, 1860-06-18

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Ihs hepnnneans OF Inc 1Ath conRreahohA
District Of Indians, assembled In Convention,
a fcw dara a7o. to nominate a candidate for
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hsPte4eu'ao. As nc oa'e paieA" ''"'e", ao1
voice objected 70 tue choice OF ecHu1LER COL
PAX; be was nominated By acclamation. Pre-.
f.rr;no tn intend IN hin duties in Wasbin oton
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lA'aes 'nan 1anAe 1ou.ne5 noue ~ o'eaA ~ as
friends, he addressed them a letter from which
We make the following extract:
But, being unable to b. present and to render
pe1s ,nslly au account Of nv stewardship, I
deaired to drswyour ettention for n moment
to the manner in which the Republican, in Con
eress have redeemed their pledges to tho peo.
pple, No political party ever e1iated that has
been t1uer to it, pli9hted faish; and, although,
the Senate has frustrated all our efforts, yet
the legislation of tho House sho1a the follow
ing results.
We have passed bill, and by large msjori
ty, ending the Kansas difficulty forever, BY
her admission into the Uulon under Consti-
tuition overwhelmingly adopted BY her people;
md the same Senate which two years ago
voted to admit her under Slave Constitution:
which her citizens had rejected by 10000 ms
jority, now tramples her application to be ad.
mitted with 4 Constitution. which every one
comedies is her real choice, under their feet and
close their doors in her face. The House has
passed = liberal and comprehensive Homestead
bill, rendering to all those whose only capital
| are their aiueWs and muscles, an honest heart
and willing hand, a homei in our almost bound
less territories Of the West; ind profering
this alike to the native citizen, and to him from
foreign lands who has declared his intention to
lire and to die With the freemen Of America
Bat the Senate, nfler months Of delay and era
siop, has rejected this and passed in its stead q
mere graduation act, which it is hard to decide
who it will benefit most-the Spectator Or the
| actual settler-and which lnsnltlngIT excludes
from what little benefit 1t protters to the latter,
all the unmarried young men Of the country
over twenty -oue years OF age; the very class
| Of all others who furnish the largest share Of
tho volunteers who defend cur country in war,
and who ought to be regarded, therefore, rs
| having some rights that Senators might be III
| duced to respect.
So also the Hcuse has striyen to avoid the in-
| the Tarf on a basis which will afford more rev
enue, and at the same time discriminate in favor
| Of our own manufactures. But the Senate.
fearing that this protection might enure to the
benefit of Free Labor, prefers to let the country
| go on, plunglng deeper and deeper into debt,
| and refuses even to consider the bill sent them
| by the House.
The House also passed bill prohibiting that
! debasi1g lnstituttou-the offspring Of sensual
ity--Poiygamy; assimilating the punishment
for it that which civilization and morality have
demanded in every State Of the Union. But
the Senate.
| The House also passed bill annulling the
| Slave Laws Of New Mexico, q territory which
t came to US F1ee, md which enacted o S1are
| Code that has been proven to have been drafted
| by a Southern Congressman at Washington,
| and sent to them for their adoption-a code 80
baybarous indeed that it prohibited the Courts
from taking cognizance Of any complaint made
| By a servant or shepherd, whatever his color,
! against his master for any correction inflicted
/ bY him. But the Senate of course refused to
concur with the House in this report.
might 90 On with more, but will only add
that the House, fearing the defeat Of the Home
stead bil passed bill forbidding the sales ofthe
public lands till ten years after their survey,
thus giving the actual settlerte years the start
Of the speculator, and enable him to overcome
the expenses Of clearing, fencing, aud building,
before being required by Presidential procla
nation to borrow the money to pay for his laId
or lose it altogether. But the Senate has never
seen fit to give even an hour to the considera-
ton of this beuedcent measure.
On these issues weare to so before the coun-
try: and have no feur of the verdict. The
people are not only disguised at the measures
of our opponents but they feel disguised and
dispraced bv the developments Of corruptioa
thct have been proved against almost every de-
partment Of the Administration, All orer The
| land there is fe cling that this pfoHtRAcY must
be- promptly arrested by the incoming Of an
Administration which shall be- honest, econom-
ical and absolutely incorruptible; or that darker
DAYS are ret in store for our nation, If such
rulers are to be continued. Fortunately. the
Cbicago Couvention, guided apparently bT more
than tumap foresight, selected q ticket whic3.
by the uuauimous verdict Of tbs whole people.
comnlies with theae reouiremeuta. HoWeyer
nan my 1;ffar os n nnl;1ical nrinc;ntas m ono
ia this broad land. from he most cifted Senator
to the b,tterest partisau. has even Hhisnered
the s1iohtest doubt Of tbs uubend1np inteprity
and infexible honesty Of Abrahan Lincoln.
And happy era. indeed. viii be inaueurated
when President sitsin our White House. who
unIike lie nresent incumbent viii 1either fesr
nor protest against Congress investigating tie
ofic!a, conduct Of his observation-disclosures bu, vii.
on the ,utTary. armed With consoious recti.nde'
chaIienre and inyita the sayerest scrutinv Of
fTiend or foe. In other respectt. too. thecho;ca
tunate, Reared amid ali tie di,adgantaees M Of
ornhanare and novertv without fhe henef3t ~