Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-12-03

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ting point for vast region North and North
west in all coming ages if civilization is pro
gressive, and the institutions of our eommol
country are prospered and extended.
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STATE ITEMS AND OPINIONS.
From the Chatfeld Republican-..No.
vember 22d s. -....r.. rg .. --...
LIBEL Sur.-Mr. Holley has been having
70 libel suit with Hemphill, the editor of thu
Chatfeld Democrat. He says: .u-a.'
We answered base libel upon oursel
which was printed in the Chatfeld Demoera
of July I'd, whereupon the editor of thu
Democrat swears that our ''scandalous, de
&matory, and ibellous'' words SO written il
answer to his own, had utterly destroyed his
spotless reputation among his neighbOrs ano
friends, and had brought bis family into grea,
infamy and disgrace among all good and wor
thy citizens. .
His counsel, the late lamented member O
Congress, James NJ. Cavanaugh, Esq, made
a thrilling appeal to the jury.
"Again gentlemen, said JIM say don't
be led away by. Dan. Norton. He is the ris
ing sun, / the setting STAR $50 is hole
burnt in a blanket star,) and SO the case
went to the jury.
"The jury went out, and after five hours
absence, returned with a verdict of $780,
Weighed in the balance by q jury properly
cautioned by his counsel as regards politics,
they found we presume the real value of old
Hemphill's character. While we deny that
we injured it one iota, We cannot deny but
that the jury considered we had destroyed it
entirely, and felt bound under their oaths to
give him it's full equivalent Taking this view
of it, We don't envy him the price he has prov
ed his whole reputation worth.
sour own opinion, most worthy Father,
is that the jury most damnably overrated
you, and that it should have been put at one
hundred cents"
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"Again we say, Ito the editor of the DEM
ocrat mend your mind and your manners
be man instead of mouse, a truth-teller
instead of a hbeller, love water instead of la
ger-speak the truth of your neighbors in
stead of falsehoods, and God knows that we
believe, nay, hope, that ere you take your
final departure from this dirty earth, even a
Democratic jury can be found, who under the
solemnity of an oath, can estimate and assess
your real worth at something near the value
decent human soul.
TREMBLING IN THEIR Boors.-The Pioneer
&c Democrat, says that Buchanan is prepar-
ing to decapitate, the stiff necked and rebel
lious Federal office holders in Minnesota, on
account of their Douglas proclivities.
In consequence of this determination on
the part of the government the pap suckers
all over the State are beginning to cringe and
fawn and supplicate for mercy.
The Chatfield Democrat which has been
conducted for the past six months as Doug
las-Cavanaugh organ, now takes the back
track and is ready to swallow LecomptOn
horns and all, in fact do anything to keep
the heads of its owners on their shoulders.
AS the Pioneer we'll says, those organs
''that have pap spooned out to them from the
Federal treasury" are engaged just at this
time in begging for their places. H
Well slaves 90 on and "bend the suppliant
knee that thrift may follow fawning." The
time is fast drawing near that shall see you
bid adieu to places you are so decidedly in
competent to- fill
We call the attention of our readers to the
advertisement in another place from the Rich
mond Wig, Va. Now let us see how many
Democratic journals there are in the north
that will denounce this bid in the public prints
of Southern city for the life of a distinguish
ed Northern man. Here is bid to cut-thrOats
for murder. Here is a deliberate bid by
Southern slave holders for the life of quiet
citizen of the north. Go on brutes an out
ragged community will yet reward you as you
deserve.
The Pioneer G Democrat, is in mourning
because Cook is sentenced like the rest of the
insurrectionsts, to die for his i'll starred at
tempt The reason why the Pioneer d Dens-
ocrat thinks Cook ought to be released is,
that he is brother of Gov. Wizards wife,
of Indiana. Just think of this, Democratic
newspaper prays that an ''insurrectionist" be
liberated because he is Democrat. Do not
talk about partizanship after this.
The editor of the Henderson Democrat calls
the editor of the Pioneer G Democrat "a brain
less filthy blackguard." The Earle should
sue that fellow for libel, and get Jim Cava-
naugh to show up his wounds to an enlight-
ened jury "b- jabers."
From the saltwater essenger..Novem-
ber 22:..
The leader in the Messenger is on "The
Democratic Press and the Insurrectionist
Cook" 1t remarks:
"Poor old Brown,-not Republican by
any means, but man whose very impulse
loathes and abhors slavery,-was dragged
from his straw pallet while yet faint and sick
and bleeding from the effect of his wounds,
hurried through trial that under any under
any other circumstances would be deemed a
mockery, was sentenced to death, and in a
few short weeks will be executed. Cooks re-
lationship to Gov. Willard, of Ia., naturally
attracted attention to him, to know if the
same swift justice would overtake him that SO
soon befell his colleague, Brown"
1t then quotes the Pioneer plea for Virgi-
mia to spare Cook because he has Demo
cratic brother-in-law. The Messenger then
correctly observes:
"We can sympathize with Cook and Brown
in their misfortunes, though we can have nc
sympathy with the mistaken folly and crime
that brought those misfortunes upon them..-
But our partizan zeal cannot impel us to draw
a distinction between the criminals and lead
us to desire the punishment of the one and
the justification of the other"
The Messenger thus raps over the knuckles
pretty severely H. N. Setter, editor of the
Democrat, who was member of the famous
Extra Session of the last Territorial Legisla
ture:
A MARES NEsT.-Some writer in Satur
days Democrat has found veritable mares
nest In attempting to read the Pioneer Out
of the Democratic plunder fold, he associates
that paper and the Messenger together says
the Pioneer and ourself have been billing and
cooling and coquetting, preparatory to the
Pioneer coming over to the Republican ranks
and the bestowal of the public printing upon
that Office.
We have certainly played the cousin with
the Pion eo, worry offoctiopot otalv The rooJo,