OREGON STATESMAN.
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1857.
DEMOCIIATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS,
JOSEPHL ANE.
Stariaa Coantr.
For Dtttgn'rt to Ccmntilu'ianni Conrmtinn GEO.
II. WILLIAMS. !.. p. UltOVKIt. JOSEPH VOX, J. V.
PKKIM.tM, DAVIS SUANXOX, N. BIIKUU, RICH-
aru yiuLcit. .
Far Councilman EDWARD SHKtL.-
For Rqrmtntttim J AfB WOODS IDES, GEO.
M. ABLE, ELI U. COOI.EV.
Ptttk Coantjr.
FS- fWfrrf't f, CmilitntiniKtt Convmtio R. P.
BOISE. P. WAYUIRB, B. P. BURCH, A. D. BAB
COCK. For R'prtmntatiminX F. M. BUTLER. BEXJ.
HAYDEX.
CltrktaM Coantr
fW f.ito to Otm-t.Mitmal Coorfntion JAS.
K. KELLY. A. U LOVWOY. W. A. STARKWEATH
ER, UECrOK CAMPBELL. NATHANIEL BOBUIX3.
W Crmeilman A. E- WAIT.
For RrprrtrntatimC EOROE REES, f. A. COL
LARD, ft. P. GILL! LAND.
ColamM renMy.
For Ddrratt to CtmitUuionnl Conotnlion J0H!f
HARRIS.
For RrprtKrtativtXnOMkS II. SMITH.
HtUtaoautfe Caanta.
Fbr JVfgn'e to Cmatitntimal Contention W(. It.
FARRAR, BENJ. 8TARK, ft. J. MuCORMICK.
For Rrpmtntativr A. E. RIDDLE.
Tamfclll Coantr.
Prlrrnlrt to OmtaVtoftTmoi Cmtrmftoa A. R. BUR
BANK. C. RICHARDSOX, A. H. WATT.R.T.BTONB.
For Rfrwttiatim A. B. WESTERPIELD. D. M
JES8EE.
sVataa Caaaty,
Ifefarafrs to Conttitutiomtt Convention R. RORIW.
RON. M. II. WALKER, R. B. GRAY. JOHM KKLSAY.
For Rrpmtmtativf A.J.THAYER, JAXEfl KIN
KEY. Washington Caanly.
TMrfitr to CowtHntionttl Convention P AVID T.
LENOX, D. H. BELKNAP. HYEB JACKSON.
For Rrpmrntativ rETEIl PCHOI.I
Daasjlas Caaaty.
Drtrf ttr to Contiitufimtnl Cimrrnim MATTHEW
P. DKADY. SOLOMON FITZHWH, STEPHEN P.
CIIADWICK. THOMAS WHITTFD.
For Rtprtttntatir ALBERT A. MATTHEW",
Lana Caanty
Mr rain to ConHHnthmal Cmrention ENOCH
HOLT. W.S. BROCK. W. W. BRISTOW, J. P. OIL-
FREY, JESSE COS.. A.J. CAHTHELL.
For Rtprtnttatrm JOHN WHTTEAKER. 3. W.
MAI A.
Una Coanty.
Pffrralrt to Conntitvtianal Conmxlion PET.AZOV
SMITH. JOHN T.CROOKS. LUTHER EI.K1XS. J. II
BRATTAIX, J AS. SHIELDS, Jr., R. 8. COY LF
For Rrpmntolim ANDERSON COX.N.H.CRA
aER, H. M. BROWN.
aalarlea.
. We confess tbat oar opinions concerning
the salaries of the officers of the future State
of Oregon hare somewhat changed within a
year ; and we cannot agroo npon this subject
with the figures the lion. Dclazon Smith
places in his card, published to-day. We
think he has rot them too low. We believe
there is no lawyer in Oregon, fit to be
judge, who is not now making, and cannot
make, more than two thousand dollars per
year from the practice. Snch will not ac
cept the judgeships, at that salary, and they
will be left for tho3 unfitted to practice,
and still more unfitted for the bench. And
there is no creator corse to a people than
weak and ignorant, or corruptible courts.
We believe that competent judges cannot
be uniformly obtained for less pay than twen
tv-five hundred or three thousand dollars
per year. The salaries of Governor or Sec
retary we likewise think ought to be not
less than two thousand dollars.
We agree with Mr. Smith, that the ut
most economy should be exercised iu the
government, and that the salaries shoal
not be extravagant. For, since the agita
tion of this State government question, there
has been no time when the people of Ore
gon were not better able to support a State
than they now are ; though many who hare
heretofore opposed the measure on the
ground of the increased taxation which
it
would bring, are now exhibiting the smgu
lar inconsistency of advocating it. For some
years, taxes will necessarily be considerably
increased, and the constitution should be so
framed as to mako the burden as light as
possible, consistent with a creditable and
efficient government. lint deliver ns
from a government composed of weak, nn.
qualified officers. We know of no greater
evil to a State, unless it be a government of
purchasable men. And with inadequate sal
aries, we shall not be likely to bo free from
that class. For if the legitimate pay does
not warrant competent and honest men in
takinir the offices, thev will sometimes fall
into the hands of the unqualified, and some
times into those of knaves, who will expect
to make np in plunder what the salary
lacks. If the choice lies between a continu
ance of our Territorial dependency, or a
weak and contemptible State government,
we most decidedly prefer the former. The
Territorial government is less expensive,
while in other respects it is better tban a
" Cheap John" State establishment. If we
cannot now afford salaries for our officers
sufficient to command competent talent and
intelligence, and enable them to live decent
ly and respectably; and if we cannot afford
an efficient State government, in the name
of life, liberty and property, let as remain a
Territory until we can.
