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F; _ I * I F fl} ■u .—r .• ti i j;" i I i fe. 4* •1 * Î f M < ■1 ' i U S r ET < I a . ? F » Í * niia Ws um i r iltlH Military Tyranny. ifÀ: WEEKLY ceDRIER 9 W. J0HM3ON, - * I! TUESDAY JULY, 28 < T»*.—— .»■■■ - thus calls attention ,.— F ob P resident . F or V ics P resident , Francis P. Rlair. OF MISSOURI. I* k *> rOR PBESTDENTLAL ELECTORS, * S. F. CHADWICK, of Douglas County. JOHN BURNETT, of Benton County. AS. H. SLATER, of Union County. 7 I I i V'i I *■ xr ■ ORGANIZE. "idi ? ■ ’ i Fe'.low Democratsand lovers of the Constitution and free institutions, lovers of a*white mans government ; you who Í are opposed to negro suffrage, and the Ì I I » I b I * in . I . settingupatthe white houses military I Dictator, who will at once control one third of our country through the military , Kings, and who will endeavor to convert | the entire country to the despotic sway of a military despotism. year. On the other hand, an ; of thè United States army, holdin )m- mission, the obligations of whicli i| aggravate every offense against^j mor, justice or chivalry, was receutly r ,by the same military law for shootin town and murdering an old man, a: de Je>9 prisoner, and was sentenced to4*wjiat ? —death ?-imprison men t for life ?*P ignominy ? No, none of these, three or six months* imprisonme lit .<(*» have forgH which) not in fhe ! D: 'i y For- tugas at hard labor, but in the re >e and dignity of the officers’ quarters of a Umes- 1 tic fort! ii ♦ ara > *it A\v»fr Ì 'i “H * You who would pay off the public debt r r j i : i - > 4 ' i * ■ •i ___________ Grant was a . » —= sisase . , Breolrinrîdge .......................................... '.imi I V M * < • j- i Í J Democrat ‘Grant and the negro vote” ¡i God when the war oommenoed* and durieg th e to uriiome BodicalMm looks for man decs not prove that he possesses a war declared himself a Democrat, and old tioa/at tksltime.j nbtm its God isfh^angel giant’s strength by overmastering an .in Grant is one now, and says Ulys. Is. of darkness, and the darty will be dieper- valid or a crippli/ A general does not sedhty the light of Democratic tfuth, as establish his title to be considered great When did he change ? or b he playing by subduing an army one-third as large possum on them, and will’ turn up a Tyler, the valley of the shadow of death is made as his own, and losing five of his own men or Johnson, should he be electod. “ The, luminous by the rays from the throne of * for every one that he disables of the exigencies of the times demand a states the immortale God. < wy » « i Wrfr S 1 T4. 4 •i I* A ' ’y: i * ’¿FA. f man, not a political - shyster—a man of V Wilsoq of Benator principle not professions/’ Massachusetts, f chairmanof ’ the If Graht is not a political shyster we cer- during the rebellion was chaírmánof Military Committee and charged Grant tainly have none in the nation. 1 ■: : i ■ j. with “being an habitual drunkard and tried to induce Mr Lincoln to remove him C oming It is rumored that Calvin B. on account of his drunkenness. Jpcing a Macdonald, the “Trippie tbnnderer” of the Salem Unionist, has accepted an invitation good templar, of course^ be’M- vote for to take ed itorial charge of the Oakland Grant whois more besotted now than then Evening Transdript. Mac is a terrible fel low to kill oti news papers. His “slain” are — A S ockdolager on C onness ,—In a re- already numbered fby scores— Drama tic ■4 oent letter a correspondent ot the Bull«- Chronicle. r> -.4 '"El.—.2 ' 4. Jost what we said last fall when Mac was ; ! I- -t's. •>*...£ . r transplanted to “webfootdom,’ and the‘»loyal: tin gives utterances to the following bife of thatCountiy were felictating themselves of irony on Pea-nnt John who now mis? hugely on the prospect of his rooting Benah Brown and despatching the Herald, We represents California in the genate. i It will be sad day for our State a sad " told them Mao was-justly a terror to news papermen I But that we knew of none who day for Congress, and a sadder still for need dread so much bis approach as the- the country at large, when, ou tbe 4th of proprietors and publishers of the Unionist March next, the wise statesman, the gif. from whose sanctum he proposes to hnrl his ted orator, the trusty partisan and the thunders! Mac’s'artillery has a terrific faithful Senator, who never hesitated to baokaction!— Yreka Union. obey the commands of caucus, or “shrank Just so. The Unionst office was on monday last, dosed out by the “loil’* Sheriff of rom any party work because it happened Marion county Mac. had “did” the work to be dirty, vacates his seat in tbe Senate- and left in disgust.