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JT < JOHNSON,
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ILICéV, in
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BUJ .and
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population of the United States, re ignorant, frem Gen. Grant
State
under
loyaUel(
govern
ment,
the
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uneducated, save to obcylliSi|f i dictum cf
optional powers born ”of Military necessity
TUKtDAY ¡AUGUST, 11 ' 1868.
others,
and
depraved,
us
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by
nature
avej terminated. In short,
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mentally and morally the inferior of the
F or P resident . •
white raoe
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It is a source of great satisfaction, bow*
□n to every true patriot to learn that were
Were there a class of wfeito men,- who evei^
had been slaves for generations, and had the American people left free from arbitrary
OF NEW YORK.
been kept igndtant slavery speoies of learn rule, Grant could only cariry K,Maudchwtts
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tlieinjOrom exer and Vermont. 'jw' •• f -
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I cising the duties of citizenshijp,
F or ViCa P resident »
citizenship and" were
One other great republican political phi
it possible to designate them witl
without disfran* losopher—the great Thad Stevens said :
Frauds P. Blair.
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qualified as the mediocre of onr m iwses, It army and Freedman's Bureanj were not im
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would be better for the EW
geuonat wr
welfare, for
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS,
who's I benefit this high privilege
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Lj buttwtf States—Massachusetts and Ver-
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8. F. CHADWICK, of Douglas County.
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JOHN BURNETT, of Benton County*
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extended
{when 1 we
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H to them; and ceriainl^
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we *Tis the subset of life gives him mystical lore
AS. H. SLER, of Union County.
have a class of persona,
persons, ^asy to define, and As coming events cast their shadows before."
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have made and are making
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siauuaru of
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jiujeriuuu civilization auu
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standard
and eitis
gqr.bhip ; and it behoves the wise and good
who have enough of sanity left to se4 the
folly, fanaticism, danger, ruin to which we
are being rushed by the radical leaders, and
those who have breathed their crazy-gass, to
to check the distructive movement and save
wbal may be left of the government, for tho
benefit of posterity.
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Thank God I Oregon has a majority* of
wniTE men in her Legislature, and we trust
lhat they will endeavor to make this a white
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stale,, in int^duoing nr
tter, is correct*
Gift to saTTbowever,
. entered the
Army during the Rebellion as a private la
the 31st. Illinois regiment,. I could have
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the/ boys in blue " as well as their parents,
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nearly all qf whom I was well acquainted
with, as I bad been not only a pioneer Ptea«*
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dent of a College where many of that boys
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had attended school—Wished me to servet
them as Chaplain of the Regiment -C I was
man ' s State. To do this they must, in the I offered the position Of a Captain am}
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strongest manner possible discourage the of the men said they should vote for I | me for
presence and importation or emigration of Colonel. We elected all of our Officers by í
ballot. I told the boys I would serve
serre th»
John Chinee or any other inferior race.
If the cbinamen are allowed to flood our Regiment as Chaplain, if I were elected 6y
them to the potitidn, but not other*
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received every vote that was cast
the
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whole regiment.
I was in the siege of Viksburg, and march
H oratio S eymour - will be our next
ed into the city «0 the 4th. of July. I wit
President
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nessed during the war all tho fighting I ever
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desire to see. When Gen. Grant ordered
By virtue-of the so called 14th Amend- that insane charge to be made on ‘‘ie en-
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emy’s works on the 22d day- of May, our.
