The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-03-31

the doctrines to which they are unequiyocaly
pledged
Nor CITIzENs.-The Pittsburgh Gazette SAYS
that company of colored persons, intending
to emigrate westward, communicated with the
Land Office in relation to their right of pre-
emption of lands, and received in reply the fol-
lowing letter:
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, March Z, 1859.
SIR: In reply to your letter of the oath ult.,
| have now to state that under the now settled
ruling in this Office, which has been sanctioned
by the Secretary, colored persons are not citi
zens OF the United States, as contemplated by
the pre-emption law of the 18th of September,
l84l, and are therefore not legally entitled to
preempt public lands.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Jos. s. WILSON,
Acting Commissioner.
John IT. Kirkpatrick, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The HARMONIOUS DEMocRAcY.-The De.
mocracy of Pennsylvania, in State Convention
assembled, declare that they have always adj
vocated and still advocate an adequate encour-
agenaent and discriminating protection Of iron
and coal and the industrial interests of the
State" and pledge themselves "to aid and
strengthen Mr.. Buchanan in his future en-
deavors to procure rerisiOn Of the tariff act
of 1857, by the next Congress, on the principle
set forth in his last annual MESSAGE
The Democracy of Tennessee, in State Con-
vention assembled, assert that "a tariff for
recenue alone is the true policy of the country,
and a correct exposition of the power of Con-
gress on the subject of indirect taxation"
The editor of the Washington States, who
claims to be a dyedin-the-wool Democrat, and
who certainly is one of the ablest and most
intelligent expounders of Democracy in the
country, says, if there be any one measure of
public policy upon which the party has planted
itself more distinctly and obstinately than an
other, it is this very proposition of free trade
and moderate taxation" and he declares that
opposition to specific and protective duties is
a distinctive test of Democratic orthodoxy"
NV JERSEY - SPEECH OF SENATOR TEN
EYCK.-On Saturday evening, March 10Th, the
citizens of Mount Holly and vicinity proceeded
to the residence of Mr. Ten Eyck, and called
him out for speech.
The Hon. John l.. Stratton, Representative
of the second district, in behalf of himself and
his fellow citizens then addressed the Senator
elect as follows:
Your selection is fitting and grateful trib-
ute to the fidelity which our good old county
has manifested to the principles of the party by
whom you were elected. Although we have
generally been foremost in the fight, and have
rarely faltered when our party standard has
been raised, this is the first time, within the
memory of those who have been actively en-
gagged in the political strifes of the past that
the claims of one of our sons to a high and
honorable position have been put forth-and
for the graceful manner in which our friends
throughout the State have recognised these
claims, by your election, we desire to tender to
them our warmest thanks.
As Jerseymen, we rejoice in this result.
Brought about as it has been, by the united
votes of Americans and Republicans, who com
pose the Opposition in our State, we believe it
has eemented that bond of union to which our
| successes during the late campaign are attrib-
| utable. We feel that our beloved State is re-
deemed"
Mr.. Ten Eyck spoke as follows
81 am deeply sensible of the very high dis
tinction lately conferred on me, and am also
fully sensible that it is entirely owing to the
partiality and kind exertions of my friends at
home and abroad, in the Legislature and out
it, that the result has been attained.
"Iam, however, fully aware, Notwithstanding
the very kind and flattering remarks of our
friend and Representative it is owing to no
personal merit of my own, that | have thus
been honored, but solely on account of my de-
votion to the political principles and sentiments
profess-the sound and wholesome doctrines
maintained by the great Opposition party of
| the country-among which | would mention
| Protection to American Labor and Industry
| opposition to the Extension of Human Slavery
always standing firmly by the Compromises of
the Constitution the preservation Of the Elect
i've Franchise, in its purity, by proper guards
| and checks; judicious system of Internal
| improvements and an economical and honest
use of the Public Money. These measures are
very near and dear to me, and here, in the
presence of you all my friends and neighbors,
| to whom owe so much, / now declare that |
will cherish and sus stain these doctrines as long
| as the purple tide Of life flows in my veins. In
the advocacy of these principles and measures
may not express the hope that | may contrib
ute, in some degree, to the country's general
| good-be of some advantage to each and every
State of this Confederacy-assisti in maintain
ing the Constitution and the laws unbroken,
and aid in preserving and perpetuating that
blessed Union so loved and generated by US all :;
| and, further, may not pray that may be pre-
served from doing aught that may sully with
the slightest shade the fair fame of our noble
little State-New Jersey-on whose bosom
was born, and beneath whose sacred soil hope
my bones may rest at last in peace"
Elections for members of Congress are to be
| held in the course of this year as follows: Con
necticut and Rhode Island elect early in April !;
| in Virginia, on the fourth Thursday of MAY; on
| the first Monday of August, in Alabama, Ken
lucky, and Texas on the first Thursday of Au-
| gust, in Tennessee on the second Thursday of
August, in North Carolina; on the first Mon.
day of October, in Georgia and Mississippi on
the second Tuesday of October, in Minnesota !;
on the first Monday (7th) of October, in Louis
lana and on the first Wednesday (2d) of No
vember, in Maryland. Nearly all these States
were represented in the last House BY d emo
| Gratis
HONORABLE PoLITIcAL WARFARE. Gov,
Wise, in a recent letter endorsing Mr.. Letcher,
says:
81 have high personal regard and respect
for Mr.. Goggin. Ihave known him from youth
upwards, and ] cordially vouch that he is wor-
thy Of the confidence of those who agree with
him in politics, hut he is an honest and earnest
opponent of Democracy, and | am its ardent
advocate"
The State Legislature of Missouri adjourn
ed on the 18th instant. OF their "doings"
/ shall speak more at length in my next.
The Democrat speaks of the winding up"
thus: During the morning, the members
amused themselves by throwing paper balls at
each other, and in the afternoon by making
characteristic niger speeches. In the mean
while, the Governor soound up a grand spree