.• • .Vi,. r ■ < ' / 1. „ As " ' . V . f * *i*k. rA i — 4-Ï------ Y f- .<) * L .. . ’ g-.-,M .sa * * ■ y • * J* ’ V • b , 'j t ; f ' .-- A ' • > - « "•*» ■ ,S1 _ - .. ' /t » ; ~ ~r~T"7 . t J. - ■ \. rKTAT» -HT-XSOWr! V x.rñf ,x c* MAY 22, 1866. LAFAYETTE, OREGON, VOL. I. ’ V «¡r**r-, ii - ’* -C./ *• «» . Tè the Toten of Grant County. UNFORTUNATE. THE CO URIER ----- 1-------------------------- ‘— ** • < * ’ ■ ; <■" can party can lay but a poor claim to such a thing..They recognize the South as in the Union, so far as the duties of States are concerned, but out' of the STATE PLATFORM, t’nion when their States are adopted in ^ onvenhon at involved. They are in the Nnion for it the purpose of taxation, but out of it Portland, for the purpese of representation. We are Iaboriflg to preserve this sacred I&66 J principle upon which this Government APRILS, Was founded—the inseperabiliy of tax­ T. Resolved, That we affirm as the ation and representation—and insist creed of our political faith and practice, our devotion to the following prmci- wutuv, i,j „V ucn, j— ' tog P- -------- that congress > uro? has uy npjauthority to deny steadfast to representaives wbfr. PM. Efoal and exact j tohicojo all admission < requisite - ö Oh S titüt^an fflen of /^° Ter , p>rty or 7^ b° -• r jssess the 1 “ i , • support oí of the state Gov Gavarnmeuts tun meats in.all- in .all - n H wo A/m/Minnn » r» +hrt A. _ . qualifications, n and we denounce, in the their rights, and. of the Federal Govern- language of our platform, “ the present uuCit in all its vigor; a jealous care of the— action of congress as an unwarran­ elective franchise; the supremacy of the ted assumption of power, revolution­ clivi over tha militery authority; oppo­ ary iff its tendency and dangerous to sition io the centralization of power; econs otny in all public expenditures-4 sone­ the. liberties of the people rai diffusioq of education; the encourage­ To the provisoins of the Freedmen’s ment of morality’ and the highest civiliza­ Bureau and Civil Righto bills, togeth­ tion ; the right of every man to/ifrorship __ er with’, the unanswerable objections God according to thh dictates of his own set fourth in Johnson’s vetoes of the conscience ; freedom of speech , freedom same, we invite your attention. The of the press, aud freedom ol the pei -< The Oregonian is Bingularly ^doom­ ; \ P ortland , May 14th, 1866. ed to be edited by thieves. Since Dry­ er wçnt out of the concern it Las gone' F e L lo ;?C itizens of G rant C oonìy : daeaydttb , A^the nominees ot the Democratic through excruciating trials and tribu- i party and Secretary of YAMHILL COUNTY; OREGON. lations, editorially.- We will com- L z for Congress »-s , | State, wc had designed visiting y, BY mentfte with the Penitentiary convict, duHng the present campaign, and hi lad J. H. u ' tJPT O M: Walton, that served a term az quill made appointments to meet you at PUBLISHER AND EDITOR. driver for the-concern, whose mantle, ■ various places in your county. After if we mistake not, feH upon Holbrook, i reaching-Auburn we found the road TERMS-OF SUBSCRIPTION. Tbs latter named gentleman has been ' 2!*£ !“>P?s8>$lei -r One Copy One Year, -. . . . |2 50. , . .. ... 'and were thus compelled to abandon One Copj* Six Months, .... 1 BO. openly charged by h is party with bci1 , the trip. We regret this ■■■ exceedingly, ■ • — T E R M S O F A D V WTI S I N G . ing a ttSanitary thief,” since he quit , tt8 at this particular time it would have One Square, 12 Lines or’ l#ss, one In­ the/Jregouiau in 61. His mantle de­ .