ment and the congressional reconstruction
Regiment, out of 285 men that atternped &to
plank in the black-and-tan platform the storm Fort Pemberton, lost 106 killed
lied or
negrophitea hope to disfranchise . the wounded. -There lay dead on the field 16
iqng the
whites, except those, who will vote the men, the Colonel of the Regiment amdn
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radical ticket. But before this amend number, many others ¿dying In a shdri
After the surrender of Vicksburg, Confed-
ment bad been ratified by a sufficient num-
•rates and union soldiers met and mingled
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ber of States, even as claimed by the rads, as friends. So now they treat e: aob ;■ other
tho President by virtue of the authority as friends, while some politicians, forrselfish
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in him vested by the Constitution, and: in or base motives are trying to fan pL_
entment into a flame to burn over and des-
accordance with the provisions of an act
troy the nation. Mr. Johnsen, contends for
of Congress, has issued a proclamation of the principles announced by the noble* patri
general amnesty and pardon. All those ot Douglass, as you quote his words |n your
who were concerned in the rebellion, ex paper. No matter whether we are in the
minority or the majority, I am with ypu, ua-
cept such as may bo under indictment .for
compromisngly opposed to negro suffrage.
treason or other felony,^re restored to all
Our w ives and daughters are better quali
their former rights, except as to their fied to vote than the blacks. Iam b|posed
property in slaves, and in such other prop to their being allowed the elective franchise..
erty, as may have been legally diverted For then base women, bold and ■ defiant
will conspire with corrupt in en to rule thia*
heretofore under the laws of the United country, I fear, while the wise and virtuous
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States.
ladies would remain at home, as now, diU-
■ By the decisions of all the courts of the obarging tbei«* domestic duties.
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We mast do something to reliaVè thi8
civilized world an alleged or actual crim
financial pressure upon us, or we are'r'oincd4
inal, after receiving pardon, from toe law as a nation. 1 am in favor of payipg our
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ful pardoning power, stands precisely in national debt honestfy an! truly,!bot one
tho condition as , though no crime jiad currency, I say, for the plow holder and
bond holder. Money that was gooi’enoigb
been committed.
for the soldiers is go|d enough for all other
Congress, then had no more right to or- men. if we must tax our farm i<?rs sd .heavily
dain that'the citizens of South Carolina are in Oregon, and in Missouri, in order tpaupport *
disfranchised than she has to disfranchise and carey on the government let us.-tiax the J f
the voters of Oregon ; although, we doubt bondholders in New York and in Boston, in
not that the rads will endeavor to carry their like manner. Onr Flag must protect for
eign born and native born citizeqq , alike, ■
disfranchis‘ng plank into execution. “Con
wherever it waves on land or floatea ou
gress never bad >ny control over the ques
water. I am in favor of admitting all the
tion of suffrage in any State, add in no in- • ! States into our Union—they never were out
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officer. Neither has Congress the right to making laws for this democratic nation.-*
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dssfranohise any person anywhere, nor in
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flict any penalty for any orime. ' ■
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The rads are howling because Johnson
W hat N ext !—Tne rads are begin
has pardoned all the traitors ; but in this ning to feel the smoko,, and will soon.’have
they are much mistaken, for Johnson has to leave their holes. They are preparing
not pardoned Spoons B. Butler, nor mulatto to change the “base of their operations.”
Thad, nor Sumner, nor Flaxbreak, nor the
We see that the great toad of thé G. A.
other traitor Congressmen who are trying
R. puddle has introduced a resolution in-
to revolutonize the country.
to congress appoinlng a commisHonsr to,
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L •eleot a new site for the national Gajitol,
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the qualifications neoestary for the exercise
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of 80 high a privilege, a sii mplo ditty to our
S hall I hey be permitted to find
The Radical party on Negro Suffrage.
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H omes with ug.
—W hat ini ‘‘P hilosopher ’* S ays . duty we owe to the whole!
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as trus
tros-
C hinese C elebration .—On Tues
tees of the expressed trust that has been day last the whole China population of
Under the caption of “let us have
coufidoto ust-he voting population, requires the county congregated in Jacksonville,
peacq” the N< Y. I^ribnue of June TOth that we should not lower the botandard of to the number, We should judge, of about
says 1
400.i The occasion of their meeting was
the voter so as to cm
embrace the inferior to pay honors py perform some religious
“Trne Democracy insists on the Equal races. ’
ceremony over the grave* of their dead.
