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VOL. I.
EUGENE CITY, OREGON, JUNE 7, 1862.
NO. 22.
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THE SOLDIER'S ADIEU.
Farewell, I must leave thee, thou star of my heart;
But do not forget me, although I depart.
Ilcmembcr me ever in kindness, I pray ;
Forget not thy lover, though far far away.
Thy bright eyes are flowing with tears unsnpprcsscd,
'Twill be long ore again on thy lover they rest;
Oh, life can no pleasure away from thee give
If I may not dwell near thee, I ask not to live.
TUB BBPLT.
" Forget thee f forget thee t oh name not that word j
Our vows have been plighted, high heaven has heard
In the dark verdant forest, where stars shone above,
Our lips have repeated the soft accents of love.
'" By tho deep murmuring fountain, by the hoarse sound
ing sea ;
At eveniug's still hour, I've wandered with thee ;
When heaven aud Anna nlone heard the prayer,
You cast at my feet your heart's tribute there.
"I'll never forget thee, by that heaven above,
Till cold be these lips that told thee my love.
Forget thee? forget thee? repeat not that word,
Our vows thut we plighted high heaven has heard."
Then away to the field, where tho rebels are camped ;
Thy Anna would trust her life on that word.
No tears of regret thy spirit shall dump,
For the bravest are always the truest, I've beard.
- - . . -- Kuokxh City, May 10, 1802.
Fugitive Scrap. The following "poetrce
poetri" was found posted up about town and at
the place of voting last Monday. It is evidently
the production of some incorrigible joker who
not having tho fear of the unwashed before his
eyes dared to poke a little sly fun at the pitiable
condition of those who for the bare hope of get
ting a little "Democracy" would devour any
amount of secession, toryism and treason:
, Fellow townsmen, old and young,
Who, from nnttiot fathers sprung,
Rouso your minds to that cause
Of making criminals fear the laws.
Aid that cause with voice and votes.
O'er which the starry banner Boats
Union, above all party clan.
The motto of each loyal man. .
"I'm for party, if the nation falls!"
Is the voice that treason bawls
Such would go for a party call.
And let the nation's Union tall.
The test Is now before each man ;
jle who puts country under bun,
And goes for party, first and last,
Let his hatciul memory blast.
Let his narrow, ignorant mind,
rjome genial region tind:
.Some dark vale, where all is narrow,
Jo suit a gnt of " dimmtreratlkk" marrow.
The marrow is old, and half rotten
The lacking parts are stuffed with cotton ;
To make the gut a little bigger
They've stuffed it well with nigger! nigger! !
He who sucks to get that marrow.
Will surely see a day of sorrow ;
For he'll get soma treason, a little marrow, rotten,
Plenty of nigger, nigger, n'uj'jer, and some cotton.
UNION ADDRESS.
The following is the report of Mr. Applcgate's
(evening speech of May 27 :
Conspirators and traitors were sitting in the
.Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States. They remained there to retard
.defensive Legislation. He drew a parallel be
itween Old Crittenden and Sempronius, a Roman
.Senator. When Hannibal defeated the Roman
army under the walls of the city, the Roman
.Senate was in great consternation, and there was
fio voice but for compromise, and the only ques
tion was, what shall we ask in the surrender t
They were about to compromise the glory, the
honor and the power of the Republio of Rome,
into the hands of the African invader. At this
perilous moment the old hero and Statesman,
braving all earthly danger, and looking only to
the future and posterity, spoke out the convic
tions of his soul the emotions of his heart :
f My voice is still for war can a Roman Sen
ate long debate between slavery and death V
That thrilled and inspired the national heart, and
the people arose in their might and flew to the
rescue. The invader was driven from the land.
Rome resolved to "carry the war into Africa,"
and finally beer me mistress of the world. Old
Crittenden in the extremity of bis country, raised
his voice for war war against traitors this is
Crittenden'a last Compromise,
The dis-Union politicians of the South had
systematically indoctrinated their people against
those of the North. He nr.il from Southern
speeches, and from the Southern papers, showed
that they repudiated Washington, Jefferson and
the old patriots who founded the Government
stigmatized the old " Revolutionary element,"
referred to the speech of Yancey in the Charles.
ton Convention, in which ho abused those who
quoted, as he said, the " dogmas of the Revolu
tionary war, " tha dogmas of the Declaration of
Independence. He found the same sentiments
lurking in the Corvallis platform in the third
resolution, where it says, " we invite the co-ope.
ration of all who are opposed to the revolutiona
ry element which is now endeavoring to direct
the war against secession and rebellion, etc.
