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OREGOiV CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, .I1jX.1T SI, 1871
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Broken Pledges.
IFrom Pomeroy's Democrat.
The Republican . National Con
vention "which nominated General
Grant jledged the party to non
interference in the right of the
States to designate who should he
entitled to the ballot, Upon that
pledge they went into the election,
and thronsrh the tmblir. l.plinf in
the verity of that pledge they von
the support of several State liights
doctrine States, That dIcJo-o
weakened the force of Democratic
opposition to Grant, for it con
tained the essence of the Demo
cratic creed, and they had nothing
to say against the Republicans on
that head. When the party had
secured Grant's election, and as
soon as he was in power, and the
emergency presented itself, his
Congress spurned the pledge by
which the right of a State over its
own domestic affairs was destroyed,
TIi en it was that the Democratic
party in and out of Congress
siezed the opportunity, and hurled
their thunderbolts .at the usurping
and pledge-breaking Republicans.
The speeches in Congress uttered
by Democratic members were lurid
with tli lire of condemnation and
assault, and the Democratic press
of all sections double-leaded their
editorial columns of scathing crim-
m CD
matioii. They one and all de
nounce the "new departure" of the
Republicans as an outrage upon j
party, us an aiiacK upon i.iie von
stitution, as a falsehood th.at no
decent man . would practice in
private life ; indeed, as a deed of
monstrous villany to which no
freeman could possibly submit.
Rut all that is now among the dead
issues, and the party that com
mitted that so rankoiiense must be
endorsed for the very deed which
formerly was so past forgiveness.
This forgiveness, and more than
that the endorsement required of
the Democratic party by the late
Democratic (?) Conventions in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa of
the great fraud, is basely urged as
necessary to the success of the
Democratic leaders in the next
election. This sudden Democratic
conversion to the Republican vil
lauies is porhftos the startling
ami a:-tounding wonder of this
wonderful era, and honest man are
looking impatiently for the next
rreat trick ot the political acrouats.
Rut what worse have the Repub
licans been guilty of in this pledge-
breaking business than the Demo
crats? "
In 18G8 the National Democratic
Convention met in 2s ew 1 ork.
Men of all the sections were in at
tendance. They were fresh from
the people, fresh from the war,
fresh from the examination into ail
the crimes of the Republican party,
of their usurpation and violence.
What did the Democratic Conven
tion do ?
Deliberately, basing their delib
eration upon the sense ot justice,
of law, of constitution, of. liberty,
they promulgated a series ot reso
lutions denouncing the new amend
ments to the Constitution, denounc
ing the usurpations of the Repub-
hcan Congress, ana went into tne
contest with those denunciations
upon their banners. They failed
with Seymour and with that plat
form of denunciation. Do they
think of that failure now and at
tribute it to the denouncement of
these amendments and the process
by which they were secured, and
so thinking and longing for power
are they taking a back track and
perpetrating a linger crime than
did the Republicans, in order to
win at the next trial? If they de--nounce
the Republicans for break
ing the great primary pledge of
their platform, published at the
same time, can they nope now to
escape attack from their own partv
for committing the very same of
fense'?
How can the Democratic party
be right to-day for doing that
which the Republicans were so
wrong m doing in lS6b i
The Republicans wanted to win,
and they played a trick by which
they won. We all denounced that
trick and threatened revolution be
cause it was a trick. Is success so
sweet that crime cannot tarnish
victory .! Are the Democratic Con
ventions to hold such doctrine of
infamous disregard cf sacred obli
gations and not except a universal
cry of shame from all the country
side ?
Are these workers of iniquity to
arrogate to themselves and their
polluted hands, the power to an
athematize Democrats because
they will not endorse their villanies
and falsehood And total abandon
ment of principle ? Are thieves to
sit upon the bench and sentence
indues to imprisonment? Are po
litical harlots to drive virtuous peo
pie from the common highway as
unfit to breatne xue common air o
J TTcaveu with them ?
