Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-01-22

course with ROBERT RANTouL when at st. An
thony, having imbued him with the pecua,
tenets of the SILAs WRIGHT school Of Dem
ocracy.
In 1853, we note, that he presided over the
Democratic County Convention for Ramsey
County; but neither his Democracy nor his
conscience would allow him to sustain HENRY
NJ. RICE as the Democratic candidate for Del.
egate in the fall of the same year: and it is
generally understood that be did not then vote
for any one for that Office,
During the interval, also, Mr.. MARSHALL
principallyloriginated..the project Of obtaining
from Congress grant of lands to aid the con-
struction of Railroads in Minnesota; but
whether the idea was not Pandora's box oil
evils upon the country, rather than productive
of the good intended by him in its promulga-
ton, is not yet quite settled.
In this view, however, he got through the
Legislature of 1853, charter for the Mime
sofa and Louisiana Railroad Company, to con-
struct a line of Railroad from Lake Superior
via St. Paul, through the interior of Min
nesota, parallel with the Mississippi river,
in the direction of Louisiana. This Company
organized with Gov. RAMSEY as President, and
WV. R. MARSHALL as Vice-President; and to
secure grant of land to aid their project, the
latter went on to Washington City in the win
ter of 1864, and there encountered Bill
LINGs, LowBER, and that gang of Wall street
spectators, with whom HENRY NJ RICE ap-
peared to be in cahoot; he insisting to MIR.
MARSHALL that they were men of capital
themselves and able to command more be-
sides, and that nothing could be done in Con-
gress unless they were allowed to take the
lead, &C..
Mr.. MARSHALL having no private ends to
accomplish, yielded to Mr.. RIcE's solicitations
and abandoned the field; and so, while Ed
MUND RICE engineered the old Minnesota and
North w estern Railroad Charter through the
Minnesota Legislature, HENRY NJ. RICE, with
BILLINGS, LowBER, &C., crowded the land
grant through Congress in such shape that
it would inevitably enure to the NJ. & N. W.
Company-even though for that purpose
forgery of portion of the grant bill had to
be perpetrated while it was being transmitted
between the two Houses of Congress and for
which delinquency Congress Immediately af-
forwards Indignantly repealed the whole grant F.!
While attending Congress on this occasion,
Mr. MARSHALL enjoyed the opportunity of
listening to the debates, pro and con-, on the
Kansas-Nebraska bill which repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise: and in the course of it he
became thoroughly convinced that the Demo-
cratic party had degenerated entirely into a
Southern party, and had become merely tool
for the advancement, protection and cncouragg-
ment of the institution of Human Slavery
that indeed, it had no other mission in the pre-
sent day; and in consequence of this convic-
ton, Mr.. NJ, after much reflection, deemed
It his duty to separate from and oppose that
party in the future.
In the spring of 1866, MARSHALL & Co.,
sold out their Iron establishment and went in
to the Banking bssiness.
On the goth of March Convention of lead
ing men of various parties met at st. Anthony,
under the designation of REPUBLICAN," to
Party under that name, separate
and distinct from the Wing and Democratic
Over this primitive Republican
in Minnesota, WIN. r. MARSHALL
was President. I'd
BY this Convention, Mr.. MARSHALL was
named Chairman of Republican Territorial
Committee, which Committee shortly after
wards issued call for Republican Terrific
rial Convention to meet at st. Paul on the
18th of July, 1866, for the purpose of nom-
mating candidate for Congressional Delegate
and of further organizing the new party.
When that Convention met, Mr.. MARSHALL
received its nomination for Delegate; and
stumped the State with marked
ability and dignity in contest in which HEN
Ry NJ. RICE and DAVID OLMsrEAD were his
opponents. Through division of the elements
of opposition on two candidates, Mr. RICE
succeeded in being elected over Mr. MAR
sHALL-though the combined vote of OLM-
STEAD and MARSHALL greatly exceeded that
which RICE received.
Since this period, Mr.. MARSHALL has not
participated very actively in politics: though
remaining strong and decided Republican in
all respects. But his banking business neces-
sarily engrossed his whole attention: until, the
financial crisis in which we are still struggling
compelled his house on the I'd of October,
1857, to close its doors and suspend payments,
though with abundant assets to meet, in time,
all it's liabilities. When the house closed it's
doors, it owed 100000 to depositors and
about $4,000 to other creditors. Their as
sets in securities, notes &c. of various kinds
amounted to 100000; and their property
in real estate besides, to about 100000.
1t shows not only the uprightness but en-
ergy of the brothers MARSHALL, that by the
LIST of November, 1858, they had paid up
every dollar owing to their depostors, and a
portion of their other liabilities to their eastern
creditors; nor does any body doubt now
their ability to pay, any more than from the
first, nobody doubted their earnest desire to
settle up all their obligations, of every nature
and kind, to the uttermost farthing.
Such is WIN. R. MARsHALL-an able man
and an honest man, to boot-the latter feature
being an especially precious and admirable
trait in his character from its being so scarce
quality in many Of the public men of Mime
sofa!
Recently press in the interest of the Dem
ocratic party, mentioned him with sneel
as probable candidate on the Republican
ticket for Congress. 1t would be strong