The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-11-22
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The End to be Attained by GOvernO,
Ramsey in Making our Military
Appointments.

We gave at length, last week, the protest
signed by four ffths of the commissioned
officers of the Third Regiment, against the
appointment OF JOHN A. HADLEy as its
Major. We presented, also, the official Or
der of the Governor, supercediug the officers
he had commissioned, by the subsequent APP.
pontment OF civilian over their heads,
8 in command of all the troops at Fort
Smelling" and held that this order amount
ed to certificate On the part of the Gov
ernor that these military appointments were
not made on military grounds, nor for any
patriotic purpose.
There can be no question that Gov RAM
sly certified to the truth. The last considera-
tions with him, in uttering the commissions
for the Third and Fourth, were the military
fitness OF the appOintees aud the advance
ment OF the National cause. The great END
to DC attained, under all circumstances, ana
at any sacrifice, was the elevation OF ALEX
AMBER RAMSEY to the United States Sem
ate And that, not in the ordinary course,
and under existing laws, but through spe-
cial legislation, and year in advance OF
the accustomed time Tor election. The pro-
gramme for this winter is the repeal of the
present law providing for the election OF
Senator'S, and the enactment OF q substitute
which will permit that officer 10 be elected
By the Legislature already chosen.
On this basis can be accounted the APP
pointment of Col SANBoRN to the Fourth
1t will be recollected that at the last Sera-
toriaI election, Mr. SANBoRN barely escaped
receiving the caucus nomination in place of
Mr.. WILKINSON and the Governor relieves
himself of competitor, though possibly not
dangerous one, by commissioning that
gentleman as Colonel.
BENZ. F. SMITH is appointed Lieutenant
Colonel of the Third, for the purpose OF
bringing his brother, the Senator elect from
the First District, into the RAMSEY pro-
gramme.
COL LESTER, it is calculated, will be able
to exert favorable influence 10 the same
direction upon the new Senator from VII
mona.
The appointment of Lieut.. WEIGH, as
Major of the Fourth, was q sham. The
Lieutenant is at present prisoner of war
at New Orleans, and, of course, can neither
accept nor fill the Office. After proper
delay the Majority will be declared vacant,
for non-acceptance, and will then be con
ferred upon son of the new Senator from
from GoodhHe, unless other and more prof.
table arrangements shall be made for its
disposition.
We relieve Major HADLEYs case from
the Senatorial complication. He common.
ded himself to the Governor by proposing
him as the nominee Of the Union State
Convention; q proposition that received
the sole and unanimous support of its mo
yer, in speech and a vote.
II 10 thus, and tor such purpose, that
Governor RAMSEY has tempered with the
welfare OF all, and as it must prove, with the
lives of many, OF the noble, patriotic spirits
OF the Third and Fourth. When q distin-
gushed officer of the Army of Occupation,
submitted to Gen. SCoTr plan for the re-
duction Of the City of Mexico, coupled with
an estimate of the loss which would be in>
Cured 10 ite execution, the latter gave
Judgment upOG its merits that, of ITSELF,
showed him worthy of immortal fame.
General" remarked the humane veteran,
"the City can be taken with loss of three
hundred less than you est mate. Up 10 the
number actually required, the sacrifice is
justifable; beyond that, every death s
murder" The principle thus announced,
that the unnecessary sacrifice OF men in war
is crime 10 less heinous than murder, holds
as true today as when it was first uttered By
our gaeatest chieftain. Whatever authority
knowingly appoints incompetent officers to
command, knowingly dooms gallant men TO
needless death. And needless death is MUIR
der. Under the lead of their incompetent
officers, nothing less than miracle of GoD
can save the lives of many such of our
Third and Fourth. Every man thus sacri-
feed will be an Offering, not to the holy
cause of patriotism, but to the selfish ambi.
ton of ALEXANDER RAMSEY. And the
skeletons of such will stalk before his face !;
nor shall the robes of Senator, which he
covets, be ample to cover them from out'his
sight.