Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-03

twice the remuneration proposed to be grant
ed the Northern mail route, and the second
obtains more for semi monthly service on
the Central route than this BID asks for a semi
weekly service on the Northern. A proposition
so ridiculous, it ought to be observed, did not
emanate from Mr.. Rice, but was engrafted ON
the bill originally introduced by him, in the
Committee on Post Offices, of which he is
Chairman"
The Pioneer further expostulated against
the transparent sectional tavoritism," in this
matter, as follows j. vFHr... ..-
"The people of the Great Northwest de-
mand that the Northern route shall be nut
upon an equal footing with the other routes
and they appeal with confidence to the nation
against such a sacrifice of their interests and
their rights to the sectional .tauoritism mani
tested in this matter by the Government
On this we remark, thai we asked a Dem
ocratlc Cnngress for an act authorizing Mail
Route. How was it met! By bill which
"kept the word of promise to the ear, but
broke it to the hope" By bill which while
it proposed to grant such mail route made
ridiculously insufficient appropriation for
the purpose, and this even was at last not
granted, ~
If then, fellow-citizens, you desire to see tho
Extension of Slavery prevented, elect Repub-
lican Members to Congress.
Ii you desire to see the Interests of Free
Labor protected, elect Republican Members
to Congress.
lfyou desire to see the whole West swarm.
ing with prosperity, elect Republican men,
bers to Congress, who alone can be depended
upon S to aid in the passage of the Homestead
lfyou desire the development of your own
State, elect Republican members to Congress.
who are alone able and willing to press through
an Overland Mail Bill, in the very teeth Of the
Slaveecracy. pqGr .irar .,rr -, t~a..i.,.-
THE REMOeRATfC FATTY I'M MIN
NESOTA--THE CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, IT, ."!lH'i~t' 10.
The history of the Democratic party in
Minnesota is one of violence and fraud. Its
record does not present single unsullied
page. Trace it from the date of the meeting
of the Convention, convened for the purpose
of framing Constitution, and its whole course
has not been marked by single redeeming
act. . ..,.
Hopelessly In the minority in that Conven.
ton, its leaders resorted to the lowest grade
of chicanery and falsehood, and afterwards to
violence, to get control of the organization Of
that body. The Republican members, vigi
liant of the rights of their constituents, divin.
ing the base. schemes of the Democratic mem
bers, foiled them in their attempt. Finding
that the threats of the mOunte6ank, unsup
ported by the courage of the brauo, would
gain them nothing from men, who being right
had the manliness to maintain it, they left the
Constitutional Convention, and boldly anG
openly manufactured Delegates, forging 70,
them certificates of election, for the purpos,
of securing sufficient number of pretended
delegates to organize revolutionary body
independent of, and apart from the Constitu
tional Convention, then in session. But it is
fact, proved by the records of their owl
body, that after they had committed thes,
grave offences against good order and tn
law, they never did have, as members of thei
body, sufficient number to constitute a lega
quorum. Thus, even their crimes are with
out apology.
But after they had completed their revolu
tionary organization, what did they do? The,
spent nearly month in idleness and riot, be
fore they attempted to enter upon the dutie
they had assumed to perform.
1t was finally only by the moderate ant
condescending action of the True Convention
which sought to prevent anarchy and injury t
the interests of the State, that this fugitiv
and factious minority were permitted to ente
into committee of conference, by which tn
present Constitution was produced.
THE DEMOCAATIc ELECTION
FRAUDS OF 1857.
For the election which was to take place il
the following October, Qs57,) each part,
prepared itself for an active canvass of tn
State, and placed in nomination list of can
didates for the different State offices, the Re
publican ticket headed by Alexander Ram
sey, and the Demo cratic ticket by Henry H
Sibley.
But while the Republican party was pro
ceeding in perfectly good faith, to test the feel
ing and views of the people at the approach
ing election, the Democracy, through its lead
ers, was devising one of the most fragrant tbs
sues of frauds by which the rights of tn
majority were ever FILTERED away. The mos
far-reaching schemes were laid to defeat fai
expression of the popular voice, and to effec
the success of the Democratic candidates b,
frauds in voting, and particularly by thu
fraudulent Creation of Fictitious Precincts il
the most remote and unfrequented parts o
the State, where no white person did nor doe
now reside.
ON WHAT PRETENCE THE FICTI
TI0Us PRECINCTS WE'RE MADE.
The following is the law approved Marci
LIST, 1852, and printed in the laws Of 1852
chap. II, page 81, for the creation of election
precincts in "unorganized counties - 49,.
/" Be it enacted by the Legislative Assem-
bly, of the Territory of Minnesota, That wher
ever any number of voters not less than ten
residing in an unOrganized or partially organ
lied county, and not within twenty miles O
an election precinct, shall petition the Gov
ernOr to establish new precinct, it shall b,
the duty of the Governor, and he is hereby
authorized to lay out and establish new cleo
ton precincts in the unorganized counties, il
the manner that county commissioners ar,
required by law to do the same. at such plac,
or places as the petitioners may require
"SEc. 2. The Governor shall, within 81,
weeks of every general, and three weeks O
every special election, publish in some news
paper printed in the Territory, u list of all the
election precincts by him so established, and
the places where the elections are to be held. ,
Under this law Governor Me,lary, the De
mocratic Territorial Governor, proceeded t.
create the following precincts:
Marshfeld, Cass County.
Medary, Itasca do.
Twin Lakes, Carlton do.
Fortuna, Buchanan do.
Pokegema Falls, ltasca do.
Columbia, Meeker do.
Norwood, Itasca do.
Otter Tail City, Pembina do.
Watonwan, Cotton xood do.
Sulphur Springs, Cottonwood do.
Bad Track, Cottonwood do.
Connorville City, Murray do.
Oasis, Murray do.
Fairmont, Martin do
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