¡Afforded us sincere pleasure to have dis sertion, , V , , , , , $3.00 scended upon Clark, the “School Fund cussed before you issues which we con- For each subsequent insertion, $1,00. ! cciyelo be of vital interest. These A liberal deduction will be made on and fee bill thief,” and his; upon the- i issue» are pot onljto important, but to a Quartejly, Yearly and haff Yearly Adver­ literator and Cynic, who remains t gyent extent entirely ■■ 1 - new, and J 2 in - the tisements. j" _ aLuutthe premise?) possessing’nokher : consideration ----- - j —- u be — n of them it ------ would well Hotel, Midteal and Law Cards, $10,00 ’ indeed, if we. could ¿TTvest ourselves of vice nor virtue, nor ability, and who — ber anumh. prejudices,J and approach j was compelled to submit to beipg su­ party the subject “ with malice toward none, perceded ami supplanted as chief fu­ , with charity for all,” withJieads capa- COUNTY OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. -7-=^Judga. ,1. . gle map, by.. the Baker-eight huudred- Jble df understanding and heart» wil- ------------- - - ma n* -wtro Ermaess ami paubtisuFar- the Proai- ‘ 2: Resolved,- That the action of Uro forms adopted nytbe two' parties whose Whitcomb ; Clerk; S."C.‘Adams'; Asses­ stole the bogs from li Jones." dent—yet it.se’rvesto show the animus majority in Congress in refusing to xdnut Have candidates solicit your suffrages are al- of that party. The latter is ho 1 ess ob the Representatives of eleven States, is sor, Charle» Handley ; Treasurer,-- Js>hn W-. Wattx; Schnut “Superintendent, Rev." you seen" Jones ? ready -ixrforcytni ,^==tatwccn them, an d jeetionable, and as it is an existing an unwarrented assumption of po ver «John Spencer ;*Coroner, W. W. Brown ; not between'men, are you to choose. law, we must boldly meet it. We op­ upon the part of -Cocgress, revolution« iy r», Think! in its tendeùèy* and dangerons tc the Jib- *• Surveyor, A. 3. Watt.— t TKe Rathcal Candidates for offices What a. contrast-l .1» not - one ambi­ pose it because it conflicts with the erties of the people; that we do aqd wilt tious, deceptive and demagogical-»-th$ rights of the StateB, and inevitably, sustain President Johnson in his determi­ of Stato, are opposed to taxing bonds, othe£ bold^jnaDly, and patriotic ? The nation and -tiorts for the c 7 DENTISTRY. *•■* —. — ’ —«ar-— ’ ’■ and u^vitäUOö ie'ajiiifairtdBMt sym- great question, however, is tbatjjfl re- leads to negro suffrage and the* perfect ration of ad the coHStitut iom»l’nal Services to tlie in our oonstitution. The ayt- admjd- cl riy Rumed Tiy * Presidefif '¡J01 A.> '< 0:., th inteiest • in embrares'the idea t& tfr' the’ *Fonthprn t'itizns of Lafayette and § ujt < niid ng pay him his 37: s ». tu a t th o ting Oregon into the Union guarnteed ' coin. RepresentatVes fretn jhe Soottiern„States Country- no. 12 tf. States have not been, and therefore in . t .w* ' —w.,.-- T,...... ........., ........... ù----------- ’ Now let us think u little a nd exam-' are not now, out ofTtheTTinion,—that *k:_ a __ °pght lo be at once "adrniit, cise of. this right. Are you- jvillmg yvilling Congress, and that. luuslat«u jinetbis pretense. TbJ money Shy- they are fret and ¿qua! members of and the SuTh* States w^HeTh'ey* è ffmepreHffii S. HURL3ÜRT. to adrpit that your liberties J” ileeks bought those bonds, not with l.he lIn,ioB’ atid as SBchJ c1ntjtled.to aH rights ot 1— ’ - meetawHrjnir -------- of your State arer^ arer thus entirley as uncorjstitr* unconstitutional, hearty -A j * the rights and privileges belonging to .at the tnercy—the discretion of a wild, approval. • at . capricious and fanatical body ? And.,*- Resolved, That the assuniptón of LAW ■ — . » uieul, dollar lor-dollar, bttt jyith green r ■ ------------ -•------------------- u Pit »ident Johnson’s r position, .<>*-»• a ... ~ I thn (»nnnaicuiu.vtì6tot th*-«* . -■ »---- -v.,—4T --- - - _______ z Lafayette,. YamhitHfWwtr.- Oregon.' if their design wae not ueivercial suf the oppoaidoa-Uhrt toe- Denmciafi i pnrty is in fsvor of repudiating the public debt. Kij l. practice, in ..the Supre me; .J-Lr.uni frir^'Tf their pwpwe was ' Hrrd-i 'itt >^-is m fav-r of nullification ar to'fortyfi Scents on the dollar; and this uan I. who have long opposed-the. Do- and all of the Coiirts'6f.tl»R-Sfate. ..... __ . .. .. ' . .... *. ... . -• -i __ i- lx. “""Vt-.:“ ‘■fP'V’.. -’2.TLX ! protcctihe freedmen in the enjoyment secession, is slaf»derfos ami false'. - TrO ...asa—W|*'<,l*!'