The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-07-28
4 Candidate for an Honorable once
OPs"i"g the Canvass In = DtshVnorsbie
MAY


Way.
Col Cyrus ALDRIcH, candidate for Con-
gress, in his speech before the Black Repub-
lican Convention, accepting the nomination,
pledged the delegates before him that, if his
party should this time succeed, and he should
be again elected, and not be again defrauded
out Of his seat 10 Congress, he would serve
his party and the people faithfully and hon.
estly.
We regret to see a man Of Col. ALDRicH's
age and position, and who is thought worthy
by his party Of Congressional honors, open
a canvass by the utterancc of statement OF
which he must have known was false in
every particular. Col ALDRIcH was one
OF the Black Republican candidates Tor
Congress in 1857. lie ran highest 90 that
ticket, receiving sixteen thousand nine hun
dred and filty.fve votes-eighteen votes
more than Mr.. SWIFT, and seventeen votes
more than Mr.. WILKINSON.
The lowest candidate Cor Congress on the
Democratic ticket, received eighteen thou.
sand and nineteen votes beating Col. AL.
DRicu by q majority Of one thousand and
siXty-lour votes. Col. ALDRIcH never ran
for Congress 10 this State at any other cleo.
ton and it is difficult, under the above
state Of facts to understand by what pre-
cess he was ever elected. 1t is equally diff.
cult TO comprehend, if he was never elected
to Congress, how he could have been de.
frauded out OF his seat in the House Of Rep
rcsentatives. We suppose, however. that
the Colonel, in speaking OF being again
deiraaded," referred TO the official canvass
by Messrs. MEDARy, BRowS, and GAL
BRAIrH, OF the votes cast at the general
election OF 1857. This canvass, as we have
I shown from the official records Of the
Canvassing Board, was made upon the
basis submitted by Mr.. GALBRAIrH, the
Republican member, and the result
as above given, was solemnly certified to
as correct by him as well as by both
his associates. The integrity Of the can
vass-except with reference to the Gov
ernorshlp- never before publicly at.
tackled by Col ALDRIcH, or by any other
Black Republican candidate or press. Even
| the M,nnes0f,dn. whose columns for the last
year and half, have reeked with calumnes
on this subject, has never even claimed and
certainly never attempted TO demonstrate,
the election Of any one Of the candidates OF
its party, except Gov. RAMSEY. We are,
therefore, unable TO understand how Col
ALpRIcH. with any comprehension of what
is due to his honor or to his position. can
talk before public assembage OF having
been deirauded" out OF seat in Congress.
Will Col. ALDRicH. in this connection,
permit us to ask him few civil and peril
men, questonsY II he believed himself to
have been elected member Of Congress two
years ago, why did he not demand his seat.
VI tuhN Spltit ibtu>ultr W 'iIiultatt MS wv
rights, and the rights of the people. which
must have been trampled upon if he was
thus " deirauded?" Did he hold sea, in
Congress so light thing that it was not
worth tn asking, either from the Board OF
Canyassers here, or from the House OF Rep
rescuta,iyes at Washington? Is not this
query negatved by the fact Of the strenu
Gus Efforts made by him to secure an elec-
ton 10 1851. and 10y his equally strenuous
efforts to secure a nomination for the same
Office the present year: And this being the
case, is not his late pretcnce Of having been
deirauded out OF his seat in Congr,ss' a
most ridiculous prc,ence and as false as it
is ridiculous? We commend these inter-
rcgatories TO the attention Of Col. ALDHlcH,
and We beg of him an explanation and