They and the secessionests aro opposed to this
" revolutionary element I" Put themselves into
the same category with secessionists, and invite
all who are like the secessionists, opposed to that
element which is directing the war against rebel
lion, to go in with them. This sectional prejudice
has been designedly taught in the South. They
have been led to look upon northern people and
their institutions as " mean and coutemptible."
A species of degenerate northern Yankees, prin
cipally from the eastern cities, have given weight
to the impression of the Southern mind, that the
North wero a " mean, cowardly set of starveling
mudsills." These aro the northern " Chivs."
They affect greatly to despise northern princi
ples. They join tho chivalry to prove that
they regard themselves too good for the familiar
companionship of the northern " trash as they
affect to consider it ; and which their masters
declare too mean " for the association of a south
ern gentleman's body servant." No wonder
such snobs and pinks of aristocracy adopt what
they are proud to call " southern principles.
They are tho southern disunionist's watch-dogs-
it is their peculiar business to howl for the
" rights of the South." This class have general
ly strayed oft from tho eastern cities because they
were unable longer to mako their " wits ob
tain dinners without work or money, and when
some low exhibition would no longer raise the
wind, or " bring the pewter." In accordance
with the programme of disunion they should
raise a simultaneous howl for " peace," and brand
an attempt at a defense of the nation as "inhu
man," " unconstitutional," " unjustifiable, outra-
gious war ;" " usurpation, tyrany and despotism."
But Jackson had given us the remedy. It was
Old Hickory that set forth the true doctrine in
the case. His proclamation of 1632 contains
those principles which are indispensably essen
tial to the eternal perpetuity of the Government
of our fathers. Any man effected with the dead
ly disease of treason lurking about his vitals
would do well to read this justly renowned doc
ument. As a State paper there is none other in
the nation of more importance ; embracirg, as
it does, the only principles upon which the peo
ple of the United States can act to carry the
Ship of nationality safely over the rocks and
quicksands of conspiracy, treason nnd rebellion.
He read a portion, bearing on tho main points,
thus :
" The Constitution of the United States, then,
forms a government, not a league ; and whether
it be formed by compact, between the States, or
in any other manner, its character is the same.
It is a government in which all the people are
represented, which operates directly on the people
individually, not upon the States ; they retain all
the power they did not grant. But each State
having expresslv parted with so many powers
as to constitute, jointly with tho other States,
a single nation, cannot, from that period, possess
any right to secede, because such secession docs
not break a league, but destroys the unity ot a
nation ; and any injury to that unity is not only
a breach which would result from the contraven
tion of a compact, but it is an offense against the
whole Union. To say that any State may at
pleasure secede from the Union, is to tay that the
United Slates are not a nation ; because it would
be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation
might dissolve its connection with the other parts,
to their injury or ruin, without committing any
offense.
An attempt, by force of arms, to destroy a
government, is an offense, by whatever means
the constitutional compact may have been formed;
and such government has the right, by the law of
self defense to pass actstopunisli the ollender, etc.
The assumed right of secession, rests upon the
alledged undivided sovereignty ot the States, and
on their having formed, in this sovereign capneity,
a compact, which is called the Constitution, from
which, because they made it, they nave a right
to secede.
The States severally have not retained their
entire sovereignty. It has been shown that, in
becoming parts of a nation, not members of a
league, they surrendered many of their parts of
sovereignty. The right to make treaties, declare
war, levy taxes, exercise exclusive judicial
and legislative powers, were all of thetn tunc
tions of sovereign power. The States, then, for
all these important powers were no longer sov
ereign. The allegiance of their citizens was
transferred, in the tirst instance, to the Govern
mentofthe United States ; they became Amer
ican citizens, and owed their obedience to the
Cos titution of the United States, and to tho laws
made in conformity with the powers it vested in
Congress."
lie commented on the application of this doe
trine to the present rebellion, its pretexts, its
jistitk-tion, and th dngToin political theories
fabricated by the disunionists of the United States
to mislead tho people in regard to the nature of
their Uovernmcnt. 1 neir states Kignts aoctrine,
carried to the fatal extreme of robbing the nation
al government of all its rights and powers, and
the fame cunning design embraced in their
pompous, chivalrio parade of independent Slate
sovereignly. To war against these principles, is
to war against the proposition that the . United
States constitutes a nation ; and is a disclaimer
against there being any such character legally as
a citizen of the United States. But these dis
unionists did oppose these doctrines Jackson ;
and as they opposed these priuciperfliS'l 83K they
oppose the same identical possitions in 1802, and
continually from Jackson's time to the present
moment.