Rights of Men. that spurious, sham Dem-
But
the
radical
party
ocrady which opposes Grant and Colfax as
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irty propopes to force —Jacksonville Sentinel '■
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China,
with
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400,000,000
of
people,
that
“This is a white Man's Govern* this obnoxious
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menti," wherein nene but Whites have any suffrage and dominion upon and ¡ over the
densely packed iuito a small portion of coun
natural right to vote or be voted for."
people of the South. The Tribune further try, has very many moro people than can
It is true, that the Democracy do not
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well ¡subsist in eAsmall
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desire to see any but white men vote, or
Untiljecently it has been the policy of
Sold ’s at)ti-Repub
be voted for, although we do not believe - “Tho official call for a Soldier
that country, to keep her: people at home,
lican, anti-Grant Convention,
Con veut
asserts that
that th*|HH|H^|
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‘Tho purpose of this.Convention is to ad or af least exact from them that they keep
being has any natural right to vote. vise and oo-operate; with the Democratic their faith and allegiance to the Celestial
oa oandj- Kingdom , and be returned, after death to be*
The people who form a government have party in presenting to the
date for President who will 0 mand the
the right to entrust suffrage to whom they support of all who desire to;
buried in the name of Josh.
But the Ce<*
nguish the
may think it will be be3t for the general revenges of the war, abolish the° miHtiiy lestiail Kingdonf has changed its policy, and
despotism now ruling the South,. give back
welfare, that it should be entrusted ; but to the Southern States the right of self gov now enc onrages her people to find employ-
eminent, and of an equal and fraternal Un ment'andho.me sab road. /
the birth alive, of a human being, does ernment,
ion, and restore to the
nation an economical
Ttys densely; ¡populated country could
he hat
not vest in that being the right to be an and constitutional Government.’
send into the United States, more people
active participant in making laws. The —This, then, is the “Conservative
I" arraign than We now have within the domain of the
Republicai
general welfare of the whole people, be ment of the
Republican
party. Now let us
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see what that party has said
said for itself on Amerioan republic, wnd not miss the people
ing the object to be attained, each person these points, in one r
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of« the
resolves _ unani-
mJ. tide of v
t;rimig|ation is
eettinghith-
Who is permitted by that people, to be a mously adopted by ite|j|ate National Conven- „The
htjt¡migration
is eettinghith-
Uonat Chicago;
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voter, holds a voice, not for his own per-
RtitA.mer from California,
California.
erwards. Every v steamier
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son al use and aggrandisement, but for the
That we highly
hly com imend the brings us a large and increasing number of
spirit
of
magnanimity
and
f
Stance with these
good of tho whole people, and he is pre
:C people.
people Vessels are arriving to our
which the men who haveter^ed
have 1
d in the Res Nortl th^ndSenth^loaded with this living,
sumed to so exercise it, and laws are bell ion, but now frankly and honestly ’ co
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country anil .recoristrncting the Southern
We need only population and capital and
and other penalties, any one who uses his State Governments
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energy to devealqp
deveah Oregon into one of the
vote for a strictly selfish purpose—sells tialjustice and equ„
ial rights, are received
fl*
back into the oommunioi
»nlou of the loyal people; brightest stars of the galaxy of American
his vote.
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and we favor the remon al of the disqualifi- States. But do we need, do wo want this
hen is it not clear that the Democrat cations and restriction# impoeed upon the
population? Do
want Oregon to. be un
in t the
“” same Weasora as their
ic party, that moulded and administered late Rebels •«<
spirit of loyalty will direciy and as may be der the dominion^-— in her commercial and
the government for three fourths of its consistent, with the safety of the loyal peo- industrial, if not .In her political rcsoarces to
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-existence, has heretofore held, as it now
the moon eyed, riit-eating cbinamenr
—Here, then, is our answer to the general
Toedetermined whether we desire a par
holdB that suffrage is a trust given to that Copperhead
arraignment which charges the
class of persons in who’s hands it will in Republican party with designedly obstruct ticular kind of papulation, it were well for
us to|first fix the maximum of greatness to
sure the best administration of public ing the return of the late Rebel States to
local self-government, ¡jfcit not pertinent ?
which we aepire^and especially encourage
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If suffrage be a natural right belonging
will retard the ultima thule.
