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You who want Job Printing done, give us a call, and we will satisfy you both in styleau prioe. . 29 LEGAL TENDERS taken at par for subscription. struction of the makers and builders of those ready too cheaply sold; the politicians wb.> “The New Departure.” amendments, consequently they will con should defend the State against the usurpa strue them to accomplish their designed pur lhe following review of the “ New Depar tions of a negro agency -at Washington are [From the Oregon City Enterprise.] pose; hence it is fair to concede that so far ture’ platform is from that able and faithful already too eager to barter their plebim» L and C ounty , O regon , June 28, ’71. as “construction” is concerned, we have not De nocratic Journal, tho Ohio Crisis. We garbs for official purple. All such should b • E ditor E nterprise :—Just now the “new whereon to place our feet! “We will not commend ic to the Oregon “Departurists suspected. The Federal agency has exceeded departure” question is creating a sensation bring thSse amendments in question !’’ What lheie are certain uneasy bodies among the its legitimate boundaries and powers ; it Bow not very likely to be benificial to the Demo position puts us on the defensive and opens politicians of this country who are never so becomes the poople to circumscribe its pre cratic party ; and, as I take a deep interest the way to an assault? We submit so far, comfortable as when they are unhappy, and tensions, mangle its powers, and if possiL e in our present and future welfare, it may not and another stride will cause us to indorse who, while willing to sacrifice all relationship reduce it io some degree of submission to the be amiss for me to bare my puny arm and the Ku-Klux law and other centralizing in to principal for self-interest, totally misappre populsr behest of its makers. To begin by strike at least one blow in its behalf. fluences, and to argue that “Whatever is, is hend the elements of their own strength and conceding all it requires ia to galvanize a It has been the misfortune of our party right.” If those amendments do not affect thwart the just endeavors of friends in beast that will never go dowQ again at any managers, for several years past, to make the Constitution, why did the Democratic their belief. There in a noisy kit of dema body’s bidding. platforms and to nominato candidates for the papers and orators declare, heretofore, that gogues iu Ohio who rest uneasily out of It ill becomes Mr. Vallandigham to nurso Republican party ; our conventions seem they were usurpations and tending to central office, and who abandon tho foiemust of vir or nourish this Federal reptile in his bo«on>, anxious to secure the services of “loyal” men, ¡ration of power, to monarchy and the over tues for success. Success, iu the estimation and abandon to its mercy tho adherents thi.t generals ol the Union army and time-serving throw of our liberties? If those amend of these gentlemen, consists less in the tri cheerfully bore the brunt of principal when spoil-hunters, tocatch Republican votes ; but ments give no power to the United State* umph of principal than in the accumulation it wag more odious thau now ; but if he in their anxiety to eatch “loyal” votes, they Government, both parties are stultified ; for i of the paltry profits und empty honors of chooses, ho may be iuformed that he carrii * forget that something should be done to se we liavo said they did to our injury, and the official position. By what rulo ef honor or I with him none of the strength that sustained cure Democratic aid. This has been tho case Radicals said they did for our benefit! ^ew justice such notions can be coupled with the him when support was contumely and devo in Ohio for the past six years, and a long ar can we go back ? Can we retrace our steps pretence of adherence to principle we admit tion the synonym of destruction. ray of defeats has been the result. The same or obliterate our record ? Hardly, 1 think. our inability to understand. To souttle the Of such new departures we want none— is true in Connecticut ; but in New Hamp If we are to abandon our position, “accept ship and transfer its flag to an enemy may their stock is below par—and the venture to I shire and Oregon tho platforms are m ire the situation” and acknowled that we have belong to such tactics as have recently come commit a great party to such idiosyncraciis Democratic thau that of Ohio, and our candi been in error for years, then let us surrender in vogue, but we confess an aversion to them io behalf of that treacherous deity eucceis dates were not of those who forged the chains at once, and not disgrace the proud records not to be overcome by a trausitory prospect uuites iu its component parts the frenzy o to bind us in the slavery of which we now of Democracy with the foul phraseology of of success. the fanatic to the silliness of the donkey. oomplain ; hence we are more successful. It these degeuerate days, nor enroll upon its Mr. Vallandigham, for whom this paper eertainly ia a bright idea to ask men who en list of glorious names such blots as Revels, I ndian P unishment .