The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-14
Journalistic Decency.

At meeting of the citizens of st. Paul,
held on the announcement of the fall of
Charleston, it was resolved to have grand
celebration when the American flag foated
in triumph over the city of Richmond, and
Messrs. LORENZO ALLIs, GEORGE @. Mort,
LAFAYETTE EMMETT, T. N. MErcA1r, J A.
PE0KHAM and RUSSELL BLAKELEY were APP
pointed committee to invite speakers.
The news came that Richmond was ours,
and Gen. SHELLEY called a meeting of the
members of committees appointed at the
previous meeting, at which the Committee
on Speakers reported the following list:
Governor MILLER, ex.General GoRMAN,
Judge AARON GOODRICH, J. B. BR1sB1N,
Esq, Judge S. J. R. MCMILLAN, of Still
water; O. @. MKREIMAN, ESQ.,, of st. An
thony; F. R. E. CORNELL, Esq, OF Mime
apolis; L. SMITH, Esq, of Hastings; T. J.
GALBRA1rH, Esq, J. NJ. GILMAN, Esq, J.
W. TAYLOR, Esq, and GEORGE L. BECKER.
These gentlemen are distinguished citi-
zens, well known and respected throughout
the State Several of them have risked
their lives for their country on the battle
field, and all are patriotic gentlemen, to
whom the news of the success of our arms
was s*eeter than the song Of birds in the
fret morning of spring. They are gentle
men whom the people always delight to
hear upon all questions of public interest,
and the action of the committee in select
ing them to speak was generally approved.
But the st. Paul Press, the next day,
printed the following paragraph in its local
column:
A friend proposes, that when the South is
subdued and the war is at an end jeff Davis,
and Toombs, and Cobb, and Judah P. Benia-
min be invited to attend a National celebration
in honor of the victory, at the city of Wash
ington, and to make speeches on the occasion
He also proposes that when the millennium
dawns, Satan be invited to deliver an Grafton
at the great jubilee that shall celebrate the
great moral triumph! He thinks it best to
take the sense of the St. Paul Committee on
the propositions, though OF course they are
not the parties to decide in the case.
The spirit and language>cf the above
was universally condemned, and by none
more vehemently than members of its own
party, but as the editor had recently dis
avowed all responsibility for what appeared
in the local columns of that paper, we let
it pass as unworthy of further notice.
But yesterday the responsible editor
printv an article of more thsn column in
length, evidently inspired by a fiendish
desire to interrupt the harmony of to-day's
celebration, or, with meanness-of soul
that language is inadequate to describe, to
make little political capital, or to vent a
little personal and political spite upon sew
eral OF the prominent speakers. We pass
oy without comment the "Leuctra of the
American Lacedemon,' - and much "fan-
iafonade" OF the same sort, and come to
'he following dastardly paragraph:
indeed; the most piquantly exhilerating
.e o1au OF the proposed demonstration is the
GiIou OF the quandam Copperhead leaders,
Silman, German, Brisbin, Becker and other
iamlilar mouthpieces of secession fanatacism.
G ~ saanu on S1. the platform side by side with
GoVeInor Miller. j. w. TAYLOR. Judoe Nc
;, FRANK Cornell, T. j. Galbraith. and
ioyal men OF that stamp to give representa-.
occasion. VI 'h'''
we are very sure the last named gentle
men VIII resent as strongly as anv one
else, the foul imputations of tho presS
upon the patriotism of those who arc on
nounced to speak with them TO-DAY W.
shall not be led into comparisons If tho
speakers, but those who are stigmatized 90
"mouthpleces of secession fanaticism :"
are the peers of the others, in patriotism
Intelligence, eloquence and personal char
acter, and are so regarded by the peonle
OF the city and this State at large.