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OREGON FREE PRESS VOL. I.) FOR TH11 "WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1848. (NO. 20. Here shall the Press Ibe people's rights maintain, Unawcd by influence, and unbribed by gain." TO THE PUBLIC, proved in accordance with its spirit and intention; nei In reply to a remonstrance published in a late num- ther was it intimated or expressed that counsel should ber of the Spectator, and signed by S. R, Thurston and not be heard, if either or both of the parties desire it, other citizens of Linn City, and which we think ought before the arbitrators yet ue believe that community not to have been published until the proceedings of the if- abundantly salisfled with what they have heard from meeting lucre before the public, so that the nv: ul -ounsel on disputed land cleims one of our objects be have had the proceedings and the reinr nstrance belbre i-g to furnish such a remedy as would avoid the ex tnem at the same time, to form a correct opinion of lensc of U)al luxury for the future. The committee their respec tve merits; and the mistaken view taken brand as a miserable subterfuge, that part of the re by the editor of the Spectator, of the object of certain monstrance which charges them with refusing to sign resolutions passed at a mecline ot the citizens of Chick- the articles until others should do so for the printing amas county, (with onb one dissenting voice,) held at or them was not finished until the Spectator made its Oregon City on the 22d of July last the object of which appearance containing this charge. But they are signed meeting was to devise means for a cheaper and speniier :v, and the names of a majority of the committee remedy to remove intruders from land claims, etc., ami ;'and among the first for the proof of which we refer community to the proceedings of our meeting, published in the 17lh No. of the Free Press, and the respectable assembly present at our meeting. The facts set forth in. the preamble to our resolutions, as was intended, to prevent others from harrassing the people in that way. The committee who reported on the by-laws, and as man of the committee of arbitration as are present, beg to make a frank avowal of their inten tions, and to disavow the imputations so unjustly made abundantly show the justice of our claims on the against them in that remonstrance; and in doing this, United Slates government for grants of 640 acres of we declare thai our intentions were simply to organize land but in view of these facts, (which we are com a sy.cfcm of regulations similar In Uns which havipjttri to rmpstion.) they should decline to make grants been in existence for more than 20 years in all the stales for this amount, we would refuse, as we did at the and territories where there has been public lands for meeting, any and every measure that would seem like sale, and having no desire to treat with disrespect the menace, and only urge the justice of our claims and laws of Oregon or the United Slates; but to keep the in the meantime, we will hold the occupancy of these proper claimant in possession, in as cheap and speedy tracts in the possession of the proper claimant, until a manner as possible, and to prevent the intruder from they can be secured in whatever way the government receiving a grant of his neighbor's claim by improve- may provide, and when this is done, the Association, menls and occupancy before he can be removed by the with .Ibe reasons that called it into existence, are at an lardy and expensive operation of the law, and in doing this, our by-las require us to he governed sli icily by the Organic Law regulating the taking of land claims; the third resolution requiring the arbitrators to be gov erned by the spirit and intention or that law, and the principles of equity and justice. Believing that a jury silling in our courts would be governed by the same principles, and thai a decision of theirs should be a quietus to all further proceedings, end. Tiieo. Magroder, I. SMITH, M. At. McCarver, Vm. Meek, P. SCHOLL, P. H. Hatch, P. Foster. A friend has kindly translated for us from the French the following: anecdote of the Emperor of Russia while at the Congress of Vienna, in 1814 and '15. A young mid- we do not as slated in thai tissue or falsehoods, the re- snipman in me uussian iavy wno naa never seen me monstrance, make Ibe decision of three men final; but Emperor Alexander, had been sent,asthe bearer of im if either party wishes an appeal, they can have it tried porlanl dispatches to the Emperor at Vienna, who, as by twelve persons. We further deny, that we ever at l'ciersuurgn, useu 10 sirou anout town Dy nim- expressed an intention to disregard the decisions of the st'lf- 0n morning as his majesty was coming out of territorial courts, nor is it our intention, and neither ,lis palace, in a plain dress, be saw the young officer have we heard any person connected with the associa- vvho seemed anxious to enter the palace. As he ap- lion, intimate an intention in any event to overthrow pcarcd at a loss how to shape his course, the Emperor the government of Oregon, or to resist the laws of the addressed him and said, United Slates, except the two gentlemen vvho spoke in " You scem 10 bc looking for some one." opposition to the association, but who declared their "Yes," replied the young Middy, "I have a dispatch willingness to join us in resisting the laws of the United to deliver to Ibe Emperor of Russia. I have been di- Slates viz: Messrs. Wail and T'Vaull ; but whose sug- reeled to the Palace of Burgh, and I am only this mo- gestion, coupled with their co-operation, Ibe meeting menl arrived at Vienna, and l nave no person to take respectfully declined. But we here state, that it was me to the Palace or introduce me, and I do not know plainly expressed and fully understood by the meeting, vvho to get to do these offices for me." that the committee of arbitration were not to dispense Alexander was quite taken with the open and frank with any of the requirements of the Organic Law in manners of the young officer, and therefore continued deciding upon land claims; and that claims, in order to his incognito, bo good, should have been tab en, recorded and im- (See fourth page.)