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Oregon City, March 7, 1657.
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. Trx 4 corrR wars, hahdwams, ac,
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A Gcnrrnl Aesnrlment ki ptupof Selvoted Gooda
Cnnemah, March SS, 1857.
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A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of Jeffersouiau Democracy, and advocating
Vor. III.
Few CrmM fer wHalter Sever-
ata.il
Relow we give the rrtoluiioni of tie
Miaaisaippl Stat Demecraiio eonvenlina,
aa also a few exlraou from leading South
ern demooratio pa peri in condemnttion of
the policj of Walker in Kansas. Th
crime with which Gov. Walker is charged
ia bit declared intention to carry out the
doctrine or "squatter sovereignty" in
Kansas, by having the constitution sub-
milled to tho people for rejection or ap
proval before it if sent up lo Congress.
Almost any person but a mailman would
admit that the people of a Territory ought
to have the privilege of saying what kind
of a constitution they desired onder
State organization. Indeed, no considera
ble number of men in the world, except
perhaps the blind adherents of despotism
in Austria and the democratic party in
America, would dare to question the sov
ereignty of the people upon American soil.
The following extracts wilt show the di
rection in which Southern fire-eaters are
tewing the raft of squatter-sovereigaty,
heavily freighted with Northern "squatting
sovereigns." Let every man read and
ponder well these extracts :
RESOLUTIONS OF "THE MISSISSIPPI DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION.
Whereas, Gov. Walker, in his Inaugu
ral Address to the people of Ksnsas Terri
tory, declared it to be his clear convic
tion that unless the Convention" called
by law to form a Constitution for that Ter
ritory " submit the Constitution to the
rote of all the actual settlers of Kansas'
at the time of such submission "it will
be, and ought lo be, rejected by Congreu" :
And whereas, The law of Kansas au
thorizing the call of said Convention and
prescribing its duties makes no provision
for such submission to thn then settlers ef
Kansas, nor prohibits Congress from ad
opting the same without such submission:
And whereas, Gov. Walker further sug
gests that Kansas, by reason of its geo
graphical position and climate, is unsuited
to slave labor, thereby gratuitously throw
ni the weight ef his judgment and official
position against the ultimate success of tho
pro slavery party : Therefore
Resolved, That we regard the said rec
ommendmionB, opinions, and arguments ofi
Gov. nlker as an unjust and uncalled
fur discrimination Against the rights and
interests of the pro nlavery party in Kan1
sas and throughout the Union a dictato
rial intermeddling with the performance of
a high publio duty already intrusted by
law to a convention selected from the peo
ple of Kansas, with which Gov. Walker
had no right lo interfere, and bis conduct
in this respect meets the unqualified con
demnation of this convention.
From the N. 0. Delta.
A Beast Its Characteristics and
Habitudes. Macaulay says of the Prin
cess Ann that when she was in a good hu
mor she was meekly stupid, and when she
was in a bad humor she was sulkily stupid.
Her stupidity, though i! might be qualified
by incidental circumstances as regarded
its manifestation, was stupidity still, inva
riable and invincible. So anti-slavery at
the North may take the amiable shape of
Democracy at one lime, or the truculent
form of Black Republicanism at another
time; but all the time it is anti-slavery and
nothing but ami-slavery, steudfast and im
placable. This proposition requires no special ar
gument when proof is so patent and ex
amples are becoming so abundant. The
tru'lh is, so far as concerns the South, for
all practical purposes, there is but one
great political beast at the North; and
whether it brnv like a donkey, or speak
with a forward-end. backward voice like
Caliban, it is the same beast throughout,
with the same ineradicable instincts and
propensities.
There seems to be a peculiar elective ef
Unity, between the beast and the Hon.
Robt. J. Walker, the administration's pro.
consular pacificator of affairs in Kansas.
Indeed, the effect produced upon the beast
by the late flourishes of the letter's magic
wand has been wonderful to behold. All
its forms rush at once te do him homage ;
all its voices blend in oaivocal praise. We
have teen Black Republican journals in
New York endorsing the programme of
Ike new Governor of Kansas. We have
seen tha Washington Union deluging him
and bis vasty message with its washy eu
logy. We have seen the Democratic or
gan in Chicago, the Times, congratulating
the Demrcracy (bat Kansas, through tho
influences of the said Governor, and un
der the auspices of a Democratic adminis
tration, would be engineered into the
Union as free Stale. But it is needless
to multiply any further proof of the re
markable success with which the beast in
question preserves ite identity in the midst
of apparent or nominal diversity, and in all
latitudes and longitudes.
