The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-14
The Conspiracy.

men of high official station, to whom our
people have confded their dearest inter
ests, the protection of their lives, their
kindred and their property-men, unfor-
tunately, of little capacity, less honesty,
and unbounded ambition, who, to accom-
plish their own Safeguarding purposes,
would jeopardize the welfare, and sacrifice
the very existence of the people and the
State. Chief among these is Governor
RAMSEY. To his want of forecast, to his
negligence, and stolid Indifference, may be
Justly ascribed the surprise and massacre
of our frontier settlements; to his mean,
selfish and wicked Vaccinations, the calam-
tiles of Indian war which threaten our peo-
pie in the future.
1t seems that one single thought fills his
mind. and rules his heart-a seat in the
United States Senate. This, his last hope,
and all absorbing ambition, he would graf
ify, although the means whereby he hopes
to accomplish the object may expose the
people of the State to Indian massacres
more dreadful than any that have yet oc-
CURED.
He evidently believes that his senatorial
aspirations will be promoted by the reten-
ton of General POPE as the Military Chief
of this Department. He at the same time
knows that General PORE is not the man
for the place.
He knows, also, that the public opinion
of the State is, almost without exception,
unanimous in designating Senator RICE as
the man, above all others, best qualified to
take the command in this Indian war;
best qualified to bring it to successful
issue, and to save the people of the State
from impending ruin. Knowing this, has
he done anything towards gratifying the
universal expectation, to allay the anxiety
of our people, or to calm the alarms of our
frontier settlements, which he knows would
be the immediate result of an official an
nouncement that Senator RICE had been
appointed commander of this Department?
No. no! of all things likely to happen,
this contamination he desires most to
defeat
He has accomplished his purpose. He has
satisfied the government that the Sioux
war is virtually at an end" And now his
organ, edited at the expense of the State,
attempts to convince the people that he did
not do this ''to prevent Senator RICE be-
ing made a Major General" (See the
Press, of yesterday
He is willy, and is always trying to cover
up his tracks, but has not art enough to
conceal the means employed for that pur-
pose. Any one of discrimination and
sagacity can see through him at glance.
His tricks in this particular are a very
awkward display of low juggling, which
every reader of his organ must observe and
understand
On the 9th day of October last, Gov
ernor RAMSEY was informed that Senator
RICE would, if he could be induced to ac-
cept the position, probably receive the ap-
pointment of Major General Of this De-
partment. Did he write or telegraph to
Washington in favor of the appointment,
which, in private conversation, he proposed
to approve and desire? Not at all! On
the contrary, General Pope, Immediately
on the receipt of this intelligence, tele-
graphed to the War Department that
1900 Indians had surrendered and that
the war was over. This was on the same
9th day of October.
The next day Governor RAMSEY wrote
letter to the President, informing him
that the war was virtually at al end! He
thus co-operated with General PORE.
We quote paragraph, italicised, as re-
printed in the Press, from Governor r. s
letter:
The Sioux war being cirtuNiy at an end, in
tbs State, so far as their present power or dis
pOSltlOu 70 TSSaSt ON .)O'CtS ID NOhSOiASei.
That is to say, the present force is
sufficient no change is needed; all is
well. There is ''no power or disposition to
resist our forces" This Department is all
right POPE is all right. Danger is over
SO long as Pore and his forces are here
the war is over. All that remains to be
done, says Governor RAMSEY, is ''the re-
moval of the whole body Of Indians to
remote districts"
Thus it was that POPE and RAMSEY, by
telegraph and letter, played into each 9th
er's hands, and convinced the President
and Cabinet that there was no necessity
for taking Mr.. RICE from the United
States Senate, where his services as de-
voted friend of the Government are highly
priced, to give him command of a Depart
ment for the suppression OF the Indian
war, which, as Governor RAMSEY and Gen.
Pope made the Government and the peo-