The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-03-10

Rspublses.isa DsAssd-vhs Asshsassts
Osigsa Of TIE Word "lsspsAsatssn.
The Minnesotian Of Thursdsy, in Q long
article 10 reply TO letter Of the Rev. 8. h.
RIaos Of Hszlewood, 10 which that gentle
man took occasion To inHict mesited chas-
tisemsDt on the uapriscipled advocates Of
repadiation-nys:
"The Reverend Advocate Of taxation
claims. II seems. 70 be Republican; but
from the following remarks, We c0nclude be
belongs TO the wrong pew" wing Of the
party. He says:
But II the Republican party are expected 70
be the rspudistors. then must, nom Ne bot.
they could by any means Is Induced 70 do
such . dastsrdly mean act, would not hesitate
. moment to r,pud,ah the whole party.
To protest against reputation, then, it
will be perceived, by the RAMSEY organs
definition. 10 TO be in the wrong pew" Of
the Republican church that is to say, TO be
in favor Of redeemipg our State obligations.
10 to DO Anti. Republiean-beterodox. The
genuine, orthodox, true blue Republican,
then. We are left TO infer, 10 10 favor Of repu.
diation-Stste dishonor. To be . Repub
lican then, by this count, is TO b the mean
est, the yil.st, and most Infamous thing that
crswIs upon Cons Earth. 1t Is to Re at
once knave and fool. In ito ambition and
design it is to gibbet the name Of Minnesota
on the same scaiiold with the rotten carrion
Of Mississippi--to stink forever 10 the nos
trils Of mankind. 1t Is TO barry our poster
ity a. that State Is buried, under the execra-
tons and contempt Of the civilized world.
It 10 to faint the blood Of our children, and
entail upon them the inheritance Of blasted
name--to COW curses thicker than inorns
to blight our green promise 10 it, prime,
and choke the harvest Of Our future
10 its bud. Ia fact is to be just such
man--of just such pure morals, and just
such elevated principes-as the nice person
who edits the M,nnesoi.an, whose public
character is the fragrant eflloresoenoe Of his
private life, and who In both Is the besuti-
full embodiment Of his own theory Of re-
pudiation. Reputation is natural to him.
lie sucked it in his mothers milk, and 10
haled ii in his native air. lie 10 Penn
sylvsnian. and Reputation is a Pennsyipd'
ma word. The d" old school gentleman Is q
Pennsy lvanian, and Reputation is Penn.
sylvania word. JUS. and ALEoK ere Penn
sylvanians, familiar with the skeleton Of
repudiation, brought up with il, and they
drank their first political wasail from its
skull, after the old Teutonic manner, In the
old ancestral vein.
BE is the last Of the Pennsylvanians
Of the Reputation school. and his silver
link completes the circle which comprise
the Republican organization in ST. Paul,
according to the bImncsot,an's definition.
The coincidence Of nativity is not acct
dental it explains, ~ nothing else can. the
coincidence Of natural tendency, and the
permanent direction given TO the mind by
early associations.
1t /, no, astouishing--it is simply in the
natural course OF ,hings-thst oil the Re-
pudiationists in St Paul should be Penn.
sylvauians, that they should unite in q
single clique, aud converge upon single or
gan A principle defective affinity, whose
germ. perhaps. has existed 10 their ancestral
blood, since the original separation Of the
Anglo Saxons from the German stock, as-
sorts them from the rest Of the community,
and precipitates them in minute, but we'll
organized social sulphurct. We pick up
the anomalous lump upon the soil Of Mime
sofa rs We should pick op an erolite or
piece Of Ignite. Ii is an utterly foreign body
which can assimilate with nothing about Il,
and which by some mischsnce has strayed
away from home, aud lost its way.
Reputation did not flourish well even on
its native soil Of Pennsylvania. with coal
enough at its roots to iced hell With Ere for
q million ages; II will not he likely to pros.
per better as an exotic In Minnesota, with
the small amount Of birthstone that can be
squeezed out Of RAasRr's old clothes.
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