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About The Oregon Argus. (Oregon City [Or.]) 1855-1863 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1856)
if k I'll. if1 , . fcl s hi 4 m Iff il'f l' ik iti existence. A p;iitin-oin wero wholly M.vlo wllh view lo affect lluj eh-Cliou 8uto and leduml and to op rate for or ogainst particular nm; and (or this pur. pose lli mo. ii n 111 characters would be taken in pref-rvnco to the best, Vuu know how it wjiin thi JJute and a it ai her i it w w every where. NullihV tnd Pre Sjiler, ApoU.ites Slid R"ngade nil mart full fu their nut. Un single riualin eathm rsiiuitita that of working in ilio election; and llit only preference scorned tu U shown wn in favor of lho who hod been most violent againtl ihit Union. l)u Hint principle it was llml an ajitor wn takn and sent into Egypt, out into tun-luge, batter mn bat been sent thern -but a Con-ul Uerwirl of ilia United Suie ; which editor had published dnily paper in Wai'jinglon City fur thru year, wholly devotcj lo ilia separation of tb tl.ivo from the free State. fl. Unfit appointments on foreign mi kiona, This it a mortifying bead of ao citation g,iiiit tho present Administre lion. Never were such men nt abroad li represent ojr country mun without a particle of Hid knowledge which diplumncy requires and even :ilioul manner wiih out knowing how to behave in company mere political demagogue, lo reward them for nTvici past and tor vice to erne, al l!io federal nn J Stat election. They tend .icli abroad, In orj'ir lo givo lh'..ii iudcin niiy fur past service nl the KIU,and t en able litem to come back and recommence limir partisan labor. Formerly, llm Uui led S:hU.-i Minister were ilia pride of our country anj the admiration oftho courts (o which they Wert sent. Talented, educated, vmloto with knowledge, pjllshcd in man iur, nnd est, virtuom such wore former, ly our Minister abrond. What a contrast to tliKe h now send abroad. U'IihI a contrast lo llm llufus King, llie John Mar. uliuiU, llm Albort Oitilutinii, ilio Joint Q. Ailmni, tlm Pinkiipyn of Smlli Carolina, and ih I'iiikiiuv uf Maryland, llm lluiiry Clara, and ibe loii lint of tplendid namm tli.it (,'race our diioniaiio a:uml. Such flpKjintniuiiUalliij Adinini'lration makvt I ak oflbe inaM, firlliero area few txai'ilion ar nut only a dinyrice, but an i-ijiiry lo our country. Tliny iujure our n.iiiunal ri-putaibn. J'!iey diijirnde u in Ilia ovun of furuigii nation. Tliey injure ill whole cluuatur of republican govern ment. Many of lln-m not only of bad man ncra, but bad morula. (July think of lliat jAn'u Owen, nlin pulilinlied a lieMipapur and wroto a bjuk lo abulUli the intiiuiion of marriagi, uinl lo p'ruade mull and wo inon lo Ii vo logelher llku bciwtaof Hie field. Jin ivtant to a fortign court fur hi election acrvicen, and mutt convey the idcawher ever he itt, thai the United Slnlca is wl.j'.j nuiiuii of Mormon, returning to the Ktnto of I'or'.'nl uniiiibN, Hut if he must go, ho Inn curtaiii!y g m lo t'i9 righl place. 'i'iiry i.miI him in Nplt-i, wlicie hia doc Irine may iiieil with Uht nUliO'" nue than in any o bur pail of the civilized world. And all iIii-no luiiiHioiiii are multiplied lo the (reiiiuit pis.bi't-'.v:il tending thoe unfit nii-u to (,ite ulirre limy have iiul.li. Jii' lo do, even if iliey could do anything iCi fily to piie them pay mid where many f ilirm, by their vuljiarity and miv rnnJuet, are cclu led fiom locial inter- t'ourse nudconiiiikd lo the privilege which iho tro.tiv (ixure them ; oud Ml lo ill low company whiJi their maimers and lanes rcUire. 4. fcAiruvaJU rxpi-iidituroi lhecha. nctoiiktic of ihii aiiiiiit.itrtiun. Never wr, kiieh a ir J.lijrale waste of public money Seen! Scvinty lo eighty million vquau tlered pcrnnn um aud not a mnploiu of any uli.Ueinuut. WhiMi Mr. i'ulk went out of olliuu, wliidi wan iil'lur the uciuiiliou of ull our new lurriturief, lie cnmiiuit'd llie tmnual expemiei uf the government at twnuty-livo loUcuty-kix million; now it i three time that amount, and getting vtone. Iiicrcate of ollico and alunos, in Lioiibe of army and navy, multiplication uf useless ageiiu lo ntiuuJ lo Ihu election under the pretext of tilling wine ollico, wiikto of money in building ships lo rot, while rtluiiig a dollar lor the improvement of our e;rcat tiwia. Such are llieir devi ce lo gel rid uf the puhtiu muiiey. Near, ly b tlieiuMiid Jullar a man ia now the uvi rinjocofct of every man in the army and i .ivy, nn J i ho civil jenin li.t of England pro puik d for thiir further tuppnri. And Loth nnny and navy reduced, a fust a poksihlo, to the cnndiiioii uf government I'ltablishiuunt I'lenidential, and not n tiounl iuntiitilioiit. All oppnintmcnl are conduulod on t hut principle ; all timminiiinn nud reduction are conducted ort thesamo. Two hundred ollio-r have lately bern turn ril out ( the navy by an open, caiulnlou wn I r i initial perversion of law, and the aaine ripuraiion i dcn'red lo bo performed on the Hi'iny, tlin rulo of dismission being to kino paiiihinsand favorite, and to turn out ffuod oOieers, without regard In service or character, whoto political ntlliiilie or con nexion are not approved. 