Thus it appears.that the m|in and leading which
to every one of the human species, the wo
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then
we
would
adopt
the
radical repub
men and children of the several States object of the radical party, jn enfranchising
negrees of tbeSouth,
the South,>
thenegrccsof
as in fact in all lican doctrine of (he strict equality of man,
have been robbed ..thereof since before the
those if we would loWer tbe standard ot oivilzation
the foundation of the general government; their legislation in
if we would incorporate Within our political,
but if our theory be correct, then the people, is to procuro the “c orporation with
tit." the loyal people”'^.,
social and commercial bosoms the lower el-
to preserve the
Democracy would extend suffrage to
ementAof^humamty ; if crimo and debau
every white male citizen above the age nJ radical party jin power.1
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If those people will vote I the blaok-and chery ; if frce-lovfc, and the herding togeth^
" twenty one years.
er of the human face like cattle; if we desire
There is no rule by which to measure tan ticket they may vote, otherwise they to uneivilize the State and Nation in which
may not. iil
fast as, by 1 itary or other
the mental and moral capacities of a hu*
arbitrary role, a peop’e can be brought un- we like, and caubo it to be debase! at the
man being. We cannot, therefore J fix a
der arbitrary control of the > radical party, earliest possible moment; if we would cause
A noble and generous man has great and giving as his reason for so domg, thaU
standard of mental and moral worth and they are “trimly ldil," and
the whites to suffer; if we would see the
caO be trusted
gcod impulses, nor does he ever decend to Washington City had become soipuch of
capacity, by which to try each voter. We ( to “ ■' manage their own municipal concerns Caucasian women and children suffer for
want of the neoetsarjes^f life ; if we would fthe mea n and contemptible act of striking a a den for copperheads that Lthe^rumpies
must, therefore, resort to a general rule in a black-rcpobiican
black-rcpnbiican “w*y,
way/t
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but until that
beggar the laboring white man to promote vadquished foe. And, where that foe has, in were not treated with sufficient respect.—
that will embrace some particular class of time shall seem to have arrive
arrived “ they shall
the better being the lower orders of hu the strongest manner possibe—the risk'of The G. A. R. were too closely witched to
- human being3 that will best insure the be treated atf “strangers in a strange land.’’
be able to manage the revifationar^
To vote against the radical ticket is an un manity, then in ¿he name of your ideal of bis life—demonstrated the sincerity with
public safety and welfare.
perfection, encourage the emigration of all which be engaged in t be contest, the noble scheme of converting the Republic into a
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mind receives the warm hand of a brave Despotism, with Grant for HmperQr and
largest class of persons consistent with to the suspicion of having such intent must But if you would see your yonng and proms
man with feelings of kindness and confidence. Johnalogan as Generalissimo, j/'
first “bring forth fruit, meet for repentence"'
‘ that safety and welfare.
ising State, with her .mighty reMourcas, de-
and kiss a nigger before he ci
But the low, groveling, cowar ily souls, whos
Mr Johnalogan, would not the centre of
We say male, because we believe that
veajpped into a eat and mighty people, if
high privilege of voting/rm
every impulse is self, who are utterly inca Afrioa be as good a point as any-? Bggpt
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wives, mdthers and daughters would be,
r, in the front ranks of the
you
would
see
hfr
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The TYthkae eays:
pable of elevating themselves to the higher, is about to become “Coppery” and ycu*d *•
to a great extent, under the influence of
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States of ¿be eartl 1; if you would see this
“1118 quite true that
the Southern fair heritage a fit place for the habitation of nobler duties of pure patriotism, beings who soon have to move again. The; desert of
their husbands, fathers, brothers and those
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d
forever
keep
their
own
selfish
aims
in
view,
Sahara,
would
be
an
approprlaiqplacf,
for
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. upon whom they depend ; and because, yote against Grant and Co lax ; just as we
by nature the most virtuous and intelligent may ca‘ch lots of larfcS-or , at least, of night- industrious and^nterprising poeteritv, you decide ou all publio measures by their pre the legislation of such a Congress as wa
hawks—if the sky shall fa t But there
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ladies prefer to study domestic rather than other block of ten States so certain to give a I most check the influx of the celestials at sumed influence on their self aggrandizement; now have, if, indeed, there is an appro
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these men-shoddy contractors, home guards, priate place in the world.
