The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-20
S A IN t PA UL
The U. s. District Attorney and the
Indian Agent - Who Shall Adminis-
ter Upon the Political Effects Of
Senator Rice3

Senator Rices
To this complexion it has come at last.
BLACKSTONE and the U. S. Statutes at large
Us. the Sioux Indian Agency and the hero
of the steam mud-wagon! That's the ques-
ton. Into whose holy keeping shall the
politicalreputation of the Honorable HENRY
M. R1oE, Senator, etc., be consigned. The
goods are not warranted first quality, nor
will the prospective advantages to accrue
from handling them, justly ensure an expen-
diture which would have been prudent in a
like commercial operation a year ago. But
their price must be maintained. Liberal
advertising and small doses of resolutions
are essential. These can be had dog-cheap.
In fact, the market at Saltwater, Winona,
St. Anthony and Henderson, is rather
glutted. Just going, gentlemen be quick
with your bids; an Indian treaty or two
and chance at the Post Office site thrown
in. Going, going-
All this pother has its origin in the
letter of the q. S. District Attorney, pub.
lished in this journal some weeks since, stating
the process of reasoning which induced him
to offer resolution in Minnesota DemS
ocratic state convention endorsing Senator
RICE: Major Browns organ is savage on
this letter. 1t attributes the letter to " the
superior genius of GOODRICH himself" says
that it was "a loophole' for the individual
last mentioned, to escape from the meshes
of falsehood," and finally winds up with the
semi official declaration that Mr.. Wilson'S
resolution, endorsing Senator RICE, was an
invention of the enemy-an anti~RIcE trick.
Says the organ of Major BRowN:-
Mr.. Rice's enemies supported it (he resolu-
tion), of course and that fact ought to have
convinced Mr.. Wilson that it contained some
thing obnoxious to Mr.. Rice. Mr. Wilson OBJ
serves that he has not since received the
"slightest communication from Mr.. Rice" We
don't wonder at that; and if he never should,
he will have no cause for surprise for men do
not generally like to correspond with those
ly and insidously such attempts be made.
Mr.. District Attorney WILSON. we rather
think, that settles your case. The commission
of your successor is on its way, via Yellow
Medicine. You can retire. You acted in
the Convention as the /" emissary" of the
editor of this paper you got up loop
hole fol- his especial benefit; at the in~
stance of Mr.. RIcE's enemies you presented
a resolution endorsing him; you urged its
passage; you even got snch enemies of Mr..
RICE as JOE BROWN, Senator SAM ADAMS,
and others to vote for it, and such warm
admirers of RICE as german, ROBERTSON,
GILMAN, and others to oppose it. You are
wicked man, Mr.. District Attorney, for
one so young.
But seriously, although we have been
nothing else, what pitiful spectacle Major
BROWN presents, in attacking Mr.. WILSON as
Senator R1cE's enemy, for offering, in good
faith, resolution endorsing the Senator.
Mr.. WILSON is young, enthusiastic, and an
ardent friend of Mr.. RICE. He boldly
faced the opposition to the Senator, and
offered the resolution. Major BROWN
counselled and advised with him in offer.
ing it, and voted half dozen times in sup.
port of it. If it had passed, to JOSEPH R.
BROWN, as Mr.. R1CE's manager in the Con-
vention, the credit, honor, and profit of its
passage would have Injured. But it was
defeated, and the Indian Agent meanly
turns upon his friend, the District Attor>
ney, and accuses him of being Mr.. Senator
R1cEs enemy in offering it.
We rather think this last achieve
ment of Major BROWN entities him to the
consignment of wares referred to in our
opening paragraph.