6. Violated td.'dges rise up in judgment njniiut this Administration. I do not al lude loth inaugural addrovr, these (ddrrs e nro now made like pie crust io be bro ken. 1 spuik of public specific jdedgo. openly and solemnly made, and openly and kcandalously violated. There whs llie pledge lo reduce uiitircery duties, and pet rid of a coriupting surplus revenue. That pledge is violated has been for four years and still is. The enormou reve nue is kepi up, to increase patronage, to purchase worthless lanJ from Mexico, to corrupt pree, to reward panixan. to tr.'iiglhcti ths (ioverrmient, to buildup afiiiies and n:n ie J and to fibt foreign na tion if they van succeed in picking quar rel wiih lliem. Kiually public was the pledge, and cipia'ly scandalous its violation, to m ike a national highway lo the I'acific ocean, l our year ag.i the pledge was ma I" : the time is out, and ilio pledge not redeemed. The tnno hi been ot in mak ing uscli Bed costly urey for two out tide roads, on for the North and on for the South, and in endeavorirjf lo purcha" Iroin .Mexico slice n'ter lice lo carry th Southi.rn ioo'( lo (iuavnias on ih liulfof ' I'-nlif 'niia. Tcr million were given for olio slice ; it was luund to be worthless, and besides, w ml. I nt includa the place. At lli l-.f t aici-mi funiier cfV' t were mak ing I ' get auuilier l;e, at atuvhertcil or twenty millions, s'i!l fur. her iSou'h. In Ih4 iiK.iii.i.e j ih i i,l., in. tlii.vl and unions' i-cnir.il r.iiita is rep'i.liate,, alilinuh it is iiiw inlh!r,l made: fr ih railniads Wot from It ihiinore, l'hiladeliiit anil yi.'iT Vtlnnt.'tf Kiiii!s, now 'iieirste the et. fM.'.-j lo the c ntr before tliev j I.-.J. !' p', m 1 pii-iKOt witK the Missouri road, now complete to the cen tre of the Stat, and advancing lo (he West, rn bordtr. Yet this direct national route, tlmugli now one-third made, i rejected and repudiated for an cn'sid rout through Mexico, and a ship csnal through fomign Ur'ilorr In the Sptoiih part of America. 0. Neglect of the Territorial govern, mem i another of the olTence of (hi ad ministriitioa, Poliiical partizun tnd ot houte demnjpgue are nt out lo fill all their odice men unfit, if they were (Im posed, but merely electioneer, engaged in the Btnte and federal election while the protection of the feder! government i ut terly unknown, and violence, blood.hed, and disorder overspread I he land. Utale, who acrndnl over the lavage mind chinned the Indians into iiifaantile submis sion, was d'imissed because ha would nut eleo ioncer to make room fur a pot-liotisa demagogue, who could do nothing rise. California, Oregon, Nwr Mexico are all the scene of bloody outrage ; Indian war rage private murder previU law it Im potent the federal ollicor are of no ac count, and the citizen are driven to the neceisity of providing for themselves. I need not mention Konsn; the coudition of that blood tiained ground i tuflicirtitly known to you. I will spesk of Utah, where the federal government is ignored and re pudiated ilt law and authority et at de fiance. The term of the Mormon Govern or, Urigliam Young, expired three year ago. As h had thrown o(T the authority of the United Smtc, it tva determined to end him a luccessor military graduate of West Point and Cpl. Stcptoe wn call ed from his pleasunt quarter to go upon the enterprise. When Krigham beard of ii, he made a speech to hit people, in which he told them what rrxsideiit 1'ierce intended, nd what he himself intended uneke idiug a new Governor, mid the other intending lo ri pulu the compline-iii. It was in ihnl speech that Im said to his p ie that le intended lo remain in hi pl.io until t' e Lo d should ay to him Brigham, lilua't waul you lo bt Governor of Vlah any long rr." The Admitiitiiaiion was afraid of him, and undertook lo mil muneuver him, and thai in the highest style of West point tac tic ; they determined to smuggle Sirntne in. For thai purpose the military Gov ernor was furnished with a batialiun of sol dier, nnd directed lo proceed lo the Mor mon Kingdom, a if he wa going to Cali forniaatop there to hybernale and watching the chance, dip into the Govern orship aome day when Hrighnui wn out something like a weasel thai get into an other' hula when he finds llie occupant gone. When I beard of this fine scheme, I said to my acquaintance, and can prove that I tnid it, (for I do not indulge in ex posluclo prediction,) that the first lime wo should hear of this Governor S'eptoe again hn would be on hi) tip toes, marching to th tune of "Jleiah, Deity Afarlia, tiptoe fiut;n and to it was. For, before the hy bernation wa over, lie Wnson his march in good trui Ii to Califormu, to return thence In the U. o. Dot there was something else which I did nut fnrectt, which was l lint this military Governor curried uSY four