Fortunate, thrice fortunate, it it that the
I -u . .-.I t.n.iMt nnrt fln of the Vtmo-
OREGON CITY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 20,
cratio press ef the South it beginning to
discover tbat the beast we mention has get
into the Northern camp of the party, if not
in the Presidential mansion itself.
Suppose tbat the Administration hat
already approved the Walker-Kansas pol
icy, that the said policy was pursued under
instructions from tho Administration, and
that all this can be irrtfregably established,
is such an Administration worthy of the
continued confidence of the South, because
it may at the last hour renounce that pol i
cy I If, after being detected in bis pur
pose, traitor desisis from the execution ef
bis treason, are we to consider him forever
after incapable of treachery We speak
only hypoi helically, of course ; it is for
the Southern Democratic press to consider
how far the hypothesis may be, now or
hereafter, fulfilled by the distinguished
gentleman who occupies the White House.
For our part, we shall look closely after
the beast aforesaid, and point out his
tracks, even if they lead into Presidential
precincts.
From thtjaciton Mittittippian
Enough! It is thus clearly in dam
ning testimony tbat all that hss been said
of Walker's Preesoil affiliations and in
trigues before hie departure for Kansas is
positively true, and that be now stands un
veiled before the outraged Soth a self-
convicted traitor te her constitutional
rights and ia the detestable attitude ef a
man who hat degraded himself from a high
eminence in national American stasman
ship to the position of a Sumner or a Hale.
Nay, the comparison is unjust to those dis
tinguished Freesoilera. They are true to
their original liege ; they are guiltless of
bad faith or tergiversation. But R. J.
Walker, the man long r citizen of the
South, whom Mississippi honored with
place and emolument, trusting him with
her precious destinies even in ihe Federal
Senate, he, dazzled by the goal of the na
lien's Presidency, perceptible to him only
through the dismal vista of Freeseil, has
prostituted a great trust and sold the South
that the aims of an unprincipled ambition
might be subserved 1 Even to rank with
the apostate Fremont he is unworthy.
Let him stand alone, in the enormity of
his disgrace, a by-word on every Southern
lip and the contempt and hate of that na
tional patriotism which he has betrayed.
From the Montgomery (Ala.) Adter titer.
' It is well for the Administration to real
ize tbat the Southern heart it stirred to its
depths by tho official intormeddlinir of
Walker. Tha indignation aroused all over
the South is sincere and earnest, end must
be heeded. Southern hopes in Kansas
shall not be so easily dashed ; Southern ef
forts in that Territory shall not be defeated
with impunity J the principles of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill shall not be render
ed a abam and a cheat by the action of a
Governor. The Administration must re
gard the voice of the South, when it de
mands, too, nothing but what is expressly
guaranteed it must repudiate Governor
Walker. Southern Democrats are strong
ly attached to the national Democratic par
ty, but with them parly obligations are
subordinate to the rights of the South.
With all their confidence in the Adminis
tration, and as anxious as they are to sus
tain it, they cannot hesitate to repudiate
both, if Walker is permitted to thwart the
South in Kansas. They hope for the best,
but are prepared to throw off party the in
stant it conflicts with Southern duty.
They await with anxiety, yet with much
confidence, thn action of the Administra
tion in regard to the course of Gov.
Walker.
From the Augntta (Go.) Conttituiionalitt.
Such a vile, sneaking treachery makes
one think of the dagger of Brutus and the
ax of Cromwell. If negroes are not to be
decoyed away from Missouri to Kansas un
der his pious reign, it is to be hoped that
our friends there will manage to gel bemp
enough from that State to give tuch a
traitor the doom he so riohly deserves.
Walker states that his opinions and
views were well known to Mr. Buchanan
and bit Cabinet before he left Washing
ton. Whether this be true or net, the next
thirty days will show. If Mr. Buchanan
retains him after hie inaugural any longer
than he can send a letter dismissing him,
I put it te yeu, and (be people, it he not as
vile a traitor at Walker f and it not the
duty as high and imperative on every true
Southern man te denounce him as such I
From the Richmond Ta.) Smth.
We have confidence in Mr. Buchanan,
and we utterly refuse to believe that he
conatenancet Walker's outrageoue pro
ceedings in Kansas. It it utterly impossi
ble tbat Mr. Buchanan can be guilty of lb
enormous ingratitude to the South, to say
nothing of the apostacy from principle
which would be iovolved in his approval of
Walker's intrigues with the Black Re
publicans and his efforts to aboiit ionize
Kansas. The Administration would net
dare, eveo were they to disposed, to defy
i .
the utmost reeemtnept ana inTros'ion or
the Southern Di-moorey. The Democra
cy of Georgia speak the opinions of the en
tire South.