—A loil bread and butter because of the “shamelessness” of party ~ . ohap bought the concern and the same will “faction.” . rz: J-:.... -g" .- »f.-.*-'' probably be run until the hopes of loilty are J. J. Hoffman, Chief Justice of the foreclosed by the elec ion of Seymour and Blair next November. —Ntfnal. city of Portland, has decided that in his Three groans fof Mo. The blackey court, when the dity is a party to an acx Clem Eckles party have held a wake dose tion, neither party can have the interven - by the cor pi-us of the defunct Unionist ! tion of a jury. . " • ’ i j*/ I ■ - - ------ I ■ v- # —.v Gordo, the Mexicans 12,000. The splen did victory of Contteras was achieved by Scott With 4.500 | mon against 12,000 Mexicans. General Scott, hi bis report to the Secretary^!War, speaking of the battles in front of -Mexico, said : “And I, assert upon accumulated and unques D^C these tioned evidence, that in not on^jof dzb fewer conflicts was ibis army opposedzby than three and a-hlif times its numbers— xn several of them,|)y a yet greater , ex* cess.” If it be saidj that Gen. Grant had disadvantages of ground arid position to encounter in advahliDg through an ene ■L ■ vri.i! *. Hiram U. alias Ulysses S. Grant Hi! - There is not an office in the world of > greater duties and responsibiliti that of the President of tha United States ■ - ----------------------------------- — i •1 fi® b. i» « 1 » * ? 4 X * » ■I f 1 f I* - I » j < I A •H iny’s oountry, the sjime is equally true ef Hr Scott, iwho, nevett heless, with greatly the government with those of whom the inferior numbers, advanced rapidly from money was procured, instead of paying Grant, triumph to triumph, while — ‘ oper- — an enormous debt, (which was agreed ating with superior numbers against a . i 7 , Mg * f 8 ■** * f and have refused to “default** to any mor« nearly exhausted fc e, required a whole when the money was procured should be The incumbent of that office si E vening C ommercial .—Our friend M. counties to support black and-tan papers. imond, wbioh finally capiuiü amu year to capture Rid paid in Legal Tender ;) in U. S. Gold thoroughly versed in the princi P. Bull, a printer, lawyer^ and now one of 5 r ii ' ,i * ex hat stion rather than to bed to exhal coin, you who would see the government workings of our government and with the succumbed T had S tevens said if Johnson was not the Justices of the peace has commenced a military genius.” 2 administered in accordance with the prin law of Nations, and that sta convicted the radicals would carry but two the publication of the above named paper. »P •’U, T ’ ■ r ■ ■■ : 9/ a '• I ciples ef the Constitution, who would see and diplomacy that will cause our country Stites—Massachusetts and Vermont.— It is neat and outspoken. We extract Plank in th« Chtea- The Negro SUffir 1 > the following, as a specimen. unwind The Presideat not convicta^. go enough qf liberty left, that a true lover to be prosperous at home and tform. i ■ r Í mu - I • of a republic can remain in ihe country the respect of other nations. Unasaeasablo Railroad Stock. The second resolution of the Chicago plat M». D rake , of Missouri, gave Mr. Fes We published, yesterday, the “Gards” of Lives there a man under God*i throne form reads*as follows^ > without conscientious scruples, should I senden a good dressing down in the Senate. Hon J. \V. Nesmith and Hon. J. W. P. I. null. The g mrantee by tongress of equal suf who will claim for Hiram 0 lyses organize, buckle on your armor and do —Boston Traveler. Huntington, in relation to tbe offer of fifty frage to ill loyal meni at the south was de No, Drake only let down his own dress., thousand dollars of “reserved and uuasses- battle for the old flag, and our precious any Statesmanship whatever? manded by t every consideration of public sable” railroad stock in the East Sids Rail- > safety, df r g gratitude, and of justice, and must Prentice. He has never made a speech o: Constitution. road Company, by that Company, to Mr. be maintained ; while the question of suf- Democrats of Yamhill, you are all sat- a letter on any political question f----- Lf (rage in * jail the loyal States properly belongs ' T he R eason .— Madder colors red.