We like Mr. Smith's proposition, to lim
it the power of the State to create debt, and
we would limit it to a very low sura. And
we would go farther ; we would limit also
the power of the counties to contract debts,
and absolutely prohibit them from taking
stock in, or loaning their credit to incorporat
ed companies, or associations. Half the
counties of Iowa, and indeed, of nearly all
the west; have bankrupted themselves with
in the last half-dozen years by taking stock
in and loaning their credit to railroad compa
nies. We shall in due time have the same
folly repeated in Oregon nnless a check is
placed npon it.
SA We learn from Mr. Compton, re
cently from the Dalles, that the Indian chief
Stockotely at the head of his band lately
captured a train of six government wagons
near Fort Walla Walla, and that two U. S.
dragoons were killed. Another report has
it that three dragoons and twelve Indians
were killed. The first report was brought
in by a white man and the second by an In
dian. Stewart, C. P., has our thanks for
papers brought by the Colombia. O'Neill,
ditto.
mifal Prrraraton.
The Oregonian and Standard are both
devoting their columus to an attempt to mis
represent the purport and meaning of one of
the resolutions of the late Territorial Demo
cratic Convention, relating to party organi
sation aud fealty. Tho Oregonian says :
Do the sovereign voters of Oregon endorse the
doctrine that a representative or delegate of the
people U bound to obey tho ordeal of a party cau
cus, regardless of tbo instructions or imaginary
interests of a constituency t If they do, then we
have wofully mistaken the motml aud honest de
signs of tbo sons of our revolutionary sires, in
their patriotic desires to carry out tbe doctrine
purchased by blood and carnage, and handed
down as a priceless heritage."
The Standard chimes in :
"The only true aud just interpretation which
can be giveu to Dr. Drew's resolutions is that he
and his adherents repudiate the doctrine tbat a
sworn representative or tiie neoma can be a dem
ocrat and obey tbe wishes of those whom he rep
resents in legislative councils, where an informal
vote or a caucus or tbe members of bis parly a as
inuicaieu opposition to tnose wisnee.
The idea sought to be disseminated here,
is tbat tha resolutions of tha Territorial
Convention, adopted, in substance, by every
county democratic convention so far hed,
but that of Muttnomah, and in that not dis
approved, npon a motion to that effect, de
clare that all subject of i.KoistATioN are prop
er for the consideration of party caucus,
and that the decision thereof opoa them,
binds the representatives of the party. Up
on this text, thns interpreted, the Oregonian
and Standard, with their followers, base
their homilies. And ranch smalt fry indig
nation and twattle is being spent npon it
among the opposition, over the Territory.
The lanjrnsre of the resolution npon which
all this is sought to be based, is as follows
" Resolved, that we repudiate tbe doctrine that
a representative, or delegate can, in pursuance of
the wisuea or lancieu interval ot tne uistriet no
represents, go into or remain out of a caucus or
convention of his nartr. and refuse to support the
aominmriomi thereof, and still maintain bis stand
ing as a domoc rat-
Not a word is said here about legislation
proper, of any kind, not even that of a party
character. The nominations for office, only
arc referred to, and the doctrine enunciated
is older tban onr government is as old as
party organization in the world. And it is
as sound and indispensable, as it is venera
ble with years. Without it, no political or
ganization can exist, or ought for one hour
to do so. Without it, a dissatisfied or cor
rupt minority would ever defeat the men and
measures of the party to which they pro
fessed to belong.
Io all Territorial nomiuations, the demo
cratic party of the whole Territory is con
cerned, and tbe choice of the majority of tbe
whole ought then to be the choice of the
whole as against their opponents. In case
of a close vote between parties, no one, two,
or three men, or any number of a minority,
ought to have the right, (and still rank as
democrats,) to coalesce with tho opposition,
as they did in Pennsylvania, and thns defeat
the candidates of the democracy. It would
be idle to expect success in any party or as
sociation thus loosely organized, or thus open
to tsorganization.
The platform of the Oregon Territorial
Convention, fairly construed, Is in strict con
fortuity with the principles, doctrines, and
usages of the democracy of the States, and the
nation, and will stand the test of all the de
nunciation opponents of the democratic party,
open and disguised, may think meet to be
stow npon it.
Eatlna; Dirt.
In February last the Standard published
the following in its editorial columns upon
the subject of the Democratic nomination for
Delegate :
We do not a?k that a man should bo nominated
who is a particular faTorite of ours, but we do ask
tbat one rhnuld be nominated upon whom the
great body the Democrarv of tbe country can ral
ly and whom support without compromising their
manhood, and appearing to tbe world in the light of
mere political sorts or slaves, who nave neen brow
beaten, insulted, and forced to submit to the
lash of a few political oligarchisU.
vt cce bciorc last tne standard said as
follows :
"Can those who are proscribed snpport him
(Lane) at the polls in Jnne. and be consistent with
themselves? can men villi open eves furnm
the dagger to such as stand pledged to plunge
to their hearts, unless they desire to be assassina
ted! We think not! How then can those men who
are virtually proscribed br the Salem platform
consistently support the nominee w ho stands npon
every plauk in that platform, and who is pledged
to carry out the proscription T We think no man
proscribed by the platform, can snpport such
nominee without voluntarily submitting his head
to tbe political guillotine.
