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 hoated
in triumph over the city of Richmond, and
Aesas. LORENZO ALLs, GsoRes @. Mort,
LAFAYETTE EMMrTr,, 7. NJ. MEycA1p, J A.
PEoKHAM and RussKLL BLAKELRY were ap-
pointed q committee to invite speakers.
The news came that Richmond was ours,
and Gen. SHELLEY called 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. O. MERE1MAN, ESQ.,, of St. An
thony; F. R. E. CORNELL, Esq, OF Mime
apolis; l. Smith, Esq, of Hastings; 7. J.
GALBRA1rH, Esq, u. M. GILMAN, Esq, ].
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. Benja-
min be invited to attend q National celebration
in honor of the victory, at the city of Wash
ington, and to make speeches on the occasion
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-
laronade" of the same sort, and come to
the following dastardly paragraph:
indeed, the most piquantly exhilerating
!eatnre OF the proposed demonstration is the
SSsrec.ion OF the quandam Copperhead leaders,
ntnT;an, norman, Brisbin, Becker, and other
70 stand on the platform side by side Will,
governor govern Miller, j. w. Taylor, Judge Nc
MILAN, Frank Cornell, T. j. Galhraifh and
ioyal men OF that stamp to give renresenta.
occasion. 's'o'ous' Vi 'na'
We are very sure the last named centle-
men Will resent as strongly as anv ono
else, the foul imputations Of tho p.asS
upon the patriotism of those who arc en'
nolnced to speak with them to-day. We
shall not be led into comparisons Of the
speakers, but those who are stigmatized AZ
"mouthpieces 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. p''