From the Richmtnd Juauirer.
If, in accordance with the mischievous
suggestions of Gov. Walker, it should be
submitted te all the inhabitant! who are in
Ihe Territory at the time the vote it to be
taken, there will be neither fairness nor
justice nor legality in the proceeding ; and
whether approving, ignoriog, or condem
ning slavery, if accepted under tuch cir
cumstances, Congress should unhesitating
ly close the doors of the Union to the peo
pie of Kansas, until they come with a con
stiwtion fairly ratified by the free and full
sense ef those, and none but those, who,
according to the legitimate Territorial laws
are entitled te exercise the elective fran
chise. That Gov. Walker is transgress
ing the authority entrusted to him by the
Administration, we need n other evidence
ihari the antecedents of the President and
the Cabinet, their patriotism, their polili
cal principles, and their nationality.
The Ohio Fugitive Slave Cask. We
find in the Cincinnati papers the decision
ef Judge Leavkt in full. It is very long,
and iu principal point is that the hahtat
torput issued by the State authorities was
illegal, and therefore the Deputy Marshals
had a right te resist it. The Judge's de
cision it that the State Courii have no
right to issue a writ of habeas torput for a
prisoner in the custody of a United States
officer. We give his argument on this
point :
Without a critical notice of these cases.
it mar oe sutncient to remark that the doc
trine seems now to be settled that a State
Judge has no jurisdiction to issue a writ of
habeai coram lor a prisoner in eustodv of
anomceroi tne United states, if the fact
of tuch custody is known to htm before
issuing the writ. And it is well settled,
mat ii upon ibe return of the writ it no-
pears the prisoner is in custody under the
authority or the United States, the jurisdic
tion of the State Judge is at an end, and all
further proceedings by him are void. In
the case of Sims, reported in 7th Cush
ingt Kep. 285, the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts decided, tbat in all cases
" before a writ of habeas corpus is granted,
sufficient probable cause mutt be shown,
but when it appears upon the party's own
showing that ihere is no sufficient ground
prima facie (or his discharge, the Court
win nut issue tne writ;" anil a-ain the
Court says : " It is not granted as a mat
ter of course, and the Curi will not grant
the writ of habeas corpus, when thoy see,
that in the result, they must remand the
party."
In tho rase of Karris vs. Newton and
others, 5 McLean 03, Judge McLean ssvs.
" I have no hesitation in sayinu that thw
judicial officers of a State under its own
laws, in a case where an unlawful impris
onment ia shown by one or more affidavits,
may Issue a writ of habeas corpus, and in
quire into the cause of detention." The
learned Judge, it will be noticed, has ref.
erence to an imprisonment under the au
thority of the United States, and decides
as the condition on which a State Judge
may issue a writ of habeas corpus, that it
shall be first shown, by affidavits or other
wise, that such imprisonment it unlawful.
And he holds, that when it ia known to
tho Judge that the imprisonment is under
a law of the United States, his jurisdiction
ceases, and all further proceedings in the
case will be coram non judice." .
Decease of Eminent American States
men. In recording the death of ex-Sec
retary Marcr, the Philadelphia Timet re
marks:
" It teems at if death hnd found a ban
quet among our master spirits in the last
decade. Almost all the great and illustri
ous men wbo came into publio life during
the fir el twenty-five years of ihe present
century, have been snatched away within
that lime. The list which memory culls
at the moment is formidable in numbers ;
and tho persons whose names are upon it,
were conspicuous for vast and varied abili
ty. First, in point of lime, is that of John
Quincy Adams, who died in 1847 ; then
follows those of Kent, Polk, Taylor, Cal-
boun, Clay, McDuffie, Story, Websten
King, Woodbury, Sergeant, Berrien, Clay
ton, Hill, Burgess, Cheves and Marcy.
What immense powers, what political and
legal research, what oratorical skill and
diplomatic erudition, what wise foresight
and wonderful experience have been lost,
by their deaths to the nation 1 When
will it, if ever, be restored ia the persons
and minds of othen f
Wateriho. This it a most essential
branch of culture. It is a very common
mistake in watering, to pour ibe water
down close lo the stem of the plant. This
it injurious in every respect. Water,
when poured profusely on the collar of the
plant, which it the point ef junction be
tween the root and stem, causes the plant
to rot. Tha water thould descend open
the plant like a thower, and never be ap
plied when Ihe tun it on ibe plant, for that
causea the leaves lo blister, and became
covered with pale-brown spots.
