The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-05-05
10 the natural and obyioss one, and tba, It
ia the one contemplated at the time Of the
treaty, although not named. On this latter
point be- is sustained by the inteL'gneer



Wright County, Governor SIBLEY took
prompt and effective measures TO bring the
guilty parties 10 condign punishment, aid
yesterday Issued proclamation Offering a
reward Of five Hundred Dollars for their
arrest and conviction.
II il impossible that the citizens Of
Wright County can be so debauched by the
society Of the villains who nest in their
midst, a. to remain silent witnesses, and 80
conserving parties, TO the deeds OF violence
Of which their county has recently been the
scene. II is impossible that the respectable,
the intelligent, the moral and well.bred 30
cisty Of the villages Of Wright county
second 10 no other in the State 10 the
virtues which make the church and school
house the first offspring Of the social orgsni-
zation,--it is impossible that they can look
with indifference, that they can look other.
wise than with horror, and shame, and exc
Grafton, upon the reckless and cold blooded
atrocities Of lawlessness with which the
name OF Wright County, Minnesota. is now
ringing throughout the world. Till the in.
fanny Of that horrible crime is wiped ont in
q prompt and fall measured rctribution,
Wright County will be painted black upon
tho map Of Minnesota patch Of loaths0mc
leprosy upon the fair surface Of the aud.
II is not the appeal to the cupidity Of the
fair.minded citizens Of Wright County in
the Governors proclamation which will have
the effect desired. But that il should be
necessary Tor the Governor Of Minnesota to
offer arewsrd for the apprehension civilians
who are stalking about 10 Gods daylight
among the citlzsns Of Wright County, boast.
ing Of the open aud leagued assassination Of
Of man acquitted by the law Of any crime,
surely this, il anything, should arouse in
every good citizen there sense Of individual
shame, that be should form Q part Of
community involved In so damning . dis.
grace. II 10 no excuse, no palliation OF this
act Of public murder, that similar scene
Was heretofore enacted in 10 Sueur county,
and that men suspected Of crime in nsighbor.
ing States have been hung by mobs. Pub
lie opinion in Minnesota has never reached
that stage Of brutal Generalization, which
sustains outrsges such n these in their com
mission. CT aeqaits the perpetrators of their
legal consequence The law of individual
caprice, the right Of ovcry man TO avengc
his own wrongs, may have suited tho semi.
civilization Of the old Territorial border life
OF Wisconsin or Indiana scarcely less Zero
cious in impulse, or uulisciplined in govern
men,, than tho savsges which surrounded it
and when, in TACT, there was no society to
assume the guarantees OF life and property.
hut such period has never been in Mime
sofa. We have never wanted since the get
tlemcnt Of tho country o complete machinery
Of civil administration never wanted for
ample recourse for protection against VIC
lenco threatened. or rctribution for wrong
done.
II Is said that Of score OF mur,ierers In
Minnesota, not one has been punished, and
A and u, II is concluded, may therefore
properly undertake 10 rmedy the Inefficient.
administration OF the Law by tramplng the
law itself under foot,
Ii the law has been loosely executed in
these cases--it punishment has been averte,l
by negligence or connivancc from the crim.
nal II has been for no want OF the author.
lad and legitimate means Of punishment,
but because public opinion has no, demand.
cd the prompt and pecmtory execution Of
the law. II murder, rampant, bloody, has
stalkej in open daylight through our
strets, unsvenged, unnotic,d, it is because
public opinion, preoccupicd with individual
clishuess, has tolerated il, and wipked a, it.
{ the same intensity Of public Keeling
which has found vent in those acts Of blind
ieroci,y, which have stained lie Seur and
Wright counties with blood. had been ex.
pended in the assertion OF the law a. il
stands upon the statute books--f an iud,,
ierent Jury and partial Judge bad stood in
the presence of an outraged Public Opinion,
demanding n, their tribunal just retribu.
ton for proven crlmc--,hc public execution
{ Of both RuiNxBARr and JACKSON, IL guilty,
would have promptly sindica,ed the majesty
Of the law, and afforded in their death sure
guarantee OF u well ordered society. instead
OF falling victims 10 abruial mob teaching
nothing by their miserable revenge. bu, The
triumph OF anarchy and la~lessues over all
the social securities OF the individual