St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-09-18
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When therefore We were assured tb.t
Gov; Ramsey treated the, whole question
IF danger Of any Indian outbreak 90 the
Mississippi IS a capital jqke, that Re laugh.
ed at the fears Of the people and s~ore 1t
tie nessengt II, 'xhto,s asked for help to the
besieged Fort Of Abercronbie and spoke
Of the people Of St. Cloud as fools and
towards for making any defence, We did
not for the time attach any significance to
the fact that these accounts came through
Land Officers and those in the influence
Of the Land Office, We were too busy to
observe that these same men were them
selves doing nothing for The public de-
fence, but using every contrivance of CHI
canery to bring confusion into every pub
lic'meeting; aud proven any concert Of &C.
tios amongst tho people. a7e Ia sa's.' o..
Ger. Mitchell, from his position was
generally looked to, to take the lead in
organizing the people, and preparing for
defense, and every attempt he made was
met BY an under and cross current Of op.
position. Then, as he is personal friend
ot Gov. Ramsey, his failure to get any
thing done was charged on Ramsey
Nothing was done which was worth the
doing until the Land Office clique was
thrown out, and the Lower Town men
went to work on their own account
While these political wire workers did
nothing themselves, but create and spread
alarm, they raised the greatest outcry be.
can.e Gov. Ramsey did not send men,
and cannon, and build forts to defend
them, just az if he could create men out
OF cobble stones, and had foundery at
his command which could turn out cannon
to order! All the force which could be
raised was sent ur the Minnesota, where
the greatest exisency existed. The frs,
news Ct the outbreak at Abercrombie was
such that it appeared as if small force
might relieve it, if sent at once. So he
ordered the St. Cloud Cavalry there, as
the nearest force Knowing our popula-
ton, he felt We. had men enough LETT for
defense here while the indians were 80
busy elsewhere until he could send a com:
pany to this place. So maliciously was
this reasonable arrangement represented
that hundreds we're made to believe he
had laid the disbolical plan of leaving
this place to the mercy Of the savages be-
cause it 10 , Democratic town. These
very men did nothing to prevent the mas
sacre they professed to fear. butcrea.ed, for
mere political purposes. such distrust Of
Gov. Ramsey and so swellcd the panic,
that hundreds have been driven from the
State, Who would have remained had they
known the truth, that Gov. Ramsey was
doing all in his power to afford relief to al
parts, taking first those parts most upper
lied. .''.>.. g 5
We were not made to believe that he
wilfuly neglected any means in his power
to provide against any danger in which he
believed, but Ne though be vas inauen-
ced by the representations made through
the Pioneer treating the accounts of.dan-
ger from the Chippewas a. idle and ab-
surd. We thought he honestly believed
there was no danger, as did some Of the
people here and that it was highly inn
probable he or they could be made to be
made t. believe in it., until the hour for
prevention was past, and his letter in an
swsr 70 our OVID, was the FIRST evidence We
had Of hispurpose to do anything. We were
too busy to think of writing or gong to
him and Gen. Mitchell was too proud and
impatient to give explanations and contra
dictious Of rumors he had not yet heard
we're systematically put in circulation. =
, We have siuce learned that this shrewd
effort to convert the Indian War into po-
lit,cal capital against Gov. Ramsey was
not confined to St. Cloud but was only
n.rt cf uaneral movement. ~. f5z.s.Es *sal
The Pres, charges Col. Aldrich with
the responsibility Of these attacks, hut if
they originated With him, Or were carried
on through his knowledge and consent,
he certainly knew not what he did. Even
tie u. s Senaionhip to which be aspires
could hardly atone 70 him for the cause
les suffering md hss imposed .npon the
people Of Hinresots BY this causeles de
trult IL her Chief Magistrate 70 whom