—• Nesmittrilpr hi? influence in behalf of tbe _r th .i. ^ 8tate| Company Passing over the blunders ‘made to the pqoplè : of isfied that yon legally and rightfully he, in any private conversation Qi ^his is the reason why the madder you in making such an offer to the sterliug in V We though tthi above resolutions would get the redder you grow. «arried Yamhill County at the last elec veloped any knowledge of any sub tegrity of such a man a* Mr. Nes irnth, we A ’ • cannot bat here remark tbe bad public policy prove entirely satisfactory to the most» tion. You know that money was used, national policy or politics, nor any of reporting to such means for inllaenoe. I;, radioal negro suffrage man of the black- Y . es r , S ib :—“Ain you familiar wid de is setting an example which no respetable and a portion of which came out of -your knowledge above playing second fit Talmud ?” asked a literary African of a aud-tan party, and we so said, i In proof pockets for taxes, to prevent men who a small tann ry, unless it be in tb sable brother; to which the latter respon- people, ought for a moment to wink at or tol that we kere correct^ we clip the .follow- dedJ *A- Yes, sah,to de tai* erate; The inevitable asd direct resp.lt of De tall mud would have voted with us from doing so; war. such a course of action—the-offering of sub lest kind of uiud. I’m a native in New sidies, in the nature ofbribes- ing iron the Philadilphi bribes— — is to dempral- demoral Nor hae be shown any great ability, as ia Post : you know that the enemy of the oountry 1 ize public sentiment. J ÇO’TUpt York and to de mud and manner born. ti • • t public WOT- ■Ii ■ 1 There is nothing i* iij the '* republican - plat- is thoroughly organized into Union a soldier. The highest virtue of a spldier ality’ poison the currents of .bmnesss hipor. form, adopted at Chicago, Which we cannot Grant and Colfax are making a tour, take unfair advantages of a rival Company, Leagues and Grand Army encampments is the courage requisite to tell the truth, heartily approve. Jor - ’even -* ' ' article, • • seq^nd the second laboring in a legitimate way. and, in sliorC one open tb to objection out west.— Exchange' / and are making a death struggle to hold in which Grant has shown himself sadly which is the only 0ne substitute for fair, honest, upright doling pledges the party to 4>aintain impartial suf ! F wanting. • Yes and they will both make a fina among men, all the trickery i fraud^ aiidcor- the popular vote of this oounty- I frage in. the south. ^hat maintained, it 'is n The New York World careful Is npt your country worth one noble inevitable that impartial suffrage will be es tour up salt river and be buried in the rnption of kuáves and demagogue«. Wv dG not desire to be understood as applying those tablished in thè nor • for it is impossible sea of oblivion.; They had better bic characteristics to the geutlemeu contipCted united struggle ? Is not the fair reputa* that the vui*v me ■ , republican repuuiman ¡puny ¡party can divide aiviue ]U its with the East Sido Company ; but we WHrn tion of'¡your home, your country worth one documents which challenge scrutin ■ principles k ’ '-’ j and hold U a two faced policy. It their political friends a last farewell. them that the policy exhibited in thiSiMTer , j is certain to lose tbe ( ored vole in the south contradiction. strong united effort ? Then let every man w ith gr<at IJ to Mr.'Nesmith, is one fraught ----- Q r . t D eserts thb S inking S hip .—The Boston Let U9 look at the figures^!. When G rant unless it’gives tbs b^lotto colored citizens danger to tfieir reputation as honorable foie who would do good in the noble cause fi)ets to become in the north. AoH.jfijt Anti.ifl.it re refuses become Pioneer, a leading German radical orgah and if persisted in will,ruin tbe uapae ot' nX; , crossed the Rapidan, the Confederacy was the chauipion of fretdpm everywhere, it will come bravely up to the work man upoóJ #hom it i? listened. Etery tnau deserve to be dis ed and defeated. The ___ reviews the history of the repubhoan party well nigh on its last legs from a three Organize bros. ! organize ! Let us meet •I it right of th« loyal Ata is to decide for them- its hypocrisy and fanaticism, and with- who desires to see fairness and correct deal » * ' ing, instinctively raises his hand and voice the enemy on the high roads i, in the mar- year’s exhaustive struggle. All its ports selves the snffra^Pqi FqU tstion does not, in our ‘ * 1 * ‘t it. ( The against those who confess their want df .<a opinion, give them po ver to prevent citizens I draws from .association with were blockaded, and the MississippiriVer ket places, at the fireside, every where good causé by resorting io a bribe to secure of the United States4, rom voting for officers Pioneer sava • was open to the gun-boats of its eqeiay. their ends/ No just canse needs that sut^A and expose the danger and fallacy of his of the United States jfod here it is that con- ' , , . , . 