The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-04-08

" "o~~0AAOAy eA01U3te0 IN
this Normal School matter, W urge
President Grant to forward him ~ Am
bass'dor to the oourt Of BIay.sil
Mr.. Grant, "Here's your mule"
A LETTER ADDRESSED TO GEN. G.
G. ANDREWS.
I think, my dear Gepe,al, that of
al who have incurred the misfortune of
newspaper criticism, you have most
reason to cry for ddivsraace from your
friends. Another such vindication a
that in last weeks Time. will sink the
subject to the level of the defense. In
mercy to your friends and yourself avoid
such depth OF degradation. 1 know
that the advice OF friends is sometimes
gratuitous and generally disregarded,
but how much better it would have
been had you needed such advice, or
even the dictates Of such judgment Is
Providence has given to yourself, and
firmly declined when the honor of {.
position on the Normal Board was
rendered You. You might then have
escaped the humiliation you have al
ready endured; for private faults, how
ever conspicuous, have not dignity suffi-
Gent to attract the ceusure Of the press.
unless they are united with the power
OF doing some signal mischief to the
community. Is it not possible that you
have perhaps mistakca the extent of
your capacity? Office is 50 seldom at
tainable now by men of ability and
worth that every fool has come to co.,
slider himself not only available but de-
serving. 1t is the apprehension Of your
friends, my dear General, that you hAv.
drawn some hasty conclusion Of this
sort, aad that reliance upon traits
which made you available has betr.v-
ed you beyond the limits Of your eapac-
ity.
Return, my dear General, before it
be too late, to that easy, iusipid system
you first set out with, when you yet
followed feebly the footsteps of the il.
lustrious Cincinnatus, and your prolific
pen impaired dignity to tho culture Of
the bean, albeit the obdurate plant
would still persist in growing the wrong
end downward. Your highest ambi.
ton then, was to watch with digui6ed
wendcr the development OF your beam
stalks, and faseinate the ladies' of our
Library Association, With your eloquent
Sh.kssperian rehearsals. In this hum
bic initiative line you might have long
proceeded safe and contemplate, you
might probably never have risen to the
dignity OF being hated, and even have
been despised with moderation.
Were you . great man, General, you
might t'anple upon the rights of the
people and disregard their expressed
wishes, you might in tho success and
even in tho magnitude Of your ofEense
find = rescue from contempt, but it
seems you are in every way unfortunate;
your selfish scheme for locating the
Normal School on Deacon Crsms bald
prairie is likely to prove ~ uusueesss.
fal As the defense Of your motives in
advocating it.
1t has panied your many friends who,
in common with myself, have 20 long
admi1ed and trusted You, to hear YOUR
motives 30 bitterly, and with 80 much
show Of justice, impugned. We could
plainly see the weakness Of your posi-
ton, but We were ready to believe that,
hardly serious at first, you became
warmed at last into enthusiasm by oppo.
sition. There is, you know, . holy
mistaken zeal in other matters as we'll
as religion by persuadiog others We
convince ourselves, and We thought
that perhaps your passions had become
so engaged that they created a sort Of
maternal affection in your mind, which
forced you to love the cause for which
you suffered; but your obdurate follv
has we'll nigh robbed u. Of all excuse.
and we are forced to admit that innate
stupidity or unprinciplcd sel6shne,s
can alone account for your conduct.
No one objected at first to your .p-
prevail Of the "Crsm Site" It vas
considered simply matter Of taste, but
VIXEN it became manifest that = MAORI.
ty Of the best citizens here were op-
posed to it, and that every Eember Of
the Normal Board and Prudential Com.
mittec, except yourself, looked upon il
with extreme diafavor, then to pout like
. opoilt child after forbidden fruit, 70
treat with diseorrtesy your fellow
members on the Board, to obtrude with
arrogant self oonosit, upon gentlemen
who differed with you, your surprise
that they should presume to advocate a
site that was "odiou." to you and At
last to attempt, by shallow trickery, to
accomplish what you failed to .ts.'u BY !
your influence or your arguments, fur. |