The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-17

Sale for Signatures - The Senator,
through the U. s. Marshal, Appeals
from the Delegates i'm Convention to
the Delegates at Home.
We commisserate Senator HENRY NJ. RICE.
He is in bad way. He has been feeling
bad for long while. He commenced feel
ing particularly bad when he received news
of the action of our late Democratic State
Convention. The resolutions endorsing
DOUGLAS didn't strike him pleasantly. Nei.
Their, did the election of the Delegates to
carry out that endorsement. Nor, did the
refusal of the Convention to approve his
course as Senator. Taken together, the ag
gregate effect is to make him feel bad, -
bad. And, he don't get relief And, we
are afraid he won't. Though, we ought to
hope he will, for his present condition is
distressing. Distressing to his friends,
through sympathy. Distressing to all 9TH
ers, through pity.
Nothing the Senator reishes so keenly as
an endorsement. 1t is oysters, and Holsters,
and soft-shell crabs, and rare-roast- beef, and
plum buildings, and strawberries and cream,
to him, and it fills him up, and makes him
feel good. And up to the time that he de-
serted the party of his State and his honor,
or the sake of controlling federal appoint
ments, he always received the coveted en-
dorsement, when asked for, and things went
on swimmingly with him. But since then,
the party here has stopped the endorsement
supplies the effect above indicated.
Now, when the late State Convention ad-
journed without giving him the endorsement
asked for by his friends, the refusal created
kind of sympathy for the Senator, even
among those WHO conscientiously objected
to his course, just on account of the value
which they knew he set upon it in his teart.
There was, therefore, no disposition on the
part of any one to 60 any further than to
allude to the fact as part of the history of
the Convention. And it is probable that
nothing more than this would ever have
been said or done, had not his partizans
foolishly attempted to convey the impress
sion that majority of the delegates were
really DESTROYS of giving him an endorse
ment but, that the endorsing resolution
was inopportunely brought forward, at
time when many of the Senator's friends
were absent, or, that its passage was de-
feated on account of the amendment which
proposed to endorse the conflicting course of
Gen. SHIELDS, his late Senatorial colleague.
Of course, when this was attempted, it be-
came necessary to expose its hypocrisy, and
to divulge the exact grounds on which the
Democracy of the State refused to utter an
approval of the Senator's conduct.
Had Senator RICE been prudent, he would
have permitted this significant rebuke by his
party to pass off without notice or comment.
A discreet silence on his part, might have
been followed by charitable forgetfulness
on the part of the public. And most people
would consider that ga consummation de-
vOuty to be wished" But, the Senator it
seems thinks differently. A morbid craving
for endorsements is his mania. And, if the
delegates, in Convention, would not furnish
him with one, he is bound that they shall do
it out of Convention. So, the machinery of
the federal offices is just now in full motion
to grind out the endorsement. The resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. District Attorney WILL
SON to the State Convention, and rejected, is
now being sent round to individual delegates,
by the Senator's appointees, accompanied by
the request that it may be signed and re-
turned to the sender. We have received,
within the last few days, letters from a
number of these delegates, stating that they
had been favored in this way, and that they
were modestly requested to retract their
votes in the Convention. We think, how.
ever, that the scheme don't make much
Roadway. These delegates, so far as they
have written us, appear quite intractable,
and indisposed to disqualification. Which
conduct the Senator may regard as discour-
teous, if not absolutely uncivil, or even
mulishly obstinate. One of these letters is
so laconic, and pointed, witbal, that we copy
it:
E. s. GOODRICH, St. Paul
Received from w. B. GERE, copy of reso-
luton endorsing RICE, for approval and sigma.
ture. Don't approve it. Shall not sign it.
With the lights before us, we think Sens
tor RICE will fail to procure the endorsement
desired, even with deputy marshalships, and
surveying contracts, and post>offices, as bats
to catch the unwary or to seduce the weak.
We think that all the delegates for sale,
were bought up before the Convention ad-
journed. We fear, therefore, that the Sena
tor must continue unendorsed and miserable.
But, is it not subject for shame and