1 “The bond between us and the repub bribe be offered to any man, and if tbe East There was both a scarcity of provision'And provision and grew shdnld interferf We trust Mr. Ste position, and rout him, foot, horse and willj not forget hjis hie bill prohibiting states lican party is severed. Away with ^old Side Railroad Company cannot suceed w^- ' material of war. Its armies did kbt|inkm- vens wiU|not 1 out offering such sums o'f stook lor influence, dragoon! Let us redeem the ciounty cit _ from disfranchising citizens of the whole her, in effective forces, more th 1 “ country. And it is to be regretted that the 8ervilism, and hurrah for the indepen it is pilma facie evidence that it ought to fail. from the odium of radical'sm. There is another view of this matter also. fifth of the Federal. I convention did not more mhre explicitly declare dence of the Germans!” This reserved and unassessaWe stock, pro Our enemy is better organized than we; tht>-Ioyal that the people of the-Toy al states ought to But let us look at Grant’s operations, i posed lo be divided among the Directo-s, ||a i billot to Jheir fellow citizen«, citizens, and they will resort to all manne^ of cor especially when he assumed command, in grant the ballot Gen. Grant will be the President and not paid stock • nobony has^ver added one . without respect ’ to color. But we repeat Ilf ' „ e that it is impossible la confer full citizenship Icaue these disloyal curs to continue to quar^ dollar to the fund« of the Company on its ruption and fraud to accomplish their May, 1864. , His army consisted re I and tight over the spoils of defeat.-- ocount. ,1 ’ hea if the Directors are toppjjr • coloud people in the south south • purpose^. Let us watch them closely, ex huadred and eighty thousand men*! y He on the million of colored - nothin« fori it. it is Wbrth*:«S8 io ail intents ern stales, and to caislinne to withhold it Olympia Transcript* pose their frauds and satisfy the minds of crossed the Rapidan with 125,000, b and purposes unless some other person cont^i- Dg from the thousands indhe north. r i ** ■* I This is much nearer the truth than If .’.j I butes í ito to tbe funds of tho the Company t) a reserve to protect Washington. ¡1' 'j .AlK .And the people that radicalism is but another What clearer proof could any man ask rads generally come. Grant will not be just in proportion a “outsiders” pureb jse. ise. 4 Í Lee, at the date indicated, had L at ef- than the statements pf name forjoerrnption and fraud and tyranny oi this leading radical elected, but the disloyal black-and-tan the “oommen stock, in the same proportiq»1 This was is value added to th« the unassessable unassessabla stock stock!; ; and despotism. If we would see our feettve force of 52,000 men. paper ?' Let no I maqimake a mistake in curs will continue to quarrel and fight and whatever of valuéis value is made out of the tho country’s standard’ of citizenship and suf the material of the two armies when, they this matter. The elei ............ ction of Grant, is the ubassessable unassessable stook; is so ’ 'much much wrong folly over the spoils of defeat, Alamode Clem 0 r/ \ taken /—i - JÚBi each other in the Wild ess, fraudo , kntly from the pockets of thè frage decend to the level of the negro and encountered D . : ■ fi;. : 'I I universal ^enfranchise* sent of every male, Eckles. In vieaV common stockholders. everv *vie< of Up to the battle of Cold Harbor, June cbinaman, if we would have the officer above the age of twen ty one, without. re- the oase, case, this massessable wassessable stook in tho the ; . 3d, Grant had been reinforced to the and thei£ their offer of it to .Republicans stand up for you standard East Side Company, and throw the rob« of protection around the gard to race or colori? *’ *5: if’1 •' I tent of 97,000 men. Lee’s reinforce« bearers.— Unionist iprom mem persona, is to be sternly depre I malfeasance of an officer because he is A vote for^Grant js a vote for univer- by every fair mau.-^ up to the same time were I8,000u } | >aan<— t ■ Yes, biack-and-tans, stand 'up for them, cated and condemned by-every ’ I their partizan, if we wiftild see our once For tbe credit of our young State, and its If iyod would enfranchise yok i Grant’s total force including reinB ie- sal suffrage. for Some of them are not able to stand up opening system of internal Internal improvement^ improvements. glorious Constitution trampled under foot, letali such schemers be repudiated^ and ments was 222,000. Lee’s total fi •ree. the negro, chioaman^mongol, esquimaux for themselves and a monarchy or a moneyed aristocracy including reinforcements, was 70, and Indian, and otherwise approve of rad ’ crushed. ,000i When a radical refuses to obey the or set up to grind down our children, then | Returns to their respective govi :rn|i ical measures, then vote for Grant. CHAVS WASTKB FOR may we be < justified to remain at home, 1. ments showed that When both armies had ders of those in charge of the destinies of .Hi • WARREN’S HOUSEHOMirar- ______ and folding our arms, trust to providence reached the James, June 10th, the number . 