Of course, after these declarations, nought
clso was expected than the Standard's direct
opposition to Qcn. Lane's election. Last
week the following appeared in that paper,
near the close of a two column schoolmaster,
don'ty-can'ty, willy-won'ty article : -
' In view then of the above position of Gen. Lane,
it may be asked what shall we do in regard to his
election f We answer, tbat we voted for dole-
rates, to be instructed to seenre his rcnomination,
with full intention of supporting him as onr choice
next June, ret he has since publicly placed him
self in the attitude of an enemy to ns and our
friends pledged to use all his political influence
to check our political progress ; therefore we now
cannot support bis election with either tbe seal or
consistency, which we could nave done bad Dc
either repudiated tho Hush and Dclaxon policy.
or declared tnat ne would cot oecome a party to
the political qnarrcl which has so ominously en
dangered the Democratic party of Oregon. We
can only support him because we recocnize in
him tho preference of tbe majority of tho Conven
tion and believe him to nave been at tbe time of bis
endorsement of these resolutions, ignorant of the
step be was taking, and grossly mistaken, through
tbe wily snare of the said Bush and Dclaion, in
reference to the true purpose and character of the
Stamdard. W e snail not Utereiore bolt bis nomi
nation. In his own language, the spiritless crea
ture " compromises bis manhood," " appears
to the world as serf or slave who has been
browbeaten, insulted, and forced to submit,"
" famished the dagger for bis own assassina
tion," " voluntarily submitted bis head to
the political guillotine." In a word, he has
eaten dirt most humiliatingly; or in a man
ner that would be humiliating to any living
thing but Alonzo Leland. lie, like any
other cur, though kicked and cuffed, still
tags whining at your heels.
In the meantime, Shuck and Leland's sup
porters have nearly all, if not all, gone over
to the black repnblicans, while Leland still
hopes to hold on, thinking he can do more
injury to the democratic party in that way.
The California Legislature has ad
journed. It passed a law assuming the
State debt declared to be illegal. It is to
be submitted to the people, in September,
for ratification.
We learn that the Superintendent of
Indian Affairs will leart here on tha 81st
Inst., and proceed to Olympta, for tbe pur
pose of assuming the duties of the office in
Washington Territory. The act of Con-
great of March 3d, 1857, uniting Oregon
and Washington Territories in the same su
perintendeney, was doubtless intended by Con
gress as a matter of ' economy, without re-
Qectiug that the act was imposiug upon a
siuglo superintendent duties sufficiently ar
duous to occupy the entire time and atten
tion of two or three superintendents. The
practical effect of the act referred to, will
result in confining the present incumbent to
tba duties of tha office, at this place, and
prevent tha possibility of his appropriating
any of bis time to tba purpose of visiting
different tribes.
New Stavb CoMsTiroTiost in Iowa. Tha
Constitution pasted by tha Convention at
Iowa City, which recently adjourned, pro
vides for biennial sessions of tha Legisla
ture, and on tbe years of a Presidential elec
tion they are chosen on tha day of that elec
tion; on other years on tha second Tuesday
of October. Members receive three dollars
a day and three dollars for every twenty
miles travel going to and returning from
tha aessioa. The Senate shall net consist of
mora than fifty members, nor tha ITouse of
more than one hundred. Tha Qovernor is
to hold office for two years instead of four,
as in the oia constitution. A. Mate bank
and branches may be established; all the
branches shall be held for the failure of any
one of them, and in ease of failure, bill
holders shall be preferred over other credit
ors. Kvery stockholder in any banking cor
poration shall be personally liable for all its
debts. The scat of government is perraa
nently fixed in the constitution at Fort Dcs
moines, and the State university at Iowa
City. There was a struggle in the Conven
tion to strike out the word " white" as a
qualification for voters, in order to place nc
groes upon an equality with the whites, but
the proposition was defeated by sixty ma
jority.
Hard to Plbasb. Greeley seems hard to
please. In one column of his paper he
scolds tbe Senate for making Oregon too
Iarge, and attributes it to tbe fact, as he
says, that Oregon is free Territory. In an
other ho grumbles that Oregon is to be made
a slave State. Hear him on tho first
"string:"
The Senate voicd to extend tbo already inordi
nate boundaries of Oregon eastward from tbe Pa
cific, so as to give it a depth from th sea of near
ly thousand miles. 1 hese boundaries should
have been curtailed instead of stretrhnd. If it
had been slave territory, this would have been
done.
Mr. Carey's astronomical exhibition
here was well attended. It was quite inter
esung ana instructive, tnougti much was
crowded into a sLort space of time, and nec
essarily cursorily treated. To the student
of astronomy the exhibition will be found
especially useful.
t&m Ex-Qovcrnor Aberucthy and Araory
llolbrook are running for the Constitutional
Convention, in opposition to the nominees of
the Democratic Convention of Clackamas
county.
Massachusetts has passed a law re
moving all distinctions respecting witnesses
testifying in her courts on account of relig
ious belief. Atheists are now competent
witnesses in that State. That is a wonder
ful stretch of liberality for puritanic Massa
chusetts. Rai.v. There has been considerable rain
in this valley during tho ten days past
enough we think to make a good crop of
wheat and oats. Gardens likewise have
been very much benefitted.
tST We learn tbat s fight has recently
occurred among the Indians on the Silctts
Reserve, in which five Indians were killed,
and three mortally wounded. Killing one
another is a common practice among them.
It is about the best use they can be put to
Tns Land Sales. We understand that
in consequence of tbe incomplete surveys
and plats, tbat the 6ale of public lands in
Oregon, advertised In the Statesman, cannot
take place.
X9 Mr. Buchanan tendered the post of
minister to Berlin to James B. Clay, and
the latter declined it.
flolaUana
rttdhf Chtmtkttm fxtfre, Xo. 1, . O.O. F., Mat
,Ct, leOT.
Wberkas, by an inscrutablo dispensation of
Divine I'rovidcnce, the wire of Bro. Geo.
