Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-02-11
Spirit Of Washingt0n Letters.
The New York Times letter says:


Spirit Of Washington Letters.
The New York Times letter says:
WAsHINGToN, Feb. 8.
That was sorry spectacle presented to.
day, when three members of the Cabine,
entered the house of Representatives, to
lobby for Lecompton. Il is to be feared
the House should have gone step further
in its exclusion of parties from the floor,
and added members of the Cabinet to the
list of outsiders. For, can it be denied
their lobbying in behalf of measure is
just as reprehensible as lobbying by any
body else? Indeed, there is room here
for another Corruption Committee, for
everybody knows that the federal patron
age is being unblushingly used to buy MEM
bers to vote against their own convictions.
Is not this corruption? should like to
have Attorney General Black asked wheth-
er he indicated to McKibben, to-day, that
certain appointments to be made in Cali
fornia would depend upon his vote on the
Kansas question. And if he answers in
the affirmative, where, in heavens name,
is the difference between presenting Office,
with its slavery and influence, as the con-
sideration, or presenting the cash, $1,000
or 81, 500, which seems TO have been the
usual price of Members of Congress, when
in the market?
The Philadelphia Press letter says:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
Mr. Bernhisel gives fiat contradiction to
the rumor that he has made any PROPOSE
ton to the President, or anybody else, that
the Mormons should be allowed peaceably
to remove to some island in the Pacific
Even if the rumor were true, there is not
an island in the Pacific Ocean, capable of
of occupancy, which is not occupied by
sons sovereignty, which must be taken
into consideration in this matter before any
action is taken by this Government, and it
is hardly probably that other nations will
care to have removed into their midst an
evil which has given us great deal Of
trouble.
The New York Commercials letter says !:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
The agitation prevailing at the capital
exceeds that which any former political
crisis has produced. Both parties to the
issue are girding up their loins for con-
test. They might as well dissolve the
standing committees, for no more business
can be done. There are a few Northern
Democrats who are hesitating between
Presidential patronage and the sentiments
of their constituents; upon this now de-
pends the decision of the question-ad-
mission or rejection of Kansas with the Le-
Constitution.
The New York Posts letter says:
WASHINGTON, Feb, l.
General Houston is making long speech
on the Army bill. He opposes the in
crease, vindicates the character of the In
dams, and says that they have always been
the object of rapacity and plumber by the
whites. He speaks highly of their fidelity
and courage. He assails the character of
the officers of the army of the present day,
who, he thinks, had better be fighting on
the border that dangling about the depart
ment.
The Indians have been taken about like
dancing bears, and have exhibited their
saltatory powers and peculiarities TO various
admiring crowds. One of the principal
chiefs appreciates fully the undignifed
character of these exhibitions, and con-
demns them. He inquiries of his great
the President, if he should
visit the Indians, would he be pleased at
being conducted through the tribe to dance
before their squaws! The irreverence of
the inquiry is perhaps pardonable in the
savage. He should be told that the salu-
tations of the President are purely political,
md that he can perform some astonishing
hops from one extreme to its opposite.
The New York Express' letter says:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
The health of the President is not alto
,ether good. He had not fully recovered
rom severe cold, with which he had been
afflicted. He exempts himself from other
han absolutely needful conversation. His
appearance indicated unmistakably that he
loes not find the Presidential pillow one of
Town, nor the mansion one for repose up
IN political honors. He looked care-worn,
worn upon by business, and worn down by
lge. To hold together his party by the
ponds which are in his hands to be drawn
o bind it, is demand made upon him be-
7ond his ability; and in the effort TO en-
10y, it is clear, he is to be exhausted, and
hen to see the party disrupted, discredited
md defeated.