JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1G, 1870
Oregon Democratic Platform
the authority of the Constitution, and ot the great
principles that should govern this people in their
intercourse with the family of nations.
11. That we favor the adoption of an nmend-
mtnd to the Constitution of the United States, re
acinding the 14th and 15th amendments.
12. That we are in favor of a liberal pobey be
ing pursued by the Legislature of this State, in
the bestowal of the land grants to her for the pur
pose of public improvements.
13. That the Governor and »esigning members
of the Legislature, in engaging in a conspiracy to
overthrow the State government, collect large
amounts of coin as revenue, to be drawn from the
business and hard earnings of the people, to be
idle in the treasury, or to be the subjects of gam
bling speculations in warrants, bonds and other
securities, were guilty of a high crime against the
Government of Oregon, rendering them unworthy
the reapcot ami confidence of the people, or of be
ing further entrusted with the administration of
the government ; and while we thus condemn the
action of the Governor anti resigning members, we
unhesitatingly approve and endorse the conduct of
the Democratic members in earnestly and faithful
ly striving to restore aid maintain the organiza
tion of the Legislature, and provide for the due
administration of the laws.
Nigger Equality.
freedom of conscience and aided according to its
dictates. It did not say, this is the doctrine our
leaders teach and you must then exactly believe it
and if you do not believe it you must nevertheless
do as they bid you or you are not loyal.
The democracy are by our opponents recognized
as workers in the political strife. Yes, and they
are workers, the soil, the mines, the (wests and
the prairies all bear testimony lo iheir energy.
The following a^e the resolutions adopted by the
The Fifteenth Bedamnedment Certain to
great
Democratic
Convention
at
Albany,
embody
be “Ratified.”—Hell Just ahead— The
Published Every Saturday Morning,
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1 ing the principles of the party in this State :
only way of Salvatiou—Rub in the Nlg-
1. That they are unalterably attached to the
per—Official equality the watch-word-—
BY P. D, HÜLL,
iuciples
of
our
Republic
as
expounded
by
its
Black
the winning color for Congress
pr
Publisher Atl»roprlot;or. ivuuders, and the paramount object of tbeir or
men and all Federal Officers.
ganization shall ever be to uphold and muintain
OFFICE—«On Third St. Between California and 0. those principles inviolate.
Nigger Judges, Legislators, Magistrates, Sheriffs,
2. That they hold those political pa rii/, .ins, who,
TERMS:
They a,-e the pioneers who mark out the path for Collectors and Constables, in every Southern State,
occupying positions of trust, claiming to be lepre-
$4 00 seutatives of the people, have usurped the author
Subscription, per annum, in advance
civilization and all its fruits to walk in, and their from Virginia to Texas—A nigger Supreme Jus
$2 00 ity confined to them, maliciously trampled under
Six months............................................
determination and pluck made the wilderness to tice, in South Carolina—A nigger Lieutenant Gov
foot our sacred bill of rights, made civil law sub
blossom and bring forth the treasures hid in a ernor, in Louisiana—and a nigger Secretary of
ordinate to mditaiy rule, perverted the functions
ADVERTISEMENTS,
thousand hills.— Capital Chronicle.
State, and United States Senator, in Mississippi—
In T hb D emocratic N ews will be charged at of Government, and endeavored to concentrate its
powers in the hands of an oligarchy, wholly disre
Revels, a thievish nigger preacher, who left Leav
tbe following rates
,
garded the will and wishes of their constituents,
The Democratic “Live Issues.”
enworth, Kansas, to escape the penitent/ ry. wel
First insertion, (ten lines or less)................... $3 oo mid insiduously endeavored to disparage, debase
comed with a grand ovation, to the floor of the Na
For each week thereafter...................................... $1 00 and stigmatize the once proud title ot Amencan
For several years hack those “progressive Radi
citizenship,
as
enemies
to
the
best
interests
ot
this
tional Senate—welcomed to those illustrious seats
A liberal deduction from the above rates will be
Commonwealth.
