Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1858 — A Just Tribute. [ARTICLE]

A Just Tribute.

We clip the following from the last Toledo (O) Blade. It is a just, and worthy trib--1 ute to our gallant member of Congess: | The Republicans of the Ninth District of Indiana have done themselves credit in placing Mr. Colfax in nomination for re-election ito Congress. He is one of the ablest men that the State has ever had in the National Legislature. His industry is of the untiri ing kind, and his devotion to the Republican’cause, is of That kind which knows no , yeildinir. Having honored Mr. Colfax by’i ( the expression of their preference for him ;as their candidate, the people will next honor themselves by his election. : May in hi.s speech at South Bend, on the Bth ult., said : “Sir, what is the difference between a Lecompton and an Anti-Lecompton Derno;crat! ' There has never been a difference of . principle for one minute.” • ! -The •■fame old Colonel said, at Indianapo- ■ ■ lis, on the 22d of February last: “If I were Air. Buchanan’s son, and he ‘ should tell me that upon fny vote the salvation of the Administration depended, and "'that vote had to be given for the Lecompton Constitution, Ins administration might sink; \ I’ll vote for no Lecompton man!” i Such contradictions as these are peculiar I traits of the old Colonel’s character, and is sufficient to make him popular in the Democratic party. Colonel Walker is the same fix—only worse. — Crown Point Register. (47”“ Never change an old friefid for a new one,” is a proverb that contains a world of good advice; and the advice is equally ' good whether applied to our friends in public or in private life. Mr. Colfax has been tried, and he has ever shown himself an industrious, able, and efficient Representa- I tive —ever striving to advance the interests and reflect the will of his constituents, and to promote the welfare of the country at large. Then, why should he, the tried and true, be cast aside for a new man! Would < the experiment be entirely safe! Might we I not do worse rather than better, or even as j well? Think of it. every stump in Kansas were a negro, every tree upon her soil a slave-driv-er, and every twig upon the trees a lash to scourge a negro to his daily toil, I would | vote for the admission of Kansas under the | Lecompten Constitution.” This infamous sentiment was uttered upon the stump, a few days ago, by the Hon. James Hughs, the Indiana member of Congress, who challenged a man for the avowed purpose of avoiding a fight.— Louisville j Journal. We doubt whether there is a Democrat 1 in the Union who will refuse to indorse this j “infamous sentiment.”— Louisville Democrat. are told that Colonel Walker inquired the other day of an officer on the New Albany and Salem Railroad how many extra hands he would want about election! and told the officer that if. he should want any to let him Know, and he would send him as many as he should need. There is nothing unfair or illegal in all this, we presume, ot course. What is the difference between the above and the sentiments in that letter that has been denounced as a forgery so loudly! Marshall County Republican,

Q/7“Remernber that Colonel Walker refused to jointly canvass the District with Mr. Colfax; that he refused to canvas- anv other places than the County Seats, on the plea of bad health: and remember, further, that Colonel Walker has nearly ever since been busily canvassing the whole District, speaking at county places as well as at County Seats. This proves that his plea of poor health was a mere excuse. What then, were his reasons for refusing a joint ; canvass! They arc too palpable to need ' exposition. (£y”The citizens of Vernon county■■ Missoury, have resolved in a puplic meeting that they will not permit cattle from Texas to be driven through their county. The declare in their resolutions that Southern; ' cattle communicate to those of .Missouri a ! disease known as Spanish or Texas fevar. : which is very malignant and has causefl lire death of great numbers of native cattle in’ Vernon county. ■ oi7’"So strong, Mr. President, is n.y onviction of the viciousness of the primipL' oi submitting to a direct vote of tip? people the ; propriety of the enactment or | rejection. <>t j laws, that, for one, I am prepared to extend’ tlie same objection,to the submission of en--I fire Constitutions to the same tribunal.”—: i Jesse D. Bright. a w, _ W. Gray, editor of the Clevclandl l (O.) Plaindealer, has be >n nominated tori | Congress by the Democrats of the Nine-. . teenth Ohio District. President Buchanan : recently turned him out of the office bi Post ; Master of Cleveland, because he favored Douglas. He has beeen nominated I r the i same reason. Poor Buck! he is lebuked. ' on every hand. j Sons of MaJta, of Pitsburge, i turned out on Thursday night, and paraded the streetes of’ that city on horseback. Thera were 132 in their cowls, their white robes and their masks. Tlie horses tlnw rode were also dressed in white an.l decorated with the cross of Malta. The wh-de town was out to see them, and to hear the band of music that led them. Y returns of the Vermont election give a Republican majority ol Hi,out), bv which the entire Republican State tick f is ' choseri. The Republican vote is . - .-ly three to one of the opposition. The L -g.slature—Senate: 30 Republicans, no Opposition. House: 199 Republic iu-. 30 Den. ■- crats. (jZT’Senator Hammond, of‘:slud .'ill” notoriery, in a late speech, made the following declaration: “The North-Western States are not such enemies to the South as New Englannd. I Indian came within one vo:<- of being a | slave State, and might bg a slave State yet if the Union were dssolved.” ' 0/7” “If every stump in Kansas were a negro, and every tree upon her soil a slavedriver, and every twig tip: n the the trees a lash to scourge the negro tu his daily toil. 1 would vote for the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution.”—-James 1 Hughes. j 0/y’John B. .Haskins, a Democratic Member of Congress frorrf-New York, declared, in his recent Tarrytbwivspeecl.i, that Buchanan’s Administration “lias been corrupt, weak, vacilating, and fraudulent." And what is more, be proved every ohe of his allegations. “Popular sovereignty is a popular humbug, having no practical application in government. * * ■J_ * * It will do very well to tickle the cars of the people by talking about popular- sovereign-' ty.”—James Hughes. {ffT'An extraordinary murdjir has been discovered at Lockp rt, New Y’ork. A physician named Creswell, is under arrest, charged with pi o-'hing a pati.mt named I Phillip Hawkins. The Goron r’s Jury found a verdict against the Doctor. Democratic nominee for Congress in Maine, in the recent ciuivass, run oh the anti-Lecompton platform. Not one dared to support the Buchanan policy before the people. They all professed to be with' Douglas in sentiment. attempt is about to be made by the High "Church wing of the EpiscopartChurch in New York., to proeureThe restoration of Bishop Onderdonk, to the active duties of his office. (Lv”At a camp-meet ing Loudon county Virginia, last the-ieommittee” seized upon one hundred find forty gallons of whisky, being vended in the vicinity, and poured it on the ground. (47“Thc young ladies who rejoice in a multiplicity of rings, chains, Ctc., to the unparalleled extent now fashionable, should be labeled like watches in the windows, “Warranted full jeweled.” Large Cholera Prize.’—The Paris Academy of Science has again advertised its prize, amount! ng te about 8520.000, for the discovery ofthe cause and the eflectul cure of cholera. Cushing will tj(: a candidate for Congress in his District in Massachusetts, and will have the aid of Rufus Choate.