dozen uf iho Mormou lietty Marlins with him to the inlinito distress of the baiuts, profound ly chagrined to find themselves so encroach ed itiioti by lite Gentile. IJut it wa the lii encroachment of the kind. No more of llm U. S. military lure been there since; and Drigham any he ha promised (he Lord, thai if they come again, he will fix them to that ihcy will let hi Ii. tty Marlins alone. And that v,as the i-nd of the attempt, by this Administration, to givo a Governor to Utah. Hrigham hold on to the place, and Mr. Pierce stands with hand oil'; and the Hcandulous spectacle is seen uf n mm assuming to be Governor by the will of the Lord, repulsing the United Siate authorities, trampling '.he laws un der foot, insulliiig and defying the Federal Government ; nud no attempt made te re duce him lo law and order. Such is the insu rgeiit coudition of the polygamous King dom of the latier day suiuis. All have heard of this polygamy a state of things al which morality, decency, shame revolt; end I havo been tuld how an institution, o abhorrent lo human nature, is kept up, and thai it is by virtue uf the civil power vest, ed in Hrigham and hi Saints, still marc than by hit religious power that (here are enough to overturn the iiiti;;:!Son if ii wa not that nil civil power, a well n the re ligion jurisdiction, is in the hand of Mor mon authorities t so that this Administra tion is notuallv responsible to the moral sense of the civilized w orld fur the present continuance of polygamy iu the Territory of I 'tub. Knough for n view of homo afTairs, and enough to account for the unparalleled dis mission ol'ihis Admiiiisl ration, without the ktiperaddiiiun of misconduct abroad ; but i hero isenouuliof that lo have sunk it with out the misconduct at home. Never was such n bellicose Administration nicking quarrels all the lime, nnd everywhere atul building ships, and raising troojn for the inevitable- war. First, Spain wa the power, Cub the object, and the Hlack War rior the pretext. You hv all heard about that lilack Warrior, and how Comn-xloi,, iMcCnuley was sent lo Cuba with ship of war to enforce redress; and how a Minis ter wa tent lo Spain In deiivuid it. K. r n long time il was inevitable t oil I'lCouut ufthfllihick Warrior; upon a sieM -n it wa misticd up, ami but lew knew how I can tell you. It was hu-hed up thus : the minister that was sent to Madrid went to CMeitd after being four mouths at hi sta tion ; the SecrHnrv of Legation, having charge of the business in his absence, show ed the Spanish Minister a Government di"palch which had been four month on hand, stating the terms on which the Uni ted State would etile it. Upon the in stant the term were agreed to, and that j ctierioliea cliance for a war with Soain. to take Cuba in self-defense, wa lost. But, what followed f Wa lh Secretary who showed the dispatch, and settled the diffi culty, thanked by lh Administration I Not at all I II was dismissed the service. Wa the Minister, who never thowed the diptcb eeusured for the omission ! Not it all ! He wa caressed, and continued in oflice Until he clioss lo ask his own recall. That chance lost, another was inconti nently discovered. Great Britain and Franco were going to Afracaniie Cub Upon the spot the Afiicaniition of Cub became the alarm of the Administration, aud thu war cry of its adherents, and war inevitable with It real ll'itsin, Franca and Spain, and an alliance with Kussia in the wr upon them, because the burthen of iheir'ong. la-t !.rji Clarendon rvird of it, and learnt thi alarm wa lounded up on tome word of hi in I'arliainent in re lt ion totomt unity of action between hng land and Franoe in the Crimea, and in some mutual complaint ngaiutl Duenol Ay re. Me made the statement over again, and declared he was not thinking about the Uni ted Statei, or Spain, or Cuba, at ihe time ; and so this terrible Africanization of Cuba, and the Russian alliance, followed the mel ancholy fate of the Black Warrior catas trophe, mid died the death of the ridiculous. Then cam the OsU'iid Conference in which the three United Si ales Minister ware sent lo make platform in relation to Cuba, which watthnt the United Suite must lake her if Spain would not sell her which it was known she would not. But that was going it loo strong; and lh Administra tion who sent lliem to make it, disapproved the work, while approving their conduct in doing it. By thutiime, the chance fur war with Spain hud run out, and wetned lobe lost forever, when thechnpparul gov ernment of Walker offered a nw prosj e,t more encouraging than the other, It wn limply to acknowledge the government in the chnpparal, let aid flow lo Walker, a fnollmld he established in Nicaragua, and ihe invasion and conquest ofCub be made by the United Slate citizen under the ehapparul flag. That ply w just com mencing when the nomination at Cinch) nml extinguished the political life of it authors. In the meanwbile a quarrel wa being picked with Denmark about those