Old Abe took the Jackson position, and came
to it following the example of Washington when
he crushed rebellion in the western counties of
Pennsylvania in the summer of 1794. Wash,
ington first called upon tho rebels to disband and
go home. Lincoln did the same thing. They
bid defmnce to Washington, and he called out
15,000 troops and crushed the rebellion. So the
rebels bid defiance to Jackson and also to Lin
coln, and as Jackson proceeded to employ force
like Washington, and others of the Presidents,
under similar circumstances, to crush rebellion,
so did Lincoln, but following in the footsteps of
his illustrious and immortal predecessors. Jack
son's proclamation was denounced by the disun
ionists as " a declaration of war by Andrew Jack
son against the State of South Carolina." Notice
tho fundamental and dangerous falsehood con
tained in that assertion it was war on tho rebels
in the State, and not against the Slate, but to pre
serve the State as is required by the Constitution.
That sentence I quote from Gov. Hayne of South
Carolina. It was at his house the disunion plot,
lers met in 1828. Ho was then Senator in Con
gress from the " Sovereign State" of South Car
olina. In 1832 he was Governor of tho 'inde
pendent sovereignty," while Calhoun was one of
its Senators to tho Congress ot the " Confedera
cy," as they loved to style the Government of
the United States. He pronounced the procla
mation the " edict of a Dictator." Again he soid
it was " a Federal manifesto palmed upon us as
Andrew Jackson's by Livingston or Van Buren,
or some o!her intriguer behind the dictator's
throne." This sort of language leads to war, to
rebellion. The papers opposed to the Union
movement in this State make use of the same
stvla of lnniruflL'o auainst the Government. The
D O O
disunionists and their sympathizers in the North,
who are still more treacherous, mean and unpnn-
cipled than their southern master, pronounced an
act of Congress " to coerce a sovereign State in
this Union, a broad usurpation," and as " chang
ing the character of our Government into a mil
itary despotism." These are the charges of dis
unionists, and their misguided tools, against the
only principles and means that can be employed
to save the Government from the hands of armed
traitors. Ihose opposed to the Union move
ment in this State say such things as the follow
ing which I read from the Advertiser, " We pray
that the arms ofc the Government may be para
lyzcd." " He who rejoices at Federal victories
is more than a traitor." "Abraham Lincoln
will be the last President of the United States."
Ho commented upon these things, saying that
men might not know that they were being used
by traitors as working to the advantage and ben
efit of disunionists. Let men carefully survey
the ground. It is peculiarly the duty of the
American citizen, a duty that he owes to his
posterity, and his God. (Applause. He showed
that it was the policy of the disunionists to do
one or the other of two things with the great na
tional Democratic party, either make it entirely
a sectional party or cut it into two parts. They
They went to work at this with the deepest de
sign and cunning. The plan was to get up a set
of resolutions of such a nature that if the Charles
ton Convention adopted them.it would reduce
the national Democratic party to a sectional or
ganization, and put it entirely into their their
control. And if the Convention would not adopt
theso resolutions, which they would call the rights
of the South, then they should, with great affact
ed injury at not getting their rights, secede from
the Convention. To make the thing certain, the
delegation depended upon to lead in this matter
were made to sign the resolutions, and in com
pliance with the tenth resolution of the series,
when the platform failed to be adopted, they
were no longer members ot the Convention, and
consequently, "went oat to stand." He explained
all that transaction. Said the going-out-to-stand
Democracy was the peculiarly "independent sow
ereignty" Democracy. Said Wigfall and others
were of opinion that the northern follows in the
Charleston Convention, would adopt their south
ern rights platform, for they had a very poor
opinion of tha northern people generally. Wig
fall thought that by swearing at them that they
woulJ dissolve ih Union, the would submit to
anything. Wigfall also said, " these northern
people, of all parties, are a mean, despicable set
of starveling, unable to see .beyond a dollar,
and caring for -no other consideration except
money. Threaten them and they will crouch to
your feet like so many hounds. Only swear
that you are going to dissolve the Union, and the
timid creatures will get on their knees, bite the
dust, and kiss the rod raised to chastise them."