WW W I a m
11. j ones nas Dccn removed irom our
midst under circumstances peculiarly pain-
mi, tnereiore De it
Resolved, That while admonished by this
sad event of the feeble tenure by which we
hold life, and of the certainty of death, we
are emulated to attain that fitness for life or
death, and that perfection of character
adorned by all the Christian graces, possess
ed in sucn an eminent degree by our deceased
friend, whose light was not hid, but Been and
known by an.
Resolved, That in his severe bereavement
we most earnestly and heartily sympathise
with Dro. Jones, and trust that the consols
tions of the religion which sustained and
soothed our sietcr in the parting hours, be a
balm or Healing to bis lacerated heart.
Resolved, that in the death of sister
j ones, we recognize tne joss 01 a warm
hearted, affectionate companion, a kind
mother, and one of the brightest ornaments
of this community.
Editorial Reform. The Bardstown Ga
zette calls for a convention of the editors of
Kentucky, to bo held on the first Mar. The
editor of the Gazette suggests the following
subjects tor tne consideration or snch body :
1. The discountenancing all low personal
ities in political discussion, which vitiates
public taste and degrades the editorial fra
ternity. 2. The employment of the united influ
ence of the press of the State to effect the
passage of laws increasing the amouut of le
gal advertising.
3. The stoppage of the too common prac
tice of gratuitous puffing.
It is calculated that within six rears
five thousand murders hare taken place in
California ; and accidental deaths hare not
been less than those by violence.
Ub Caantjr Etosaaetatle CaavsaUon.
Pursuant to notice, the delegates from
the various precincts assembled at tho Conrt
louse in Albanr. at two o'ciock, for the
purpose of nominating candidates for tbe
different offices to be filled at the ensuing
election. The Convention was called to
order by calling Dr. W. P. Alexauder to
tbe chair and appointing Jonn n. uackle-
man ana monies is. iieim secretaries :
Credentials were presented from the dif
ferent precincts, and received by the Con
vention as follows i Albany precinct Da
vis Layton, N. Bond, Martin l'aiue, It. A.
McFarlaud. Lebanon Precinct Harvey
Smith, Morgan Kees, Capt. Settle. Clay-
Kol's T.T.Thomas, David Prine, E. 13.
clulach. Brownsville James N. Ilice,
Noab Shauks, Johu Brown. Franklin
Butte James Curl. J. O. Crabtree, Peter
Smith. Byrecute James Butcher, John
McCoy, Sarol. Jones. McDonalds Jas.
R. Thorp, James Williams, B. II. L. Ir
vine. Burlington II. Uudd, T. K. McCoy,
B. Yarbrough. Prairie W. D, Porter,
D. Mansfield, Paul Clover, Saml. Thomp
son Central llios. umpnrey, . m.
Bringham, W. P. Alexander. Orleans-
Isaac Moore, D. S. llelm. t eoria M. Q.
Moss, J. Barr, David Miller.
The Resolution adopted at tbe last Coun
ty Convention, declaring that Representa
tives to tha Legislative Assembly should be
selected in each Coanty Commissioner's .dis
trict, was, on motion, taken up, and after
considerable discussion it was finally resolv
ed to be inexpedient, and tha Convention
proceeded to iM4hate .candidates tot the
Legislature, irrespective of their locality In
the county.
The following is a list of candidates nom
inated for delegates to Constitutional Con
vention Dclazon Smith, John T. Crooks,
Luther Elkins, J. II. Brattain, James
Shields, Jr., Reuben S. Coyle.
Representatives -Anderson Cox, N. II
Crauer, II. M. Brown.
Assessor James Williams.
Co. Commissioners R. B. Willonghby,
H. H. iMclnincti.
Treasurer W. O. Haley.
School Superintendent I'. R. Oenry.
Public Administrator Claiborne Hill.
Coroner Thos. Utnphrey.
Mr. R. A. McFarland presented the fol
lowing resolutions, which, on motion, were
unanimously adopted :
Whereas the Democracy of the county of
Linn and of the Territory generally, have
again cntereu upon a political canvass a
canvass unequalled in present importance
and prospective results by any which has
preceded it in the history of Oregon.
And Whereas we, as democrats, know no
concealments in political matters, but desire
now, as on all occasions, to declare, with
frank uess and without disguise, our political
faith, and our partisan principles and poll
cy, to the end that each and every elector
of tho country may exercise the elective
franchise understanding, therefore
Resolved, That, whilst fully and heartily
reaffirming tbe doctrines and principles enun
ciated by the represeutives of the great Na
tional uemocrauc party in convention as
sembled at Cincinnati in June last, we cor-
diallr endorse and adopt the general and
local platform adopted at Salem by the
late Democratic Territorial Convention.
Resolved, Tbat, since it is manifest that
we and the country generally are indebted
to the strict and thorough organization of
the democratic party commencing with
townships and products and ending in the
union and harmonious working of the great
utitional democratic party for the election
of James Buchanan to the Presidencr, and
the preservation or the Union, we are more
than ever convinced of the necessity, utility
and patriotic and beneficieut results of our
own political and partisan organization
and that we aro still the more firmly wed
a a .
uca to its time-nonoreu ana cuerisuca usa
gcs.
Resolved, That, in our judgment, the res
olutions adopted by the late Territorial Con
vcnlion at Salem relating to our party or
ganization to the obligations of members
of the democratic party to bolters, or those
who affiliate with our political enemies and
refuse to snpport tbe nominees of democrat
ic caucuses and conventions fairly conducted,
and to the course of the hypocritical, libelous
and disorganizing Standard newspaper, meet
our warmest approbation.