political economy- ' We require the voter large aggregate majority for ( tot and Col- once.
tax as are the ten now awaftifi Re construe^
The Legislature is soon to meet, and un sanitary commission agents and little two-
to be twenty one years of age, because at lion ; and, if we cannot
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majority of less something i|jd°ne ^e(eP them out, be- j
S mall P ox .—This dangerous dfeease
a majority in
penny flipping snappers are continually on*,
about that age it is thought that the lar- their Electors, we cannot ca
fore
another
twM
years
ehall
have
run
its
gor portion of our youths acquire sufficient a°y other quarter bf’the Ut i . If we can-
deavorir.g to keep up the war feeling of north is now infesting San Francisco, and is
not trust tiie Carolina^ Gei fia, and the cycle, Josh willYave spread his aegis over
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States west
and sou
these, vo- us, and’Oregoqwith ber mountains filled against south with more than deamons hatred. liable.to visit this valley at any time.
iitiitious,
we
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ling
under
th
»«ir
new
Free
Co
vheir own, and sufficient independence to
Are we worse than savages ? When they
Tne
The
Londoc?
London
Scalpali
ScalpeV.
roe
the hiîheét
unmeet JiJeaT
medical
médical
with
the
previous
metals,
and
her
valleys
might
as
Weill
concede
at
eno
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we
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exercise them in their voting.
While 1 carry
setas and the garden spats of the world, what nature smEke the calumet they bury hleo the hatch authority in the world gives the ? following
j, , no States ji nut M
as an infallible cure
curat for smalt-
snaaH-nox
jpox and
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intended for a paradier will bo converted
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^bne grain;
tain that the intona purgato) —a cesspool of inorai cor-
W'so
store of information and a more matured
half a
feience between the noble, generous, trnr fox glove (digitalis), one grab
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teaspodnsful
or
sugsiij
mixed
witlj
>f
ten
States
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radicals
will
carry
the
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block
mind than many of greater years, yet in
ruption and ro nness; a dqn of filth and union man and a modern blacker peublica, ipoooatol^wateL^TakftjuJpnfinf il every-
law we can have but general rules, and lt is because be tblukt they bdvetuose peo poverty, a fit place for Si atan and his imps
hour,
u-.. For
” child, , smaller doies^jJcordme to
ry and negro to rejoice, with bardoaic grin, over the sad compare the pure sentiments below ex age; Tf «owntries Will cmnpet ‘ «¡Wlphy-j
ple
so
completely
under
mi
thpy are therefore excluded.
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laebines to be I
fall òf ■ the fair hopc^of iban.
While there may be sumn persons of the
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and the inconistent ciy of *• Union,” by the peekbtowl.'J<* Uui*'Iff Iff*
a
us-
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to
swell
the
radical
vol
It
is
lo
belamented,
jiye,
the
great
and
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colored races who have sufficient of individ
OF Read the adrertiseuaent pf* ßrnato
ery
may
be
blaok-and-tans
and
you
can
see
a
glimpse
of
And
that
this-tiiac
Colfax.
mighty
dead
o^AmericaJs
proud
history
are
uality and independence of character, and
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perfect, anld i‘ a «officient quantity of Weaj ping over the debauched sentiments of the difference between a Christian gerftls- Congrss & Co., on the- 1st
With ioffleient of moral and mentalworth
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They age desirous of sellinj
a:.d witbjsufficient information, that it would terror neld ovcf them HI
man and a scrub of a blaok-and tan.
otour cities whA now [?■ mis-
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