The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-04-30
FROM BENTON COUNT.
GllxDonA:po, April 18th, 1874

/: .l6 GL1ADoHADo, April 10th, 1874
EDlroH JoulsAL.-Ths letter sent the
editor Of the Sank Rapids ssntisss on the
little Glsndorado affair, did not ind
place in that paper till after its publication
in tho JouaxAI. The editor published the
letter last week with my real name in part
gwen under '.prisats," ''vsr6ssim'' he says,
and 70 ssy, except to typographical Or
rors. The letter was intro duced and fol.
lowed BY : long harrangus, or what hs
called ''his my III will and dislike towards
Mr.. Sweet and family-Tom, Dick and
Hsrry's little private piques, jealousies
and immaginary troubles, trials and tribu-
tations-thst Was - anxious to SEQ my
''litsrary production In print" Hs calls
mo "groWling though ambitious individ.
pal (whom We are told lives in the town Of
haywood, and if %, ought not to NEEDLE
with tho Affairs Of IN adjoining town,")
("Rhom lives in tho town Of haywood" .
highly literary phrsssD He again says,
"strikes 40 that the Rev. gentleman would
b. better employed in trying to reconcile
any differences which may exist between
neighbors in bis vicinity and in leading
souls to true repentance" He thinks I do
not "exhitit = very meek and lowly spirit
&c." So get oil this abuse because
wrote him and his paper, asking the ques-
ton, "who in this town petitioned or asked
tho Legislature "for = change Of the name
Of the town p with conclusion that he
"originated" it. He Acknowledges that
the bill was before the Legislature, but
who introduced it. But lot mo notice
some Of tho items Of his reply.
LIST. When hs found me and others labor
ing under . mistake a. to the change Of the
name Of the town, Why oenld hs not have
stated in his paper that hs declined pub
fishing my letter, Is Glendorado Was
Glendorado. still, and here the matter
should have ended. certainly had good
reason to believe that the name of the town
had been changed, whom 20 good authority
a. the Sentinel, spoke Of "Col. Sweet, Of
swsetheld in this county," soon after tho
adjournment Of the LEGISLATURE, where such
. change had been sought. What better
authority did I need In the absence Of the
Special Laws Of the session.
I'd. I live in alsndorado and have loyal
and moral right to take On interest in
town Affairs, the Ssntinsl to tho contra not
withstanding. 1have had more or less in
terest Of this character for the past thirty
years And have not yet discovered my or
ror. If error it be. 1evsn voted last fall
for Hon. Mr.. Benedict Of tho Sentinel, and
yet no may think I did not ''exhibit very
meek and lowly spirit" by 80 doing, and
may think nay time would have been better
"employed in leading souls to true repsn-
tancs." Twas raised where preachers Of
the Gospel were more or less s'ambitious
individuals" and fully believe that in en-
tsring the ministry they do not deprive
themselves Of their civil or political rights.
Sd. I most assursdly have nothing per.
sonslly against Col. Sweet or his family,
and never had, SO far as I know We are
on good terms, I know of no bad feelings
in town that my letter would stir up. I
only referred TO Mr.. Sweets name playfully
by way Of pleasantly Th> is I'll, and
have no objections to swsetAeld a. name
for town. But I do most assuredly oh.
jeot to having that or any other sprung up
on the town without the knowledge or con.
sent Of tho people in it, aud that too, ~
We have reason to believe, by the Hon.
gentleman ~ helped elect to represent US.
This virtually il tho point in my letter that
hit the bird that made such Autter, l
have NO doubt, and WHOM Mr.. Benedict
shall show he had no hand in this. in any
wsy-snd this hs has not attempted to do
yet then and not till then will he be oil
right on the ''reoord.' And now, Mr..
Editor, I am done:
3, +. WHITNEY.