Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-03-01
PEAuOCK PUsEY.
The DolaW aFoam who hes been
Private Secretary ofa Leng Line
Of II nuesOta 0oy0PnOPs,

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An item In the REPUBLICAN of Fri.
day, Oath ult, In reference TO Psnnock
Pussy has Interested us In making
some further inquiry. We find that
Mr.. Pusey's influence In his adopted
State OF Minnesota, ,is deservedly potent,
and as former fellow townsman we
take pride In making note of 1t and at
the same time of correcting possible
wrong inference as to his relations with
his good friend, the greatly esteemed
ex Governor Pillsbury.
Mr.. Pusey left Wilmington in 1854
to seek home in the West. He accept
ed St. Paul, then place of some 5000
inhabitants In Minnesota Territory and
virtually at the head of the navigation
Of the Mississippi river.
1t may be mentioned right here that
St. Paul Is now about even with US In
population, and is running . lively
race with US with the chances in her
favor, Is a great railroad centre of sys-
TEN co uprising in the entire State near
1000 constructed and operated miles,
is distributing trade centre for such a
large district of country that her whole
sale trade has run up to nearly forty
millions q year. st. Paul and Minnea-
polls nine miles apart in the beginning
but approaching each other from year
to year and now aggrekating over 1O0,.
900 people, are destined to become one
and that ono the Metropolis of the
really great Northwest, and Minnesota
entitled tn Ave representa-
tives in Congress now rests secure in
her steady and prosperous future his
tory.
But to retarn, 1t is only necessary to
say that Mr.. Pusey has seen and been
one of this marvellous development.
has kept pace with it, has been closely
identified with Its success and its mis-
fortunes, and 1t IL not too much to say,
Is to-day more generally Informed as to
the educational, social, industrial and
political status Of his adopted city and
State, than any other one citizen within
its borders. He has been in close rela.
tions with the State Department of
Minnesota in various positions for
about 1S years; his educational and
statistical authorized reports were
notedly accepted as models by leading
newspapers East and West, and his
position as Priva'e Secretary to the
Governor during the three terms of the
past six years just closed, has been
crowned with success in the payment
of The State debt incurred in 1858 in the |
of the early railroads of
the State. One of tho great induce |
nents in Governor Pillsbury accepting |
the nomination for the third term was
his determination that his State should |
cancel her deferred debt and forever |
blot out the stain of repudiation. 1t
was to the Governors hard headed JUS
tice, honesty, persistence, tact and de.
served popular influence with the peo-
pie in all parts of the State, as supple
mented BY the hearty cooperation
Of his secretary Mr.. Pusey, more than
to all other influences combined, that
Minnesota stands today restored to All
honoSed position among the debt pay
ing States.
With the close of this State admins.
tration, and after more than quarter
Of century of hard work, Mr.. Pusey is
Inclined to rest and proposes to spend
some months with his relatives and
friends in the Eastincluding his brother
Joshua l.. Pusey and others of this
,ity. 1t Is pleasant to add that
Mr.. Pusey has prOtited by his hard
work and economies unto a comforta-
ole success, that he is known and hon
,red in all parts of his adopted State
ior his varied intelligence, aJtainments
md genuine worth, and that further
lonors are in store for him, should he
,hoose to return to active participation
n the progressive movements of his
western home.