OCT Ii it a noble species of revenge to
have the power of a aevera retaliation, and
potto ercai jt,
the side of Truth iu every issue.
1857.
Nn "4
xiw.
Daniel Mono an, the Rifleman. The
following appears in a letter of a Virgioi
correspondent of the N. V. Journal of
Commerce :
The name of Daniel Morgan, the cele
brated commander of the Virginia Rifle.
men, Is a household word in Virginia.'
Ilia remains repose at Winchester. A
Jerseyman by birth, he early emigrated lo
the Virginia wilds, and waa a wagoner In
u . i j
I haa t fsAnth aa aa Ttall niatutiila ani ra
.red to .11 l,j.hl. k. . tJd .f .d.
venture, f.m.d for intens. d.rino- .nd h.i,.
breadth escapes. He had been grossly in.
'
suited by on Britith officer, and severely
punished by another, in the name of King
George. He vowed vengeance, and kept
fill VOW
Atth...nlno. Br it. Iil,.,i. u
..: A . k .. t! e a j j -ii j
ratted a battalion of riflemen, and drilled
r- n ....
Ih.m t n.rfni!..B Th-. .n.n.,l tli
, , . ... .. . ,, J
bayonet, and relied on the deadly aim of
th. riftV II A , f
hi. m. ... . Lin , u. lm.a a.
the battle ef Saratoga, teeing the day wat
going against the Americans, by reason of
Ibe extraordinary skill and energy of Gen
Fraser, with his Scotch division, he resolv
ed to resort lo the only measure conceiv.
able lo arrest tho tide of battle that threat
ened to overwhelm them. Summoning to
his presence the best marksman in his com
mand, whose aim wat never known to fuil,
he taid to him : " Murphy, do you tee
that officer on the iron-gray horse T" " Yet
sir," was the reply of the old soldier.
Morgan rejoined with an almost faltering
voice, " Then do your duty."
Murphy asoended a tree, out away tha
interlaced branches with his hatchet (this
was a part of their variegated armor), rest-
ed hit rifle in a sure place, watched his op
portunity, and at toon as Gen. Fraser had,
in his animated movements, come within a
practical range, Murphy fired, and the
gallant General fell mortally wounded,
being shot in ihe centre of hie body. Thai
fall deoided the day. The enemy toon
gave way, and Saratoga became immortal.
But Morgan, the rough soldier, was a man
offender feelings, and he almost wept at
the deed, and he always taid it troubled
him because it looked so much like a kind
of assassination of a brave and noble of
ficer; though gallant as that officer was,
he had placed himself there to be shot at,
and was engaged in shooting others. It
Was in a similar wny thai Nelson full on
the deck of the Victory.
rniLosoriiY of Rain. To understand
the philosophy of this beautiful and often
sublime phenomenon, to ofion witnessed
since the creation of the world, and so es
sential to the very existenoe of plants and
animals, a few facts derived from observa
tion and a long train of experiments must
be remembered :
1. Were the atmosphere everywhere, at
all times, ef a uniform temperature, we
should never have any rain, or hail, or
snow. The water absorbed by it in evap
oration from the sea and I he earth's sur
face, would descend in an imperceptible
vapor, or cease to be absorbed by the air
when it was once fully saturated.
2. The absorbing power of the atmos
phere, and consequently its capacity lo re
tain humidity, is proportionately greater
in warm than cold air.
The air near the surface ef the earth Is
warmer than it is in the region ef the
clouds. The higher wo ascend fsom the
earth, the colder do we find the atmosphere.
Henco the perpetual tnow en very high
mountains in the hottest climate.
Now, when, from continued evaporation,
the air is highly saturated with vapor,
though it be invisible and the sky cloud
lets, its temperature is tuddenly fuduced
by cold currents descending from above,
or rushing from a higher to a cooler lati
tude, its capacity te retain moisture is di
minished, clouds are formed, and the result
ia rain. Air condenses aa it cools, and,
like a sponge filled with water and com
pressed, pourt out the water which its di
minished capacity cannot hold. How sin
gular, yet hew sisaple, the philosophy of
rain t What bnt Omniscience could have
devised such an arrangement for watering
the earth f iVeie YojlIc Observer.
British Power in India. Left) Kllen
borougb, who has so large an accqusint
snce with Indian affairs, recently taid in
Parliament:
" We know not the danger to which
tuch a ttale ef thingt may give rise. In
short, my lords, we are really and I trust
her Majesty's ministers are alive in the full
extent of the danger we are really in a
position in which it become necessary for
ut to use every effort which the country
can make to maintain perhaps it mty
be to recover tbat great empire which
we have acquired in the East."
