Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-10-02

he KNOWS tnat they aic tiiV iaS'S'
The article above copied was one result of
those conterences-it is an effort not so much
to hoodwink people here, as for consumption
at Washington-to cover up the tracks of the
federal : flee holders from the gaze Of their
federal head
Aside from other circumstances that such
was, its purpose it is indicated, by the absurd
positions it takes touching associating editor
GoopR Gil with "such men," as he calls them,
as Surveyor General EMERSON and JOHN E.
WARREN, ESQ.,! With all the editors per-
sona vanity which makes him sympathze so
intimately with Mr.. SHELLEY on the ground OF
fellow feeling Notwithstanding his foppsh-
ness his bears oil: his cologne; his ambro-
sial locks; and his general nattiness and indiS-
position to have any of the vulgar come be-
tween the wind and his nobility We do not
believe he is really quite such a ninny yet as
to claim, hardly equality much less, superiority
of social position over such men," The very
STYLE of the attempt was no doubt especially
selected for its righteousness so as to be ut
terly fatal to credulity as to its possible real
itv-to so overdo his own mark that people
here at once would perceive, as they did, the
absurdity of the pretence and would not be
deceived either, as they were not, by his hy-
perb Die of indignation into taking it al. Tor
earnest. 1t is nevertheless good buncombe
>, Of
all Mr.. GooDRIcH intended. Credit for smart
ness should not be withheld from him, howev-
err on account of his so conceiving the terms
cf his article, that while it serves its end at
Washington city, the people here at OEcc APP
preciaed his pur ose of really doing the fed
eral Office holders service by a mock attack
upon them, at the same time that he SO adj
iusted his language and positions that the COM
munity would also consider his growing over
"snch men, to be but the good jest that it is !
though it still might be considered as put
ting on Of airs" that were very "foine" in
deed
But, if no other evidence was on hand to
al office holders of Minnesota have good I'M
Outstanding together, the knONn result of the
recent Secret Caucuses of the Ofiice-holders as
to Party Policy in the future, would prove t !!
The determination of these caucuses, we
are surely informed, was to continue the poll
cy marked out by the Pioneer, and that is, to
;I,o he ! jcS,yn IN,
ties, and not make either the principle of the
National Democracy as developed in the eff
fort to force the Lecompton Constitution on
the people of Kansas against their consent,
nor the principles of the Douglas Democracy
developed in resisting the majority of the
party in their effort-as the test of party po-
stion and authority.
This was the deliberate resolve of the Of
flee holders, and we are not surprised at it
for it only establishes what we said the other
day, that RICE had assured DOUGLAS he need
not be afraid that his friends and the Office
holders in Minnesota might be relied upon to
pursue that course of policy which would do
Do"glns No HARM and would prerem tie POSSE
baity Of The formation Of q Buchanan party in
the .State!'
We are not surprised because it is notori-
ously true, as all the people of the State
know, and as the Pioneer boosted on the 9TH
of September last, that the Federal Office
holders Of Minnesota are hostile to the Ma
tional Administration, and that having been
mainly appointed at the instance of Senator
DOUGLAS, or Mr. RICE, they are more CRATE
tul TO them, secretly, than to the President
who gave them their commissions.
AID this is transparency the reason why
the Presidents party makes no more Roadway
in Minnesota than it does why presses and
leaders who would be favorably disposed to-
wards Lecomptonism, work as if under a
cloud why the Pioneer and Democrat is so
bold and defiant in its denunciatlons of the
Administration. The entire machinery of
the Democratic party in Minnesota is IN the
hands Of DOUGLAS friends except, perhaps, a
little in the extreme north, where after all,
ii is more Rlceism and Indian-tradersn that
rules than abstract devotion to the Admins
traton and its principles. The federal Office
holders being thus nearly all Douglasites,
whatever may be their public pretence, they
have uniformly in the past discountcnanced
any demonstration in behalf Of Lecompton
or Buchanan or against DOUGLAS
MIR. BUCHANAN is emphaticaly betrayed
by those of his own household.
At every Democratic meeting and conven-
ton a resolution IN favor of DOUGLAS and his
course is almost invariably adopted. Some
times milk-and-water expression of conf.
dcnce in Mr.. BUCHANAN as man, and speak
ing Of his administration in general terms of
approval is inserted to let the officeholdcrs
down easy-bit most generally the whole
subject IS dcOiied and ignored!
Thus in every case the Douglasites tri-
umph-simply because being already in pos
session of the machinery of the party 70 sag
no'hing and do i.othino %" 'ae subject is their
iavorite and pollcy. as it etiectually pre-
VS. the President acquiring party in this
quarter at all.
Things remain as they were before, and
that is DOuglas 10 the core: and in the mean |
time all the underground working and con- !
versatiOn, with the continued onslaught of the |
P'o"eer press. are undermining the Democra-
tic Administration, and weakening its posi-
ton before the people.
This is, however, we wish it distinctly un-
derstood, result which quite contents as Re
o~licanS, as it is preparing the hearts and
minds of the people to look with favor and
abstraction upon Republicanism, to whose
principles those of DoUGLAs and his friends
are part way though shrinking and shirk-
ing and tlnid approach; while those of Br-