Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-06-05
Another Letter from l.. A. BabcOck,
Esq.. about that Letter!
ST. PAUL, May 18th, 1853.

ST. PAUL, May 18th, 1858.
To tho Editors Of the Asnmesotian:
The columns Of the Pioneer and Democrat
and Times OF this city, have for the last
month been full of false statements evidently
thrown out to injure the Republican party
that have in letter to Gov. German while
at Washington this Spring, "offered to that
gentleman at the hands of the Republican
Party of Minnesota, seat in the United
States Senate" ....
10 such an allegation, charging me with so
great an absurdity as offering what was not
in my power to give, and of speaking for a
party which never commissioned me to make
such tender of its power or of places within its
gift, is an insult to my common sense ; and
did it only appear in the Pioneer, should not
receive notice at my hands, for the vocation
of that sheet in the absence of the senior
editor, is falsehood and the publication of
every species of bitter and unfounded SIAN
ders upon those leading men of the Republi-
can party whom it most hates because it most
fears them. But the Times, which pretended
formerly to be Republican paper, has also
become catspaw for the same juggling clique
OF politicians surrounding the Pioneer estab-
lishment; and deem it due, more to its for
mer rather than its present political position,
to publicly repelit its assertions made undoubt-
edly for the purpose of the more effectually
injurng the Republican Party of Minnesota
| through blow from Judas in its midst.
wish therefore to say, distinctly and une-
quivocally, that l neuer offered to Gov. Cor
man seat in the U.S.Senate at the hands of the
Republican party of Minnesota, or any other
party of Minnesota, or any other party in
existence, and all allegations to that effect
are untrue.
In answer to your call for "That Letter,
the Times of the 18th inst, pretends to give
extracts from an alleged letter of mine to
Gov. German; and to relieve itself from
the position of one who to spite his old po-
ltical friends, and play into the hands of the
enemy, gives currency to false assertions,
and garbles and forges extracts, asserts that
"there is now another letter more moderate
than the first, but that it is private letter
with which they have nothing to do, &c.
In relation to the pretended extract, 1 have
to say that they are not extracts from any
letter written to Gov. German by myself,
but are simply torgeries.
And 1 now call upon the Editors of the
Pioneer and Democrat and Times, to give en-
tire any letter of mine to Gov. German,
showing that have offered him at the hands
of the Republican Party of Minnesota, a seat
in the U. S. Senate, or stand convicted of
publishing willful and malicious falsehoods,
and forged extracts, perhaps knowing them
to be forged. Give us the letter and the
whole letter; no more forged extracts will
answer. Give us the full letter; not say,
after asserting that you have seen and perused
1t, that it is some private letter with which
'.you have nothing to do." If the letter which
you have seen and perused was a private let
ter why did you make it public in the first
place, and now after making public forged
extracts from it, shield yourself under the
fact that it was private ? If you have, as
you assert, copies of any letters of mine
proving any Of your assertions, give them
publicity in full, and let all see what base and
wilful Misrepresentation you are guilty or
Again, say, give US the letter and the whole
letter, for it cannot be very private when ii
has been hawked about the streets of ST.
Paul for the last month or more and 1 am
curious myself to see what kind of docu-
ment as whole has been forged by my dem
ocratic friends of the Pioneer ard Times, and
my name appended thereto. Such thing as
forging papers and mems names to them used
to be considered disreputable; but since the
Otter tail canvass, the Pioneer CLIQUE seem to
consider it a respectable business. Perhaps
it is, but for myself have still strong within
Inc some old prejudces against the practice.
Truly Yours, L. A. BABcocK.