Resolved that in the present condition of
political affairs in tuo territory, and in
riow of the natural tendency of any politi
cal party to break down under the weight
of a confessed and otherwise invincible su
premacy, it was pre eminently well for the
Territorial Convention to explicitly define
what was and would in the future be ex pec
tedof every bona fult member of the demo
cratic organisation : To tho end that here
after, he who docs not cordially endorse- the
cardiual principles, doctrines and usages of
the party, as laid down in tbe Cincinnati
and Salem platforms, cannot now, or in time
to come, as an Oregon democrat, plead ig
norance of bis obligations to tbe party with
out a sacrifice of bis personal honor and po
litical good faith.
Resolved, That, in politics, as in all oth
er matters, " honesty is the best policy,"
and we world infinitely prefer defeat with
open and avowed principles and bold and
fearless men, as our standard-bearers, thnn
to sccuro success by courting the applause
of our foes, or the co-opera tion of hesitating:,
time-serving, half and half professed Demo
crats.
Resolved, That we take special pleasure
in endorsing the 10th resolution adopted at
tho Xerritorial Convention, which declares
that " in the nomination and election of
candidates to tha Constitutional Convention
we will not discriminate between Democrats
who aro in favor of. or opposed to. slavery
in the future state of Oregon, because we
hold that the delegates should not predeter
mine that question in the formation of the
Constitution, bat should submit the same
in a separate clause to be voted npon direct
ly by tbe people and that, in the adoption
of this resolution the little stock of pro
spective capital was taken from our black
repnblicen opponents, who hare at no time
hoped for success bnt in and through tho
division and dismemberment of the Demo
cratic party, effected by rigorously assail
ing the hard and courting, flattering, en
couraging and seeking an affiliation with
the soft element.
Resolved, That we will cordially support at
the polls, all the nominees of the democratic
party, including Territorial, coanty and pre
cinct, and that we will not fellowship, as
democrats, those professed democrats who
bolt these nominations ; bat will esteem them
and treat them as not entitled to nomina
tions to office, or other rights, privileges
and immunities flowing from party organi
zation. Resolved, That we utterly repudiate, as con
stitutiag no part of the erred of the demo
cratic party, and as forming, in no sense a
criterion or test of membership, therein,
all purely personal and local questions or is
sues, growing ont of capital, county seat or
other matters of local interest ; but that, in
the selection of all candidates to be support
ed for tbe various offices iu tbe Territory or J
future State whether precinct, connty, Ter
ritorial or State we will look solely to ca
pacity, honesty, integrity and fidelity to the
country and to tho conservative principles
and measures of tbe democratic party.
Resolved, That after a two years trial of
the viva rocs mode of votiug we are fully
prepared to endorse, it as the best possible
mode for Oregon ; that, so far at least as
this Territory is concerned, there are a score
of sound reasons in favor of its continuance
and not one. valid reason in furor of its rc-
Eeal : we hope therefore that it may be ad
ered to and perpetuated indefinitely.
On motion the proceedings of this Con
vention were ordered to be scut to the
Statesman aud Times for publication.
vo motion me tonvenwou auiourneu sine
dU. W. F. ALEXANDER, Ch'u.
Job II. Hackleuak, 1 r, ,. . . ;
Thos. B. Helm. J Secretaries.
Xjaae Caantjr U as rails Canveatloa.
Pursuant to call of the ctntral committee,
delegates from the several precincts met iu
convention at Eugene City, on Saturday.
May 2d, 1857, aud organized by electing
Johu Whiteaker, and J. W. Mack, as tem
porary chairman and secretary of the con
vention. On motion, the chairman appoint
ed a committee of five to examine creden
tials, to report rules for the government of
tbe convention, and resolutions for its ac
tion. Said committee consisted of Messrs.
a a w a . a w rm a iaa a-s .
r. iioic, a. J. vampDeii, w. v. unstow.
John Cochrane, and J. W. Mack. Con
vention adjourned till 1 o'clock. P. M.
Afternoon, committee reported list of dele
gates, rules, And a series of resolutions,
which report tTas adopted Tbe temporary
officers were confimed as permanent officers
or the convention
Proceeding to nominations, Messrs. Jesse
Cox, A. J. Campbell, W. S. Brock, E.
Holt, W. W. Bristow, and John T. Gilfrey
were nominated on first ballot, as candidates
for delegate to convention for framing Con
stitution. Messrs. John Whitciker and J.
W. Mack, were next nominated as repre
sentatives in the next legislature. For sher
iff, J. 1j. McCabe ; assessor, John F.
Chiles ; treasurer, Wm. B. Barger, Coro
ner, Eugene bkinncr.
On motion, W. S. Jones, W. S. Brock,
E. Holt, A. J. Cruzan, and Lafayette Bris
tow, were appointed by the chair to serve as
county committee for the ensuing year.
Moved that tho proceedings of this con
vention lie forwarded to the Statesman for
publication with request to Times to copy
The following are the resolutions adopted.
Whereas, tbe Democratic party of Lane
couuty has heretofore been imposed upon by
wolves in sheep's clothing; men calling
themselves Democrats ; who are at the
same time abolitionists and not Democrats
ana wiureaa some oi uiese political vam
pires have been foisted upon the Democrat
ic party by their unsuspecting friend., and
thereby have and now do monopolize and
enjoy the best offices in the county ; and
whereas tho Democracy of Lane county, in
Convention assembled, do think it right and
proper to make and publish the followiu
resolves. Therefore be it
Resolved, That we do fully approve and
cudorse tbe platform and resolutions adopt
cd at the County Convention, held at Eu
gene City in April last, and the resolutions
and platform adopted by the Territorial
Convention, held at Salem on the 13th of
April last, and while we consider these plat
forms large enough for all true Democrats
to stand upon, tbe removal of one plaDk
thert-I rom migiit paralyze the whole,
Resolved, That we do utterly condemn
and execrate these political hypocrites, par
ty parasites and spies in tbe Democratic
ranks, who bid us God speed just on the eve
of an election, and when there is a fat office
to fill, but iu tbe interval do us more harm
than twice their number of pen and honor
able foes such men caring for tbe loaves
and fishes only, upon whom we do hereby
pronounce our most sovereign scorn and po
litical contempt.