To go with the disunionists is but to own up to
the " chivs" that there is no United States ; that
the United States never did constitute a nation ;
that there never was such a character on earth as
an American citizen ; and that you are a cringing
hound. .biting the dust, and ready to lick the
smiting" hand and, of course, M unfit lor the
association of a southern gentleman body ser
vant," being merely a " mudsill." There is but
two sides to this question. Ibe Domocratio par
ty was divided, part fell into the hands of disun
ionists, the other part went for the Union, and for
the Union movement, all over the United States
wherever it was not suppressed by force, nnd in
this State. He read from the Charleston Mercu
ry as follows : " We maintain that the Demo
cratic party, as a national party, has just no creed
at all, on not one single practical question now
before the country is it united. Let us examine
them. Frst, on the fundamental creed of the
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, State sover
eignty, and tin right of secession following it, is
the Democratic party united ? Why, at this
moment, the whole Douglas wing, and many
others North, and South too, deny it." That
part of tho Democracy went out to stand, claim
ing tho right of secession. It is the secession
Democracy everywhere. The anti-secession De
mocracy have hearkened unto the voico of pat
riot ism, and joined in tho movement in behalf
of the cause ot the Union, ana like true men
who had souls to raise above . mere party huck
stering, nnd would choose their country before
" party," have disencumbered themselves of all
these things, and met all patriots of all parties
on a common ground. Do you go for your
country, or for party 1 Can ho be regarded as
the best patriot and tho noblest man who would
hang on to the mere name of his old party at
the expense and danger of his country, when the
principles of their party were changed from those
he loved to those which he in his heart as an hon
est man must despise. To whom is name,
mere sound, of more importance than the vital
principles of liberty itself 1 Who is it that
would like to be gulled by the sound of a name
into the service of traitors, to be a slave in the
hands of the enemies of his country, and the
rights and liberties of himself and fullow-citi
ze.ns 1 The southern rights part of the Demo
cratio party kept up their claim, still claimed
their " rights," the right to go into tho Territories
of the United States with their " domestic insti
tutions," moaning always and invariably niggers,
niggers I ihey claimed this right to dO:JU cleg.
north latitude.
He explained how that the Congress, so as not
to leave a shadow of pretext to these traitors
with which to continue the inflamation of the
southern mind, organized the Territories ot the
United States upon their favorite doctrine the
non-intervention doctrine the fundamental prin
ciples of the Cincinnati platform in regard to the
Territories, nnd the accursed slavery question.
So that almost the first thing that the Republi
cans did was to allow the South all " their rights"
in the Territories, all they had claimed and more,
for, as they had only claimed the right to go
into the Territories with their " domestio insti
tutions" to 30:30 deg. north latitude ; slavery
was already existing in the Territories to 37 deg.
North latitude ; and not restricted by Congress
in any Territory of the Nation. All this was
done, as Mr. Douglas said, by the unanimous
vote of the Republicans. Slavery restriction
has existed in some portion of tho Territories of
the Uuited States from the beginning of the
Government, and down to that moment when
it was removed so as if possible to prove to the
people of the South that the people of the North
were willing to make almost any concession to
save the Union and that they were not " intent
upon the invasion of tho rights of the South."
It was expected that these southern Senators and
Representatives would, when these things were
offered, immediately explain to the people of the
South that they had got their " rights." But, no ;
not A mi to of such explanation. That would
have spoiled their object a dissolution of the
Union, tor if they had allowed the truth to go to
the southern people, they could not have raised
an army ; they could not have kept men In the
field ; the villainy and deceptive fraud would
have been too plain. So it was their policy to
keep up their bawl for their "rights." Breckin
ridge stood up before the Senate, and the world,
and with all apparent honesty, claimed the rights
of the South in regard to the Territories, when
right before his eyes these "rights," and more
too, were then law, existing on the national stat
ute books. That conduct was designed to aid
treason by keeping the people of the South de
ceived. To see men stand up in tho Congress of
the United States and continue to plead for ccr
tain " rights" periistently, long after they had
been granted, is the manifestation of a degree of
brazen faced and pertinacious dishonesty and
stolid depravity without a parallel on the black
est pages of history, not excepting the history of
crime itself, the criminal calendar. Liut, not
withstanding the disgusting shamelcssness of such
conduct, the leaders of the anti-Union party here
are re-enacting the same villainous deception.
They are going all over the State claiming these,
rights demanding their " rights," the right to
go into the Territories with slave up to 30:30
deg. north latitude. How dishonest I now shame
less ! In vain you show them that they have
now, and have since the beginning ot the year
1861, the right to go into the Territories with
their slave to 3fl:-V) north latitude, and even ,
more to 37 deg. north latitude, and hold them
there by law. And more still, they can go north
of 37 deg. with their slaves, for Congress, to sat
isfy tho South, havo removed all prohibitory and
restrictive enactments on the Territories.
