Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-02-05

be base and viIlafnons enough 10 nurse up for
years, this confidential communication, and
then 10 crafty his hate or for the hope of po-j
litical advantage, lay bare to the public, UNI
guarded expressions or suggestions made in
ne privacy Of free and trustfnl intercourse!
- But in trusting JOHN P. ovens at all, is
where the Judge was to blame. There was
plenty Of data even then to show the innate
baseness andmercenary character of the man:
that no particle Of honorable principle anima-
ted his breast There, for instance, was his
purchase by RICE in the MITCHELL contest for
Delegate, the main consideration; paid for him
being the charms Of unlimited brandy-and
water, with the sloan of an occasional So"
to afford him pocket-money when loafing
around bar-rooms and laying down the law in
his usually dogmatic and spiritedly peculiar
style! ... .,rr ~ s-,-,.,- .-.....-.
Then, there was his laughable purchase back
again, in the same contest, by JANIS NJ. Coop
HUE, under the pretence of employing him at
$12per week! .a.tu... :,u.t.rs3 ..s u, ..-t
Then, there was his betrayal of Capt. WILK-
IN, when that gentleman run for Congressional
Delegate, at the time of RIcE's first election,
which righteousness mainly caused the Cap
tain to aid in establishing the 7smes-Mr. RICE
on that occasion bringing OwENs into his camp
| in the usual style always so successful with
him, and that is, by q small but judicious
''loan." These and other incidents in OWENS
life, had sufficiently marked, even SO long ago
as the spring of 1855, the mans shameful
want of honest or pure character; which has
only been the more clearly manifest to every
eye since that time, by his numerous sales Of
principle and honor, to RICE, to STEELE, to
SHELLEY, the climax of all being this last piece
of dirty work done for his {" friends" benefit
| and his own. 3.'. ...'
Still, in the spring of 1856, as we before said,
there was enough of his baseness already de-
veloped, to have excited profound distrust Of
the fellow in the breast of every public man,
and the Judge, therefore, almost deserves his
lampooning, for heedlessly reposing any degree
Of confidence whatever in the uprightness and
honorable action of this notorious fellow of
the baser sort" Other gentlemen, we hope,
| will take warning by the result of Judge Coop-
EE's folly, and be careful how they write con.
fdential letters to JOHN P. Owens, unless they
are resigned to having them exposed whenever
that not very honest individual thinks he can
make anything by thus dishonoring himself;
and we besides recommend all persons that
may have been heretofore equally unguarded
with the Judge in having any correspondence
with the creature at all, to hasten with the
greatest speed to recover back their epistles,
ere the gentleman(! finds it his interest, in
some way, to fling them also open to the pub
gael - III l..... ....,..u
The dirty fellow, we notice, has had the eff
frontry to address his dishonorable communi.
cation to JARED Benson, Esq, the respected
Chairman ofthe Republican Central Committee
who when he read it, must undoubtedly have
despised the villain for it, in the very depths
of his honest heart He has likewise chad
the temerity" to use the name of Dr. FOSTER,
for bolstering up some of his statements, .
which statements are of the kind usual with
this person when he desires to sustain point,
and that is, complete tabrications out Of the
,ohole cloth, and so we brand them! This low
caste person will not in future, we earnestly
request, use our name in any way except when
abusing US which we will be proud Of, as a
sufficient certificate to the public that we are
not in the slightest degree obnoxious to the
imputation Of having any fellow-feeling with
so despicable and dishonorable confdence-
purlOiner!
The individual of the Times also intimates
that when he received Judge CooPER's letter
in the Spring of 1866, requesting of him an
editorial notice of certain kind, he, JOHN P.
Owens, felt highly indignant % at the Judge
for having not only the "unpardonable temer-
ity to request him @ (thc said dignifed and
pure-minded OwENs) to publish it as my oacn
opinion Of him" (CooPEx); but for wishing
also further to humiliate me O and degrade
the Journal with which l was so permanent
ly connected" by requesting him to ask Mr..
c. L. EMERSON, the then editor of the Mime
sofa Democrat before its union with the Pio-
nser, to insert also similar notice.
To all of which farrago the reply is ready,
that if Judge CooPER in his temerity"
thought OWENS was capable of what the lat
ter now says was "degradation and Au-
miliation;" that is, complying aoitA his
request to publish the notice in question
as "my (OwENsO own opinion of him y
(CooPER): the result proved that the Judge
oas not IN the least mistaken in his man =
for Immediately after the Judges return to ST.
Paul, leading article appeared in the MIN
NEsoTrAN of May 9th, 1856, noticing his arri-
val, and embodying really word for word the
notice sent to him, and much more, as his oao,a
opinion Of Judge Cooper; and eulogising in
the highest and most favorable terms his tai
ents and services! Any gentleman feeling
curious to see the manner and style in which
OWENS "humiliated and degraded himself,
according to his own showing, can have
the privilege Of examining our files, on calling
at our office! Yet, it is plain from the struc-
lures of his sentences, that Owens, with char
acteristic baseness and mendacity, sought to
make his readers believe that Immediately on
its receipt, he scorned Judge CooPER's re-
quest @ and did nothing more than lay away
the letter in sort of indignant, sulky soak,
waiting the fit opportunity of "honorably "
exposing the Judge as an Independent ed-
tor" should o john JOHN! Dost thou
not think, your own self, that thou art the
basest, most equivocating, cogging knave in
the editorial fraternity? r-5-.,r- ..,.