Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Our Washington Correspondence....
False Cry,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 1S.

WASHINGTON, d. c., May Is.
MEssRs. ED1ToRs:- In this political pest.
house OF corruption, where the whole country
is farmed out to sectional spies, who report
the action OF the people of every locality from
Maine to Minnesota; the ST. Paul election was
hailed by telegraph, as a perfect Democratic
triumph, and as indicating the party caste of
the State But now that we are fully inform
ed Of the adventurous means used to carry
the election, and that even with extraneous
support, the party as party failed, securing
only the shadow of victory in the election of
Mayor, whose private and public worth as
a good citizen, enabled him to sur1nount the
od.um of the party, there is no word spoken
by the Democratic journals to correct the lie,
but daily false attempts are made, and will
be till after the fall elections, to hold up Min
nesota as a Democratic State.
I see that James Cavanaugh has transport
ed his oratorical faculties to st. Paul, where
he has been using them to instruct ourpeople
how to manage their domestic affairs. The
delicacy of thus intruding himself into the
private concerns of municipality to which
he is stranger, may very justly be ques-
toned 1t matters not whether itarises from
excessive vanity, egotism, or an uncontrolla-
able pruriency to be seen and heard, or an
exaggerated estimate of his individual impor.
tance; it certainly was poor tribute Of res.
pect to our old citizens, whose enterprise and
energy laid the foundation of the city, and
who are silvcred with age in the hard battle
of pioneer life, to charge them implicitly with
a want of wisdom and virtue to manage their
own affairs.
If Democracy is so enfeebled in the city,
that it despairs of managing the charter elec-
tions without being driven to seek adventi-
| tious aid from the counties, and owes success
| only to such confederates, then the actual
power of the municipal government is lost to
the citizens, and is transferred to the political
party to which it is sold, to which it owes al
legiance, and by which it is held in subjec-
| ton.
History is pregnant with such examples,
and of their direful consequences. Such
wicked folly destroyed the great cities of Italy,
and has not infrequently converted Paris into
slaughter house of carnage. Nothing is
more degrading, or hazardous, than introduc.
ing outside adventurers to take part in local
domestic struggles.
However this is but another step toward
that universal anarchy which is rapidly over
taking us. Down we go, step at time, while
every year marks the fatal progress. The
love of law and order is now scandallzed as
arstocratical, while their violation is pure pat
riotism.
We may readily throw out of sight the IN
dividual influence of Cavenaugh as OF no
consequence, and confine our attention exclu-
sively to the danger of the precedent and
principle. 1t luckily happens in this violation
of the proprieties of municipal management,
that the agent used, was judiciously selected,
as of all others least likely to attract attention
by his power or popularity. Beside, it was
well known that he wanders about like a true
champion of knighthood, doing up the politic:l
jobs of the State seizing the "Battering Ram
by the horns" in Quixotic style, wherever ne
is to be met with tuning the whangdoodle'