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ing on wood, of which there ie any record
in Europe, ia that ef ibe ancient "Aoiioas
of Alexander," by the I we Cunioa, in the
year 1286 or 1280, Ibe engravings are
eight in number, and the size pine by tix
jufhea,
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the yier.
JOB PRINTING.
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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Friday, 1 1th. The stauding commit
lee on Ihe schedule reported. It proposed
to submit the qnestiout ef Slavery end the
exclusion of free negroes by direct vote to
the people, and apportions the first leg
islature, Lo.
Tht convention then took up the report
of ihe oommitice of the whole ea amend.
menis t (he bill of rights.
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n" TOilnM prohibiting the legisla-
,Ur from m,'0'inf chaplain waa past-
ed Yeas SO, nayt 23.
The other amendments were agreed to.
Olds offered aa additional section lo pre-
ve,nl Sl"e 'f from 'M" " coun'
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"'ee on miscellaneous provisiona
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I touniy se.i, c.puai, guy cu.ri
er, aud oiher local questions may be sub-
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n,,"ea 10 11,9 Peor"e-
mov'd 10 mond th meJ'""t
so that a prohibitory law also be iuoluded;
Yeas 20, nays 30.
Questien recurred on the amendment of
Grover, when it was adopted 45 to 0. .
McUride moved that Slavery or Involun
tary servitude, otherwise than in punish
ment for crime, shall never exist within
this Stale.
Previous question was moved by Far.
rar, and carried.
The amendment wet lost Yeat 10,
noes 40. The following gentlemea voted
in the affirmative : Anderson, Dryer,
Meigs, MoBride, Olds, Short, Scott, White,
Watts, Watkins 10. The following
gentlemen voted in the negative: Brat
tain, Bristow, Bratiain, Dabcock, Boise,
Burvh, Crooks, Cox, Campbell, Chadwick, '
Duncan, Elkins, Fitzhugh, Fnrrar, Grover,
Holt, llendershot, Kelsay, Kinney, Lewis,
Lovejoy, Logan, Marple, Miller, Moores,
Matzger, McCormiok, Nichols, Kewoombt (
Peebles, Prim, Keed, Shannon, Smith,
Shields, Starkweather, Waymire, Will,
iams, Whilled, Mr. President 40. .
The convention then went into commit.
lee of the whole en (he suffrage and elec
tion article. Ihe motion of uurch to
commit the system of voting to the regu
laiionof the legislature, was lost.
Duady moved tho adoption of the origi
nal section.
Pending the question tho committee rose
and the convention took a recejs.
Afternoon The convention went into
committee of tho whole on the forenoon
business.
The viva voce systom of voting was
then adopted.
The 10th aocion was also adoptod with
out amendment.
The 17 in section was so amended as to
cm pol voters to pell their votes at their
own precincts for county and precinct of
ficers.
Deady moved to extend Ihe tame re
striction to the election of all officers ; lost.
The section wat then adopted.
The report was laid aside to be reported
to the house, and the committee took up
the report of the standing committee en
education.
The 1st and 2d sections were adopted,
Logan moved to so amend the 3d sec
tion that none but white children be ed
ucated at the publio expense; carried.
Bristow moved to strike out all tho tec
lion except that portion requiring the leg
islature to organize a system of common
schools carried and the section was
adopted.
Deady moved to insert the word white'
before children' in the 4th section lost
and the sectii n was adopted.
Deady moved to strike out that portion
requiring the legislature to establish a
Slate University carried.
The remainder of the report was adopt
ed, when the committee rote and the con
vention adjourned.
tmf "The principles of the Democratic
party are not new, nor does it require a
large amount of intelligence to understand
thorn." N. Y. Netcs.
Very true. The lest intelligence the
better democrat. It was Mike Walsh a
democrat, we believe, wbo said tbat
"corner groceries were the nurseries of
democratic sentiment"; and Chipman an.
oiber democrat, a former member of Con
gress from Michigan, declared that "edu
cation was the greatest enemy of Democ
racy l" Albany Evening Journal.
Oca Shark in the Slave Trade. Tha
New York Tribune, speaking of the ilave
trade, says :
" Tha public are perhaps not aware that
he amount of capital claiming to have a
home in the Umud Stales, which te in.
vested in the trade, is no less than 13,000,
000, and its profit 17,000,000 annually."
(T Te be cast among strangers, none
of whore caret whether you live or die,
reads an Impieuive lesson upon the
charmed circle of home, where parental
ear anticipated every want, and parental
emne1 eTsted heart and mind, .
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