—The Puttawotomic cannot be accused of having any prejudice, slaved us with their fanaticism, to take the John Brown and Fred. Douglas. Las *uen proper to make the most violent , Indians usod to punish men, who ran awi y burdona from our shoulders which they An Ohio platform will re-ekct Grant in bolt in the direction of party disintegration with the wives of other Indians, by tying tl e placed thereon. Those who inflicted the 1872; and such a platform for Oregon will that any member has yet ventured upon. In culprit to the ground and allowing the injur» J wrong* of which we complain are not the secure a Radical triumph in this State. All a series of resolutions drafted by himself, husband to bite off the nose of the destroyer men to relievo us, even if inclined to do so; other questions will sink into insignificance ; and a speech characterized by his usual force, of bis domestic happiness. The law L. s their zeal to accomplish good would lead because the people understand that if we take both delivered before the Montgomery Coun been abolished recently, in consequence if them to use means which would be more in «are of the Government the Government will ty Convention last week, Mr. Vallandigham, the scandalous conduct ot a Shawnee Indian jurious in the end than the very evils which i take care of us ; therefore the main idea is to with t anscer.dent coolness, proposed the- named Shying Mule. This brave had n.. they seem so willing to “reform.” I am purify the fountain if we would have the abandonment of every principal for which nose, that feature having been sliced off with slow to believe that the best *detective is the I stream run clear. the Democracy of Oiiio have contended for a scalping-knife during o controversy with .1 greatest thief; or that the man that robs my As long as the foundations of our deep are the last ten years, and, more surprising still, friend. So when Shying Mule eloped with house would be the best man to protect inv “broken up,” the surface will be in com- I such was his force and influence that he car the wife of a Pottawotomie, and ho was ar property ! Yet such is tho “policy” of the tion. Radical diseases must Lave tadiral ried with him the approving voice of the sore rested, he adorned himself with a wax nose Ohio softs. Gen. McCook, Gen. Sherman, cures ; and if the cause is not removed no ly oppreised Democracy of that unfortunate —one of a gross provided for such an emer Gen. Rosencrans, Gen. Morgan, Gen. Durgia change can be expected. If we are right we ■ c »urity. This astonishing summersault has gency. He was tied to the ground, and ti e Ward, Gen. Ewing, Gen. Campbell, and a I will triumph ; for men who desire a change I been heralded in all the sensational papers injured husband bit the nose off and swal- host of other Generals, too tedious to men seek something more substantial than a as a uew departure and the absolute transfer | lowed it. He smacked his lips once or twice, tion, living at the feet of the Gamaliels of I change of names or exchange of masters. of all the heritage of white men to the ene as if it didn’t taste exactly right, but he bu I Oberlin College, aie the favorites of the Ohio Radicalism was dying, but the Ohio nostrum my—the auctioneering of the Ohio Democra too much spirit to admit that he was solu. “reformers;” and so far as I now recollect, j has revived it, and it may struggle with su- cy to some ambitious bidder or bankrupt Shying Mule immediately ran away with iLu I believe every candidate for every office in peranuated strength for years under such shoddyite contesting fur its good name. The wife of another brave. When he wa.< every party in Ohio for the last six years treatment. Yours truly, KUMTUX. inf ituity that could sustain a proposition so brought back he bad a fresh nose on, looking has been an ex-Federal military officer; and preposterous is not lar removed from the fa as natural as life. The Indians were sur his “war record” with universal equality of Corrupt Officials in South Carolina. naticism that suggests the grossest perver prised, but they turned the husband on, auh races and determination to pay the public sion of true principal aud the tamest acqui he bit away and swallowed the wax withoi t debt have been the stock iu trade wherewith A traveling attache of the New York T>i- winking. This kind of thing continued off escence in the dirtiest fraud. to win and woo the affections of tho men who buue in South Carolina, in interviewing u and on for two years. Shying Mule glided In brief, the propositions submitted by oppose all such anti-Republican innovations. large property holder, he thus gives the state away with sixty-seven squaws at different Th« idea of flaunting the name of some “loy of public sentiment on the oppressive and Mr. Vall iudigbitni, aud adopted by the Mont I periods, and every time be returned with one gomery County Democracy, are to abandon al general” in our faces, who was first de corrupt State governm-nt: all oppositions to the 13th, 14th and 15th of those noses standing out on his face like termined to crush slavery in the South and Speaking of the corruption