cals who are so much averse to the past that they
made on quarterly and yearly advertisements.
once graced by Webster, Clay and Calhoun—as the
3. That the so-called reconstruction measures at
wish to destroy the Republic and the Constitution,
august> Senatorial representative of our native
tempted to be carried out by the present party in
have
been
charging
the
Democracy
with
being
power
is
a
nefarious
scheme,
revolutionary
in
de
JOB PRINTING.
|State !—Senators of the United States, so-called,
agitators of “dead issues.” They pretend to be
sign, treasonable in execution, one which if ac
rushing up to do homage, to his grinning old wench
Every variety of Job Work executed with neat quiesced in as a rightlul exercise oi authority will
modern themelves, and ridicule every proposition
of a wife, in those gallaries once radiant with the
ness and dispatch, at reasonable rates.
establish a most dangerous precedent and imperil
to discuss any principle that has been known for
Republicanism vs. Democracy.
loveliness o LS tatesmens ’ wives and daughters !—
the safety and prosperity of our foiui of govern
more than a year. We are not astonished at their
ment, and that the present Senators in the Con
The Fifteenth patch on tbe semi-divine Constitu
gress of the United States from this State in sup
being averse to that past which shows so disgrace
tion of our fathers, certian to be declared ratified,
In the above entitled heading tbe claim of repub
porting those measures have misrepresented the
ful a record for them. To look back, with thorn, is
in a few weeks—and Sumner, Wilson and Tipton,
wishes mid outraged the sentiments of the pe^p'e licanism is that they are the capital, whilst, for
to see the ghosts of slaughtered men and to hear chuckling over the hell’s of “Reconstruction” and
of Oregon.
answer thereto, the democrocy say they are the
the cries of widows who are calling for justice
4. That the system itic efforts made by that party
“Equal Rights,” and expressing their joy that
workers, and therefore the true capital of the com
to extend to the African, the Indian, aud the Chi
against oppressors. There is nothing left but to
naman all the civil aud political rights mid privi monwealth. The claims of e ich party are advo go madly on in the path markod out. until the peo the “day of justice is at last at hand, when they
JACKSONVILLE LODGE No. 10 leges enjoyed by tbe white race, evinces a design cated. First by the republicans. That they hold ple are enslaved by tbeir efforts, or until a guillo may hope tu welcome colored Senators to their placet
on the part of its leaders to destroy the high esti the national monied wealth and furnished it to the
,in the Senate.”—Lexington (Mo.) Caucasian.
mate placed upon that invaluable heritage and
tine
stops
the
wav.
As
th y have been calling for
OLDS ITS REGULAR MEETING, JS ON render despotism less objectionable uud mure easy 'demands of Congress during tho late international
new issues, however, it is proper for us at this
erery Saturday evening at the Odd F ’’ellows’ of ace implishment.
Major Georgo Williams, a Federal soldier in
I strife ami that the democracy was opposed to the
time to note that they have got them. In the
Hail. Brothers in go<»d standing are invited to
5. That the ratification of the recently proposed Government and tried to break it down.
the late sectional war, and who lost a leg in battle,
SILAS
attend.
‘J J . DAY,
‘ ” ' N.
T G.
Democratic platform adopted bv the great Con ven-
amendment to the Constitution of the Unite!
was a candidate for the Republican nomination for
Mr. Dawes (republican in Congress a short time
N. D. SHORT, R. Secy.
¿tales extending the right of suffrage to the be
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ition at Albany, are some resolutions that are new i _
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County Clerk in tbe eminently “loyal 1” county of
P. F ehi . ey ,
nighted negro u.id Indiati, »nd which opens the , .since showed up ’ the fallacy of this claim, for if, asi »enough,
we hope, to satisfy the newest man in the I
Trustees.
