Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1858 — COLFAX AND WALKER. [ARTICLE]

COLFAX AND WALKER.

As wc frequently hear it said that Walk- : er did not decline to meet Colfax on the i stump, ’wo republish tiie following state- I incut, signed by Walker and Colfax, and their respective friends. Walker, after refusing to meet Colfax in any satisfactory, mariner, alleging as a reason bad health, is ! now following right round after Col fax', abusmg him most indecently, and making as many and ns long speeches as his opponent, 1 notwithstanding the state of his health. But in order to screen their doughty champion, the Democrats of'the Ninth District send all such “one-horse” guiis as Colonel Mrv, who .said, in speaking of the Democracy of Porter county, that he was going to “dig around ’em, and' dung ’em,” and Wm. B. Beach, ; i wild goes round tie district repeating the •same speech Governor Hammond delivered at this place, to meet Colfax, and challenge him to debate, in order to speak to. 1 is ftirge crowds, failing to get respectable-sized nudienccsof their o\in. Colfax properly pays' no attention to them, at which his enemies raise howls of rage arnl disappointment. Read the following propositions: La forte, Itid., July, !?2, 1858. Colonel Walker and Mr. Colfax, having met together with mutual friends for purposes of consultation in regard to the Congressional canvass in the Ninth District,' there were present with-Mr. C. Messrs. G. ! B. Roberts and W. 11. 11. Whitehead, and with Colonel W. Messrs. John Eason and , John 11. Travel. Air. Colfax, being invited hv Colonel Walker to make such nrdpos-.ilions as lie saw ; fit, ppnffer'red to him for acceptance cither one of the following: ' 1. To make a joint canvass of the district in a thorough manner, as has been done in 1 previous campaigns. 2. For each jto canvass the country appointments separately, and to unite in ai joint canvass of the county seats. 3. For each to canvass the whole district separately. To which Mr. Walker objected: 1. Because a canvass of the district by j townships would hi- inconsistent with the condition of his health, which is not good, I 2. Because ft seemed to iiim improper that 1 the tcanvqss should he made in any manner j other than jointly by the candidates. Mr- Walker modified the propositions of | Mr. Colfax as follows: That the canvass he made jointly, and that it be confined to the county seats of the several counties of tiie Congressional District. To which Mr. Colfax responded— That such a canvass, so limited in its extent, would not be satisfactory, to the people of the district, and that, therefore, he could not assent to it. Whereupon it was agreed that the respective propositions should be reduced to writing, and signed by the conferees; and the meeting adjourned. .1. C. Walker, Schuyler Colfax, Geo. B. Roberts, W. If. If. Whitehead, Eason, John B. Travel. It will he seen from the above that the ■ only proposition of Colonel Walker was to \ confine Mr. Colfax to one sjicech in each j county. The upshot of tiie whole matter is j that Colonel Walker is afraid to meet Col- ! fax on the stump, and endeavored to prevent Colfax meeting the people. Air. Editor: Tt was stated in the Gazette a week or two since that there are two com-; ets visible in the northern hemisphere at the present time—one in the east at four in the morning, and the other in the w/st in the evening. This is a mistake; therjb is hut one comet to he seen at present. That is in the constellation Bootes with the tail toward Benetnasch, the large star in the end ot the Dipper-handle, and the head or starend tovyard the sun, which is now in the constellation Libra. It, is the high northern latitude of the comet ewhich has led to the supposition that there were two. J.