of the Sate the marker on a «un-dnil. The Pottawoto- then turn his bayonets and cannon against officers and Legislature, he sai l: “We can’t Constitutional Amendment frauds, and ac inies considered that this kind of thing was the Democracy in the North, i* quite likely stand this oppression and robbery any lon quiesce ia these iufaniies as among the ac ‘ getting to be monotonous ; they were scared ; to win the vows of those who were marked ger. My God, sir, we were poor enough complished results of the war ; and this they regarded the miraculous success of this for his future victims! Sherman—who did when the war ended, without having this I aband >nment to be coupled with a totally in Shawnee as a cultivator of noses as a direct more to injure our institutions than did Gen. swarm of infernal carpet-baggers ootoe down consistent opposition to the laws by which it intimation from the Great Spirit that their Lee, and who did more aguinst civilization to devour what little we have left.” lie went is sought to enforce the measures! If the law was wrong, and so they abolished it. than did Atilla—would be a nice specimen to on to enumerate the various rascalities bv amendments are legitimate additions to the Shying Mule says he is gradually working put at the head of an Ohio platform ! Grant whieh he charged that the State officers have Federal Constitution l 1 opposition to the en these savages onward to that perfect Chris would do just as well, and his professions enriched themselves at the expense of the actments of the Federal Congress by which it is proposed to enforce them is frivolous, fac tian civilization which gives a man a right to were just as fair as are those of Ohio reform taxpayers, and finally, leaning t<- kill the person who runs away with his vrifr, ers, and his practice is about as good as ward me, said, in a low tone, “Now tion« an 1 absurd. If the amendments are provided the forsaken one can prove that ho tbeir’s would be, should they obtain power— I’ll tell you what we are going to do. If this acknowledged to be finalities all their compo was insane. which they never will by such professions un don’t stop soon, we’ll make it hot f >r the vil nent evils in the shape of laws must be ad der cover of Democracy. If Morgan & Co. lains. There will bo a hundred outrages for mitted to the pale of our approval. If the A S ciiooi -B oy ’ s C omposition on tub B ull would brand their platform “Republican,’’ it every one you hear of now, until the I nited amendments are valid the laws enacted in • F rog .—The bull frog is green. If I could I pursuance thereof are equally binding ; and might take ; but with “Democratic” at its States will be obliged to put us under milita ‘jump like one I could beat a pig or two pigs. head, spoila it in Republican eyes, to which ry government. That is what we want. The j to approve the one while opposing the other i is to enact a freak of lunacy that must ioevi- Frogs is n bald-headed animal, but lie can't alone its contents are acceptable. army offioers are honest men, and won’t steal {tably aggravate pity into contempt and ab- draw timber for a mcetin’ bouse. If I was a Some of our political souls have seen a vis from us. They will sympathize with the frog it would hurt me to stand on my head l<> I horrence. ion, and a light round about them shows that white people.” I told him that people at see the President sworn in. Jacs Martin No one of the several amendments to the the Constitutional Amendments are not in the North generally believed that the distur wears a red dress and hooped at me when I question, and will not eDtcr into the issue be bances in the South arose from a hatred of j Constitution to which it is now proposed to didn’t know it. It scared me so I jumped tween the parties in 1872. Oh no! But the national Government. “That’s a mis- submit without opposition whs ever legally to. If frogs could run with a fire machine ii then we will construe them to suit ourselves, take,” be replied. “We don't want any engrafted upon the fundamental law. Not would be fun to go to, for they are all Bap and our construction will not affect said trouble with the general Government, We one of them was ever fairly submitted to the tists. When they growl they don’t bite. amendments nor affect any change in party have had enough of war, and we want peace ; people of the Slates by a duly authorized Mother melted the bottom out of her tea-pul, issues 1 Is not that profound wisdom ? Now but we can’t sit still and see a gang of Congress, or by any other representative and Lordy, how dad ripped about it. Geesu den t you see if you construe language to thieves, sustained by a horde of ignorant body, as the Constitution itself explicitly re have more feathers than young frogs, but mean one thing and another man construes niggers, take our property from us.” J fin-1 quires all amendments to be submitted. No geese don’t give milk. Nor does a wild frog. it to men another thing, that this very dif this to be the general sentiment among the ono ef them was honestly adopted by even a When ashes are worth fifteen cents a bushel ference of construction will bring the original white population. They declare they have majority of the States, and all were forced is the best time to go frogging. Little frog* cause of difference to the surface, and in no desire to resist the Federal authority, and upon the people against the pronouuced will petp, but who is afraid? Scrambled frogs spite of sophistry and long drawn periods to that their troubles all spring from the bad of that majority of the people to which the are nice in cold coffee, but as for me, give advocates of these measures persistently ap explain away the difference, the contradiction State and local government. peal. The Constitution explieity requires me liberty or death, but no frogs or a revo will widen tho breach and force the cause of lution in Fran*.