The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-05-25

The Winnebago Treaty.-The Black
Republican Organ Of the Treasury
Plunderers.
We charged some weeks since, that
Senator RICE's operatives in st. Paul, had
bought up the Minnesotian and Times, to
advocate the negotiation and ratification Of
a series of swindling measures, designed to
put money in the Senator's pockets, and in
those of his INSCRIPTIONS followers. Our
exposure of the bargain which had been
consummated between FOSTER on the part
of the Black Republican organ, and some of
the federal officers and few Indian traders
on the part of Senator RICE, prevented the
Minnesot,an from Immediately espousing the
advocacy of the Senator's money-makiug
schemes, but lengthy article, which recent
ly appeared in that journal, advocating the
ratification of the Winnebago treaty, de-
monstrated the truth of the corrupt bargain,
charged by US, upon information which can
not be gainsayed. Is it not refreshing
spectacle, we ask the people Of the State
Republicans as we'll as Democratic see
Democratic United States Senator, descend
ing from his high position, and through
bis menials, suborning the purchasable
organ of the Republican party OF this State,
into the advocacy of series of corrupt and
swindling measures, originated for no other
purpose than to repleuish the exhausted
finances Of clique of corrupt politicians,
who are useessly seeking to maintain their
position and influence by the free use of
money?
The Mankato Independent-th leading
Republican paper of the Minnesota Valley
of the 18th inst, has the following refer.
ence to the purchase of FOSTER by Senator
RIcE's agents:
few weeks since We noticed a charge made
by the PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT. that the Mn
nesot,an and Times had been subsidized by par
ties interested in the ratification of the new
Winnebago reaty, and that in due time its in
fuence would be brought to bear in favor of
that infamous swindle. We to-day present to
our readers, coordination strong as proof of
holy writ of the business of that charge. We
refer to the article copied from the Minnesotian
and Times, to be found on the first page of this
paper. 1t is an unpleasant duty to be com.
PEELED to speak thus of journal which has
aspired to the dignity of central organ of the
party of which we claim to be an humble men,
Der, but we would prove recreant to the plain
denounce in naerited terms, the corruption and
penalty so plainly Visible in the article rtrred to,
let 1t emanafe from ,rhaterer source.
The article in question was undoubtedly writ
ten by an individual pecuniariy interested in
the ratification of the treaty to the amount of
four thousand dollars, and is designed to create
the impression at Washington that the Repub-
licans of the State at large are friendly to the
treaty, and thus influence Republican Senators
to vote for its ratification. But the sequel, we
opine, will show the parties to the investment
that they have counted too largely upon the
Minnesotian's influence, and have paid rather
dearly for the whistle.
After lengthy review of the article in
the Minnesotian, advocating the treaty, the
Independent concludes as follows:
we CduuOt, uOWcVcEs lOTUCdT KlVluR cApTeS
sion to our feelings of surprise at the spectacle
exhibited, of DR.. Foster and the chiefs of the
Moccasin tribe, harmoniously fraternizing and
fusing together! Joe Brown, Big Indian Gull
len, and DR.. Foster in loving embrace, is cal.
culated to remind one of the scriptural epoch,
when ''the lion and the lamb shall lie down to.
gether," with the slightest variation that in
the present instance, instead of ''little chlld'
to ''lead them" We have an indefinite number
of ''yellow boys"
Senator WILKINSON, we believe, has
also been bought up, for share in the pro-
fits of the proposed Winnebago treaty, to
advocate its ratification. The article in the
Minnesotian, appeared during the Senator's
recent visit to st. Paul, and the Independent
evidently has the Senator in view when it
speaks of an, individual pecuniarily inter-
ested in the ratification of the treaty to the
amount of three or four hundred thousand
dollars"
Has Senator WILKINSON also got slice
in the proposed Sioux treaty, with its $l03,,
600 of plunder? Or do Senator RICE and
Mr.. GEO. L. BECKER monopolise the pecu-
mary advantages expected to result from its
ratification