Weekly Minnesotian and times., 1859-12-24
AND TIMES PRINTING CC
Old SERIES. VOL. 9. NO. a.
The Supreme COurt.--the Fillmore case
...Mr. StaMnard...Red shirts ana nro-
pAnS.

The Pioneer and Democrat is already put
ting on the airs of an "Opposition" Journal
1t is setting its mouth in prim to look sour
at everything that is done by the Republican
majority of the Legislature; or that may DC
proposed or recommended by the incoming
Republican State Administration. Its partic-
ular ire is Just now excited, because the Ke-
pubcans have been introducing sundry "ReS-
olutions" into either branch of the Legsla-
ture, which especially do not suit it at this
time. 1t first attends to the case OF "Mr. l..
X. SrANNARp,' the Senator from ChiSago
county, who has had the audacity to intro
duce into the Senate series Of resolutions,
having reference to the Fillmore County SEN
atorial Contest; which said resolutions the
Pioneer denounces as seeking to incite re-
sistance to the DEGREES of the very courts up
on which reliance is placed, to enforce the
law he, Mr.. Stannard] is engaged in franz
ing"
The Pioneer then proceeds to put Mr..
| Stannard "down" by the following deprecia-
tory sneer.
Neither, is Mr.. Stannard a gentleman who
is fitted, by education or experience, to pass
| in review the decisions of the Supreme Court.
His occupation, we believe, is that Of a vender
of red shirts, brogans, and Goldfish to the st.
CroiX lumbermen,- with probably as little
knowledge of the elementary principles OF law
as he undoubtedly is of the courtesy and re-
Spect due the highest Judicial tribunal in the
State"
1T is fortunate Mr.. Stannard's constitu-
ents know more about his fitness for the po-
sition of Senator, than the Pioneer editors, or
else he might never have filled place in the
State Senate 1t so happens, we would in
considerable claims to experience" If our
beloved friend of the Pioneer will so far dislo
cate the due order of his ambrosial curls, as
to bend his eyes over the pages of the Journal
of the Territorial House of 1857, he will find
that Mr.. Stannard represented Chisago coun-
ty during both Sessions of that legislature !;
and if he will deign to make little inquiry
around about the legislative halls, he will also
find, that Mr.. S. has always had conceded to
him, the credit of having been one of the very
few honest men, who went through the "Ex-
ira Session. which disposed of the Land
Grant, without touching bribe! Dare the
Pioneer editor boast as much? In the Con-
stitutional Convention that followed, the rec
ords will also show Mr. Stannard as again
representing Chisago county in that body e;
and the published debates thereof, prove
that he was one of its principal and ablest
members. During his experience in both the
bodies referred to, Mr. Stannard obtained the
reputation, and deservedly. Of being one of the
very best parliamentarians in the State Then
again, when the Republican State Convention
met in September, 1857, to make nominations
for State Officers, so high did he stand as a
man of f"education' and Experience" for
sound judgment and practical views, that he
was spoken Of in that Convention, alike for
one of the Supreme Judges and for Attorney
General; and, finally, against his wishes and
without his solicitation, he obtained the nearly
unanimous nomination for Secretary of State ::
and in the canvass that followed ran greatly
ahead of his ticket, Notwithstanding he was
opposed by the German, Baasen! In the fall
of 1858, he was nominated and elected, du-
ring his absence, Senator to represent Chisa.
go, Isanti and Pine counties in the State SEN
ate, and it is in pursuance, and By virtue of
that election, Mr. Stannard has had the op-
portunity of introducing these very resolu-
tons which so displease our contemporary
of the now discordant "organ."
We take it, from all this, that Mr. STAN
nard's friends do not violate propriety greatly
in claiming some degree of "experience'' for
him in legislative matters
AS to his "knowledge of the elementary
principles of law" as fitting him to criticse
the decisions of the "highest judicial tribu-
nal in the State" we suppose member of
the bar, duly read and admitted, as Mr. STAN
nard is might be presumed to know some
thing also, in that respect, Notwithstanding he
may likewise, at some period in his career,
| oCCH Ill Wildt tuC l. CONCCT SCCLlS W
consider the vulgar occupation of "Vender Of
Red Shirts, Brogans, and Goldfish to the St.
Croix Lumbermen," and has even been so low
as to have at one time been "a Logger and
Lumberman himself!
But, being Vermont Yankee, the Pioneer
should consider and make allowance accord
ingly, that he has the privilege, by immemo.
rial custom, of making himself "handy," in a
new country, at anything honest and useful
to that country. In this, also, Mr.. Stannard
has the example of a majority of the Supreme
Bench to keep him in countenance Mr.. At.
water, for instance, was Yankee School
master in the South, where he sold his North.
ern principles to the slave-power for small
mess ofpottage; and subsequently coming to
Minnesota with law shingle, and not find
ing that his legal abilities kept him in bread
became editor and proprietor of the st. An
thony Erpress, which he was editing with par
tizan bitterness, when the Democratic State
Convention took him from the editors desk
toplace him on the Supreme Bench, which hi
attained by disgraceful frauds, of which hi
was fully cognizant
We submit, that Lucas K. Stannard, be
side such man, in all the essentials deserv
ing courtesy and respect" is as "Hyperior
to Satyr!'
Charles E. Flandrau, another of the mem
bers of "the highest judicial tribunal in tn
State" was, just prior to his selection as
Democratic nominee for the Supreme Bench
obtaining vast Experience" as lawyer
and "a little knowledge of the eementar,
principles of law" as Indian Agent for tn
Sioux. in which position his legal attainment
were signalized by his helping to kill, alon
with fifty others, one of Inkpaduta's relative
who was caught out on the prairie alone, an
defenceless Besides this heroic act, hi
claims to courtesy and respect" are founde
on his interfering in every election; expires