Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-07-02
Is The Extent Of Sibley's Responsibility
In the Management OF M. & Cedar
Valley Il. k, Cor


In the Management OF M. & Cedar
Valley X. K. Cor
The Pioneer of Saturday, at last, under the
above heading condscends to explain-seenna-
;ngly shy authority, 'extent of the
responsibility of Mr.. SIBLEY in his character
as Director of the Cedar Valley Railroad
Company"
In doing this it makes several statements,
from firstly" up to "ffthly," not one of
which possesses either plausibility to ensure
belief or particle of evidence accompanying
to command it.
The third, fourth and fifth positions it takes,
are so much bosh, not bearing on the question
at issue at all. These we will examine in the
first place:
The Third is, that Mr. SIBLEy has not been
an "active member of the Board for several
months past. =" This means that eff things
naye all gone to tophet, I did not do it 1 only
let it be DONE"
The Fourth is, that he acould hare with
Drawn from the Board several months ago.
jected to his doing so. Therefore, we suppose,
he would have the argument to follow, that
he is not responsible for anything that was
dons111hthe said Board within those Z" sever
al d s." What puerile, boyjsh excuse
is tmsf for full grown man of Mr.. SlBLEY's,
pretenaons to put forth
The Fifth" position is, that Mr. SlBLEY
hasn't made anything out of his Railroad Di-
rectorship, and that he would have sold out
long ago to "any proper p1Ison," if "any pro-
per person" had only offered or been offered
to him. We ask what he considers "pro-
per person" Is it not lofty gentleman,
long in the Indian trade, six feet tall, aqui-
line nose, cavalier whiskers and moustache,
large in the chest, thin in the flanks, with pro,
longed extremities, and little bow of their
legs? Pshaw-isn't such excuses for official
delinquency by a quasi Governor of State
too laughable
The Pioneer also proceeds to deny our al
legation that the best cash offer Mr.. SIBLEY
obtained for the State Bonds when in New
York City was about "thirty cents on the
dollar What else was the complicated and
ridiculous arrangement he made with WINS
Low, LENIER & Co? We dare the Pioneer
to publish the details of that elegant speci-
men Of Moccasin fnancering 1t will estab-
lish our allegation in full !!
There is one point that the organ makes.
which is so supremely ridiculous as we'll as
untrue, that we give our readers the benefit
of it in full. The Pioneer SAYS:
That three -fouths of the Republican Marty of tho
State have denounced both the Governor and An.
dlor for not receiving all the bonds issued tn IN.
different companies a banking basis nm The
ground that the State should uphold the credit of
Its own bonds; aud We state further what must ha
apparent to all, that but for the watchfulness ana
determination OF these Democratic officers tho
State would now have flooded with more than a
million and a half Of irresponsible promises to paw.
Won't somebody hold us while we laugh
vociferously at the above? 1t is enough to
make an anchorite explode Here has been
the MINNEsoTIAN, the leading Republican
Organ of the State here have been three
fourths of the Republican members of the Leg
islature, as have been the entire body of the
Republican leaders of the State with but few
exceptions, openly and notoriously committed,
from the very first hour Of the inception of
the s5,OOo,oOO Loan policy, vigorously and
actively against 1t, as inevitably disastrous
and unwise-opposng it in every step of its
progress down to its present currency explo-
sion-beggins, imploring and arguing with
the people and their State government, to
avoid it, to arrest it, to stop it--denounced
by every Democratic press in the State as
being inimical ito the proper development of
our resources" and now this ''ten-yearsr-ruin'
Pioneer and Democrat cody turns around and |