-«. I’m goin’ to sell my dog, difference into issue. Nor is that all; the A F ish S tory .—W c met a boy on the that any amendment to tho fundamental law I and seo then if he won’t fetch something. party in power forced these amendments into street, and without the ceremony of asking shall be submitted to tho States by a Con Frogs never have the mumps, but they al gress composed of two Senators aud at least the Constitution for a purpose ; to affect our name, he exclaimed : ways como with a spring. that purpose they construe them to mean “You just orter been down to the river a one Representative from each State in the T homas S hin *. Union. The vilest man of straw connected wbat they were intended to effect; and to while ago 1” with this administration cannot be found “Why?” we enquired. deny the construction of them, as given by To J udge of C haracter .—W« may judge “Because a nigger was in their swimming, willing to swear that this positive requisition a man’« character by what he loves—whut Radical authority, is to say that a man may write and speak and Dot know wbat he means. and a big catfish camo up behind him and was complied with in the submission of the please« lain. If a person manifest« delight It is not probable that the Ohio reformer« swallowed both of his feet, nnd went swim three bogus amendments iu the iuforcemeut in low, sordid objects ; the vulgar «ODg and understand Radicalism better than do Radic ming along on the top of the water with him ; of which wo are invited to acquiesce. When Thomas Jefferson made his mighty debasing language ; in the misfortunes ef his als themselves. “The flow is to the oenter,” and they cams behind unother big fish and fellows or animals, we may at once determ and thither they have led the currents of pow the nigger swallowed his tail, and the nigger and successful struggle io 1798, against the ine the complexion of bin character. On the pretensions of John Adams and his formid er and public opinion ; and it is folly to say and two fish went swimming about.” contrary, if be loves purity, truth, modesty— able crowd of Federal henchmen, be did not “Well, then what? that the stream flows to the mountain, when if virtuous pursuits eogage hia heart, and “Well, after a while the negro swallowed bow in bumble submission to what he most all mankind can see otherwise! Tell the draw out bis affections— we are satisfied that people that the Columbia river flows to the his fish, and the other fish swallowed the nig opposed, but leveled his beat artillery at the he is an upright man. When we see a young Rocky Mountains, if you will! but where ger, and that’s th« last I saw of either of heart of tho evil which he perceived would' man fond of fine clothes, and making a fop of prove a cancer on the body politic. Our new will you find one to be believe the story? them.” himself, it is a sure sign that he thinks the “Sonny,” said we, with a feeling of nlarm departuristB seem to think they can concil Tell us that the three Negro Amendments to > world consists of outside show and ostenta the Constitution, engrafted there only by for the boy, “you are ia a fair way to become iate cancer and compromise with fraud. The tion, and he is certain to make an unstable one gave us the emblem of our civil liberty ;' force and fraud, do not obange our fundamen the editor of a Radical paper. man, without true affection er friendship, the other would consign us to infamous fond of change and excitement, and wearying tal law, if you will 1 but who will boliove A person who undertakes to raise himself you ? Cannot the people Bee that the Ku- by scandalizing others, might as well sit chains ; the one was a protest of great men of tboso objects and pursuits which fora time against a manifest wrong ; the other is a con Klux law, tho bayonet eleotiun law, and the give him pleasure. down on a wheelbarrow and undertake to cession of timid minds to ignoble possibili teachings of the Radical party depend upon wheel himself. Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal ties. The Federal authority has already pre. the construction of those harmless amend tree perfumes the axe whi.h strikes it. sumed too much ; the local interests are al Dead locks—Chignons. Democrats, Read this Letter I Dr. L. T. DAVIS, ■ Every variety of Job Work executed with neat ncss and dispatch, at reasonable rate«. ments? And that construction is tho con-