Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-01-29

If the people laughed at the Pioneers hys-
terics of Thursday-at its rhetoric run mad
at its ridiculous predictions that the failure
to negotiate the bonds " Seals the fate ofMin-
nesota for ten years"-involving "the stag
nation of our commerce-the disorganization
of our finances-the prostration of our credit
the paralysis of all the functions of growth
and the nretrieua6e diversion of emigration to
other channels cutting up at the very root,
our whole policy of Development BLAST
ing and drying up eUery source Of our future
policy"-we say, if the people ridiculed these
wholesale prophecies of evil : and fairly ex-
ploded with laughter over its urns, arid and
ghastly"-its arch-fends," and "cursed
henbanon"-its "thers, gentlemen, is the poi
son, the traitor, :.the Snake pr" there he is,
God save his reprobate soul !'-" solacing
his damned egotism'--a "stupid, villanous,low
knave''-''pray Heaven, lift is preparing any
lightnings in mid-winter, not to waste
them on such ignoble and unperfumed,]
victims of its vengeance -" tars and feath-
ers would be crown Of glory to the wretch
let him whittier in the universal contempt
fix the stamp of the betrayer Arnold on him
deliver him to the dogs to bark the indig-
nation men should feel dishonored to waste
on a baseness so infinite IF all these bonn
bastic, windy, excrutiating, intense, and eruc-
tatory demonstrations excited laughter and
ridicule, how much broader was the grin on
every countenance in st. Paul yesterday when
they read that mornings Pioneer!-read in it
the article headed "Not Dead Yet," exhibit
ing on its part craven grabbing and craw-fsh-
ing back upon its position of the day previous
about the "fate of Minnesota being irretrieu-
ably sealed for ten years." Let us make a few
extracts:
So we in Minnesota, so far from being perma.
nently injured, by the recent financial failure in
Wall Street, can if we choose, turn these very
misfortunes to our benefit.
In the dying words of Webster, according to the
translation which prevails in New Hampshire
| ave are not dead yet"
Minnesota whose fate was ''sealed for ten years.
yesterday to-day has broke the SEAL and the local
resources of Minnesota are our Torres Vedras.
| By diligently making the most of these, we can
retrieve-not IN ten years, but in ten weeks-all
| we have lost
On the whole, we are inclined to believe that
Thomas Foster does not hold the destnies of Min.
nesota in the hollow of his hands.
Thus, under the lash of public opinion
and amidst the shower of ridicule and con.
tempt poured upon it, from all hands, for its
foolish denunciations of disastrous "fate "
being in store for Minnesota during the next
"ten years the Pioneer now takes back its
Vaccinations of evil, and endeavors to turn its
cursings into blessings.
The destruction of the world, so far as this
portion of it is concerned, is graciously post
poned by it for the present, and perhaps in
definitely-with the slight promise, however
that there shall be " small earthquake fo1
the sole purpose ofswallowing up one "THoMA:
FOSTER" which earthquake we understand, i.
to be got up by the Railroad Companies, ere
CARELESS of expense" whenever they are 81
fortunate as to negotiate their Bonds
With the parting advice to the youngste,
of the Pioneer to not in future let his temp
ests in tea-pots" boil over so severely and *
prematurely, nor allow his editorial gun to g
off at halfcock: we close these remarks by
telling the public, that if they want to find tn,
man who, to crafty his rage and spleen a
the success Of rival press, was willing II
brand nonentity and ruin as the fate of Min
nesota for the next ten years-to look fol
him in the present writing editor of the Pho
neer-" there, gentlemen, is the poison !-th,
traitor the sna-a-a-ake!"