1 ' n .,-A?rte
tainted
i JTe UlC'fcB sWUcuuouc
snd odorous With Corruption, to
fnvro their fetid influence upon the
o-rpnt masses of the Democratic
party? Is justice to be costumed
as a troll for decent people to take
fashion from ? Arc these schemers
to work at their plans of fraud, and
obtain power by such prostitution
of the noble theories of the Demo
cratic party, making that party
agents to accomplish their dishon
orable triumph? These questions
must go before the people. That
people will read this writing, writ
ten as it were upon the world's
wall ; and they must see to it that
they perish not with Balthazar and
his courtesans in the debauch of
his despotism..
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The Tax on Labor.
From the Chicago Democrat
That government which pays
most attention to the best intereots
of its laboring classes is the only
safe one. The workers of a na
tion are its real strength, and if a
nation would be strong she should
see to it that her workers are pro
tected, They need its protection
for the reason that their time is
wholly given to their work, and it
is left to the legislators to see
that no laws are made opposed to
their interests. Unfortunately,
Governments in all ages have been
too often administered in the inter
ests of the dominant classes and in
those of the moneyed aristocracies,
while the toiling millions have
been forgotten, and their daily
labor illy required. As wealth in
creases, the tendency is to concen
tration in the hands of the few,
and those favored few find time
and opportunity to watch legisla
tion, and in a great measure mold
and control it in accordance with
their own selfish purposes, while
the millions who toil, have neither
time nor means to influence legis
lation in their own interests. The
oppression which European labor
ers meet with is due to the bad
laws which have come down with
slight changes from past genera
tions. In England and upon the
Continent labor is oppressed, and
this, in a great measure, is chargea
ble to the existence of a vicious
system of government, which, with
various modifications, has come
down to them from former genera
lions. Privileged classes have
principally ' held the reins" of au
thority in their own hands, and
domineered over the humbler
classes who have been doomed to
toil for subsistence, and regarded
them, by reason of their lowly
condition, as being entitled, in the
providence of God, to nothing more
than the bare necessaries of life.
Princes and nobles and the privi
leged orders must, however, live
commensurate with their rank and
high position, and consume among
themselves the nation's wealth.
For them were especially, accord
ing to their estimation, govern
ments ordained of God ; while
the toiling masses can only live by
their permission, and be content
with such blessings and privileges
as may be awarded to them by the
clemency of those who tower
above them. In America, however,
we shall h.ave none of this. Every
man must stand on his own feet,
md their shall be no legislation
for the benefit of class. Rarticu-
arlv, there shall then be no obsta
cles put in the way of the work-
mtrman.
bo far from blocking his
rogress, every means must be
sanctioned by which he can ele vate he was a State Senator in Ohio, and
and advance himself. Therefore yet the next year he was elected as
it is that a tax upon labor is the a United States Senator from Ala
most suicidal and stupid policy bama. Judge Busteed spoke of
that any government can pursue,
ny policy that compels the labor-
cr to toil for a bare subsistence :
any act of legislation which makes
it hard, year by year, to meet
assing demands for necessary sub
sistence, shutting out the fond
lope of better things in the future,
paiaiyzes tne arm ot tne laborer,
f i" ...:: i.:,
incurs ins epiiiLs, cows ins ioox
m tne pursuit oi Happiness, and
makes both him and his offspring
in course of time absolutely valuless
to tne otatc. iin me ueavy uiu-
dens which, through our miiidi-
v nine of the actual necessaries of!
life, are only so many direct taxes
upon labor, and ought to be re
pealed. No party can retain
i . . I - A 1. i
nmrpr oner m tins country tiiat
advocates or supports such a sys
tcm. it is a gric ous w iuu to iu
poor and still greater wrong to the
tnto. Tax the luxuries, let the
necessaries' go free. This is the
only true aiul safe policy, for it is
the only policy which secure future
blessino- to a country like our own.
