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give you my address in my next letter.

give you my address in my next letter.
oUAY's ENDORSEMENT.
Senator Quay was at Beaver when he
received Lindsey's first letter. addressed
70 him at the suggestion of Edward Nc
Pherson. In reply Senator Quay wrote
as follows:
BEAVER C. H., BEAVER Co., Pa,
May 81, 1889.
DEAR SIR have your letter which
impresses me favorably, and / will, at
the first opportunity. submit your prop
osition TO our Committee. Col. Dudley
and Vice Chairman Clarkson are near
you. Have the Kindness to commune
cate with them at once in relation to de-
tails. expect to be in Washington
within ten days and will be glad to see
you. Yours truly, NJ. S. QUAY.
ID. Med. Lindsey, Washington, ID. c..
Under date OF August 10 Lindsey adj
dressed letter to Senator Quay asking
for an order on the Republican National
Committee for funds with which TO be-
gin his undertaking. The Senator re-
piled as follows:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
BEAVER, PA, s-29-S9.
IL. Med. Lindsey, Esq, No. 444 H Street,
N. w, Washington, ID. C.
DDAR SIR:-I have your letter of the
10th inst, and have forwarded it to
Mr. Clarkson with an Endorsement such
as you suggest. Yours truly,
NJ. S. QUAY.
"A few days later the Senator wrote
Lindsey that there were no funds on
hand upon which to draw. He says:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
BEAVER, PA, s-29-s9.
ID. Med. Lindsey, Esq, No. 444 ..H." N.
W., Washington, d. c.
MY DEAR SIR:-All the letters here
tofore received from you have been sent
either to Clarkson or Gen. Dudley. In
reply to request that he should give
you 81, 1000 to commence your work.
Gen Dudley informs me that the treas
ury of the National Committee is empty.
that he has been compelled to advance
S16s from his private funds to meet
overdraft. In this condition of affairs 1
am not able TO help you. am perfectly
willing to give my time TO the cause,
but cannot afford to pay the expenses
OF the Committee. Yours truly,
NJ. ). QUAY.
Senator Quay was not the only Re-
publican of National reputation who
had Endorsed Lindsey's scheme in
black and white. United States Treas
urer Huston had given it his formal
approval before the plan had been
preached to Senator Quay. Huston's
letter will be read with peculiar inter
est by the President and ATTORNEY
General Miller. Mr.. Huston saws:
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 8, fSS9.
Hon. Med. Lindsey,
DEAR SIR: L am in receipt of your
note dated May 5. L regret that Mr..
Miller could not have given YOU the
time that would have allowed of a full
explanation being made of your pro-
Ject. feel sure that he, like myself,
would have been satisfied that the
proposed work would have enabled us
to save Indiana. 1 myself am heartily
in favor of it, and at the first opportu-
nifty will speak to the President about
1t, or will, if opportunity would offer.
talk to Mr.. Miller, though don't be-
ieve he could be made to feel the
same interest in il that L do. He has
never taken much interest in practical
politics. OF course l could not ask
you TO remain here in the city until /
could learn what we could do with re-
gard to Indiana. Don't know, in fact.
when L will be able to talk with the
President about the matter. If you
Will send me your address when you
leave here, as soon as have talked
with the President / will commune
cate with you. Truly yours,
j. n. HUSTON.
E1 SOC1-b rh1 SOhE FAT.
Though Gen. Dudley had informed
Senator Quay that there were no funds
upon which Lindsey might draw inn
mediately for the purpose of carrying
out his colonization scheme, the
shrewd manager of the Republican
National Committee concluded that
but little money would be required
that could not be obtained from the
manufacturers and others who needed
laborers. He was heartily in favor of
the scheme to which he had given his
Endorsement, and under date of Sept.
4, 1883, he addressed the following let
ter to Lindsey:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
BEAVER, Pa, 8, 4, 1889.
ID. Med. Lindsey, esq. No. IA III. st.,
~ W., Washington, ID. C.
MY DEAR SIR: Will you have the
Kindness on receipt of this to place
yourself in communication with Mr..
William ID. Mullin, of Stephenson,
Mullin & Co.." at Bramwell, Mercer
Co, w. Va, where it is probable that
2OO families of your North Carolina
emigrants can be received and en-
ployed. They will want people who
will bring their families with them
and be stationary, having already
had much trouble with their Virgil
man employees, who have their fami-
lies in the eastern mart Of that State