8. J. D ay ,
Marion. lie was defeated by a most convincing
dour for its enjoyment to the heathenish China-* "they say, they loved the government, they would
W m . R ay ,
man, is irregular, arbitrary and uulauiul, and they I not continue to endeavor to rob it o* its life blood Radical camp. The eighth plank in the platform majority, only receiving eighteen votes on the
is bran new, and, like a new broom, it will sweep
t—f
Mar 1st, 1869.
most earnest.y protest agamst the passage by the
first and five on the last ballot, out of a total vote
by appropriating every dollar they can squeeze
United ¿lutes Congress of the pending act tie-
clean. The Radicals know this well, and they are
signed to enforce tins obnoxious mid illegal p o- •roiu "labor’’ to their own pecuniary benefit. Mr. sore to death over it. But the Democratic platform of eighty-three. This is the way returned sol-
JAMES R. NEIL,
| diers are treated by “loyal” men. In the first
vision.
Voorhees (dem.) further showed, by figures, that
6. That they urge and entreat a iepeal of the of the amount of bonds issued by tbe General Gov is n<»t entirely a thing of to-day, like anyone must place they make contracts with soldiers to serve
be to meet the endorsement of Radicals. It has
recent treaty concluded between Uie United Stale«
Third Street, (west side), between California ami China wluca guaruiKces to the latter nation ernment, bearing interest, no less a sum than $1,- reference to the past as well as to the present, and ' in the army for gold, and pay them off in green
backs worth forty cents on the dollar, repudiating
and Main.
such exteusrie privileges ami immunities without 500,OHO, for which not one dollar had ever been’
(links the two together. The Democracy have re 60 cents of erery dollar owing to them. Then
curresjAiding benefits to American citizens, mid paid to the Government or any body else, and,at
Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts
of this State.
• itleis to its hordes oi semi-l aii>a> ia ,s such favora the very least, that part of our debt w’as wholly newed their fealty to those great principles of the when they come home disable and ask fur a favor
ble inducements to s . ai m in upou us, occupying
founders of the Republi 3, which should be perpet
from the party, they are overwhelmingly refused
Particular attention paid to the collection our mineral and agricultural districts, creale eoni- without a consideration ami void therefore by law. ual . and have suggested the only means that is
any sort of consideration. The same papers that
of Claims against the Federal and State Govern petiii.oii with our laboring masses, establish immo- The interest on this sum annually is the t< ilUng
left
to
save
them
from
total
overthrow.
As
the
ments, the Entry of Lands under the Pre-emption I ral pursu.ts, disgusting riles, cnem >n'es pod pnit- sum of $52,00*1,000 gold, or about $2 00 for every
are filled with appeals in favor of paying to the
platform more widely circulates, still are heard ■ bondholders gold coin in return for greenbacks ad-
aad Homestead Laws, and to the Entry ot Mineral .■ l«ces in our towns, disc mrage and repel the ill) ni-
Lode* under the recent Act of Congress.
graliou ol our quii ».ice, decrease tn ! wli te popu man, woman and child in the United States. This more words of approval for that vital part of it—
• vanced by them, justify the payment to soldieri of
hition, retard thrift, impede the advancement o I reduced to currency at even present rates is about
the
eight
resolution.
In
that
the
enemies
of
lib
|greenbacks for gold coin promised them. Not
KAHLER,
education an 1 euligh-eumeni, a.»street from oik r< - ¡$2 40 as however, about one fifth of the people
sources atei send away our vti'uab.e mineral wealth, I only are tax-payers it takes the sum of 12 *10 from erty see a bolt ready forged and aimed, and next only do they justify the re]>udiation of three-fifths
and demoralize and apostatize ,.ur cotnniuni. v, mid
June, when it is hurled with the force that an out of the debt due to the soldiers who risked their
they resolve that a party win» will sustain a policy the pocket of every tax-payer and as the bond raged people possess when fighting against tyran
lives and lost their limbs in tbe war, but tliqy re-
so unwise, ruinous and ruthless as that which up holders are exempt virtually from taxation on this
ny,
they
know
it
will
inflict
a
mortal
wound
on
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON,
fuse to advance tbeir claims for consideration at
holds such mi infamous bargain, is unworthy the debt this again increases the personal head tax in
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those it strikes. That bolt is aimed at Radical 'the hands of the nominating conventions of the
support nt white men.
directly.