By the workings of the Radical
tariff laws the custom on certain
necessaries amouut to two hundred
million a year, and the American
corporations collect some eight
hundred millions more on the man-
ufacture of the same things. And
this is protecting the laboring
elasses of t.ho p.nnntrv
Ttto
Take the selfishness out. of this
world and thare would ho. more
happiness than we should kno
what to do with. Josh Billing.
The Ku-Klux Bill a Failure.
The infamous Iu-Klnx hi ! was
designed as a political engine, says
the S. F. Examiner. It was ex
pected that it would enablo Grant
to control the elections in several
of the States, It was iutendotl to
convey the idea "to the people of
the North that the South wa still
full of rebellious spirits leagued to-
getherin secret associations for the
pnrpose of overthrowing the Union.
The Radical leaders confidently
expected that, through the agency
of their nosing Committee, and by
the testimony of suborned wit
nesses, they could get up a mass of
evidence proving everything desir
able. The result has not realized
their expectations. Every scala
wag yet pumped for evidence has
beeu convicted of perjury, and a
mass of unimpeachable testimony
proves conclusively that all the
stories about Ku-Klux-Klan.s are
without foundation. A Washing
ton dispatch to the New York
World, of date June 23d, gives
the following bearing on this sub
ject :
"lhe Radicals will probably be
forced to abandon the Ku-Klux in
vestigation. It is demonstrated
that it can no longer be made to
subserve party purposes, and build
up a pretext for bayonet rule in the
South. The evidence this week' has
run counter to the hopes of the
Republican members of the Com
mittee, and a long recess till next
Fall or an adjournment sine die
may be soon looked for. The tes
timony given yesterday and to-day
regarding the condition of affairs
in Alabama and South Carolina
has been so strongly fortified as to
upset three-fourths of the clap-trap
and hearsay evidence given by the
scalawags and carpet-baggers
whom Horace Greeley character
izes as thieves and plunderers. To
day Judge Busteed, Republican
United States Judge for Alabama,
gave evidence confirming the edi
torial in the Republican State
organ of Alabama, as telegraphed
from Montgomery, and showing
that the stories of ex-Se?iator War
ner and Jtulge Persons regarding
the condition of affairs in that
State are absolutely false. Judge
J5ustcel covered th wiole jrroiind.
He testified that since 1S05 there
had been but one instance of resis
tance to a process of his . court, and
that came from a Radical Auditor
of the State who had n -fused to
obey an injunction issued by the
court. There had been no disre
spect t o the court or the law on the
part of the people, and he was per
fectly well satisfied that the people
of Alabama intended to obey all
the laws of the United States and
interfere with no man on account
of his politics or his religion in Ala
bama, lie regarded life, liberty
and property as safe as in any New
England State. He flatly contra
dicted the evidence of the itine
rant preacher, Lakin, given last
week, that there were thirty-three
indictments pending in his" court,
and added that he held three terms
of court every year in the north
ern, central and southern portions
of the State, and therefore had
good opportunities to learn the
true state of affairs. During his
evidence he stated that in 18G8
Warner was excused from serving
.as a grand luror on the ground that
the late Radical State admimstra-
tion as wanting m character and
full of ignorance. "
And so it is the Radical leaders
have all the odium of passing an
act wholly unauthorized by the
Constitution, grossly violative ct
some of its plainest provisions, m
vlt. tlm wiw,iA sn;r;r. nf
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f crovemment and an insult to
tl , f tI ti Union.
rw;;nrr ,nmf thn nnrtv
l)Cnefits frDm it, contemplated in its
Time it tlmt, vnnlt no-
i,n winnnod itself This
vile attempt to confer more than
imperial powers on the President
may prove in its operations a dead
letter; but as a precedent for Con
gressional usurpation it is fraught
with seeds of direst danger. It is
liv o-rnrlnnl rmnrnn eh m ents nrsnn
the ri,rhts Gf the people that des
potisms are established. So long
as the Radical leaders can retain
power without taking it by force,
they will follow the usual forms.