Sound dues which Fun ; e paid U fore Aim-iica wfli discovert d, and which America has paid ever since her Independence, nud by viriue i ,f tree i its made by our iii'ist approv ed administration. Selling ii-rll' up for the liberator of the Baltic See, thi admin is'iulion gave order our merchant to i e.'ne paying the dun utter the loth nay of April last, awiming llie rmlit to aorogiua the existing tn-nty J the Panisll govern m. n' tnve n.itii e that it would collect them as u-ual. iimh-r the treaty ; and the admin-i-ln.tioti finding out that il had no right to abrogate the treaty, and beside that Co penhagen was not Grey town, go orders to the merchant lo pay, but to make pro testation to the contrary, and to warn the Dane tha' the government would try lo get back I ho money ; and so ktands thi affair, which would be ridiculous, if it did not threaten the pcaco of two most friendly nations. And now, why this Quixotio at tempt to liberate! the Baliioaea I It is nut our ca ; it is not oppurtenunt lo our con tinent; iti wholly European ; and Eu rope, which pays the dues, ha precisely two hundred time ai much interest in il a the United States tins sending exactly I wo hundred ships to our one into il ! Why this Quixotism I Simply for a fuss fur notoriety for the gloiypf a war with a Hnall power, llow different the conduct uf real statesmen in time past. Mr. Adams' admiiistrulioii made the Danish treaty now in force. Mr. U'eHer improved it when Secretary of State, under Tyler, getting the due reduced un our stnj.lo articles, nml ob taining a stipulation lo place us on the foot ing of the most favored nation, and lo give u I ho benefit of every reduction which should be made in favor of anv other na tion. That wa statesmanship ooulrast ing as sonse with folly a ju-tic with ra pine with the conduct of this administra tion, picking a quarrel with Denmark to liberate a Fuiopenn sen; nnd ready for a War to abolish moderule duties in Ihe Bluck sea while keeping up enormous duties at home, contrary to a public plcdgo lo reduce them. But enough of this folly and mad net; nud those who may wish to under stand the whole subject will find it, fully but briefly set forth, in the second volutuo uf the Thirty Year' View. But Great Britain is the power which our bellicose administration deem most worthy of their prow-ens, nud with which thn at tempt to pick a quarrel are most lively and incessant. She barely escaped a brush with us on account ofthe Africanization of Cuba, and now we have tha Monroe doc trine, the Bulwer treaty, the Mosquito coait, the B.iy of Islands, thn Kuatan Is land, the Nicaragua canal, tha recruitment question, the dismission of Mr. Cratnpton. lion von j, what a list I and all the pro duct nf a few months, in a season of pro found praco. The detail of these quarrel ia loo tedious lo hn gone over, but a notice of the must prominent will show the folly nnd insignificance of ihe w bole. And firi, of thn Monroe doctrine, so incescactly quo tod, and so tgnoranily and mischievously nppli.-il. It is nssumed to be a doctrine by virtue of w hich the United State are bound to iiaud guaid over the two Americas, from Canada to I'atagouia, and repulse all intruding colonies from th boundaries of each power. It i assumed to bo a doc trine uf forcible protection, aud the Uni ted States the protector. Thn individual mut know but little of Mr. Monre, or his Cabinet, to suppose such a doctrine could come from them. No! they "eienot I'm men to med.llo wilti other nation' affairs not the Quixotic to regulate their neigh bur's concerns by force of arms. They were men of reason, p,.oce and justice. They laid down ihe Monroe docl tine for them selws, and invited other American S'a'e of 8paiii'i origin to ad 'iii it each for iuelf, and to maintain it, each by itself, and by itsnnii means, within it own limits. Thi w the doctrine, as laid d wn hv Mr. Adams, in his insiruclion lo our Panama ministers, as may be seen in the first vol ume of the Thirty Years' View. Far from standing guard over t lute American States, and protecting them with our arms, they were not even allowed to expect assis'ance from us, and every asveriion of the doctrine lo the contrary, i a libel upon Mr. Monroe and his Cabinet ; and, besides, is an igno rance of our Constitution, which would not have allowed them to bind us to ihe wag ing of such wra, even if ihey had been witlesa enough lo attrmpt ii, which they were not, Well , iti by virtu; of this doctrine, thus converted into an armed protectorate over tne two Americas, I list we must nght ureal Britain in Central America. And for w half Why, for ibo meaning of a word in the Clayton Bulwer treaty, which its authors cannot agree abmit. The Fmilish proposed to have it to arbitration ; our Admiuistra tion refused, on the ground that no impar tial arbiter cmild he found. Then the Eng lish offer lo leave the choiea loouraelvM binding themselves to ahija absolutely ih ' i m-c.s.uu oi our own arbitrator, he