^™‘ I -«f of the. fruits ofhis labor, why did they 5. Resolved, That „ we endorse -tfio -in e ' cougress is, that these ¡States are out invest him with . all the dignity and Scuti merit of Senator Douglas; that thi# ' 1 bus loi .’-'i 5 ■ (), 1000of the Union—at all events, so fiir rights of an American qitizen, and re­ Government was made On a white, basis for dollars 'of these 7-3-10. per cent, out that they shall not be-aUowed rep- DR. H. J. DOUGHTON. move those barriers which God and the benefit-of the white man, and we are s' , Laie interest bonds were procured, resentation. in the National Council— the laws of the land placed between opposed to extending the'right of sufferage Physician & Surgeon, Now’ ’add - to this 7-3-10. per I a right which unquestionably belongs the races ? Why not content them­ to any other tharf white men. , to every State in the Union, until Resolved, That the exemption of In r the HOSPITAL DEPART* eent.' interest, 5 per cent, taxes, ench time as congress shall have dcclar selves by securing the negro those United Suites bonds from taxation is sub- • rights which the unnaturalized for­ tsantialy the'exemption of rich men from including. State, County, Road and ed them entitled to . such representa­ eigner enjoys under our laws ? Are taxation becjiUsc Xucy are rich, and Schoo! tax, which tho laboring man is tion. This is the question of the Re­ negroes and Chinese entitled to’ grea* tnxstron Of poor' men because they are Of The Army/if the POjEtlM AC. ’compelled to pay on Ins thousand dol­ publican party here and elsewhere, r ter . protection than an _ Englishman, poor, and we are in frvbr ot taxing tboaa Office in Dayton, Oregon. . _ ___ _ > j Which is correct?. This you are to German. Iritfbmttn er Frenchman ? bonds fqr county, State and municipa 1 i lars « rorth of property, and it* will be 1 decide nftit June. For what purpose V 1 W iiy, then’ such extraordinary legisla Why, legisla- ­ purposes. seen that the bond holders interest is was the war waged? Was it to preserve 7. Resolved ; That strict and impartia tion in their favor? God graut suc­ fully equal to 12 per cent, per anumn. ' or destroy the union ? If it was for the cess to that party which alone has the I justice demands that tha^x pences of the So on an investment of 8150 he draws former, and it was not a failure, the will to save this Republic frotij the I General Government, a8 well as. of the J. T. HEMBREE, : : : PRO. yearly one hundred and twenty dollars, policy of Johnson is correct, Was it •miserable fate of the anarchical gov­ State Governments, should be bdkne by the people according to their ability, trirt' waged for the purpose of conquest or ernment of Central America. HIS HOTEL is still kept for the ac­ not according to their necessities, and commodation of boaniers and the in coin, so-in less than four years he for the suppression of the rebellion ? To the sixth Democratic resolution hence that we conqemn now,as in ti.u part, has al! back that his thousand dal/ If for the jormer^the position of the • travelling public. Ci- we would also paricularly call your at a protective tariff that tends, necessarily* Good brk in bonds cost bint, with the full I Republican.partyinay be consistent tention : Do you favor the establish­ to opprss the masses for the benefit of though certainly not magnanimous: ment dt-ji privileged class of citizens— the rjch. thousand yet undisturbed. Is it not ,.2. ‘ .