When it becomes necessary, how
ever, to show their hands, they are
determined to find themselves for-
tified by precedents which will
authorize any high-handed outrage
ou free government. And herein
p10S the danger ot these usurpa
tions. They must be wiped out
and condemned, cr they will work
the overthrow of popular institu-
tions
A man in Illinois, 24 hours after
his wife died, and before her fun
eral. played croquet with the girls.
For this the indignant neighbors
1 tarred and feathered him
C0URT2SY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
IJTTVERSITY OF CALIrDRNIA.
Republican Reigii-
From the Chicago Democrat.
A public opinion that would
have been a shame and a disgrace
at any time in American history j
was born at the rise of the Repub- j
lican party and during the civil '
war. l'rinciples or government
l.ol.l cnPl from thn v,W ,ln-n of
ii rpi,
Constitution was discarded. The
very name of Liberty was laughed
at and despised, and just men were
draerrred into dungeons, under the
idiotic charge of having sympa
thies. Opinions that gave birth to
this Republic were punished as a
crime. The moral and social sinks
of society were ransacked to find
fitting tools for both the civil and
military administration. Brawling
loafers were appointed to the seals
of judges, and drunken generals, j
who were by profession batchers j
and bar-tenders, were created into j
tribunals for the administration of J
civil justice. Those who had not ;
sold themselves were cringing be
neath the lash of a demoralized ;
public opinion, that spared not one '
principle that was neid sacred by
the founders of the Republic.
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never yet doubted the lessons of!
history which attest that no such
madness, no such gigantic usurpa
tion and usury, ever yet went un
punished. "Truth crushed to earth
will rise again." All the way
along the track of time, from
Lilv j
days of Cat aline to the still more
abhorred days of Stanton and
Seward, are strewn wrecks and
miscarriages of the cunuing-c-st
schemes of usurptions and tyranny.
Among a bravo and intellectual
people, liberty is sure to overthrow
tyranny in the end. The truth of
God is, that there is no peace, no
safety, to those who attempt to
rule by usurpation and oppression,
except where people are utterly
void of intelligence and manhood.
For a time, public opinion may
support the grossest wrong and
despotism, but that time will al
ways be short, in proportion to the
degree of popular intelligence and
the general love of liberty.
Damr.ging Developments-
The Ku-Klux bill is likely to re
sult in some go oil after afi. A
Washington dispatch says: Olieial
developments will shortly be made
that will put the President in a sad
plight for interfering with the ju
dicial machinery of a Federal court
and preventing its oi: leers by re
moval from even enforcing the
Radical military or enforcement
law. It has already been stated
that the Republican United States
District Judge of Arkansas called
the attention of the Grand Jury a
few weeks since to the features of
this law which punished corruption
and intimidation in elections for
Federal ofliccs. The result was
that some thirty indictments were
soon found for violations of the
statute, and among them was one
against Senator Clayton. The
United States Marshall and District-Attorney
were about to enter
upon the prosecution of these in
dictments when their sudden re
moval was announced from Wash
ington. Their successors have
never taken up the cases, and the
prosecution of the Arkansas Radi
cal ballot-stuffers has thus probably
been abandoned through Excutive
influence. Both cf these officials
have been summoned to appear be
fore the Ku-Klux Committee and
give a complete history of this
most remarKamc transaction on
the part of the President. Although
Republicans they had not the fear
of the notorious Clayton before
their eyes, and seemed determined
to punish him under the law had
not Grant and Clayton prevcrted
that.
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The New York Stt?i says:
"President Grant no longer lias a
follower among the Republicans of
New York, except among the of-
lceholders, and they are not for
urn except for the time being.
His inconceivable stupidity in
breaking the Republican party in
pieces; his corruption m appoint
ing men to office; his quartering
his own worthless relations upon
the Treasury; his betrayal of the
Cubans to Spanish slave-traders m
consequence of money paid to Sid
ney Webster; and his elevation of
a convicted bribe-taker to high of
fice in the State Department, have
disgusted uonest Republicans with
him. HU administration is the
most indecent ever witnessed m
this country. May the like never
be seen again."
