The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03
u.,,rx VI. Rice out for LecOmpton MS
Last Sell.

Henry M. Rice out for Aee""'P'o
Last Sell.
A few DAYS since, letter was received IN
St. Paul, from gentleman in washington
CITY, which read thus:
Henry NJ. Rice has somerse''ed over 10
,,n,cn-tbat is. he himself says he has |
but the man has SO lost cast mere oy MS
tricks and bogus speculations, that buchan-
", mon,t trust his ,rord-and he is required by
King James to put himself plainly and un,
mistakinsly upon the record. oy writing and
-,rhl;sbinc letter on the subject and with
This humillating and degrading condition, it
is understood here that you highly honorable
Senator will take an early occasion to com
ply"
In another column Of to-day's paper, we
give correspondence which we find in the
Pioneer of Sunday, the 2Sth. We presume
il is the very letter which it is intended shall
be the consideration for receiving BucHAN-
ANS thirty pieces Of silver in official favors
10 Mr. RICE.
We confess to feeling good deal NOR
tilted Oh reading this letter OF Mr.. RlcEs-
First,we are mortified at the despotic and I'M
Minnesotian sentiments on national affairs,
the document discloses him to have now Ia
ken I'D with. Second, We are mortified at so
weak and pulling and school-boy production,
emanating from Minnesota U. S. Senator;
winding up too, as it does with that stale
old smile OF ship in storm, which debat-
inc societies even have expelled from their
discussions and school-masters frown upon
their pupils for introducing into their compo-
sition exercises. And then, the purpose for
which the poor ancient ship is again lowed
out upon the sea of action by the accomp-
lished and errudite Mr.. RICE. 1t is in order
TO bear to Mr.. BUCHANAN our noble Senator's
most abject, sycophantic, and fulsome COM
pliments-compliment from the man who,
before he left St. Paul for Washington, could
hardly find words in the English language
sufficient to express his contempt for him
and compliments, too, from the man who was
the leader of the Douglas movement here in
Minnesota-the bosom friend of the Illinois
Senator-his Fides Achates-who was en-
phatically down on Lecompton all the time /;
and for Popular Sovereignty as the great
test of Democracy And now to read such
4 letter from him-weak as boiled water, in
argument-contempti in the style and il
observation-disclosures, in principle, as it shows
him to be-does indeed somewhat mortify
Us. Not for him but for the character of
our young State ; suffering in reputation
abroad for having so incompetent and I'M
prnciped representative. Not because
Mr.. RICE has not been himselfal over in thus
selling himself-in making the best bargain
Re could for place and power, at any sacrifice
Of principle; but because in the great strug-
gle now going on at Washington for the re-
turn Of the Government TO the fundamental
principles of its origin-of Matchmaking lib
erty one more-and to maintain the right oil
selt-government in the people-the voters Of
Minnesota are without distinction of party
names, nine tenths of them on the same side
upon which DOUGLAS and his friends and the
"H'tfr; anu1t Is mortlfylng, as we'll as unfair, to
see one OF our Senators elected to represent
correctly these views, turning traitor to these
principles, selling himself for office and pow.
er, and thus making us here at home in Min
nesota stand before the Union in the attitude
oil sustaining what we abhor, the thrusting
down the Threats of the people of Kansas by
act OF Congress and the act of federal bayo-
nets, State Constitution which two-thirds
OF them have deliberately voted not to have
as their organic law!
Does any man believe that if Mr.. RICE
had avowed the sentiments he does in this
letter, before the election, that he would
have been elected Never His course is
not only disgraceful on moral grounds; but is
an outrage upon his constituents. If he has
honestly changed his sentiments since his
election, the people of Minnesota have not
changed theirs; and if there was spark OF
manllness or honesty in his breast, he would
resign and give them the opportunity to
choose In his place some person to represent
tnem whose sentiments and their own more
nearly accorded on the great question of the
day.
but we almost smile ourself at the sug-
gestion of "honesty" in connection with any
acuon OF Mr.. RICE. Brought up in the In
dian trade he early learned and practised on
Inc maxim, that every Indian and every
Indian trader has his price," Upon this
principle of action, he was remarkably sue
cessful; and he purchased Indian Chiefs !;
bought out Indian traders Or. BoRUp bit
MN badly however, in one operation) and
whenever the opportunity offered sold himself
on one remarkable occasion bringing as
hlgh as SlOOOO-(he bit Borup that time y
nhen ne turned his attention from managing
'ndlans to managing whites, and commenced
inouiging in the luxury of politics, he brought
Lhe same tactics to bear. AS delegate in
congress- his constant endeavor was to unite
men TO HIM by catering to their material and
Hei.iSh interests. This one should have a
'n'i''ary foad-that one post office-anoth-
CT a JOB OF surveying-such town a Lard
ofnce-Railroads were located past every
mans door-and if at any time, in the Le-
glslature for instance there was a hitch on
any favorite Rice measure" money was d.
rectly brought to bear to remove the difficult
ty. Who that remembers the old AIiuneso-
ia and Northwestern Railroad struggles,
VIII not bear US out in this assertion
But we are glad, that in the course Of
time when the goal of his ambition-the
United States Senatorship-has been reach
ed, that in the conflict of factions, as man