Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-02-22

he deep meanings of our afflicted SUBJECT the
probe the cautery. and perhaps the KNIFE must
be freely used until the offending matter IL re-
moved and more healthy action promoted
/ think with these explana tory remarks no I
one will fail to understand my position there
fore. / shall proceed with the History of the
:. Mineral Polut Seminary" beginning where
INV subject ended some three four weeks ago.
1t being settled that something must be done,
and that right speedily, for there was but one
dime in the COCKER 1t was decided that for
.enic display of legal eioquence, mixed up with
the sacred Sabbath exercises Of the church,
would be capital investment IN this novel ex-
hibition 1t was also determined to call to their
aid, at the same time and place. the labors OF
worthy individual whose moral, religious and
political antecedent fexibility was deemed
most admirably adapted to the wants OF the &C.
casion A neat, concise and appropriate talk /
made by the Ex-Judge. Immediately succeed |
ing this by way of after piece, the "plastering'
process commenced. In this it is said our be-
nevolent and charitable adjunct 10 the Judge
really out-did all his former exploits as fugle-
in this reiigi co conico-tragicai drIll. Suf-
lice it TO say the plot worked most magically
Three hundred dollars were contributed to re-
animate and restore to life this apparently de-
funct halt spiritual and half secular idol. The
great dramatis persona congratulates himself and
q the rest of mankind that. after long aud
scuffie with all the elements which I'M
der,alaed and opposed his meritorions abors,
the thing is done did," and no longer an ex-
pertinent. 1t is true he is forced to acknowledge
that fire Mous1'ad dollars has been borrowed from
the State and expended in giuing shape, but not
eomels,sess, to a building baptized The Mineral
Point Seminary the responsibility of tie toson
4dtso that the interest the above amount hos not
BEEN paid, and it is equally true that the most sa-
cred pledges .sere made to the tar-ppyers that not
one farhing. either of the fire Nousa,sd dollars or
the interest thereon. should e,er, any emergency
or contingency, come from their pockets. But f.
nanciering has become one of the legitimate Off
shoots Of brain fruitful in devisins WAYS and
means therefore, it is hot strange that the
mind should become obivtous to rnoral oblira-
lions and refuse To respond to its own religious
teachings conscience void of honorable in
fentions is soon quoted, if not stided. by the
proFefb that " the end lustIfies the means
Swindiers, thieves and Iobbers no doubt. re-
heve their consciences from retrospective acts of
injustice, outrage aud cruelty, by the same par
lty OF reasoning. Let that be as it nav. one
thing IS Certain. the : wolf Is at the door" The
'ax-gatherer IS now demanding aud receiving
from US the Interest IRE thousand dollars
which has been worked into the walls OF a
higher law school that does not pretend to
embrace IN Its object the education of only
small portion OF the children whose parents are
taxed to build and sustain il The man Of
moderate means, industrious and economical in
his habits. who has large family of children
that belong 10 his God, bis country and the eoy-
eminent must be tared wrongfIlly and ruthl,ssly
that the manHuvreIng sharper and scheming
hypocrite may iuxurIate, grow fat and sleek
upon his nl-gotten plunderi Why should he
care Tor taratso" aud oppression. so long as it
brings TO has ears the jingle of the Almighty
dollar, and FL ally drops it into his graspine
and unreienting packet Why should he care
how much the child IS cheated out of its cduca-
ti"nat rights aud the parent defrauded of his
hard earnings, provided his sickly and puny
ffotege reeuperates and becomes the regulating
UNCONVENTIONAL monopoly ? / do net pretend
To be posted IN the matter of fees demanded for
entrance and tuition per quarter In this odious
tar gathering cheat, but presume from compare
son that 1T ranges from five to ten dollars or if
1t is less at present, 1t viii increased to that
or even more. when it gets under full blast
Now, would inquire in all soberness, is il SIM
posed Tor moment that any but the favored
lew, th''se who possess the sovereign remedy,
are 10 become the recipients of its overgrown
aud overshadowlng advantages iii is truly
TO become the monster Institution Of all The
West. which is claimed for it bv the Canal Ell
of literature, so much the more iruportaut tha;
the low as we'll as the high. the poor as well as
the rich, the jew and the Gentle" should
worship at rs sacred shrine, and partake alk
OF It's astonishing scientific, moral and religions
training Ii IL no longer a mooed question tar
alton and representation should GO pari pass,e in
all free governments the denial of which to the
colonists was the main cause of separation from
the mother country but here. IN the town and
city OF Mineral Point, by the pIottings and con
tri7ings Of a willy Jesuit "a wolf il sleeps
Clothing = We have. been deceived into a trap
ana now when our nec+ls fairly in the moose
we have the very eousohng and agreeable as
suranea from our clerical trapper that we are
the victims OF oar foilyi In other words
had We been wiser in selecting men for office
whose duty it to look after our in erests d
the Interests of our children he could not have
obtained this ever-reaching advantage And
although the head and the heart naturally sick
ems and revoits al n transaction fostering In sin
and reekins in iniquity. still We are invited by
our ecclesiastical juggler 10 au entertainment
where insotence and iiapudence unmask the un
scrnpUloGs dissembler, and where insult is 81
peradded 10 betrayed contideuce The moral
law Is openly ignored, while written contracts
aad opiisa'lons are Gnblushingly set al def
anee under The infamous plea OF some technical
linperieetlon IN their execution Nor IS this all.
Treated As =" hewers Of wood and drawers of va
ter as uneomplainins brutes Of toll. whose
backs fitted FOR the burden We ,re r,-