On the pretence of negotiating
a new loan, the leading officials o:
the Treasury Department at Wash
ington are, one by one, leaving for
Europe, thus getting their summer
holiday at tiie expense of the Gov
eminent, which pays them at the
rate of ten dollars a day while on
these missions, besides ten cents a
mile for the cost of travel. These
treasury excursionists always come
back richer than when they started
Witchcraft-
A SINGULAR CASH AT FRANKFORT,
ILL1XOIS.
Frankfort (June 24th) Correspondence of
the Dvi Qnoin Republican. J
Two young ladies, daughters of
James Williams, living about eight
ImleS ll01U h?1X aVC bed! at-
j tacked in a singular manner 1
what is said to be witchcraft.
Witchcraft, or whatever craft it
may be, it puzzles the best physi
cian?. The young ladies were first af
fected about the first of April. 1
think that it was known among
the neighbors that there was some
thing wrong with them, but any
strangeness in their actions was
generally attributed to insanity.
Matters remained thus until last
Wednesday, when their father
called upon a physician of this
place, and got him to visit them.
Since that time their actions have
become generally known, and both
men and -women have gone to see
them. Some lifty. or a hundred
persons are there every night, and
they ay it is ciuite entertaining to
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iiignt they oecome frenzied and
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uncontrollable, performing feats
that the best acrobats could hardly
perform. Scaling the house, they
dance upon the comb of the build
ing, apparently with perfect ease
and impunity, uttering at the same
time the most hideous and frenzied
screams. Very frequently they
take something like fits, or spasms,
and fail perfectly stiff; but if they
chance to be on the housetop, they
never fall off, however near the
cave they may be.
They are aged respectively 10
and J S years, and are both rather
small, both being below the me
dium height. During the day, at
which time they are perfectly sane,
they seem to be rather modest and
reserved, but v." ill converse freely
with any one. They are fond of
music, and - play upon the dul
cimer. The spell comes upon both at or
near the same time, generally be
tween sundown and dark, and first
manifests itself by both of them
snto a run.
T,!oyair?f,
run north, m the direction oi tne
house of an old lady who, they
say, has been practicing witchcraft
upon them. They say she has re
cently put harder spells upon them,
on account of their telling some
thing that she forbade, and that she
and a "cat are with them in their
housetop dance.
They have a language which
they use in conversing with each
other, and which they seem to un
derstand ; but it's "Comanche'' to
everybody else.
There are some strange things
connected with them. They catch
and eat all the flies they can get
hold of, until nausea is produced,
when they both vomit at the same
time. What one does the other is '
also doing. Their gestures are
alike and simultaneous. They
seem to both be moved by one
controlling power.
The foregoing is
a statement of
as I can learn
the facts as corre
them.
You can imagine the excitement
when I tell you that, since I began
to write, nearly fifty people have
passed through our little village on
their way to see the girls.
Flea for Those who Sleep in the
ifiornin?.
The fact is, as life becomes more
concentrated and its pursuits more
eager, short sleep and early rising
become impossible. e take more
sleep than cur ancestors, and we
want more, ix hours sleep will
do very well for a ploughman or
any man who has no other exhausta-
tion than that produced by manual
abor. and the sooner he takes it
after his work is over, the better
But for a man whose labor is men
tal, the tress of whose work is on
the br: :i and nervous system, and
is tired in the evening with a day
cf mental application, neither
early to bed nor early to rise i?
wholesome. lie needs letting down
to the level of repose. The longer
the interval between the active use
of the brain and its retirement to
bed, the better the chance of his
sleep and recuperation. To him an
hour after midnight is probably as
good as two before it, and even
then his sleep will not so com
pletely and quickly restore him as
it will ins neigh nor wuo is uu
physically tired. He must not
only go to bed later, but must be
longer. His best sleep lies in the
early morning hours, when all the
nervous excitement has passed
away, and he is iu absolute rest.