it what il iingtit. Io tins otter they had returned I no answer at the last account. Thi i one : of the causes of war not only a fit sub ject fir arbitration ii its'.f, 1 nt ven for ' chance, lol decision t proper lubjecl to be decided by lot, by tossing a quarter oi a dollar into the air with the cry, ''Ileadt von vintalh I hit ;" for It I a con think in which the loser will be th winner, especially if w should be the loser. Thi ia one of ih cause of ihe cherished war, Then come the Bay of Islands, the Kuatan Island, and the Mosquito const They art a bone of contention. The British have ihein. and w propose to drive the British out. What for f To Uke them ourselves! I hope not. With respect lo the Mosquito eoatt, God know we have mosquitoes enough in our country, without annexing a whole kinzdom uf them. And at Tor llua tan and the Bjy lalundt, who but a good geographer can 'ell where Ihey are I All I know about them Is, thai ihey are out toward the equator, the oib'-r side of Cuba, and might furnish a point tfappui to a fili buster invasion of thai island. Now, I am niMiiriftt filibustering and annexing, und inn willing ihnl Ihe British should remain lor ever in these place, iliev were once Hie haunt of nirutes, and might become so again if the Briiish were to leave lliciu. But the canal of Nicaragua the ship canal acrosn thn continent nt that point i.i. I !ue construction and protection of which forms the staple of the Bulwer-Chiv . ton treu'y, and subsidiary to which is lb whule quarrel about Central America Now the canal in itself is a g'ssj thing, nnd very desii-able to be made, but by any power in preference to our. Ives. When made, it is for public use, nud llu makers will have il care and expense, and no niore usn of il I'taii other. I would not own it, no mora than I would own (he Straits ol Gibraltar, or ihn Isthinu of Sues. I have two special objections to our ownership, or crtiardian ov-r that canal. It would be a foreign work, requiring a fleet at each i nd to guard it ; and fort at each end to shelter (lie ships ; mid troop nl each end to pro. tret thn fort. To powerful fleets, each strong Fiiouiih to fight Great Britain, (for that is the object;) two set of fort to sln llrr great Meets, and two powertul ar mies tu man llie fort ; such i the expense point ol view uf this protectorate and guar dian-hip over the ship canal in Nicaragua. I am auainst meddling with it. Lei others make it. We shall have Iho use of ii in time of peace, without the cost of it care in time of war. Out 1 am Bguitiit our meddling with it for another reason. That ship canal is the antagonist of our own road to ihe Pacific ! It is the antagonist of a national road through our own land to our own California. It is the antagonist of that road, nnd intended lo make the high sea the only, and the perpetual, line of communication with California to make the Atlantic ports continue to be forever what they now are iho entrepot of Coll. fornia trade and travel the sole points of departure and return forall trade and travel between the two side of our continent between the thirty State on the Atlantic and in the valley or tho Mississippi and the golden State of California. Now, I am ng.-iinat nil that monopoly. Fair play is pretty play. Lettho Atlantic State havo all the- advantage which the sea givrs them : let them contiiiuo to go to California by sea, on any routo they please, by Panama, by Cape Horn, by the Nic aragua lake, and (he ship canal when il is made. Let them use all these routes, and have prosperous voyages on all (he routes. But let us w ho live inland, nnd own land all the way to California, and are almost half w ay there lei us have a road ou the land; and not for ourselves only, but for all for ihe Atlantic cities as well as for the interior for the North nnd South as well ns for the center ; for n central road suits. The present Administiation is thn deadly enemy of this central routo. It ia for any. thing in preference to this route for an outside road North, along the frozen Inti Hide of 49 ; for an outside road South, along th burning sand of Sonora and Sinaloa; forn foreign water route through Central America, seven thousand miles round ; and it is for this foreign routo ihnl we have all iho quarrel with England about the Bulwer-Clayton treaty, tho Mosquito coast, the Ruatan Island, the Bay ol I, lands, and thn Nicaragua canal ; and it is Tor this also that we havo the libelous per version uf the Monroe doctrine, iiiimity to this road and prostituting ihe powers of llie Government to d. feut it. is one of the great offenses of this Administration an offense against the wholo Union, but espe cially against the State of Missouri, the natural route for tho road, and along which it is already one third built from the At lantic const to tho center of this Slate, und v' ri it would be in communication with all ihe railroad lines, and all thn steamboat navigation of the thirty Sta'esou this si. I