Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-10

numbers the Democratic Governor, Lieuten
ant Governor, two of the Supreme Judges
and other State officers, met here in St. Paul
They then arranged to raise VAST DE
MOORATIO CORRUPTION FUND, to bt
used freely in the ensuing campaign to secnrs
the election of their State ticket.
They levied tax on every Office holder
under the General and State Governments
of FIVE per cent. of his salary and emolu
ments, and the following SECRET CIRCU
LAR was thereupon sent to every Democrat
ic official in the State, whether he held 6
County, State or National office
The Democratic Secret Circular.
"ST. PAUL, December "a, 1858.
"DEAR SIR : 1t becomes my duty to in
form you that on the 4th inst, the Democrat
ic Central Committee of Minnesota had a
meeting at the Capitol in st. Paul, when the
following among other resolutions was unan
imously adopted
"Resolved, That the Secretary be request
ed to notify the persons holding Office under
the Sta'e end General Government in Minne
sofa, that it is necessary to raise revenue fol
party purposes that in the opinion of this
Committee an assessment of five per cent
upon the salary and emoluments of his office
should b. levied upon each person and that
each Office holder be requested to pay to N
W. Kittson, Esq, of st. Paul, Treasurer Of
this Committee, Such assessment in INSTALL
ments as follows on the first day of JAN
uary, on the first day of May, and the bal
ance on the first day of July, 1885,"
"The G, ,mmittee adjourned to meet again
on the second Wednesday in JanusI ~, 1859,
on or before which time an answer to this is
earnestly solicited. 1t is high time that the
Democratic Party had more thorough and
efficient organization in Minnesota. With
out we will come out of the nexs political
campaign discounted AID disgraced.
"Your very obedient servant,
"JOHN PENMAN,
''Secreta,y d. c. Committee"
The above document is copy of one OF
the Secret Circulars duly signed IN INK by
John Penman, as Secretary of the Democrat
ic Central Committee.
1t is now in the possession of the Republi-
can State Committee.
If the levy upon the offlceholders therein
made was submitted to, and the whole of
the installments we're duly paid in by every
oficeholder to whom the circular was sent
Supreme Judges and all-and we do not
doubt they were-a Grand Corruption Fund
of not less than $4,000 would be raised to
repeat every variety of fraud at "Leech Lake.
and other frontier bogus precincts at the
coming election
Without this fund, the Committee acknowl-
edge that the Democracy "will come out of
the next campaign discOmfHed and disgra-
ced!"
With it they are disgraced; and with or
without it, the People will take care that the
Game of Fraud shall not be second time
successful
THE LAND SALES BROUGHT ON
BY THE DEMOCRACY.
But, fellow-ctizens, we have another and
most serious charge to make against the De-
mocratic Party. We have shown in this ad-
dress, that 1t is the Ally of Slavery and that
the present sole purpose of its organization
is to obey the behests of the Slave Power.
We have shown that it is Inimical and Op-
pressive, to our Foreign Citizens whenever it
suits it's interests to be So We have shown
that it has been Extravagant and Reckless of
ECONoMY,in the administration of State Af-
fairs. We have shown, that it has inflicted a
Wildcat Currency upon the people, worse
than the vermin which plagued the Egyp-
tians. We have shown, that it is Unfriend-
ly as National Party to the Growth of the
North and West, and to the Extension of the
Empire of Free Labor, evinced by Ns oppo.
sition and defeat of the Poor Mans Bill
the beneLcent Homestead Law.
We now proceed to show its further o.
preston of Free Labor and of Poor Men, in
the recent Proclamation by the Democratic
President of the United States, Offering for
IMMEDIATE SALE ALL the PUBLIC LANDS
in Minnesota
TO show the outrage and the oppression
this Sale will inhict particularly in the
present crisis Of Hard Times-upon our Poor
Settlers, who can hardly get bread for them
selves and their families, let alone pay the
gold for their pre-emptions-we bring upon
the witness stand the Pioneer and Democrat
of st. Paul, edited by Earl S. Goodrich, at
present the Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee.
In that paper of Aug, 2, 1850, appeared
an article intended to breaa the effect the
Land Sale advertisement was having upon
the minds of Democratic voters everywhere,
in opening their eyes to the true character Of
the Democratic Prrty as being an Enemy ol
Poor Free Labor on the one hand, and as
being the exclusive friend of the South on
the other. To do this, it could not help
making certain admissions, which We here
place on the record:
From the st. Paul Pioneer and Demo-
crat OF August 2.
ain President Buchanan's Inaugural, he
states it as "Our cardinal policy to reserve
the lands as much as may be for actual sci
TIERS"
"In proclamation ofthe Presidents, which
we append to this article, he offers at public
sale, within the limits of month, public
lands in Minnesota to nearly or quite the to.
tai of two millions of acres.
"Five-sixths of this amount is located along
the lines OF our various railroads, and bears
by law minimum price of two dollars and
fifty cents per acre. This class of lands has
been eagerly sought for, and entered upon, by
settlers of the past two years. Perhaps il
would not be extravigant to say that four
ffths of all the land locations by actual set.
tiers, during that period, have been made
upon the lands now proclaimed for sale.
AhS oSssASAS NuOCii SuuulGGSu w tue
enhanced rate which the government placed
upon these lands, on account Of their proxim
ity to anticipated lines of railroad; and they
thought themselves safe in assuming the ad
ditiOnal risk, by reason of the understood
policy of the [Democratic] Administration
to withhold them from public sale until they
were generally occupied.
These pioneers, who made their settle
ments upon these lands. indulgng in thes,
hopes, and relying upon the good faith of tn
Administration, Democratic; j who have ex
hausied their means in improving their claims
and in their attempts to gather frum the sol
sufficient to meet the double demands of tn,
government !; suddenly find their hopes be
trayed, and themselves about to be defraude,
of their homes. .....r. -.
They are placed in this position at tim
ofthe greatest financial distress, when, if tn
whole people were to contribute to q fund fo
the purpose, not enough money could b
found within the limits of the State, to pa
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