7 f"¡ the party, they straightway charge him SI Cl AN, ibe most compie medrcial work :____‘■J- I » sky b It appears, P ast P raying F or .- r , written. No family can afford to be without to do the work be has allotted to Us. But of Grant’s army that had been put ho^s du with having been bought. They know (rations. Great the New York Herald:.-of tbe 23d ulu, it ; contains over 400 if we would see harmony, peace, prosper combat was 117,000. Up to the sama Ji ate ». their own weakness. address “ Pacino inducements to Agents. Ar* that the colored bretheren of Washington i —: I the number of Lee ’ s men that had ' been ity and national happiness for ourselves P ublishing Co., San Franòisco. 26 dm Friday night preti ¡r generally joined in Our party is a party ot progress — ■> » and generations to come, if we would have put hors du combat was 19,000. The two the • prayer that the L •rd might so enligh I armies then met in front of Petersburg h I ten the minds of Senators as to enable Oregonian. a country where law is the only sovereign, awekst wamted /___ _____ 1' edueia of Andrew Y es, last Presidential election your can- > RAND them to see thé wick “ The truest test of military genius, ” ‘fl FOR THIS ruling over principalities and powers by I judge hit Johnson ami judge him accordingly ; but » if---- didate was à joker and this time he is a says the World, “ia the accomplishment the magic ef its command, because its tbe vote on Saturday inorning morning shows that -> « •i> - * : ’ I i We of great result with slender means, toper. Bndoraed by ÌOCF.UÒO “ persons: ) » the impeachment was past praying for majesty is enthroned in the hearts of a WRITING 4 ¡Sells at sight to all passes.— can recall no instance (unless Grant be The conduct of the Wi iogton negro rad law abiding people, we must organize and Terms to Agents and Subscri The Tribune has become very “sweet” an instance) of a General who establ shed iva>9, m«»viv<ug w prayer .V icals, nyww.vt} however, i< resortiug to for bers UNPRECEDENTED, y ’ ... make a noble struggle for the election of I bis title to be called great, otherwise ‘than the impeachment impeaobment woir was* praiseworthy com* corn-- on Grant and says “Grant still preserves A copy given to any person > or iud outrageous ex- Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair, I by succeeding against great disadvantages, pared with the violent and who will procure a good Agent. I the sweetness and simplicity of childhood/ and threatening» Address PAbirio P hishing two of the purest, ablest and best men either superior num: or j cons and accusations resorted to by their white He ought to, for he has been preserved in Co.,*Sau^Frsuttsco. ' * £6 2m of this great country. a GOD- abilities in the corns - brethern aninat th« wnbelifivimr Senators. oppost to alcohol ever since. I « ■lU'iKlh. . .J Í I ¡¿t ¡ hli a in accordance with the contracts made by r« ■ V ! ♦ ♦ y I I £. ,t OF NEW YORK. •u r ■J 1' • mili* tary tyrants in the five monarch) j ■’■■which have been established in the ¡jouthern enemy, “We have had fcome experience before states of the union by the radical dortgtess. of running Successful generals as candidates It says. for the Presidenojj; “Here, for example, are sev ; but their achieve- men, citizens of Alabama, sent ments tere, in this particular, a great dure the rigors of ‘confinement iMiJ< jiard ‘4f Gen. Grant. Gen. ¿ coDtrasit £ to those labor,’ within the walls of a fortre’ 3”nse won his brilliant victory at New distant and dreary island for an of a comparatively trivial «hariseter—a Orleans with 7,000 men against the Brit- mere assault and battery, in whic ronly ish arniy of 12,0 i. . General Taylor had one of them seems to have taken jbt’ve but about 6,000 Bn _____ at Buena 1( Vista, and _ part. They are subjected to ll thia af'le, | the Mexicans twiee or thrice that number. imprisonment, three of them fd for I General Scott had j 8,500 men at Cerro of two years, and four of thém -1 k «| to the which justice is administered by Seymour. Horatio 4 « him, or formidable physical obstacles. | A Military rule is always and everywhere, rid, the EDITOR and has been in all ages of the U * i ‘,Lm06t 06t odious and oppressive foro form 1868. ny. The Mobile (Alabama) Ser . * t ■ ’ V i. * .) 1 I- 1 i * ’ 4^ I I I I t, J 111 - ■ fl u J ’ t I 1 t i' » 9 n I ' r" r» Ir rd ■ J ♦4 i r r . 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