of tho IWky Mountains. But this is u large Milijcct, and will require a full speech to ilselt': which il shall receive, The crowning of all these attempts In pick a quarrel with Great Britain i in the recruitment question, and in the dismissal uf Mr. Cramptun. This crown lo the work is ilia labor of Mr. Cashing, whose fitness lo make forf ign war, or to guard do mestic rtejita, may be seen in his own ac count of his mission to China, nnd in his speeches in Congress justifying the British attack upon the steamboat Caroline, under the flag of thn Union, nnd nvored to our shore boarded by stealth, her crew slaughtered in th .c sleep, and the vessel set on (ire, and, wrapt in flxmes, sent plung. ing over the fulls of Niagara with ihe dead and dving on hoard. All that Cushing justified, for which he wa scourged upon thespoi by William 0. Butler of hfentucky, and who took ihe scourging as a man would w ho knew he deserved all he got, and was thankful he got no more all of which my be se-n in the second volume of the "Thirty Years View." Thi is the man to staud guard over American right to pick a quarrel with Great Britain when she hat done u nn harm, and has made apolo. yie for the mero technical offense which she may have committed. The case was this: our Atlantic cities were full of unnatural ir.ed foreigner, most of 'hem her former subjects. She wished to recruit them for the Ciirnean war bulla do it without vi olating oar laws getting them to go to her own territories, end there enlist. After, wstd objection was made, and instantly the practice was stopped, and apology made for any unintentional wrong. There was no harm don us. The only danger of harm was that Russia mishl re sent as aiding her enemy, in violation of oar neutrality. That would have been a serious complaint ; but Rasia never made it : the war was over before the recruits (if anv)cu'J ;.n to .! Crm:a; aid no-v va has been long mad. JiWia and kmrland are friend, and wa must pick quarrel with England no account of Ru. -Kussia herself Laving no qoarrel with Great Britain, and no complaint again! u. Thai wa the only harm apprehended, and it never occurred, A lor tailing ucn peo- nla awav a aha ende avonng lo gel. .hnuld hold their Ium no damage to U and that irrepctly of their foreign birth. I l...ld that anv man. native born or foreign, who would quit the United State where good wage, comfortable living, and Indn- kniliiira arA in ihe reach of all and go 0000 mile to the Crimea to lead the life of a Rriilsh soldier for sixneLca a day: I hold ilmi ihu loss uf anv such men would be nn damire to our country, go a many of them as might. For I hi. Mr. Crampton ii dismissed. No. not Mr. Crampton, but th Hi ilish troveriiinenl. For he only did what i.i government directed, and what il ha justified and awtumed Thi is very differ ent from dismissing a Minister for an act of his own: il ian ii,--i!t to the urillsii irovnriiinent ; it i a challenge and defiance hi it. It i just cause uf resentment, but the danger i passed. The Administration which dismissed Mr, I'ramntoti. have themselvei been dismissed igniiinitiiowly "! by theirown party thi is in say, ihe sound men or tlieir on par y. and ihe whole power of the country The whole country ha dismissed mat AO ministration. They have no parly, no nd herenu, no support. Their own janizary iriiard the venal office-holders have U. rt,-rl ihein '-from their ruinnl forlunei ilunk all aieay" and crouched at the feet of the conqueror. And lo itiiisn inn om versa ditailion. I bey Have ucneriea iucm . . . i t .1 telve fled from their own lolilude and uiven in their udhesion to the people that whipped lliem. jni must sshmj o Britain, and restrain her fei-ling. until the ... -t . . new Administration can retore peace and friendship with her. She hat been greatly mil raged, not only in the act of dismissing Mr. Crampton, justrlone In the nick ol lime for tha Cincinnati Convention, where (mnu- irre the presence of the two Administration champions, Captain Rynder and Tom Hyer.) it nod a contrary rinxi; ncsuie this act, tho official papers, even including the President's messaro to Congress, nil contained in-uliing expression toward Mr, Crampton and his government all dicta ted bv Cushing. Shame that such a man diouid have been placed in a ailuation to in-ult a L'eiiMeinan, much less to pick qmirr. I with a great nation, and undertnko to play off hero hi tactic of the Chi nose mission. Ciliiens! I liar told you of th attempt to kill otT Mr. Uuchaiiau in the convention under III two- Hunts mlci tliers was another tttrnint, of a difler. m kind. t do Ihe same th.nz. Il wa wilb I plsM.inn a i.stitiulary structure wiin a rope over the lioud and tmp-door under th feet and so euiitr.ved Mint ir lie got on it, lis was strung up in the Norlli if not, Ii was laid out ia th South. His founds fuiind out Ui game, and determined to mount it. U it what it might. 