Dem"otiT1dea of liberty:
Every man has a right to do as he
pleases, so long as he pleases to do
rio-ht. The liberty of concience
touches every one to do unto others
as they would have others do unto
them,
The Old Federalist.
The personal government of
John Adams with its alin and s2r
ditious laws and other odious en
actments ; the old Hartford Con
vention Federalists; the brutal
Know-Nothing roughs, with their
brutal outrages ; the witch-burning
Puritans; each and all had
some excuse for an existence, and
some redeeming qualities. But the
personal purity of Cotton Mather
and John Adams has no parallel
in the present Government. Corr
ruption boils and bubbles through
every department. A vicious sys
tem of taxation, that draws the
life-blood from all the industrial in
terests of the nation ; an outrage
ous banking-law, that allows a few
men to plunder at will all0other
business interests; the remorseless
gangs of official pirates, who have
been pensioned on the country j
the disgraceful tampering with theT
Supreme Court ; tha entire disre.
grad of Constitutional right and.
obligations, have never had any
parallel in this country. No Pres-o
ident before Grant was cve guilty
of falsehood and bribery, nor sq
utterly reckless as to regard rela?
tionship as the best recommenda
tion for ofijee. ' .
No honest man, bearing Grant's
record in mind, will defend the
present Administration unless it be
from partizau motives. Whatever
the old i-ederahsts did they were
at least honest. Whatever the
Know-Nothings did they did not
disgrace their manhood. The Rcz
publican party has but one thing to
boast of, and that is the maguitudp
of its errors.
M.i:: and Womex. What is iL
that makes all those men who as
sociate habitually with women sur
perior to others who do not? What
makes that women who is accus
tomed and at ease in the society of
men, superior to her sex in general?
Solely because they arc in the hab
it office, graceful, continued con
versation with the other sex. Wo
men in this way lose their frivolity,
their faculties awaken, their delica
cies and peculiarities unfold alj
their beauty and captivation in the
spirit of intellectual rivalry.
thojmm lose their pedant igTue
! c . miitory , or" eiaHe .ntr. .ner.
The coin of tin rinde? '.(.aiiaing and
the heart changes continually.
The asperities are rubbed off; their
better material polished and bright
ened, and their richness, like the
gold, is wrought into the finer
workmanship by the fingers of
women than it ever could be by
those of men. The iron and the
steel of their characters are hidden
like the character and armour of a
giant by studs and knots of pre
cious stones, when they are not
wanted in actual warfare.
Satan never hated holy water as
the Radicals hate truth. Give
them r, sign favorable to their,
cause for a foundation and they
will build lies higher thereon than
was the Tower of Babel. How.-
er, it does little harm. Let them.0
enjoy their rancicd security while
they may. The time is near when
their falshoods will be exposed and
their fabrics upset as effectually as
were the walls of Babel, with even
more confusion.
A highwayman in the Western
wilds asked his victim whether he
would prefer to give up his money
or life. The reply that neither was
preferred, the gentlemanly but
abrupt robber said, "But my dear,
sir, you arc wandering from the
subject," and took both.
A lover who had just parted
from his "fair one with the golden0
locks, ' says "Her last words lelf,
like great rocks, into the sea of my0
sorrow, and splashed the briny
water into my eves."
The difference between Jefferson
Davis and Ulsess Grant is that one
is a traitor without honors, and theO
other a dishonest traitor. The one
accepts nothing, and the other ac
cepts everything from a horse to a-bull-pup.
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The fellow who called tight
boots comfortable defended his po
sition by saying they made a man
forget his other miseries.
Revels is said to be meditating
a bill to strike out the word
"White," as an "inwidjuous dis
tinction' from the name "White
House."
Somebody has written a book
called "What shall my son be?"
We should imagine it would be a.
boy.
"Johnny, what do you, expect to
do for a living when you get to be
a man ? I'll get xnarriefl, and
board with my wifes mother."
The sea of matrimony is not
always a smooth one. By theQ
light of the honeymoon you can
always see rocks ahead the cradle.
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