Resolved, That no member of this Con
vention bo expected to submit the name of
any person for nomination through personal
friendship only, but all persons submitted to
this Convention must be vouched for by
sorao one known to bo a true and consistent
Democrat
Resolved, Tbat the practice of electing
men to place and office, solely on account of
availability, is wrong, and utterly unworthy
the great and high aims of tbe national Dem
ocratic party ; aud further, we will not elect
any man to ollico in this couuty who is hot
known to be sound on the great national
principles, and above suspicion.
Resolved, That we approve of the course
pursued by our delegates to tbe Territorial
Convention, in relation to the anti-Standard
resolutions.
itcsoived, mat wane we disclaim any
connection or nffiiliation with " Border Ruf
fians" yet we honor tho open and manly
course pursued by our " Border Ruffian"
representative in tho legislature of last
winter.
Resolved, That tho combination of Free
State Democrats with tho Black Republi
can party, instead of aiding in tho forma
tion of a free State, can only result in the
the ruin of the Democratic party the only
national party, and place our iufant State
in the outset, under sectional Black Repub
lican rule.
nesoivea, mat we cannot recognize as
Democrats any who may be found opposing
tho Democratic party, by running npon or
voting for the so called free State ticket
Resolved, Tbat the members of the Na
tional Democratic party place implicit confi
dence in the right working of National prin
ciples, and arc there willing to leave tbe sub
ject of slavery iu Oregon, or elsewhere, to bo
settled npon the Kansas Nebraska bill, leav
ing every man at perfect liberty to vote for
a free or a slave State, subject only to the
dictates oi his own conscience.
Resolved, That our Delegates to the Con
stitutional Convention be instructed to place
the clauses, (for and against) slavery upon
(equally fair and) separate schedules to be
submittce to a direct vote of the people.
JOHN WHITEAKER, Pres't.
J. W. Mack, Seoy.
United States Finances. On the 23d of
February, according to the official report, there
were as ine various depositaries ana m tne mint
and branches, subject to draft ,$24,467,742 52.
Of this amount there were in the treasury at Wash
ington $349.304 ; with the assistant trearury, Bos
ton, 3,388.200 41 ; do. New York, $9,589,171 89 ;
do. Philadelphia, $318,031 60 ; do. New Orleans,
$623,100 09; do. St. Louis. $1,045,440 75; do.
Baltimore, $461,447 ; assay office, New York, $2,
314,500; mint, Philadelphia, -,202,354 16 ; branch
mint Cbarlotte, Sjaa.SKH) ; do. do. Dahlonega, $27
950 03; do. do. New Orleans, $1,820,970 04; do.
do. San Francisco, $1,500,00.
The only office on which there has been an over
draft is that of the Assistant Treasurer at San
Francisco, to the amount of $53,320 41, and a
transfer has been ordered there of $445,000.
Transfers have been ordered of $200,000 to the
Treasury at Washington, $530,000 to the Assis
tant Treasurer, New York, $795,000 to do. New
Orleans, $641500 to do. StJUtuis, $1,000,000 to
the mint at Philadelphia, and $1,000,000 to the
branch mint. New Orleans ; and transfers have
been ordered from the Assistant Treasurer. Boston,
of $600,000 ; do. New York, of $1,810,400; from
tho mint at Philadelphia, $530 000 ; and from tbe
branch mint at New Orleans, $1,000,000. Vari
ous mint amounts have also been ordered trans
ferred.
For tbe Statatmaa.
Tbe Convention.
Mr. BCSB The demnoratln nun vent inn In
and for Linn county came off so late, and I
am necessarily so constantly engaged in
Court, that there is now neither time nor
ability, on my part, to canvass the county
prior to the Juno election, I desire, there
fore, to communicate my views, very briefly,
to the voters of Linn, through the medium
of the Statesman.
Since I received without solicitation from
me a unanimous nomination, on tbe first
ballot, for the office of delegate to the
Constitutional Convention, it is to be pre
sumed that my position is and was already
sufficiently aud satisfactorily understood by,
at least the representatives of the democra
cy of the couuty. But tbat there may be
no misapprehension on the part of any por
tion oi the people, 1 state the following as
being the views which I entertain and which
will govern my action in tbe event of my
election.
1st. It is well known that I canvassed the
county one year ago on, the question of a
Lonstitotional Convention. The views then
expressed remain unchanged.
2d. In regulating the salaries of the of
ficers of the future State, I am opposed to
extreme in fixing tbe amount. The salaries
ought not to be so low as either to exclude
poor men or deprive the people of the servi
ces or the best talent in tbe country. On
tne otner nana ttiey ought not to be so high
as to convert omciai stations into mere sin
ecures, or to be disproportioned to prices of
otner labor, tne productions, commodities,
Ac, of the country generally, I wonld iu
ofder more clearly to indicate my opinions,
suggest mac, in my judgment, tbe vtr diem
of members of the Legislature ought to re
main at what it now i, viz : three dollars
per day. Judges 92000 per annum, aud the
Uovernor at SI500.
3d. I am in favor, generally, of a simple.
etucient, liberal aud economical form of gov
ernmcnt.
4th. I am opposed to all Lesrislative re
ligions seas.
5th. I am in favor of interdicting banks.
ioiiertrs, ana aueinnz in Ureiron.
