Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-11-12

nv cASIttOhS Va LASS W now Rs~~S~S 49, |
,rent result in the late election in Minnesota,
is simply nonsense to allege, or intimate
uch thing!
The day, when Indian Traders and Mecca
in Chiefs, of any hue of paint, or any style OF
hoe leather, or any quality of leggins, buck
kin or red flannel, could influence the free,
Intelligent, white People Of Minnesota, to 60
his way or that, at their instigation, is en-
irely and forever passed away!
This fact, people at home know-people
.broad should get the hang Of it as speedily
IS possible. Mr.. Henry Moccasin Rice and
Mr.. Henry Hotado Sibley, old and present
rivals and heads of different factions, the |
Pioneer being heretofore the latter's especial
organ, are both emphatically played out in
minnesota Few can be found in this region.
at the present writing, quite so poor as to pay
reverence to either. 1t is true, that when the
whole of Minnesota formerly comprised but
few thousand inhabitants, chiefly devoted to
he fur and whiskey trade, those men, and
AMY of their kind, Wee undoubtedly great
snd mighty Chiefs, large Indians, potential in
influence, whose tramp shook the earth when
they walked, while the bells around their an
iles kept time to its vibrations, and every
poly cried "hor' to their talks" with
ioud acclaim ! But "thinss" are altered
since that day. Our late State election scalp
cd the whole clam ;jam-fiy. Rice ,Sibley, VIM
nebago and Sioux, Chippeway and Assineboln,
all went up together on the same funeral pyre;
md now Black Republicanism rules the roast
nd smokes the caIumut Of State, in the
api,ol, monarch of all it surveys Let the
resident, the New York Herald, the PiO-
,ser and Democrat, Mr.. Rice, and the small
ian, of Illinois, all try and comprehend thi-
state of things, and profit by them, II they
..an!
But to come back to Mr.. Rice, whose body
he Pioneer would now insult and mangle by
nuendoes at.r the breath has been knock
I'd out of It by a more powerful foe, it is du,
to truth to admit, that Mr.. Rice did try his
,and, and did the utmost of his little ''do.
to elect his especial friend George L. Becker.
Governor, and secure the trump of the De-
mocratic State Ticket
| OF this fact there can be no doubt
Amongst other efforts, he had secretly prln
ted long, political, electioneering Letter
addressed "To the People Of Minnesota
printed in both German and English-and
these documents our Republican speakers en-,
countered in their travels scattered broadcast
everywhere along the Valley of the Minnesota
during the ten days prior to the election. But
it fell stillborn: it effected nothing. The Ship
of:State was no longer manageable by his STYLE
of men. In fact, the wand of the Old en-
cbanter was found to he effectually broken
He loudly called spirits from the Vastly deep
but they wouldn't come at his call-or rather
they did come but they raped him and nj
party over the head at the polls, the whol'
planetary system doubled in size to their mul
,p'ied power of vision! Truly, truly, there
is no longer any spell in the name of Rtce
to move the crowd, in the direction of hi
wishes. Rice, except as the name OF pleas
ant table vegetable, bears no significance an.
more to the people of Minnesota!
But, we hope one fact concerning the recen
State election in Minnesota, will not be los
SIGHT of or miSreprcSented. Though tn
Democratic State Ticket was substantially
Douglas ticket-thouSh the platform OF reSt
| ,h.y StnnD Sllt,Stal
;iallv Douglas Platform II
rue. that all The factions of the Dc1nocrac
n Min, esota-the Federal officers included =
,.;tsJ in strenuous efforts to secure Demo
,ratic victory. There was not dlViSlon-
It a break in their ranks.
| The brilliant success, therefore, won by I'll
'.pubEc ms in elec;ing their whole ; al
..d Congressional ticke, by between 3 al
400 M io,ity, in pol Of 10000 votes;
Htaining a majority of over ttco h'rots OF Il
ate Legislature; is to be counted as SUI
.-S, not merely over any one or two faction
# the Democracy in Minresota-it is br"a'
p.>t triumph over all and every one OF the Ia
ions of a unitel Democracy and it is col
,eouently to be deemed a triumph for no
,,I for the future-for 1859 and for 1860
Such being the indisputable facts, We SUI
..>t it is not fair for the sore and beaten d.
n,cracy-is not fair for USurper Sibley or h
'rendS or his presSes--to thus single "'
lcnry NJ Rice and seek to make him
;...pegoat-a burnt Offering to the names of
, parted Party, extinsuiShed by variety
~.uses, amons not the least of which, Wa
ne frau ulent incumbency of maj
.no has been consistent, in his usurl
ID capacity of State Executive, to no ho
st principle, and by whose weakness {
r,scality the People have been robbed b
railroad thieves, and plundered by an irr
>ponsible currency, issued through his conn
vance!
The result, in fact, is one which thOusan
Rices could not have controlled, except onl
to the full extent of their individual vote
which was the exact extent of Henry \
iice's immense powers in the premises. Il
counted in the ballot just one, and no NOR
And, we repeat it, neither Henry Moccasi
Rice nor all the Rices, nor Henry Hotado Sill
ley nor all the Sibleys, nor all the Indian tr
ders in the North-w could have change
The result in Minnesota, one iota. The who
Moccasion Tribe is a beaten generation
in this State-now, henceforth and forever
dead dead! dead beyond the power
even reSurrcction's trump to revive! Ho
, Auditor Dunbarss Financial Oper;
tlOns.
) At public meeting of the business me
| and citizens of Winona, held in Hoff's Hot