1 hey said th President dues not swear lo platforms, but to th Constitution, and besides, il i Iswlul to tight fire w.lh firs. It wus coucooted by III old jamiaries, and l.r. d uccd at Hi moment the balloting wa to eoinmeue.e so u lo rnaae oisorder in ilio ruuss ; bul the trick failed. Il was received in a tempest of emulous applause, nd extolled t th skies. 1 Ofked one nf iho inisit vociferous of these applaud en. how he could swalluw neb stuff I lie an. werrd promptly, "at I do iperac! la pule it up again." It wo a New Yorker, of course, who ffsve tint nuivo answer and I m sure Ins slom sch would feel the clesuer after th relief. Ciliiens ! this business of making pisiform I s now invention, uuknowo to the old Democracy, who had no pisiform but the Constitution no sun but the public good ; sad they are generaly the work of demagogues who have no thought of the Coiisilnliou no thought of the country nn thought of any thing l.ul to get office, aud keep it, changing for that purp.we with every ehange of ailmiiiislrat ou, and swearing to every crciu niai tuns an hour. It ha been my prerogative to kirk over these platforms. X was bred iu a political hool in which they were unknown, llie Lou slituUon was Ibe only ulatturin known in my school, and th only one to which I swear. If one is made beyond the Constitution, il is surplusage ; if short of th Constitution, it is defective ; if dif ferent from the Constitution, it is vo d ; if the same, it is superfluous. Iu any event, then, these plat forms arc, to me, useless ; to ni iiiy, pestiferous : tu their authors, stocked cards, which Ihey throw away when the game is won. 1 have on more accusation to nvike against this Adiu nistration. Il has broken upa:l pol.iieul par ties founded oil principle ; il U ths author of the fractiuiial partus which now spangle our political firmament like those fragments of a burster! planet to which the astroumneisgive llie name of asteroid. It islhe amli'ir of tin in all, and finds retributive justice in the scorn w-iih which ihey all treat it. Il is unnecessary for me to speak of these parlies; I adhere lo my own, and s-ippoil it, und th t is the exclusion of all the r. -1 One only I allude to ooe w th which the ns.n ol a member of my family ' o iuncuted. and in re errnc lo which so.ns persons who judge me by themselves, (a fa vor which I most earnestly decl.ne,) attribute to me t sinister connexion. I will uol answer such insinuations by word, but by conduct. Great applause. Now. when has It ever happened that I have b en inlluenceil by family connexion, or even by my uwu interest I What office have I ev. r got for one of my fs nily ? What appointment have I ever got for myself? No, eitiitiis, I am hove such considerations. I am above family, and a'.ove self, wlun the good of the Union is concerned. From first to last I h ive been for my coun try, and ineau to coot' nut fur it I have mad many sacrifices fur it, an 1 am making a great on now in (landing this canvast. The good of that Uuion alous brings me out. Clouds overhang our foreign relations ; sectional hate prevail at home ; our own State is the theater of conioiotisn which disturbs us at home, and injures our charac ter abroad. Peace is my object the sunshine of peace for the Slate and for the Union and the aid of all good men is solicited in obtaining it. We have a f.iir nominal on for Ih Presdency, a man who csn be nationally elected, and whoso aims mint be national He will Deed support. lie n not soing to repose on a bed of roots, bul rather on the thorny pillow. Our oatntry is in a deil..rablc condition. Fraternal atteclion gone sectional hate ep;r.ilered extreme parties ia th asoeudant Violence overspreads th land ; we open no paper without seeing blood. Ths whole country seems to be without government! and the Te ritories are so: Kansas io civil war I Utah in revolt : New Mexico ores off than under the Spanish viceroy ally ; Oregon csnyingon Indian war for itself, and voluntarily a State California, driven to the recourse of voluntary associations of eit iiens far the protect-on nf life, iibeny and prop erly. The pr.e nt admin s-rat on, in violating sacred compromises, is lbs author of all ihe vio 'eucs and disorder which overspreads the lan- foresaw, and foretold it at the lime inj ,trj ved eg.ros it Prevention was my' nmtA that having faded, cure of lb, aiseas. mast U attempted. The people hav, rightly judged thai .he author, of ih. diseae, lM tJh,J 1 XVmJhhY " nd we most help him in th application si aU tb remed.es heshsU prescribe, ,C,''"".!. a BR.p and America are upon this eleeuaai, sot as it concern wen, but s il concerns Ih great o,ueiona whjck alarm and !'tat lbs country. I repres.nl the principle of pee of order, raw and jostioe, at honw and abroad. Europe and A me oca kaow that fact) aad as th lection gaa, so most be their opinio ofthe cantiouanoe. or cessation, af tb present do plorabi slats af thin. C" The greatest friend of truth it tlmej bcr grealeit enemy is prejudice; and ber constant coropnion it humili'v. OUOOXaT