Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-06-18

health. which renders it necessary for him to take
voyage to southern cline for its Improvement
Major P. has long held that Office with honor to the
government and advantage to the Indians by ms
honest and upright course Of action towards the In
dans he gained their unbounded confidence and es-
TEEN. and acquired great influence over them. he
was selected by MI. Poinset Commissioner to treat
with the Sac and Fox Indians, for the purchase Of
their lands in this Territory, and had made arrange
ents to carry his instructions into effect early last
sprine. but before that time the Webste. dynasty
came into power, when he was ordered by the new
Secretary of War to suspend further operations un
til instructed to proceed Before receiving the an
ticpated instructions, his was appointed
who defines the acceptance of the Office, which rem
ders it very doubtful when that treaty will be held
if at all, under the present administration.
This is matter of vital importance to the people
Of the Territory The Indian country is one Of the
pretiest PORTIONS of Iowa. and well adapted to agr
cultural and manufacturing purposes. Although our
country is capable of sustaining ten times our pres
ent population, another purchase il greatly needed
In the surveyed parts spectators have taken up the
choice and most valuable places, and now hold them
at price beyond the reach Of the poor emigant-
1t is true that there yet many good situations
ing vacant at the pleasure of the emigrant, but they
are not such as are to be found the Territory pro.
posed purchase consequently there are hundres OF
families waiting for that purchase to make their To-
cation. Old farmers with growing up, can dis
pose of their farms to the more wealthy, and who
are unwilling to undergo the hardshps incident to
settlement in new country, at price that would
enable them to settle all their sons excellent To-
cations, which they can render valuable by their own
industry, and upon them live independent.
Notwithstanding all the advantages to be derived
from this purchase, the Department has counter
manded the order of the former Secretary of War,
and removed the Commissioner, which leaves us
in uncertainty as to when the treaty will be held,
and gives the Indian traders ample time to poison
the minds of the Indians which Gen. Dodge urged
upon Mr.. Poinsctt to avoid. Here we reap the glo-
rious blessings of a wing administration! The
most important measure to Iowa procrastinated, if
not defeated, merely to keep the guiotinc in mo-
ton. Had not the administration undergone the
change it has, the treaty would have been concluded,
and the country ere now spotted with Iog-cabins.
Cf The Iowa Standard, in noticing the Demo-
cratic Convention on the 7th the remarks of speak
ers, &c. says:
.One of the ex.office holders, Mr.. Petrikn in a
few remarks made to the convention observed that
in the late canvass, the Wing party were engaged In
denouncing the administration of Mr.. Van Buren,,
from the highest Office holder in the Government
down to the poor, mean and contemplate Buckeye
blacksmith THUS SPEAKING EVIL OF THE HONEST
MECHANICS OF THE COUNTRY, and that too whilst IN
the same breath he singing hozannas to the De-
ocracy."
We don't like to speak "cvl " of our ncighbors,
but we canno, refrain fen saying that either the
knave or the fool, and perhaps both, are, to use
western phrase, sticking out feet from the above
quotation. Mr.. Petrikin said that during the late
canvass, the orators, stump speakers, of the fed
eral party, from Daniel Webster down to the mean
and contemplate Buckeye blacksmith, were bitter
in their denunciations of the administration, &c.
Was there anything in this disrespectfu to mechan-
ical professions Was is not plain enough that it
was to the man, (f he be entitled to that apeation,
he alluded, using the title of blacksmith only to de-
sgnatc him? Certany-no man of common sense
could have understood him wishing to cast slur
upon any mechanical profession whatever. And yet
the words had scarcely dropped from his lips until
the incog. editor of the Standard was blowing it
around that Mr.. P. had spoken dsrespectful of the
blacksmith profession. MIR. p. hearing of this per-
version of his meaning, rose, at proper time after
the meeting Of the convention in the afternoon for
the purpose of explaining more emphatically, if pos
sible, what he meant by the remark, when he was
by the bawlng out of the editor "spea
louder, SPEAK LOUDER, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU !"
when Mr., p. instead of giving him that reprimand
which his impudence and Misrepresentation merited,
proceeded in distinct tone of voice to disavow any
sentiment of disrespect for any mechanical profess
sion, averring tina. he had rather WELD the sleIgc
than hold the highest office under an administration
that would place a seal upon his lips.
If Mr.. Petrkin is censurablc for anything said or
done on that occasion, it was for paying any atten-
ton to what the incog. editor might say, unless it
to hold him up to public gaze for his ignorance
Of the English language, or his attempts to pervert
it for political effect He there, in the midst Of
the assembly, with paper and pencil, taking notes
upon which to fabrcate false statements, as the quo
taton we have made conc.usively shows. Then
let the character of that paper for truth stand where
it deserves and it will longer be necessary to cor
cessary to dsprove the verbal Of its editor to
prevent them from being believed in Johnson county.
UUBLUsHING FALsEBOODs, SCUM LOGIC. &c.