Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-20
A Land Officer Trying to Escape the
RsspOnsibility for the Land Sales.

One of those SOuthern-bOrn Land OmcerS
who was down to Washington recently on
business connected with advertising the lands
for sale, is certain Colonel (?) CARUTHERs
of St. Cloud This is an ambitious individ-
ual. He is of opinion "Southern gentle
man" is proper representative Of the Free
Laborers of Minnesota on the floors OF Con-
gress, or in the high Offices of the State Gov
ernment Hence, he is extremely anxious to
make out, that whatever his brother officers
might have done he did not, when at WASH
ington, do anything to bring about the COM
in. oppressive Land Sales. So anxious Is ne,
that, though he was but mentioned by con-
temporary press in merely general terms with
others as having been engaged in this attempt
to increase his own income at the expense OF
those whom Democratic Senator HAMMOND OF
S. C. calls the "mud-sills" Of society, he
has Just managed to obtain certificate OF
character from Republican Mr.. STEPHEN
MILLER, kind neighbor of his at St. Cloud
whom he has got to believe in his dlsln-
terested love of the Settler and utter ahhor-
rence of fat Land office fees and plenty OF
them! Thus, when at Washington City, &C
cording to friend MILLER, the "Colonel" C)
rendered efficient aid for the postponement OF
the Land Sales! Now, we have our more
than doubts on this head. AS Mr.. MILLER was
not at Washington, and as Mr.. CARuTHERs
when there probably kept up fair appear
ance for home effect, and as the secrets Of the
inner departments of the government are as
sealed books to all but the initiated, and those
are certainly not Republicans, our st. Cloud
friend will pardon us for looking rather at the
results of Mr.. CARUTHERs' presence at the
National Capitol, as the rule to judge correct
ly the kind of labors in which CARUTHEh:
, was really engaged, rather than in placing any
confidence in Mr.. C.'s own wOol-pulling rep
resentations
In a word, we sum up the whole of Mr.
CARUrHERs' case in these points-1st. Colo
mel (?) CARUTHERs interest lay in the Lane
Sales being brought on. I'd. He would hard
: " pay his own expenses to Washington t.
work against those very interests, to forwar'
which alone, brought him into Minnesota
, Sd. Soon after his visit, and that Of some o
J his brother Land Officers to the Capital, ant
= their return, the Land Sales aoers duly aacer
!, tised to come Oft!
These facts speak louder than any words
They enforce the conclusion that the st. Clou'
Land Officer, "Colonel" (?) CARuTHERs, i
. not entitled to be white-washed any whittier a
to this Democratic business Of expressing tn
" White Settlers of Minnesota, than is Gene
raj" % WAGNER of Cambridge, or Major
(9) CL1ruERALL of Ottertail, or Colonel {:
GRAHAM of Henderson, &C., &C., to the en-
y of the entire military and official Democrat
chapter!
> But let the People of Minnesota remen
, Der that this much is sure at any rate
e 1t is the administration of the Nations
Government, elected by the Democratic Party
e that is forcing on the Land Sales at this VI
propitious moment, and that this same Demo
u cratic Party defeated the Homestead Bill
e in the last Congress, which, if it had passed
would have saved the homes of our preser
= settlers from being wrested from them, an
u made Minnesota to blossom as the rose, wit
y good times produced by tens of thousands
q immigrants whom the boon Of free homes f
u the homeless would have invited in crowo
~ into our noble State. Remember this