In tain you explain these things. In valu yott
point to the records. In vain you point to
the acts of Congress, giving them their " rights,"
and more than they claimed ! They will reply
with that fiendish cry, like the wail of a troubled
spirit or maniac, "give us our rights I" Oh,
give us the right to go into the territories With
our " domestio institutions " to 30:30 deg. north
latitude. Thus Breckinridge went howling to
his constituents. Thus; also, his followers go
howling over this State, and thoy have only one
more step to take and then they will be up
with their inftmous leader, and that is to shoul
der the arms of open traitors 1
Ah exchange says the rebels evidently aimed
at too much when they attempted to take care of
No. 10. Before long they will each have enough
to do to take care ot " number one."
Arkansaw Traveler. It Is now admitted by
everybody, and should be so recorded in history,
that Gen. Sterling Price is the real, genuine,
original " Arkansas Traveler." Placer liepub
lican.
On tho morning of tho Fort Donelson fight,
Bu ih io J Johnson, while taking his coffee, narrow
ly escaped death. A riflo ball skimmed off his
coffee cup bottom, leaving tho empty sides itt the
rebels hands.
An English editor acknowledges the retfep
tion of a bottle of brandy forty-eight years old,
and says : " This brandy is so very old we fear
it cannot keep much longer."
In 1650, a man was prosecuted for selling
coffee, just then introduced, as a nuisance and
prejudice to the neighborhood.
"I have one request to Wake of you, my
dear Mr. Grant." " My dear Widow, I will
grant anything you say." " Well-, sir, 1 Want
to be Granted myself.
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It is said tho rebel Missourians are returning
to their allegiance on the same terms that Salva
tion is offered to sinners they come without
money ond without Price.
You may insert a thousand cxoellent things in
a newspaper, and never hear a word oF approba
tion from your readers ; but just let a paragraph
slip in (by accident) of one or two lines not suit
ed to their taste, and you will be sure to hear of
it.
New Historic Epistles. Grant's Epistles to
the Corrinthians, written at Pittsburg Landing.
Liohtniko never strikes but once in the same
place therefore let a man whose first wife was
a good one never marry again.
Tub most likely thing in the world to make a
rebel swear is to proffer to him, under trying
circumstances, the privilego of taking the 'oath
of allegiance.
A Western editor defines a widow as one
who knows whats what, and desires further Infor
mation on the subject."
Why is a young lady just from boarding school
like a building committee 1 Because sTie is
ready to receive proposals.
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Feeling for Another. A Quaker once hear
ing a person tell how much he felt for another
who was suffering and needed his assistance,
dryly asked him : " Friend hast thou felt in
thy pocket for him 1"
Muscle. Somebody says: "Cabbage 'con
tains more muscle-sustaining nutriment 'than
any other Vegctablo whatever." Yet we never
knew that tailors were particularly muscular.
Gallantry. A man shows as scant a stock
of ideas as of gallantry, who compliments one
woman at the expense of another.
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Sentiment. Wholesome sentiment is rain,
which makes tho fields of daily life fresh and
odorous. ,
"You may depend upon me wife; I give yoil
my word." " I had rather you would sometimes
keep it, sir.
"Tell your mistress that I've torn the cur
tain, said a lodger to the sorvant. " Very
well, sir, my mistress will put It down as extra
rent."
"The beautiful blue of the olden time is
floating o'er nie yet," as the boozy editor said
when lie dipped his pen in the paste-pot and his
brush in the inkstand.
Punch's Almanac advises the farmers to sow
their Ps, keep their Us warm, hive their Bs,
shoot their Js, feed their Ns, look after their
potatoes' Is, and then take their Es.
Tin Heroic Sailors on the Cumberland.
The scenes on board were heart-breaking. Two
of the gunners on the bow guns, when the ship
was sinking, clasped their guns in their arms, and
would not be removed, and went dow embracing
them. One gunner had both of his legs shot
away, and his bowels opened and protruding,
but he made three steps on his raw and bloody
thights, seized the lanyard and fired his gun, fall
ing back dead ! Another lost both arms and
legs, yet lived, and when they would assist him,
cried out i " Back to your guns, boys ! give 'em
h II" Hurrah for the old flag Y He lived
til! she snnk. (WrpWmv .V. '. Twe.