The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-02-27
Urtah Heep Lectureth Copperfield-
The Pioneer Oh Personalities.

Urfah Heep Lectureth Copperheld-
The Pioneer Oh Personalities.
The Pioneer of yesterday Thursday
morning, reads us one Of its "dignity-dodge"
lectures about our course upon the $5,OOO,-
600 loan bill-a kind of lecture in which
that paper is most ridiculously prone to in
dulge, especially after long and exhausting
fit of abusing people, as scoundrels, liars, &c.
We make the following extract from its ar
tice:
The Minnesotidn which med disposed at first to
consider this measure upon its intrinsic merits and to
conhne itself to legitimate arguments, is attempting
to invest 1t with political and personal character 1t
seeks to array against Of the political parties
the State, and whatever prejudice exists, may be
created against some Of most worthy and promi-
nent citizens"
We deny that we have drawn the party
lines in this question; though we do consid-
er it right to look at the effect such mon
strous measure may have on the preponder-
ance of either political party in Minnesota
1t is our duty, if we find power accumulating
in the hands of the enemies of Republican
principles, to warn Republicans of the dan
ger. 1t is our privilege as we'll as our duty,
likewise if the money of the people, millions
at time, is about to be placed in the hands
of any set of men, to examine their personal
fitness for such a trust-to quote their ante
cedants-and to show how they have acted
in an official capacity heretofore If rail-
road officers are oficiously active in showing
such measure through our Legislature, it
is proper to show their motives-to point out
the manner in which such officials have car
ried their projects through previous Legisla-
lures, by bribery and corruption and to ar
que against our confiding in tie future in men
guilty of such practices. 1t had been our
hope that we should have got along with this
question, without abiding to men, or indulg-
ing in personal reflections upon their conduct
in an official capacity. But the railroad in
terest in its arrogance of expected triumph
undertook in the Legislative hals-in their
newspaper organ,-by their street runners
to impugn the motives of leading men, in
private life, who were opposing the monster
curse which spectators and lame ducks are
seeking to impose upon the people. These
facts, if no others offered, would afford justi-
fcation for our course, according to the u.s.
ual ethics Of the world, of an "eye for an eye,
and tooth for TOOTH" We do not pro-
fess, however, to act upon this retaliatory
principle but upon the higher ground, that
public men, and their action, or probable &C.
ton, in public affairs, are legitimate and fair
subjects for praise or censure. When the
Pioneer finds US abusing man in his private
family relations, as the Democratic party did
FREMONT, it may talk of our personalities );
but with its own low abuse by name and in
person, of the editors of the Minmesotian, and
Of the editor of the Times also, fresh in the
recollection of the public, its attempt to play
Cantwell will be considered by the commu-
nifty only pharasaical impudence Of the first
water.