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Show nnIAX IJkND rBATTDS. Minp haa been tha common fat of vary one who makee such a disclosure. He that digs up a neat of serpents need not be surprised If he hears the eerpent'e hiss, or If be feels th serpent's atlng. Other Instances are not wanting la our htetory. Theirs haa been tha oommon refuge of all those agalnat whom auch disclosures are mad. They answer with charges and counter charges and Ilk th scuttle fish, darken the water and eek to aa-cape aa-cape la the darkaeaa of their owa mak- 'nf trnww that those who would undertake to debauch would not heal lata to defame. I knew that all that malice and all that money oouid do would be don to dae-aradlt dae-aradlt ma. Senator Let PMMtta and I (ore. aaw thoaa ooasequeaces aad diacueeed the eventuality. It waa an ordeal of fir which any man would prefer to escape. Any one would eek to ahun such a sensation and to avoid th notoriety entailed L therefore, exhausted every resource I tried every expedient there waa no alternative left. !had no choice. 1 want to the last ditch, placed my hack to tha wall. It came to paaa that alienee would be criminal. There may be thoaa who still think that my silence si-lence even then weuld have been golden, but It might hav coat the Indians millions mil-lions of dollar. While I knew thet the vlsls of wrath and resentment would be poured out upon ma, there haa been a measure of malignity malign-ity that I dreamed not of but If i had known In advance that the asaaults weuld have been a thouaand time worse than ther have been, i tiu should not have been deterred from tha discharge of my duty sa I saw It. I had wo right to cal- culat upon eonsequancea lther personal or political to myself. My experience In thl affair has demonstrated demon-strated how much easier It I to remain allent and secure, rather then to wsge war upon wrongdoing and Wrongdoer of a certain description, especially if thev chance to he both . powerful and venal. My experience la thl. affair ha been a terrible example, aad a terrible warning to other ta purchase security at the price of silence and neglect 4 duty. There ere those. It seem, who weuld hav had the Im-eatigatlng commute, add to th terrors ter-rors of that example, nd to the terrors of that warning who. would have had thie committee place th finger or alienee upon Its Una and aignifv to all other that thev Who worrid he safe mnet be still, snd spesk not lest the accused should have the ower,-ae ha will have the dts- K It ton to reap rulnou vengeance upon accuser. t While thl, bitter cup haa been pree.i ta my ripe 1 hav not murmured. 1 atili believe. that t rendered aonie service to the Indians, and thar service cnmpenealea me foe alt the ea.-rl nce that I hav Incurred In-curred 1 still believe that I may haw hlr-M to aava th. Indiana rrani X, ArVA.no-. to tU.rAft.ftoA, prvd that mtItii and that a Vc mora than oompanaata fna for ati tha ra'nmnr whk-h haa coma upon mo In tha past and for all that ana coma h-r. aftr. I proaounca aukwjry upon myaa)f I almpiv did jny duty as 1 saw It. and I shall abrd I tha faith that th truth will triumph. .By Thotnaa f. Oora. lnltari ftt-t aanator from Ottlaooma la National Monthly. |