Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1869 — A Corrupt and Indecent Proposition. [ARTICLE]

A Corrupt and Indecent Proposition.

Wc have in our-]»ossessibn the following “confidential ” circular, copies of which We suppose nre received by public officers at every county sent: ‘0 xiu as; a r*u.is, Ixi>i A> a, “Februarv 0, 1809. ‘'Dear Sin: A bill haw been, introduced in the House of- Representatives which has been reported back, the entire Committee favoring its passage. The bill largely cuts down the fees of County Officer*. . ""'•Mrrftntklrk, * mtmbef fr<mi Monroe County, is preparing a bill much more sweeping in its provis•■ns, and it will probably be submitted for action on Monday or Tuesday next, which will in nil probability be substituted for the first bill introduced, unless immediate action is taken to prevent it. “The first bill reduces the fees so as to render them almost worth less. .Mr. Buskirk's will make them absolutely <so. We are here to do what we can to defeat these bills, and if we receive proper aid from other County Officers, think we can accomplish our object. If the County Officers will submit to an assessment to accomplish this object, n e will remain here, otherwise wo will return home; as wc are unable to tight the battle singlehanded and alone. One -or the other of those bills may become the law of the State, but we have c«swwer* that both way be defeated if a efficient fund can be raised to oryunize nl once an effective opposition. W ill your County Officers Respond to a liberal assessment made by us?— The funds so received will be placed in Bank, and returned unless the bill is defeated. Please consider this as confidential. Confer with your County Officers, including those recently —elected, ami rw|Hind~nronce but little time remains for work. ’ “Address us hen , lock box 134, or call at our room*. No. t. up •fairs over th* Bee Hive Store. b DicKsov, “Auditor of Madison County, “Gh.hkrt Tri seek, “Clerk of Fayette County. ’’ Cool, isn't it? Of course it is all honorable and fair; if it wasn't on the square they wouldn’t mark it “confidential.’’ Neither would they agree to return funds in case the bills were not defeated.

Messrs. Djcksoft nnd Trisi.er and Representative Bcskirk are all honorable gentlemen, of course, else “a free and constituency'’ would not have votA'd for them. They are honest, ■Mrictly honest, there is not a shad•ow of doubt, or how could they be elected to offices of trust ? We wouldn’t intimate that honorable men would make dishonorable propositions to any body. We don't believe they ever do. The circular is a sell; it is a joke; it is a hoax; it is a nightmare; it is a Lit of pleasantry, invented by a couple of “country jakes,” who have visitfor the first tim e. Rep - rcsentative Biskirk knows nothing about the matter. lie never told them he was “prejiaring a bill much more sweeping tn its jtrovisions ’ —that was guessed at. Why, ol coursdit was. Their “assurances that both may be defeated if a sufficient fund can be raised to organize at once an effective opposition, ’’ are all in their ears. These conn" *ry bummers wont to make folks believe they are intimate with members of the legislature, that's all that clause means. Funds to organize an effective opposition in a body that has but just passed a resolution censuring “a corrupt and wdecrut proposition'’ made by one Members? . Why it is prepos-1 FrvoUs. Funds to be sent back in • case tbe opposition is not success-1 4'il? The thing is absurd.

'J<he New York Tribune ex<«b> a very cheerful salutation to a number of young Treasury clerks who have resigned in anticipation •oi the reduction of thf force in the ■department. It says: “Young gentlemen,we congratulaXe you! You arc free! You no longer groan tuider the burthens of office! The free West awaits von! its boundless prairies ream for ,<i«r coining with the shovel and hoe! Better raise a dozen ears of good corn than twist a thousand yards of red tape!' Happy boys, go and enjoy your freedom, and know the felicity of that work which brings the sweat to your brows and makes sweet your daily bread!’’ Atnen! And,Sir Knights of the Shovel and Hoe, know ye that I thousand* of acres of these tin- ’ founded prairies of the free West! are in Indiana, rnifeuced and untilled Miles afUTfflilcs of these ' flow«ry meadows, rich ’ with the ; vegetable decay of unknown ages, bring forth ungathCrcil crops of nqlrMpousgrsssesyear after year. Thousands of acre* of th<*e unaurr***o*! >il<t>ials, ain in .Jasper

I hundreds of the crowded East, , “Come and cultivate our virginity, plow and sow and* reap. —Why I will ye toil :uid pinch and miller in an auster country, vhvn our abundance, like fully ripened fruit, 1 needs but the plucking to possess !’’ I “Happy boys," of the New York I Tribune, harken not to the voice of thOMusy reus wh < > would—lure you beyond the Mississippi, where vour lives will be the prey of the deadly miasm and the relentless savage—where factories are unkqopn, the sound of the chiilX'h-goiitg bfd±UO\ - er Iscard, ami the school-house and work-shop is still unformed in the womb of primeval forests—but come here, come to Indiana, settle in Jasper county, where cheap and productive lands are to be found tlhr-prtyfiuH 111 J pile 7>f ci viTr~ ization; where churches ami corn thrit ein the same field; w here good crops and free schools flourish 'On 1 the same section; where we have; the luxuries ami privileges of the East, together with the natural advantages of the West, without the poverty of the former or the privations of the latter.