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OREGON FREE PRE SS FOB TUB VOL. I.) WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1848. (NO. 7, OREGON FREE PRESS. They seem unwilling to punish Mexico for her scnse- POBLISIIED EVERY SATURDAY. J45,31 J r0?an, i"011 " T well for Mexico that she has not Napoleon to deal with, Geo. L. Cunnv, Editor and Proprietor. vvJ0 vvilb a slrokc of Ws penf vould pavc arinexed TERMS (In advance.) dol. cts. that counlryas promptly as he did Holland. It is some One copy, per annum, 3 50, CAsn. thing new in history to allow a conquered nation, un do do six months, 2 do. justly declaring war against you, to go without pun- ADVERTISING ishmenl. Napoleon made Prussia pay one hundred Each square, first insertion, ... ,2 do. millions of dollars to meet the expenses of the war of Each subsequent insertion, 1 do. 1806. He compelled Austria to pay forty millions for 12 lines or less is considered one square. A reason- ihu' campaign of VVagram, and the Allies, when they able deduction made on yearly advertisements. Cur- entered France, made her pay 135,000,000 dollars for rency arid produce, taken at their cash value. the expenses of the war. v Vhy are we to be drawn into an expensive war, and conquer a peace, and yet A PLEA FOR HUMANITY. ask no indemnity? N.Y.Sun. The child is still before us. May uie not sec about it contending for it Hie principles or good and evil,? for the free press. A contest between the angels and the fiends? Come Mr. Editor hither, statesman; you who live uilhin a party circle; Whereas, it has been our misfortune to leavo you, who nightly fight some miserable fight continu- thcarmy at hortYVascopam under circumstances, to us, ally strive in some selfish struggle for power and place, the most disagreeable and aggravating and whereas, considering men only as tools, the merest instruments the public are liable to be imposed upon by false ru of your aggrandisement come here, in the wintry mors, and conjectures we beg leave to make a fair and street, and look upon God's image in its babyhood! frank statement of the facts which compelled us to this Consider this little sian. Are not creatures such as course of conduct. these the noblest, grandest tilings of earth? Have The company from Yamhill county met at Portland, they not solemn natures are they not subtly touched agreeable to the proclamation, on the 18lh of April, for the highest purposes of human life? Come they and organized on the 19lh, and were the 9lh company; not into this world to grace and dignify it? There is after which we, who had been elected to office by the no spot, no coarser sluIT in the pauper flesh before popular vole of our company, made application to the you, (hat indicates a lower nature. Ihere is no felon Adjutant General for our commissions, to which he re mark upon it no natural formation indicatins the thief plied, that fie "would not commission a d d one of In its baby fingers no inevitable blasphemy upon its us" alledging,as his reasons fur refusing, that he had lips. It lies before you a fair, unsullied thing, fresh not witnessed the elections. He immediately crossed from the hand of God. Will you, without an cfTorl, the river, and being met by a friend,, was enquired of let the great fiend s,lamp his fiery brand upon it? Shall whether the Yamhill company had not been organized it, even in its sleeping innocence, be made a trading and arranged; he replied, in answer, that he "would thing by misery and vice? A creature borne from not commission a Gd d done of them." But after street to street, a piece of living merchandise fur min- all this, he gave us our commissions, expressing the fried beggary and crime? Say; what, with its awaken- utmost satisfaction with the men chosen to office, say ng soul, shall it learn? What lessons whereby to pass iug that he had just got the men he wanted, any how. through life, making an item in the social sum? vvhy, All was riphl,so far as known to us, until weariived cunning will be its wisdom hypocrisy its truth tlic'ft at the Cascades where we were politely informed its natural law of self-preservation. To this child, so that we must fall back one company, and let the corn nurtured, so taught, your whole code of morals, nay, pany from Polk county go before and there, fortius your brief right and wrong, are writ in stranger fig- first time, we began to entertain fears of having been ures than Egyptian hieroglyphs, and time passes numbered wroug. and you scourge the creature never taught, for the hei- We however traveled on in the road without nous' guilt of Knowing nought but ill! Thcgn:iJ has much complaint, and did not know for certain until a been a scaled book to him, and the dunce is punished muster roll was presented for our signatures, as lbs Willi tfie jail. tenth company. We refused to sign it unless justice Doubtless there arc great statesmen wizards in was done to our company; and asked to have the error bullion and bank paper thinkers profound in cotton, corrected, and give us our own place, which was tho and every turn and variation of the markets, abroad 9lh company. and at home. But there arc statesmen yet to come Here it may not be amiss to say thai we had not on statesmen of nobler aims, of more heroic action teacti- ly been treated with the injustice complained of, but a ers of the people vindicators of the universal dignity distinction was made as to provisions. Capt. Nesmith's of man apostles of the great social truth that knuwf- company had a beef purchased for them, pf which wo edge, which is the spiritual light of God, like his ma- got none and we were out of meat nearly twbdayk tenal light, was made to bless and comfort all men. while the others were favored with plenty. We also And when these men arise and it is worse than weak, made application for araunilion, as some fourteen of ft is sinful, to despair of them the youngling poor will our company were entirely destitute of any, and failed not be bound upon the very threshold of human life, to obtain it but were told that we should have some and made, by want and ignorance, life's shame and before we left for Fort Waters. The other companies curse. St. Giles and St. James. vv re furnished amunilion, plenty, we suppqse. y We also asked to have our horses shod, as the other Indemnity for tub War. There is quite a mawkish companies were gelling theirs shod that needed shoe sensibility among certain persons about making Mexi- ing, and were promised that after awhile vvc should co pay the expenses of the war and give no iudemnity bo attended to and finally we are told that rye U(4 for the past. Even the tariff reglations in the ports we vvait and gel our horses shod and follow on-, &afr bave captured do not meet with their approbation. take the army as all tlw otfcer companies nrer read?