Oth. 1 am in favor of limitinsr the power
oi tue Legislature in the matter of creating
state indebtedness.
1th. I am in favor of extending onr east
ern boundary so as to include Grand Ronde
etb. I am in favor of constitutionally pre
serving the free and equal rights civil, re
ligious and political, of all tbe citizens of
the future State.
10th. And, finally, I am in favor of sub
mitting the question of slavery and tbe ones
tion of the admission of free negroes, to the
decision of the legal voters of tbe Territory,
This being my position, I deem it both im
material wnit my views are in regard to
those questions and unnecessary to state
them. As, if those questions are to bo sub
mitted to the people, it is of no more conse
quence to know what my views are, than it is
to learn those of any other individual not a
caudidate for the Convention. But as there
may, nevertheless, be a solicitude to know
how I intend to vote, as a citizen, npon
mode questions, and as tbe people have
right to my personal views, and intentions
in this behalf, and as I hare not, and do not
desire to have any secrets in regard toques
lions or public policy, I desire frankly to
say that 1 shall not vote for the proposition
to introduce slavery into tbe future State of
Orewou ; but I am ready to vcte for a proi-
ositiou excluding negroes from the State.
The foregoing declaration of views will
enable every elector to vote understanding,
at least so far as I am concerned.
- Trulr, Ac,
DELAZOX SMITTI.
Eugene City. May 12, 1857.
TjAFatette, May 13, 1857.
Dear Sir I notice in the last Oregonian
bnt one, a letter from Dr. Henry, over his
old signature of " Q. R.," and by the last
Standard I Cnd the chameleon doctor has
been writing a private letter of condolence
to Leland. He recommends the organiza
tion of a new democratic party, to bo com
posed of tho softs, and styled the " Con
servative Democracy." Tho doctor 13 also
very much concerned about Mr. Buchanan,
fears that the hard democrats are not sin
cere in support of him, and predicts they
will denounce him before a " twelvemonth."
Hear the wbifling weathercock:
The true friends of Sir. Buchanan have now no
alternative left them but to take tho-necessary
steps for organizing; a conservative Democratic
party in Oregon, that shall be based upon the
right of tho masses to control the action of the
representative, intcad of being controlled by a
self-constituted junto, who exercise the right of
dispensing the patronage of the party.
Ah! There you have the milk in Dr.
Ilenry's dissatisfied cocoanut accounted for.
" Tbe patronage of the party" is not " dis
pensed" to suit him that is, he i3 just now
getting none of it, and so it is necessary to
change cgain, and see if something won't
"turn np."- Capt. Hedges pave him the
job of puking and purging Indian, and
looking through the $ 2,000 per year to be
made out of it, the Dr. straightway became
a very fussy " democrat" a regnlar " Dur
ham" thongh. He was all at once si e zed
with a severe solicitude for the democratic
party, and talked more about " our party"
tban the oldest democrat in it. In short he
was a confounded bore to democrats in the
way of advice and exhibitions of painful
anxiety for " our party." His anxiety was
greater than it now is on account of Mr.
Buchanan, and one would think he had spe
cial charge of the President's interests in Or
egon. I think his ardor on this score will
cool when he learns that Mr. Buchanan will
make no new appointments for Oregon, and
there is no possible chance for him to get
his spoon in. His " democracy" cooled
right quick perfectly froze when Agent
Miller relieved him of the Indian doctoring
job, and the consequent $2,000.
I said above tbat the Dr. by his great
concern, made himself an awful bore to dem
ocrats, especially as not one of them had
the first particle of confidence in his politi
cal integrity. And I have no doubt yon
had him in your mind when you wrote some
time ago that tbe democratic party had got
a few recruits trom the opposition whom
democrats wonld be willing to contribute
liberally to get back. He is of infinitely
more advantage to the the party he opposes
than the one he supports, and the black re
publicans here are actually sorry to see the
Doctor coming back to their camp.
Again the Doctor says:
I think you aud your friends ought to feel
under obligations to tne tfusb .Democracy for for
mally reading us out of their party, thus saving
us tne trouble ot tormaily withdrawing, ror no
man that has one spark of pure Jackson Democ
racy in his composition, could thing of adhering
to the organization on the conditions laid down in
their platform.
" Jackson democracy!'' Dr. Henry 1
Again:
It was very evident that Mr. Bash and his fol
lowers were anything but pleased with the inau
gural of Mr. Buchanan, and it was not a lit
tle strange that hardly an allusion was made to it
k .n v rf the sneakers at tbe ratification meeting.
There was certainly none of his spirit of concil
iation and kindness manifested on the part of the
majority," and I venture the prediction that Mr.
Hnrhxnan will be denounced by the Bush faction
before the end of a twelve month. It is very ev- j
ideut from the general tone of Ids message, tbat
be has no sympathy with thos wbo claim tc be
ins uemocnuie purij m uregon. Ua will not
depend upon tbe ultra and eitretna men of the
Democratic party for tbe support cf his adminis
tration, but upon the Union-Ioviog, conservative
men of all the old party organizations; benee tbe
necessity of organizing such a party here in Ore
gon, to be called the Conservative Democratic
pr'" . . . . , .
in my opinion, now is ine time to set tne nail
in motion, itnd the Standard is tbe proper paper
to lead on the ball.
Dreadful, wasn't it? " hardly an allusion
made to the inaugural," Ac. The quondam
abolition-kuownothiog doctor has as much
trouble with Mr. Buchanan as an old ben
with a single chicken, and makes about tha
same amount and kind of noise over Lim.
The Standard is jnst the kind of a paper
(as good as his old organ, the Argus) to set
Dr. Henry's " conservative democratic par
ty" ou its pegs. He changes his politics
with every moon, never agrees with tbe par
ty he belongs to, and is the merest trifler in
politics that ever dabbled iu them. I know
t have occupied more space than voa will
be willing to devote to the subject.
