Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-12-12

surgent army, giving them aid and comfort
The Secretary of the Interior has directed 9
suspension ofthe payment of the pensions o.
such persons upon proof of their disloyalty
recommend that Congress authorize thai
officer to cause the names OF such persons to
be stricken from the pension roll.
The relations of the Government with the
Indian tribes have been greatly disturbed by
the insurrection, especially in the Southern
Superintendy, and in that of New Mexico
The Indian country south of Kansas is in
the possession of insurgents from Texas and
Arkansas,
The agents of the United States Govern
ment appointed since the 4th Of March for
this superlntendency, have been unable to
: reach their posts, while the most of those
who were in the office before that time have
espouscd the insurrectonary cause, and as
sumo to exercise the powers of agents by
virtue of commissions from the inSurrection-
lists.
1t has been stated in the public press that
por ion Of these Indians have been organ.
lied as a military force, and are attached to
army of the insurgents. Although the Gov
eminent has no official information upon
this subject, letters have been written to the
prominent Chiefs, giving assurance of their
loyalty to the United Sta es end expressing
wish for the presence of their troops to
protect them. 1t is believed that upon the
rep ,ssession of the country, by the Federal
forces, the Ind;"n will readily cease al! hos
tile demonstrations and resume their former
relations to the Government.
Agriculture, confessedly the largest inter-
ack &c tban hac rfT1anr or O
bureau but clerkship only assigned to it
in the Government. While 1t is fortunate
that this great interest is so independent in
its nature as to not have demanded and cx-
torted more from the Government, respect
fully ask Congress to consider whether
something more cannot be given voluntarily
with general adyantag,.
Annual reports exhibiting the condition of
our agriculture, commerce and manufacture,
would present fund of information of great
practical value to the country. While I
make no suggestion as to the details, ven,'
ture the opinion that an Agricultural and
Statistical Bureau might prohtably be orS
ganzed.
The execution of the laws for the sup
preston of the African Slave Trade. has been
confded to the Department of the Interior. =
1t is SCI bject of graduation that the efforts
which have been made for the suppression of
this inhuman traffic have been recently at
tended with unusual success Five vessels
being fitted out for the slave trade have been
seized and condemned. Two mates of ves-
sells engaged in the trade, and one person
ensagva m 4qatfpine SLAYER have been
convicted and subjected to the penalty of
fine and imprisonment and one captain TAX
en- with cargo of Africans on board his
vessel, has been convicted of the highest
grade of offence under our laws, the punish,
ment Of which is death.
The Territories Of Colorado, Dacota and
Nevada created by the last Congress, have
been orsanized, and civil administration has
been inaugurated therein under auspices
especially gratifying, when it is considered
that that the leaven of treason was found
existing in some of these new countries
when the Federal officers arrived there. The
abundant native resources of these territo-
RES, with the security and protection offered
by an organized Government, will doubtless
invite to them large immigration, when
peace shall restore the business of the coun-
try to its accustomed channels.
| submit the resolutions of the Legisla-
ture of Colorado, which evidence thu patriot
So far the authority of the United States
has been upheld IN all the Territories, as it
is hoped it will be in the future. | com
mend their interests and defence to the en-
lightened and generous care of Congress.
recommend to the favorable consdera>
ton Of Congress the interes of the Districe
of Columbia. The insurrection has been the
cause of much suffering and sacrifices to its
inhabitants, and as they have no representa-
tive in Congress that body should not overs
look their just claims upon the Government.
At your late session joint resolution was
adopted authorizing the President to take
measures for facilitating proper represen-
tation of the industrial interests of the Unit
ed States, al the Exhibition of the Industry
of all Nations, to be holden at London IN the
year 1862
regret to say, | have been unable to give
personal attention to this subject-a subject
at once so interesting in itself, and SO exten-
sively and intimately connected WITH the
material prosperity of the world. Through
the Secretaries of State and of the Interior,
q plan or system has been devised and part
ly matured, and which Will be laid before
you.
Under and by virtue of an Act of Con.
erty used for Insurrectionary Purposes, u
approved August 9th. 1861, the legal claims
of certain persons to the labor and service OF
certain other persons have become forfeited
and numbers of the latter thus liberated are
already dependent on the United States, and
must be provided for in some way. Besides
this, it is not impossible that some of the
States will pass similar enactments for their
own benefit respectively, and by operation OF
which persons of the same class will be
thrown upon them for disposal
In such case recommend that Congress
provide for accepting such persons from
such States according to some mode of val
alton in lien pro tanto of direct taxes, or
upon some other plan to be agreed upon
with such States respectively, that such
persons on such acceptances by the General
Government be at once deemed free, and
that in any event steps be taken for coloniz.
ing both classes Tor the one first mentioned
if the other shall not be brought into exist
ence) at some place or places in climate
congenial to them. Tt might be well to con
slider too, whether the free colored people
already in the United States, could not sc
far as individuals may desire, be included il
such colonization.
To carry out the plan Of colonization may
involve the acquiring of territory and also
the appropriation of money beyond that to
be expended in the territorial acquisition.
Having practised the acquisition of territory
for nearly sixty years, the question of the
Constitutional power to do so is no longer an
open one with US. The power was ques