Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-01-08
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10 sAs Editors Of the Assmssotsan: i
,-sA- WAsHIsGroN, Dec. %, 1853. z
DEAR SIRs: l see some very animated
controversies are being carried on both inNew
York and Washington, in reference to our
State, county, and city debts. Those who de-
fend the policy of burdening the State, and
who are the individual gamers by these uses
of State credit, raise loud hue-apd-cry of
mad dog, and with hot pursuit are determin-
ed to run down, without mercy, whoever has
the Independence to raise his voice against
these Infamous outrages. i''..
The man who would strive to defend his
rights, or advocate a different State policy, is
maligned with the foulest aspersions and stig-
matized as "traducer of the State This
is the old, worn-out cry of Stop thief" and
generally very well understood. . .
Who traduces the State? The man who
inficts upon her infancy death wound, pros
trates her energies by absorbing for his pri-
vate purposes her resources, thus crippling
and blasting the vigor Of her youth ?-or the
man who bares his arm and comes forward to
battle for the rights, the property, and the
welfare of the many! .' a..F..,-. -
Who, some few years ago, traduced the
State of Pennsylvania? Was it not the unprin-
cipled, avaricious politician who plunged her
into an almost hopeless debt, loading the farm.
ing and every other interest in the State with
such depressing taxes, that she lay for years
without the power of developing her own re-
sources, and became public shame and dis
grace to the whole world? ask who traduc-
ed this State ?-the men-if We should call
them men-who wrought her ruin, or the he
roes who fought for reform? ...
Who disgraced Wisconsin, and traduced
the State? The land-grant and railroad thieves
whose aim was to destroy and eat up the
prospective wealth of the State, or the Legis-
lature and Governor who exposed the villains,
defended the people, and drove the plupderers
into disgracep
The whole argument in New York or
Washington paper, as I have read it, amounts
to this, and nothing more. The crime of i'm
posing upon the tax payers an almost fabulous
| debt is admitted That the treasure which
will accumulate from these taxes, will find its
way into the pockets of certain parties, is not
denied but the future recipients of these tax
es say, the deed being done, it were now sound
policy for the taxpayers to bear their griefs
in silence, and not proclaim their Affections to
the world. The perpetrators of the wrong al
times assume high virtues, and make an ap
peal for commiseration as prosecuted public
benefactors, and again are terribly exaspera
ted that the taxpayers should show so little
inclination to silent submission. -'
They admit that States have been ruinous
ly robbed by railroad and bank plunderers
for want of proper precaution but they say
the period for precaution with Minnesota has
passed by, and the greatest virtue Of hel
citizens now is to live plainly, the better to bt
enabled to meet the tax-collector promptly
[ admit this latter advice is now Uholesom,
precaution which necs ssity will speedily teach
but it comes with bad grace from those WHIT
wronged the State, that individually they may
exhibit the greater extravagance. -.
In the early administration of our State
before the present horde of Vandals come int
Office and power, we pursued a very differen
policy. Our public enterprises were proper
tionate to our ability to accomplish them. W.
abured public debts as dangerous and dis
creditable. As consequence, our priyat
and public credit was good at houue ait
abroad, and we prospered equal to the mos
favored people in the Union. Even durin,
the administration of Gov German, howeve
unwise and indiscreet some of his public act
may have been, this crowd of blood-sucker
never could fasten their deadly fangs upon tn
public treasury of the State. lie and they
were, however, all good democrats together
and they killed him outright because he dis
graced himself With the semblance of honesty
the highest blemish they could find in hi
public conduct or character.
trust by this time our people understand
the impossibility Of hiding our shame within
our own borders. Our very public acts re
fer the standard of our public credit to Wal
street, city of New York, and there our fol
lies are as we'll understood as in any part o
Minnesota. False credit, no more than falls
coin, can pass the ordeal there. There is bu
one way left us now Not to make thing
worse by putting useless plaster upon thi
ugly sore inflicted upon the public credit, tina
it may, unseen, eat deeper and deeper, bu
let it have the air, and day light, and sunshine
until it sloughs itself away, and then be eau
tious for the future. They may PROSTATE u
for time, but they are recuperative energies
in Minnesota that will overcome it, and ou
former prosperity will return, and we vii
come out of the trial, wiser, better and hap
pier. Yours, etc., ...
MINNEsorUs.
Recent Murders in New York City
Freeman Cutting, a young sailor, was mur
dered on Sunday afternoon week, in hous,
of ill-fame on Roosevelt street bv Michae