Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-25

In Fillmore county recently by Ex-Governor
GoRNAN touching the Frauds and Forgeries at
tending the last State Canvass by which Mr..
SIBLEY became the acting Governor!
Gov. GoRMAN testifies to that which We
knew and charged long ago. 1t is, as he init
mates, an undoubted fact, that the first for
geries from Cass, Todd and Pembina did
not afford sufficient votes to elect SIBLEY!
But when the returns from Lake Superior
We're received and found so Unexpectedly IA
vorable to RAMSEY, RICE was made response
bic for the result up there by the SIBLEY
branch of the Moccasinites.
A leading red faced friend of RIcE,was there
upon heard to say, "well, this Lake Superior re-
turn has kicked up such fuss that to save Hen.
ry for Senator Wen now have to 60 to work
and fix it up differently"
Then it was, that the famous "Sunday
Caucus" of the Democratic leaders, princi-
pally of not wholly the chief RICE men, was
held at the American House.
There it was, that Secretary CHASE stated
the footing up of the returns as they stood in
his Office, and that " something must be done
or RAMSEY was elected"
Then it was, that his brother, JOHN N.
CHASE, was sent with bran new pol books
from the Pioneer Office, into the upper country,
to have the necessary returns forged at Swan
River and Crow Wing; which was all duly
done according to the Sunday Caucus pro-
gra nme; and the new arrangement" through
barefaced disregard of their oaths by Me-
DAIRY and BRowN was made to count SIBLEY
into the Executive Chair!
But, prior to his accepting this canvass as
just and correct, another Democratic Cau-
Gus was held at the Office of the Minnesota
and Pacific Railroad Company-EDwARD RICE
President-in the back room thereof
SIBLEY, NED RICE, GoRMAN, STEELE, Col.
ROBERTSON, and others, then and there dis
cussed the advisability, either of taking ad
vantage of the known forgeries just as they
stood on the fraudulent record, or Of submit
ting to Gov. RAMSEY and the Republicans
Proposition for fair investigation
SIBLEY at this caucus publicly submitted
his conscience, and action, to the judgment of
the assembled leaders He would do what
ever they said was expedient for the interests
of the party
They decided, that Notwithstanding they all
knew the returns to be forgeries, yet as they
were "on the record" SIBLEY and the Party
should take advantage of them; !" he should
accept the fraudulently obtained Office; and
RAMSEY and the Republicans might, if they
choose, contest the canvass "before the
supreme Court members of which, we
b-',.'.e, were also present on the rascally oc-
ca>on f! but are not certain.
One of the leaders, when contesting be-
fore the Supreme Court" was mentioned,
observed, sarcastically, that RAMSEY would
have a good time of it before those true Dem
orratic iudges!'
These are the facts. We are prepared to
sustain them in court of justice. And we
are glad one who knows so well these rascali-
ties of the Moccasinites, as Gov. GoRMAN's
opportunities have allowed him to do, has
mounted the witness stand.
His evidence completely vindicates us in our
onslaught in the winter of ls56-57 upon SIB-
LEY and upon the whole of those dark trans
actions, Sunday Caucus" included, which
gave him his acting Governorship, but robbed
the People of their rights, and Gov. RAMSEY
of the place to which they had honestly ana
fairly elected him.
How time brings around everything right
in the end. 1t is indeed correct, that which
the poet utters:
Truth crushed to earth will rise again;
The Eternal years of God are hers
But error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies, amidst her worshippers!
But read the article from the Chatfield
Republican, All honest Democrats will blush
as they read:
We were much amused, few days since
to hear public conversation between Ex-Gov.
German, and several citizens of Chatfield,
both Democrat and Republican, relative to the
recent disclosures of Jas. w. Lynde The
Ex-Governor, with creditable honesty, declar-
ed that he knew from his own personal knowl-
edge that the Rice men, headed by Henry NJ.
Rice hlmself, did two years ago, in Becker's
Law Office, fix up the plan by means of which
the canvass of the election in 1857 was made.
The Governor further declared that it was
known not only to himself but to others in
and around ST. Paul, that the first arrange
ment of Ii. NJ. Rice with the returns defeated
Sibley, but that this created such a row in
the camp of the Breech Clouts, that Rice
backed down and altered the plan and Sibley
was elected by the next arrangement by 249
majority. "Darnh it, said the Governor, refer
ring to the Democrats present, ace all know
this, and yet these same tricky Breech- -Clout
Moccasinites would set themselves up again,
for honest Democrats to vote f,r." Although
pn0 of Henry NJ. Rice's best friends in Chat
field was present at this conversation, he did
not dispute these damaging charges of the
Ex-Governor against Mr.. Rice, simply con-
ten:ing himself by opening and shutting his
eyes in well feigned astonishment. If what
the Ex-Governor said in the presence of his
Democratic brethren be true, and we have no
reason to doubt word, Mr.. Lynde's charges
are all sustained, ard are we'll known to be
true by every prominent Democrat in the
State.
What commentary upon the elective fran.
Chise IN Minnesota are these words of German,
that the chief man of the Democratic party,
. Senator of the United States, made arrange
meats previous to a canvass of votes, such
that certain men were either defeated or
elected, Here was the charge, made plainly
by a Democrat, who wit all his glaring faults
we bciieveis above such cri,ninallty, viz: that
Slbey, Rice, and their followers, were enga-
gel two years ago in defeating the expressed
viii of the people, and Democrats who heard
lie charge, by their silence admitted that they
also knew. it to be'rue, and'yet these men
Would have the people belisxe that Lynde is
liar when he only practically says the sam,
thing, save the assertion that as they did d.
two years ago, so they propose to do agai,
this fall. Will the people of Minnesota suffe
repetition of such swindle? We believ
not