The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-14
Saint Paul Enrolment TrOuDle"..A
Small ssTempest I'm a Teapot -

Saint Paul ENROLMENT Troubles..A
Small ssTempest i'm a Teapot -
The little judicial and anthem ollment
scyimaoe which has lately stirred up some
of the sediment of human depravity in our
civ. has been, at most, but very small
"tempest in teapot" Whatever the
notion of those who participated in it may
be respecting the Importance of their silly
conduct, we can assure them, that so far
as the public at large is concerned, the
whole affair and all its actors dre looked
upon as being very much alike, and
altogether exceedingly contemplate.
1t is not a very difficult thing to con-
ceive how set of Deputy Provost Mar
shals, clad with ga little brief authority"
perhaps, for the first time in their lives,
might, by acting with too much haste and
too much zeal, excite to open opposition
and even violence, a parcel of illiterate
and naturally irascible women, who were
led to believe that even the presence of
an enr9lling officer, was as fatal as
the enemy's bullets. So, too, it is not
hard to understand how so many valiant
assistants as the Marshal had about him
might have been seized with terror and
trepidation at the hostile display of broom
sticks and brandished ladies, since, per-
haps their own domestic experience, had
taught them to look upon these as the
most formidable objects of human danger.
Under these circumstances we say ii is not
wonderful that these hardy "minions of
the law /" for the purpose of self-preserva-
ton, which perhaps they believe to be "the
first law of nature, - did seize and incarce-
rate those who constituted such decided
obstacles to the performance of official du-
ties
Yet we cannot refrain from suggesting
that might not the gallantry Of our assis-
tant Marshals have prompted them to
have seized the offending broomsticks and
ladies instead of their fair wielders who
useful and peaceful way?
But what does seem strange and almost
unaccountablle to us, until we consider the
'.persones dramatiS" is, that there should
be men, and professional men too, who
would advise the prosecution that follow
ed, and court which would entertain
such proceeding! There is a class of
men, however, it must be remembered,
who, like the bat, lives upon insects, and
who hope and expect, and sometimes sue
coed, in subsisting and growing fat upon
that alone, which to all the rest of man
kind is but source of evil and annoyance.
No opportunity to create for themselves
some little public notoriety is ever per-
mitted to pass unimproved- nothing which
can possibly tend to their political advance
ment is suffered to escape them! They
can see no good in any public affair that
does not conduce directly and solely to
their own groveling ambition and selfish
schemes, and they are willing to tear
down the pillars of heaven itself in order
to further their petty and Internal notions
of partyism. a..- t,.tt f.... .,..,.o -ap
1t was nothing more nor less than this
that brought on the outrageous riots of
New York City, and we have no doubt
but that the chief participants in this
"tempest in teapot y saw dim visions
of similar troubles on small scale, and
hoped to reap from them something of
their infamous notoriety. 80 .
AS impartial journalists, however, we
would not be understood as intimating
that the fault of the occurrence we first
alluded to, is attributable any more to So
called Democrats than to so-called Repub-
licans, since it appears that only the radi-
Gals of either of these had anything to do
with this little ill-favored muss.
Between these, while one set believes
there ought to be no country, earth or
heaven without politics, and the other
holds as its platform that there must be
hell upon earth ga black God and white
devil"-but little else can be expected
than what we have already witnessed;
and we suggest, in seriousness, that it
would have been a far more proper con-
clusion to the whole of this mean little
outrage, that all parties deputies, women,
lawyers, court, and all-had been taken
down, dipped and cooled off in the river,
rather than have been permitted to dis
grace hall of justice with their impudent
trickery, shysterism, and rowdy conduct.