CITlf SATURDAY, AUGUST S3, 165. Mat' Mweeek. M' have filled large ahara of our ipact lo-day with Binton'i epeecb at St. Louif, Wa hava no apology to maka for II. In. deed, wa could not well find better matter. Road it everybody ; rrad it twloa, and than gel yonr neighbors lo read it. It la all ouod, excepting what ha aay about Buch. anan, and thnt of course ia all gammon mero lait on bia trap to catch vote, At least this i what in think. Th War Dbu Wa notice a great dual of correspond, encoand editorial in ibe paper of Oregon in reference to the payment of the war debt. Many people seem to be laboring under rather a weak idea, we think, that newt pa per ditcuuion hen will afToct lha matter in Washington. Tho fact is that the evidence which comprise the whole history of t!ia war, ha already been transmitted to Con- gres, in the shape or official report!. Nothing outside of that can be brought to bear a evidence. We have no doubt that the debt will be paid by the U. S. Govern mcui. Tho volunteer will be paid the pricei agreed upon, and a reasonable price will bo paid for proporly furnished by our citizen. Jhose men who have nut in horses nl four and five hundred dollars each ought not lo be disnppoiutcd if they get but about two hundred. We have no idea that lha appropriation will be made ibi session, but it possibly may. Provision will be made by the General Government for having the voucher rigidly scrutinized before Ihey aro approved. Tho money must come from tome source, and if lha U. S. Government rifumi to pay the debt, tha Territory of Oregon mul pay it, a our last Legislature assumed the debt. If tha money is raised by taxation, our peo pie will probubly be anxious to know what went with ibo money which hn been late. ly taken in al tbe "cash sales" of govern. ment properly. We do not wish to be unreasonable, and we shall wait aw hile before we charge Mr. Drew with wrong Intention in reference to thi money; but it dons look, even lo a man in tha bottom of a well, as though the property ihould havo been sold for tba same currency thai bought it, and that the penplo who furnished tho aamo ought to have had the preference lo tuonied capital- iU in bidding it in. This we know i not according to the creed of Oregon, or black democracy, but it is the kinJ of democracy wo advocate, and iho kind the people ought to vole. t'.ouruslua worse CoufouadrA. C. II. Muttoon hrt nearly a column dc. voted to clearing up the four charges we made against him. Hi effort it fully a lucid as the one in reference lo our teeing hi bid for printing. His charge that we called tho publishers ofthe Advocate "rum- mics" lie acknowledge ho can't exactly prove, but anybody else could make it out in substanco," by ransacking an old filo of the Argus and attentively reading our corresjwidcnce (?) nnd our own "remarks." Just as definite and conclusive as we ex. pectod ; make your bow, and you can go. IIu next snv somebody told hiui that we had been "expelled from one college Knoxl and disgraced in aiiother," ttetbany. lie also say that he has seen thnt some body, and he tell liim he "wa not mistaken." In a few sentence more ho tells us thn' tho same somebody told him ho was misiaken, in referenco to the whole rnnticr nt Bethany, nnd that wo left "becnuse we had aoro eyes." .He also goes on lotell a cock-and-bull story, which ho say he got from somebody, a Re former, a very respectable man, from llie vicinity ofGalesburg, to the effect lhat wo offended one of the professors in college, by persistently rendering the word haplixo immerst, and lhat on account of this, and a composition we wrote, read, or recited, re viewing something the president had preach ed, we were either expelled, oi left as a sort of a compromise to escape being ex pelled, and we went off to Virginia with one Royal Payne. Well, well, what a fit zle ! If there was ever a Rovat Pavne in Galeaburg, or nny where else, we never got glimpse of him. Every iota of the Hate- ment in reference to tbe other parts of the story are false intoto. We charge that noWy ever gave you (his story. If , please get the lignalure of that somebody, ppenaeu loyour atatement. We rathe think you will ride iome',ine before, you, will find somebody; ibat woulclliUtasign, The whole concern U natched. botched. nnd tin'vAw.1 the history of a matter oonoeming an other person, which, bat got into this ton. gled sbapo In pasofng through your crocks ed and hollow cocoanut. If your readers, ever expert to get to Heaven by your di rectian, thej will find tbemtelvea, (w fear) mightily tangled io the brush. If yon have the love of God In yon, Mattoon, or any regard far oul., do throw down your pen, and take up the grubbiag-hoe. If every falsehood your three last papers contain had been a live thing, the xpoi. tor would crawl like maggoty cheese. You are certainly atmott equal to your brother Bush. Some of ibe Paptit here think yon oreifTy eqtul- From Clii sp to N. T, i Vi hnrt In- rifle. -4