contempt Of nne-tcnths OF the people
Of Minnesota than bis associates. or that be
has very little regard for truth. lie may
accpt either horn Of the dilemma.
n the document was written by myself
lphere rns printed :, "with0ut the know.
ledge or consent Of others, how com's II
that copies have reached members Of Con
grcx, signed by other names than the enpho-
nious one of BABoocg why was II exhib.
itoI u somc of the leading Republicans in
this city, with the request that j, should be
despatched 10 their friends in CoDgress. "
there was no concert of actioD-if Mr. BAB-
COCK il the sole author Of the plan 10 keep
IA rat u the Union. how is Il that his cir.
cular has found ia way 10 Washington, en-.
closed IN letters from leading Republicans of
the Clique, urging upon members of Con-
grcss the advantage that would result to the
Republican party Of the State II plan sim
lar 10 that laid down In SnrHsAs's Bill
could BE- carried OUT IL Mr.. BABcocK the
individual we ask thoe acquainted with his
remarkable physical and mental energy TO
originate and carry out 10 extensive and
decplaid plan Of delaying the admission Of
Minnesota, without instructions and aid from
other quarters We do not t<lieve b. Ia.
Everything abou, the document origin,
printing, exhibition, hansm lsion and ef',ct
in Washington convinos us, and has ma
jori'y Of the people of the State, that il was
coneoctsd by combination Of soured poll
ticians. who are now using the fscilc Mr..
BAsoocT 70 hide their guilt, undsr the cover
Of his docilty and cootsmp. Of public in
dignstioo.