Morris tribune., 1922-01-27

cluded in the county of Clay which
was created at that time in honor of
Henry Clay of Kentucky. Thus Brec-
kenridge County disappeared also.
A number of those Interested in
the organization of those two coun-
ties settled in st. Cloud, remaining
there with their slave servants until
the civil war broke out when they re-
turned to their home in the south.
What became of them in after years
is not known. They did not resume
their residence in this state after the
war. They were men and women of
high character, and prominent in
territorial and early state affairs, as
we'll as in local matters. They of
, course were in favor of the continu-
alton of slavery, while those of the
contrary view were emphatic in their
demands for it's abolition. One of the
st. Cloud newspapers repeatedly as
sailed the south and those in SYM
pathy with it in violent language,
and it's editor awoke one morning to
! find the entire newspaper plant at
! the bottom of the Mississippi river
Such things were not uncommon in
! those strenuous days in other parts Of
the country. Though free speech was
: then as now guaranteed by the fun
damental law, upon that subject one
spoke out his sentiments in particular
+ sections of the country at the peril
/ of treatment akin to that handed the
editor of the St. Cloud paper. One
example may be stated.
The Democratic Standard, a news
paper published at Concord, N. H.,
very much opposed to the Civil War
and the conduct thereof by the LIN
coin Administration, in it's issue of
! August 7th, 1851, had this to say on
the subject of the Battle Of Bull Run:
! "Our southern papers are filled with
the heart sickening accounts of the
murders and robberies which individ-
uals in OLD Abe's Mob are perpetra-
, ting on the Southern People. limo
cent women and children are shot on
, the door steps for wearing what is
called secession bonnets. No wonder
! the northern people run when the
honest men of the south march to-
ward them"
/ And also this poetic effect:
ut frightened the Federals to see
them come, e.
They wheeled about and away they
! run,
They ran so fast to tell the news,
They left their knapsacks, guns and
shoes"
1t so happened that a company of
the original ninety day" soldiers had
! just returned to Concord. They be-
, came greatly enraged and in sum-
mary action to punish the editor left
! nothing resembling a newspaper Of
i flee or plant at the conclusion of their
: assault upon his sanctum. The as
sault was bold one for it ACQUIRED on
the afternoon of the day following
! the publication of the above items.
. and not in the night time as at ST..
Cloud. The editor sued the city of
concord for damages on the ground of
; a failure of the authorities to main
| tain law and order in the city. He
, lost the suit.
! THE LOSS AND ESTABLISHMENT
OF LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY.
One example of the overlapping of
county lines to the extent of wholly
appropriating the territory of an ex-
listing county in the creation Of new
ones may be mentioned. Two coun-
ties Of the name. of Lac Qui Parle
were created by different acts of the
legislature; one in 1852 and the
second in 1871. The first was located
east of the Minnesota river opposite
the present county of that name. The
west line Of the county extended due
river north of the present site of
Montevideo to the northwest corner
of the township now known as Scott,
in Stevens County; thence east 18
miles, or three townships, to the Pope
County Line, thence south on the
town line to point near Montevideo,
thence to the Minnesota River and
the place Of beginning. AS thus
bounded the county was 18 miles
wide, east and west, and about 40
miles long; the north end took in the
townships of Scott, Darnen, Hodges,
Moore, Horton and Synnes, now in
Stevens County; but none of the ter
ritory of the present Lac Qui Parle
County. In 1868 the legislature re-
arranged the boundaries of Chippewa
Stevens, Big Stone and Traverse
Counties, in doing which the county
of Lac Qui Parle was wholly absorbed
and wiped out. AS originally estab-
lished Stevens County contained Is
townships, three townships wide, east
and west and six townships north and
south; the north boundary being the
present north boundary of Grant
County, and the south boundary the
town line between the town of Oar
men and Morris. The north line OF
Lac Qui Parle County was the south