Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-11-12
The Pioneer on the Right Track...
Shoot Rice All .SAgitate'' { . Slavery
Question!


Shoot Rice an 'sAgitate'' Slavery
Question!
We observe that the Pioneer has at last
woke up to the necessity Of making some
capital for the poor lame, ,bea en- and di>heart
ened Democracy Of these parts, out of ta.
Harper's Ferry affair.
This mornings issue Of that paper is exclu-
sively devoted to two topics--pitching into HEN
ry NJ. Rice and impugning his party fidelity,
and to spreading at length before Its read
ers the alleged confessions of scaliwag ad-
venturer in Democratic employ, nams't
FORBES, through whose wholesale fal>chood>
! the Democratic Party arc now engaged in til,
| respectable business of trying to impca:
the Republican Party and its leaders, in tn
| ,.rlme of countenancing, aiding, and abetting
he expedition of Ossawattomie Brown into
Virginia!
Now, we would respectfully inform tn,
Pioneer that both these topics suit US exactly !!
| Mr.. Rice is a Democratic Senator, whose
Influence we desire to see brought down to
the level of his proper capacity" and whom,
politically, We hope to see extermnated. In
deed, it has been the intention of US Repub-
licans to destroy all the Democratic leaders OF
this State, as soon as possible, and make a
wholesale ob of it; so, while We may not ad-
lnire the motives in which dictate the course OF
the Pioneer, it suits us well to have it thu
les troyins them in detail, as it will make tn
Job all the easier for us to dispose of the bal
lance
In like manner, we approve of the Ponce
entering upon course of vigorous lying to
make Gov Seward and the great Republican
leaders generally responsible for Old Brown'>
madness. Because, the more this Slavery
Question is discussed, the more the Demo
cratic party will be damaged! The more such
unfounded charges, as are now being made
against prominent Republicans, are urged by
the Democratic presses, the stronger will be
the Excitement, the higher will be the Agita'
ton, the greater will be the Reaction, and ths
more tremendous will be the Republican Vic
tory in the whole North! Slavery and tbt
Democratic party cannot afford this discus
ion, and Freedom andthe Republican Party
can!
AS for this "Forbes correspondence" it.
SELF it is but weak inyention Of the enemy
Many people will no doubt be deceived into
thinking it portion of the papers discovered
IN 'Old Browns Carpet Bag" This IS moi
so. The Forbes correspondence is a pre-
tended revelation of terrible crimes against
our government, in which an attempt is made
to impcate some of our most prominent and
most worthy men, done through man by the
name of Forbes, who styles himself Colonel
furnishing to the "Brotht rhood of Spies o
New York-(a Democratic association in tina
city of the upper-ten Cotton Democrats, wht
subscribe money for political campaigns anC
invest their millions fitting out slave ships foI
Ahica)-aohat he clains are copies Of letters h
himseifhas eoritten to utrious persons.
There is no evidence. save his own word
that he ever wrote such letters, and h. pr.
duceS no answers by which anybody is con
Vlcfeu. IL all rests upon tue NeTacity
: Forbes, who claims to be Scotchman, is ar
.Abolitionist, was Red Rrpubliraa in I,al!
who fed from Europe aud came here duri;:
the Kansas troubles. By Forbes own show
ing, he was in the employ of certain clas'
called Humanta'isns" in doing Kansa
work. but having quarrellcd with the Human
itarianS because the pay was nat good as h.
anticipated, has sold his services t. the Den,
ocratic "Brotherhood Of Spies in order t,
defeat the Republicans in the New York elec
, ton. This is the whole story.
Now, for our part, we are entirely willing
to let the Democratic party, its presses AM
speakers, repeat and endorse and publish, un
til they are tired, his inventions against tht
most e,,,:nent men of our country-thcy ar,
welcome to howl them over the land through
their presses and on the stump to the
hearts full qualification. 1t most assured,
contents u.s. so far as its political effects arr
concerned, to see them persiSting in thus
branding the whole North-the million and {.
half Of voters who glory in the name of Re
publican--as being participators in Ole
| Browns scheme to raise a Slave Insurrectior
t or to run off negroes from the Slave States.
For, the grossness and absurdity of h,
I charge carries it's own refutation, and the re
suit Of It all must inevitably be, to stimulate