Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-17
The sole struggle Now is to save Bris-

The sole Struggle Now IL to Save Bris-
bin. ~
From recent manOeuvres in the Democratic
camp, it is evident the chieftains have aban-
doned Becker, and also all hopes of making
even respectable show for him in the can
vass, and are calling back their forces from
that hunt to fix them almost exclusively
upon Brisbin. The entire face of the can
vass has changed, and so far as the leaders
of Democracy are concerned, it's political |
complexion is lost sight of, in the desperate |
struggle to secure power in the Attorney |
General sufficient to protect the railroad 'For-
ty Thieves" f'. t1#
Brisbin is now the railroad attorney at a
salary of $4,000. He has aided and abetted
said companies in all their internal tricks to
swindle the State and people, and now has
the audacity to ask the people to entrust their
interests impending against these companies
to his care, by making him the Attorney of
the State the Attorney for the People! Was
there ever more refined exhibition of su-
preme impudence?
But the truth is simply this. The people
have been swindled, defrauded and impover-
ished by these Forty Thieves" and these
tremble through fear of exposure and pun
ishment. If the people elect an Attorney
determined and pre-committed to probe their
crimes to the bottom, these cormorants who
have devoured the wealth of the State, may
be compelled to disgorge their ill-gotten gains;
to redeem at par the wild cats with which
they swindled the people, or suffer the pen
allies they deserve. They have the history
of the recent steps taken by the people of
Wisconsin before their eyes, and are not so
blind as not to read their fate in the event of the
entire success Of the people in the election Of
the Republican candidates, against the DEM
ocratic nominees, who are the pledged pro-
tectOrs Of those robbers.
Here is Mr.. Brisbin candidate with sal
airy of $4,000 year-$5O0 month--$16 a
day. Whose money? Not the Railroad
Company, for it never had any; but drawn
from the State; from the five million loan !;
principal and interest of which the people
must eventually pay. This is not called rob-
berry; it goes by the name Of salary" it is
not called Brisbin's share of the spoils, but
stands on the books as "salary." Think Of
it, ye poor laborers; turn it over; reflect up
on it; $40 day raised by the five million
loan, and to bs paid by tax upon each and
every man proportionate to his means!
Yet this man, this humble recipient Of &c.,
600 year, solicits from the people another
post worth only an additional 81 900! That
is, being Attorney now for the Company, he
wishes to be elected Attorney against the
Company, and for $1,000 year will attend
to both sides of every legal issue between thu
people and these Companies and, of course
fairly proportion bis services to correspond
with his salary! The State having one, thu
Company six chances in the legal lottery HI
proposes to manage!!
To return; we ask every man, of whatev
er party, however bitter his prejudices t
whatever Democratic or other faction h
may cling, and however pure or corrupt ma.
be his motives-if this audacity does not sur
pass IN cool impudence even the worst outra
ges yet perpetrated? The very man who ha
aided, by whatever talent or ingenuity h
could exert, in conspiring the measures tina
brought this distress and ruin upon tn
State, and for which he was salaried at S.
600 year, now asks the people to place biz
as legal sentinel to guard them from futur
harm!
The world once saw the Devil take charg
of the Garden of Eden, and our woes and a
" hictions tell us with what result; and fror
that day to tits, the incarnation of that infe1
nal spirit has pursued men, soliciting sim
lar offices and for similar ends. Vote for hin
such as are so disposed, throw open the foo(
gates of corruption wider and wider, NOR
" gage your lands, and sell your cows for take
to feed and enrich the pestiferous band he r.
presents, but when in the end you sit like tt
" Genius of Despair, contemplating the pictu1
of desolation which your own acts haN
brought to light, address yourself and sa.
81 did it." Like poor Esau, 81 sold N
:. birthright for mess of pottage;" my cou
ID try and home for less than thirty pieces
- silver"