■ , 'W-t ■ but if for the latter purpose merely, a moneyed aristocracy indeed, • who 8. »Resolved, That in a Democratic. foain that this system is a cursp to the and it has been accomplished, the pol­ and. attentive hostlers. noL while living in wealth—revelling in Gevernment the real sovereignty rusts in* government and works a stupendous icy of the President and the Democra- -—7^—r,---------- — juxury—enjoying all the benefits and the people* aud all efforts tending towrest injustice to the whole people? ^hen power from the people is r w at - upon . cy, is the only true one. In a resolu ­ B. C. BRADSHAW, blessings of Government are yet reliev them, revolutionary and dangerous; and tion adopted, by congress after the war t why defend so iniquitous a scheme of ed from bearing the duties and burdens had fairly beguq. it was solemnly de­ of citizens ? If not, resist at the.polls that the existence of natiopl banka4 after the cxperiencewQ have had- > with and ..plunder, fraud and theft. clared that the war was waged^imply the further exemption of bondholders, without them, especially in times of peace, •eac Toiling thousands of Yamhill Coun­ “ to defend and maintain ffrtf'suprem- AND i ’ rich men, from taxation. Consider is a subject of jqst alarm.. ? i acy of the ’ Constitution and to preserve ty 1 Think of-the Shylock with his , -a- 6. Rclsolved, That the unlawful fo’d calmly and well Congress’ plan of reco COUNSELOR AT LAW, lady seated by his side, riding over the Union with all the dignity, equal­ nstruction, the report of the committee shameful squandering of tha people’^ the Roads you have lalwred and j ity and rigb^ °C the several States un­ of fifteen, the Freedmen’s Bureau and mouey by our present State officials Lafayette, Oregon,. i impaired. Mr. Lincoln never recog­ ■, 7. - , ‘ . sweat to make, while he will contrib­ nized any other -object, and it is for Civil Right’s Bills, the present bond meets with onr emphatic condemna system and Sherman’s proposed Loan tion. OLICITOR IN CHANCERY. WLL ute nothing toward makiqg yqur bur­ this that we are contending. ■ The 10. ftilWlSttiAoIdL Bill and you wil) then realize the* fear­ Practice in the District and Supremo den lighter. . Think of the taxes you Southern States have dono all that ful tendency of Republican legislation. in grafefof fterito*/ . Courts of Oregon.' . ' either Mr.Lincoln or Mr. Johnson sug- pay to school his children. Think of - It is to the centralization of power, E? btt axes Paid, Collections made; and ' gelled as necessary to a friendly recep­ the equalization of the races and the whose patriotic, trot mercenary or par-. what it costs you-to keep up Courts to ' Proceeds Promptly remitted. tion on the part of the Northern concentration of wealth in the hands tisan servioes, the dignity:bf the 1&. ■------- -------- - ----- ... • - a. . public and the integrity of tbe.Union protect hjm in the undisturbed enjoy- • 1 States, and yet they are deuied the of the few. Before such a condition were preserved; and wo denounce as meat of his bonds, and think of the i . rights of States. They have abolish- pf things the happiness and liberties »..basejusult to the pliant Jiving and , ‘A— ■ une r u us .taxatio n th e vo ry-uxisteaoo off cortaa 6f the AhiertcHi TWpte ^iil ¿ . ' i V« . • Í.. V' grown so .affectionate , that they jgivc ‘0f rhe'* hite tnan. and ^oto the Democratic ticket, and 1 Consistency, even in ..wrong, may be Salem, Oregon. »heir children chlorofrom previous previous to to. fU ReSoWed, idosbM * J R&tfftd, that th® the miners StNtriti Win practico in the Supreme iu3 Dis- we will thus be soon able to set tlita-R I 1 admired. It bespeaks at least some .____________ cblorofrotu be encouraged and protected-fn the free tri« Court« of Oregon ’> right. x .j sincerity and honesty. i The Republi-1 whipping them ‘ use sf the mihes rssvtn KVERt TUESPAT, AT.' -ATTORNEY uieiit, LnFAYEWfi HOUSE T STABLING, ATTORNEY X S ’ JF Í •f ■ £ ' F ' ' ' a • V — r~' Í I: - . Y ’ y. - .. ii- !• . ; .• ' . J- 4 •I f • \ . ; toT . - j •> i ■ _ . •