The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-14


vigor. This is only partially true. doubt
whether, if the change was made at pres
ent it would meet the public expectations
in this respect. The difficulty of procur-
ing suitable Judges who would take the
position in this country at all, would be
great, and the further difficulty of obtain
ing proper candidates who are not more
Or less complicated with the pending liti-
CATION would be greater still and when
we consider the immense expense of car
rying on a State government, with the ex-
travagant notions of this people, confess
I" can't see it,
AS for the introduction of greenbacks
as a currency in order to stir up business,
it reminds one of the illustration that
Major HERMAN used to make of "tem-
porary relief" which will not bear recital
here, but will be remembered as one of
the jokes growing out of our $5,O00,000
loan operation of 1857. look upon the
experiment as utterly fallacious and imprac-
ticable, without committing a most stu
pendOus fraud upon the people to the
amount of all their outstanding credits,
and property on hand. This Wing heresy
may possibly obtain here, but it will be
through series of frauds, at first isolated
and condemned by public sentiment, and
then more frequent until the whole body
polite becomes infected, of course ulti-
mate disaster must result from the adop-
ton of any such policy.
TROUBLES WILL WORK THEIR OWN CUEE.
What then shall we do? l believe the
present troubles will work their own cure,
by the operation of the same moral and
commercial principles, the violation
of which has produced them. The
country of itself will of necessity
return to healthy state of in
dustry, and a much higher condition of
morality than it ever has before enjoyed.
The foundation of great wealth exists in
the mines, and all that are worth develop
ing will be worked, furnishing abundance
of labor for all, and money enough, and
those that are valueless will cease to be
counted in the assets of the territory. No
conditiongof things can phosophically be
called prosperity, which although produc-
tive of great present benefits contains
within itself the seeds of dissolution and
disaster, such has been the past history of
this country. l think it's future in spite
of it's political and financial doctors will
rest on substantial foundation of well
directed industry and metallic currency,
which with it's unrivalled mineral resour-
ces will lead to certain and enduring
wealth.
Now, don't understood me to mean that
we are financially or commercially dead
here Such is far from being true. Ihave
been speaking comparatively with the
times as they were. AS for my own case,
am doing very well, and have nothing to
complain of, and feel confident of the fu-
ture There is as much business here now
as could be reasonably expected, and we
get full share. Judge Cooper has gone
to Reese River. l have heard from him
several times, and he seems in good spirits.
The mines in that region are turning cut
we'll, and all they want is capital, which
they will get all in good time. have
received your paper from Virginia with
tolerable regularity, but some of the num-
bers get lost. When you send it here l
will get them all.
The people hung man yesterday over
in Dayton for killing another. The Gov
ernor talks of calling out the militia, a la
Wright county, but it will not avail any,
thing.
have made this too long already. If
anything worth mentioning happens / will
write again.
STATE CONSTITUTION.
The Constitution will be voted on the
first Wednesday in September, and most
people think it a dead cock in the pit.
However, the intense sentiment against
the judiciary, ard the general feeling in
favor of change may get it through.
Yours truly,
CEAS. E. FLANDRAU.