The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-08

earnestly 6eC OEtn uOsy WIT, nor more
Justly considered q lying at the basis of
sound political economy, than that all men
are entitled 70 ample reward for their la
Dor. Like many another. just principle,
however, While theoretically admitted, it
is often practically ignored. q1 sJam
. Nov, the knot Of politiciaas that own,
control and wax fat in the sunshine of
gre Press. make up, perhaps, the most
iaboraous and enterprising political clique
that ever undertook the management of
oar State affairs. Early and late, in sea-
son and out Of season, they have worked
with . zealots earneetness, without, al
ways We are sorry to say, the zealot's re-
ward Of success. We have noticed their
occasional failures, when they have been
forced to be content with their labor for
their pains, with professional grief; and,
governed by what we trust will be looked
on as justfable esprit de corps, we pro-
pose to enter'the lists in their behalf.
.7d We need not 60 very far back for in-
stances Of the service which our friends Of
The Press have rendered to the State.
The. present Executive furnishes notable
example, not only Of their managing, but
Of their creative power. Looking at Ma
jor 4HLEz when with the glorious First
Minnesota, as he lay stretched at languM
length on the cot in his tent, and illustrate
ing in his person, to the casual observer,
.themysterious connection between sound
and sense,-the sound of artillery and the
sense Of fear,-a no eye less gifted than
TIE Press,s, to penetrate the inner con-
seriousness Of men, would have seem
the soul of the hero shining through
andEghting up that weak and tremulous
frame. But The Press did see it, and
with q faithfulness to its convictions which
Distinguishes it even among q high and
.pureorder Of journalism, itset about tomake
the world acknowledge its ideal. In skir-
mishes that were none the less brilliant
because they were imaginary in battles
that were none the less bloody because
never fought; in strategy that was not q
whit less profound because never en-
p1oyed; MnLm became transformed from
weakness into puissanoe, and the Major, by
just sequence, into the Bngadier. It
needed only one finishing touch to render
the character thus improved, perfect. And
chat touch The Press gave. 1t invested
its hero with the qualities of the states
man; and the total result our people have
seen before them, through two illustrious
years, in the calm though active mind, the
profound though brilliant qualities, the
modestly majestic presence of our State
Executive. Here wSs work done, hard
work, we'll done,-the creation OF q hero
and statesman out of the nearest APP
proach to nothin gness-the adding Of a
permanent glory to the military and civic
annals of the State ;-and what has been
TIE Press's rewards a beggarly pit
tanoe of fifteen or twenty thousand a year
OF public printing! That is all. ..r3
.g The Press having created great Gov
ernor, set about to perpetuate a great
Senator. WILKINSON was the subject laid
hold of for this purpose. And we must
acknowledge that he was promising one.
And he was well manipulated. The impu-
dent assurance OF NoRIoNs in aspiring to
the Senatorship in despite of The PRESS
programme, gave fervor to its advocacy of
WILKINSON. Under the magic touch of
The Press's pen, the familiar "Wilk. -"
became sour distinguished Senator y; the
ribald blasphemer was transformed into
the champion of great moral ideas ~;
the pot-house loafer and roys-
terer was wrought up into an eek
emplsr OF public virtue" The ad-
vice and counsel of man who had been
able, on salary of three thousand year,
to lay by, in six years, q fortune of fifty
or seventy-five thousand dollars, was justly
regarded as of incalculable value, in a
financial way, to government struggling
| under three billion debt. But, some
how, though The Press worked well, the
scheme didn't. With what We have al
ways regarded as heartless inapprecia-
ton Of WHx1Nsos's merits, and The
| Press labors, this man NORTON, who had
done little else than 60 counter TO The
! Press,s wishes, and who was not, as VII
k,NsoN was, the acknowledged rival OF
| CHANDLER in eloquence, of WIGFAL in
| propriety, and of SALISBURY 10 judgment,
was elected by the Legislature. Here was
case, if there ever was, in which the
lsborer was worthy OF bis hire; but wha,
reward came to The Press Nothing,
60 far as the public know, but contin-
4, nsnce of that bepparly pittance of public