SANGAMON.
Th Stllltarjr Bw4 In tmpqw. -
SCOTTSBCBO, UmPQUA Co., 1
May 6, 1857.
Mr. Bean The democrats of TJmpqua
are desirous to learn whether tbe appropria
tion to complete tbe military road from
Scottsburg to Jacksonville is to be expended
under the supervision of Jesse Applegata.
The black republicans of this county bava
named Applegate as one of their candidates
for delegate to constitutional convention
and it is boldly asserted by the leading men
amoug them, tbat Jesse Applegate is to
control tbe disbursement of the sixty thous
and dollars donated by Congress for he im-..
provetuent of the road from this place to
Rogue river valley. The first appropri
ation for tbe road from Myrtle creek to
Camp Stewart, was swallowed np by the
Applegate family, and very little improve
ment was made where the money should
have been honestly expended, while the sec
ond donation to extend the road to Scotts
burg, was to a considerable extent, wasted
on an impracticable route, iu building
bridges which hare never been used, and in
grading precipitous bill sides through an al
most inaccessible region of country. It is
bad enough to lose the benefit of these
funds which might be applied to permanent
and useful improvements, but it is Strang
indeed that under democratic administra
tions, our expenditures of public money
should be prostituted to secure tbe election
of dishonest black republicans in opposition
to trustworthy democrats. Cannot some
thing be done to 6ave tbe present appropri
ation, and to influence its expenditure in an
honest and useful manner, instead of allow
ing it to be squandered upon knownotbings
aud black republicans, or applied under tho
direction of visionary and impracticable
men 1
By calling tbe attention of Gen. Lane to
this important matter, you will oblige an
OLD DEMOCRAT.
Clackamas Co., May G, 1857.
Mr. Bcsn Sir: At the precinct meet
ing beM at Upper Molalla, Lane had a ma
jority over Kelly. This surprised the friends
of Mr. Leland, and they became very much
excited. Mr. W. Starkweather rose and
told the people how shamefully Mr. Leland
had been read out of tbe party by tbe Sa
lem clique; that they seut runners all over
the couutry to bring in the friends of Bush;
that Bush had become jealous of Leland;
that the Standard was taken by three hun
dred to tbe Statesman's one hundred per
sons in Clackamas County; tbat the clique
kept all this dark from the friends of Le
land, and at the Jackson Jubilee, after tbe
hoar of midnight, aud they all drunk, this
awful deed was done by the Salem cliqne
and a few officiate. Ho said tbat Dclazon
Smith used to be for Leland and down on
Bosh, but now was for Bush and down on
Leland; that Smith was a traitor, known aa
a traitor, and known everywhere as a trai
tor. Tbe idea tbat he conveyed was tbat
Smith was the leader of the clique, and tba
Statesman was his organ, and all who op
posed Leland and Kelly were traitors.
The friends of Mr. Kelly invited the black
republicans to help them in the precinct
meetings, and they did so, and said there
that they would not vote for Lane, nor for
anybody else that was for the Nebraska bill.
Aud if anybody objected to their voting, a
friend of Mr. Kelly would take it np. Such
downright villainy is seldom surpassed as
was practiced here, and I believe if the fair
thing had been done, things would have been
different in this county. But after seeing
how it turned out, our hopes for salvation
were centered npon the Territorial Conven
tion, and they were not in vain, for this Sa
lem clique happened to be the whole Demo
cratic party of Oregon. Yours, O. H.
The above comes to ns with two respon
sible names, with a request to publish.
Winchester, May 8, 1857.
Dear Bcsh I herewith inclose you Gen.
Lane's appointment for the campaign. Gen.
Lane ha3 spoken twice at Corvallis first,
immediately npon his arrival, and secondlv,
upen the heels of their couuty convention.
In both instances, be had good audiences
who warmly approbated tbe doctrines ad
vocated by Gen. Lane. At the latter meet
ing, Mr. Lawson " opened up his batteries"
much to the amusement, if not the edifica
tion f the people. He did not seem to
have made np bis mind as to the spiritual
ism of the negro question ; and with tbe
single exception of his chip-muck hostility
to the "cli que," Mr. Lawson's essay, was
eminently noncommittal. We do not appre
hend that the election will be materially
affected by whatever fantastic tricks may bo
played off by this charming standard bearer
of tho opposition to the Democracy of
Oregon.
At Deer Creek, Mr. Lawson again turned
up, but being interrupted by one or two
pointed interrogatories from some of his
audience, he unfortunately lost his proverbial
good nature, and the great charm of the
ocaasion was consequently very much mar
red. He spoke for an hour full of sound
and fury signifying nothing not even a
brisk fun of colored republican negro sym
pathy. Gen. Lane followed in a telling
effort upon the issues before the people, and
was listened to with marked attention.
Speeches and very good ones too were also
made by Judge Deady and S. F. Chadwick,
nominees to the convention.
The indications thus far are bright and
cheering for the continued triumph of the
Democratic party in Oregon.
Yours, E. C. H.
Mr. BrCHANAX is thp r-.lrfoct man V..
- jw m u4u n Uli UQS
ever taken the Presidency. Gen. Cass is
saiu roue ii years old, aud is the oldest
man that has ever filled thp nffi nf
tarj of State in the country.
2 An ardent knownothin" in Pim.
r a - mui-
vule. Va.. Dledired his word ho.fnrt tha ol
tj " - auw Vll,!,-
tion, that in case Buchanan came in he
would arms: six bottles of castor ou at one
time. When he does it he will nrnh.aHT k
cored of Fillmoreism,
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