The Washington union., 1858-02-06
THE WASHINGTON UNION.
TIlE cHoCrAw NATloN.

Hon Alfred Wade, irst governor VI the Choctaw
ton has resigned that Office, and by the constitution is
succeeded in the by Hon E.ndy Walker president
| OF the senate.
The OF Gov Wades resignation is continued i'll
health which for the past two months has prevented him
from satisfactorily performing the duties of his Office His
address to the people, notifying them of the step he has
taken is conceived in very beautiful spirit and furnishes
valuable information of the condition of the new people
rapidly advancing honor and influence our western
frontier. He says
am happy to state that the difficulties among some
portions of the people consequent upon the change in
our government under the new constitution, rapidly
disappearing, and with the exception of few counties
the officers all elected at the election
gret that there failure in any county The general
council did their duty in providing promptly for the first
omission the part OF the people attend the election
trust their second failure in few counties will not
cause inconvenience to the citizens thereof and that
they will patiently await the time when proper
thorty assist them to remedy the failure The gen
eai council have provided the manner of taking the vote
at the next regular election in August, 1859 such
changes in the constitution y asked for by the
people Red river, and this should satisfy every
The Choctaw people should remember the maxim that
In union there is strength, and in all matters affect
ing their political welfare and their existence nation
they should let anything distract or divide them
Their own history nation shows that when the old
chiefs and the people under them united, they
unmolesed and prosperous and when they became
seek quiet and home in the land they hold The
Bible tells that house divided against itself is bound
to fall Let proclaim this warning in voice that
will reach the heart and mind of of my brother
Choctaws
We have enough to struggle for a people without
fomenting and encouraging civil strife among ourselves
Our existence nation depends upon union harmony
and bothery feeling in all political affairs. Our social
and moral existence depends that unrng effort to
elevate and educate children to put them upon
fair footing in that continued contact with white
brothers which the Great Director of and nations
has manifestly ordered in the of ourselves
In severing with you official relation in various
capacities unbroken for twenty years. let entreat you
to be united. Without this tell the trou-
bes that may upon Think of the Choctaws'
past history! Listen and be warned
have recently appointed commissioners to that
the starting point of the eastern boundary country
be correctly established under the survey provided by
the treaty of June, 1885, and they have performed that
duty. have appointed and commissioned Others to
company the surveyor and that the lines east
and western limits and the line between and
friends the Chicksaws, be correctly and permanent
ly marked
The laws which the last council directed me to have
printed have been placed in the hands of the person
whom have selected to supervise the work. and have
every that it will be speedily done that the
books may be distributed ut early day.
THE DANTTEs IN KANSAS
We find the following letter in the st Louis Republi-
can of the 30th ult
WEsTpORT, January e. 1853.
There exists in Kansas Territory branch of the Nor
mon Danites They are principally Mormons and Free
loyers being compactly organized, and having inuen-
ta members they rule the destnes and fix the policy of
the free-Stte party Of Kansas They making of
the inbred pudiccs Of people from the free States to
propagate their nearios doctrines and accomplish their
reasonable and immoral designs
That such organization exists there be but little
doubt and that they playing the desperate game
for which they banded together facts go to show
Al
dollars, burned at Lexington johnson county The
town is pro-savery and the house owned by pro-
slavery manCol. s. L. McKinny, Of this place. About
the time number of cabins belonging members
of the democratic party were burned.
Last week Indian by the name of Tully shot.
body of Danites who had been stealing his timber and
otherwise respassng his land, gave him notice to
leave they did Henry Koohtze and Cary Dutch Henry
and others, whom they murdered Not long after notice
to leave his land had been served this Shawnee,
he shot in an alteration with the trcspassers
Last night the Lipscomb House, at New Santa Fe in
Missouri adjoining Oxford in Kansas burned down.
To-day gentleman named Stofer shot the
highway. 1t said that he travelling in coach,
not far from Wyandote, when he overtaken met
by Danites. They asked his name and on learn
ing it, OF them shot Stofer in the mouth cutting
away part of the jaw and half of the tongue. Stocr
is democratic member elect from Leavenworth coun-
y Jim Lane chief of the Danes, has ordered every
democratic member elected to be hung, shot, manned
General Calhoun whose life has been threatened,
to be accompanied from point in the Territory to-
day to Kansas city by armed escort He is expected
here to morrow.
Such is the effect of Lane freeloveism and DANTE
Mormonism upon fair Kansas. What is to be the final
result God only knows. These not idle rumors but
facts and they sufficient to show that unless gov
ernment speedily applies remedy for the evil
quences of these two which the that af
fct humanity civil must be the consequence AL
though this law party of Kansas and its friends
servative and forbearng, yet the time may when
conservatism is cowardice and forbearance vice
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The class of men (says the Rochester Union and
Advertise) who predict woes unuterabe in case the