Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-05

In our notice of the Proceedings of the
Common Council on Wednesday morning we
intimated that the resolutions introduced by
Gen. EMERSON in relation to the position of the
MiSNEsorIAN, were instigated by the editors
and conductors of our neighborly and loving
cotemporaries, who would be only too glad to
avail themselves of anything which might
turn up" whereby they could seem to tri-
umph over the MNNEsorlAN; and the flutter-
ing Of the, Pioneer and Times in yesterday
mornings issues, more than confirms the
idea. What do they care how ridiculous a
fix (for that they will say is none of their
iuneral,") they put the Aldermen in, so that
this object of those editors is accomplished.
Pass these resolutions, they speciously argue,
and the influence of the MINNEsor1AN will be
broken down. 1t can then no longer control
the affairs of Wall Street, or Illustrate the
efforts of His Moccasin Highness in his nego-
tiations with the great European Capitalists.
Now the Pioneer and Times might just as
well get up meeting of any Of our other adj
vertisers protesting against the course of the
AlNNEsoTIAN on questions of public policy;
it would be just as effective and none the less
ridiculous. There is just Is much necessity
for CATHcARr, INsERsorL, BUmAM, Nc.
KESry, or host Of others protesting against
our course, if they do not coincide with it, as
for the Common Council to do so. They are
as much responsible for our sins as the Com
mon Council is; for the argument is just as
strong that because these gentlemen advertise
in our paper, they must endorse our position,
as it is that the Common Council is, for a
similar reason.
The Pioneer and the Times are now 10th
to concede that the MINNEsorIAN is really
possessed of so much influence, as they first
represented it to have. 1t was not the MIN
NEsoTrAN, per Sc, after all, that "did it." 1t
was because the MINNEsoTIAN was the Official
Paper of the City, and was represented,
falsely of course, on Wall Street, as being
the exponent Of the city government and the
representative of the commercial classes of
ST. Paul" The agent of GEO. PEABODY, con-
tinues the same authority, when S1BLEY called
on him to complete his arrangements for the
disposal of the State Bonds" thrust the DAI-
LIZ MINNEsoTIAN in his face "as an excuse for
breaking off all negotiations" "The unre-
buked use of half dozen words There are
only fivel which assert legal felton," did
the business, and the State Railroad Bonds
went up"
Now if all this is true, it argues very little in
favor of the Great Negotiator's diplomacy
When GEO. PEABoDY's agent so impudently
thrust the "Oficial Paper of the City" of St.
Paul under the delicate nostrils of the Great
Moccasin, why did not the "Big-Indian-Me''
take from his pocket the st. Paul Times, his
Republican organ in st. Paul, which ostenta-
tiously paradcs itself as the "O6icial paper
of the County, Of Ramsey, and with the gy-
rations Of the Indian Medicine Man thrust it
under the probocis of that jackanapes of an
agent; or should that not prove successful,
why not dive still further into his brooches
pocket and get the Pioneer, which parades it.
self as the "0ficia! paper Of the State Of
Ninnesota.". Wouldn't our handsome Gov
ernor have had them then? What could
GEO. aPEABoBY's American agent have said
then when the ..Official paper of the County,
Of Ramsey. and the Official paper of the
St.+. If Minnesota" were thus thrust in his
e,cs and that too by the ''oficial head of the
government in Minnesota"
But seriously, it strikes us that this "oficial
paper" argument is very silly; though if there
is any thing in it, the Bonds must have had
the advantage Of it, for the ''official papers,
Of as large district Of country as County
and State, should certainly posses more inHu-
euce than the 'of6cial paper Of CITY.