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

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tors, and payments for the lands will be made
in the land aoarran. scrip in aohich they deal.
1--WE cannot, of course, say what estimate
the Democratic party of this State will place
upon an Administration which has disregard
ed its most cherished policy, at time when
it would work the greatest possible injury.
But, if, under all the circumstances of the
case, the Democracy of Minnesota can stom-
ach the Administration of James Buchanan,
we are frank to acknowledge that we cannot
stomach the Democracy of Minnesota.
The Presidents proclamation is as fol-
lows:
Here follows the proclamation of the Pre-
sidentl
The comments of the Pioneer upon the
above document, are just, though they are
made not for that reason, but simply to break
the force OF the Land Sales in making votes
against the Democratic Party at the ensuing
election. 1t tries to isolate the Democracy
of Minnesota, and make out that Democracy
here is very different thing from the Demo
cracy of the Nation-a mere dodge unwor-
thy of credence by sensible people, however
it may delude the ignorant. The Sale of the
Lands at this time, is in keeping with the
course of the Democracy upon the Home
stead Bill.
THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENT
AS TO BRINGING ON THE SALES.
But, fellow citizens it is understood, that
| in some of the remote counties the Demo-
cratic leaders are trying to deceive the peo-
pie by resortng to bold falsehoods about the
| President being compelled by tan to bring on
the sales at this time-that he had no discre-
ton about it,-and that, therefore, neither he
nor his party should be censured for it, This
is not true. He could withhold the sales or
not, just as he pleases.
Here is the law on the subject The act
of Congress passed March 81, 1903, says:
States has teen or may be authorized TO
ne offered for sale, it shall be lawful uheneyer
HE shall think 1T CONVENIENT, to offer for sale
at first only, part OF the lands contained in
such district, and at any subsequent time or
times, to offer for sale in the same manner
any other part or the remainder of the lands
contained in the same"
Such is the Law "Whenever the President
thinks it CONVENIENT" he is ''authorized to
SELL"
Beware OF Falsehoods on the Eve of
Election that the Sales are stopped.
This caution is necessary, as it is under
stood, that the Democratic leaders are thus
preparing to delude the voters-which they
think they can the more easily effect, as all
the sales are advertised to take place after
the election and the settlers cannot discover
they are cheated, until after their votes are in
the ballot-box, when it will be too late to
change them.
Ifthe Sales are stopped, the settlers should
still poll their ballots against the Demo-
cratic ticket, to punish the leaders of party,
that, with evidently the poaoer not to adver-
tise the Sales, has yet wantOnly alarmed
them, ard put them to great distress and ex-
pense in anticipation Of their coming off as
Notwithstanding footballs of American
citizens to be knocked around, but done in
the first instance to subserve the purposes of
the South, and the schemes of spectators !;
and then lifted up temporarily to save body
of corrupt politicians from defeat. Whether
the land sales are postponed or not, the Peo-
pie will mark for their vengeance, these fast
and loose" gentry, and consign to ignomin-
ious defeat their whole ticket, as lesson and
warning to political knaves in the future,
how they trife with the People of Minnesota |!
CONOLUsION---PURITY OF THE
BALLOT.BOX.
Ello,O-G Citizens We cannot better conclude
this Address than by calling the attention of
the whole People, without distinction of Party
to the fearful consequences certain to result
from the reiteration at our State election the
ensuing fall, OF the system of Criminal Fraud
upon the Elective Franchise adopted by the
Democracy in Kansas and in Minnesota, as
the means to power and office.
The stuffing a candle-bo with spurious
ballots by Calhoun Of Kansas, was in Mime.
sofa in 1857, surpassed by frauds which dis
daine such clumsy machinery as fictitious
ballots, and pine box to put them in, as the
elements of Demociatic victory. No.
The Democratic leaders here improved on
the expedents of their brethren in Kansas
they dispensed in Minnesota with even the
pretence of casting barots; and they commen-
ced their frauds with the forgery, bodily, of
entire election returns of votes that were
never cast by any body from election pre-.
cincts not in existence; certified to by Judg-
es and Clerks without being; attested by
oaths never sworn. .....f
Now, it seems to be in Democratic pro-
gramme that these frauds are to be repeated.
The "out-of-the-way" Indian and wilderness
counties, where confessedly no white men
live, are again to be relied upon by the lead
ers of the Democracy to overrule and over
ride as in 1857, the sovereign will of the real
people of settled Minnesota. ai
There Is, however, one effectual way to
prevent their success through such nefari-
GUS means. Even the domin.ons of fraud
and forgery have limits, within which they
must abide-the limits of a,lausibHity! Ii
the People of Settled Minnesota will give
the tremendous majority for the Republican
Ticket such as they are capable of casting,
and as all the signs indicate they are about
to cast, the Forger's Pen will drop from De
mocratic fingers, aghast at the bopelessness
and the hazard of attempting to overcome il
by even desperation in crime. II, however
these frauds ale not put stop to in this OF
some other way, our present system of gov.
ernment becomes, in this part of the Union
nullity and farce. Our system says, that
we are Government of the People. Tha
the masses Eule and are sovereign. That fol
redressing every grievance suffered from
measures of government, and the rightiug o
every wrong men may think inflicted upoI
them by its action, the People .r. ...f -..
, 'Have a weapon surer yet,
And better than the bayonet; "- % -''-
A weapon that comes down as still -..E-
: AS snow fakes fall upon the sod, d..
) And executes the freeman's will .. ...
As lightning does the will of God" 55
: This is poetry, but it is truth also. Her
) Revolution against the Government to defen
! popular rights, is or should be a work of su
pererogation. So long as the baliot-box
, free, and above all, so long as it is pure Civ
: War-bloodshed among brethren-interns
3 connections to weaken us nation-will b