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Will practice in the Supreme Court, District, and
7. That in the management of inun:cip:<l «ff ,:rs
ism, and there is no mail strong enough to protect
party.
Under
the
circumstances,
we
think
that
take
it
for
This
does
not
look
much
in
itself
but
other Courts of this State.
they urge a judicious application of the principles
the foul thing ngainst it. The advocates of jus
most of the soldiers will be disposed to vote against
of
sound political economy , a laud.tb e encowage- i [ 20 years and it comes to over $210 and all this to
OFFICE—In building formerly occupied by 0.
tice
have
at
last
secured
a
platform
that
has
a
sub
tnent
to
agricultural,
mineral,
manufacturing
and
Jacobs—opposite Court U<>use square.
the Radicals who have no doom soul than to con
igo into these “countiy loving” (God save the
stance in it to make patriots hope and tyrants sider money more valuable than blood.— Herald.
commercial interests ; a just and equitable protec-|
mark) loyalists pockets. They cry out their love
tion to the laborer and capitalist and the faithful
DR. GEO. B. TOLMAN,
shake. Armed in such a cause, the brave old De
exercise of a system of rigid retrenchment ; that of country. Wbat is love of country? With the
A W oxderful S alt M ixe .—The great Hum
the government should be administered for the republicans it is love of the republican party and mocracy of Oregen cannot be beaten at any point.
(late Surgeon U. S. Army,)
people and not against tbem. in protecting their their own pockets. Party ami self are their nar The ball here started will not only carry enthu boldt salt mine, near Austin, Nev., is described a«
and interests mid not in fostering monopn
siasm over the Pacific coast, but will go down the. looking like a lake frozen over. The salt is a-
Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, rights
lies to prey upon them and despoil them of the:r row ideas of “patriotism,” but the laborers, the Eastern slope with a million cheers, and roll over'
. hard and as level, nnd smooth as ice. Were it
substance; that a system of taxation which has Democracy, look to the general welfare of the coun
ILL PRACTICE IN JACKSON AND
the
hosts
of
tyrants
wh
>
oppose
it.
The
bribes
of
not fur the fine particles which are condensed from
for its object the establishment of privileged orders try in all its varied features. They know not the
adjacent counties, and attend promptly to
under the Govern nent, either by preferring one difference of north, south, east or west. The white imperial bondholders and the voices of hired ad vapors arising from beneath, and which cover the
all calls on professional hu-dne.««.
class to another or by-imposing grievom hurthens
vocates cannot affect the action of an undeceived chrystaline salt to the depth of perhaps one-eighth .
upon the taxpayers, while conferring favors, e ietnp- American citizen, whether from the forests of
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE,
people. Our able speakers will so clearly show up of an inch, it would make an excellent skating ’
tions and immunities upon the holders of Govern Maine, the prairies of the West, the orange groves
<m 4th street, opposite the M. E. Church, Jack ment securities deserves no other name than legal
of Florida, or the gold regions of the Pacific, is» in the iniquities and evil designs of the Radical party I rink at all times of the year, except on very unfre
sonville, Oregon.
ized public plunder.
their view, the same. He is lookd on as the lead that all thoso who are unwilling to be slaves, wil! quent occasions when it is covered with water.
janS-tf.
Jan. Sth, 1870.
8. Tha the continual payment of the semi-an
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band together, and in their might, hurl down to The expanse of crystalized salt is no less than
nual interest on the bouded debt of the United ing ethnological race and by the energy, sagacity
States without abatement, together with other enor and all the faculties that together make a great the lower depths of perdition the party that holds twenty miles in length and twelve in breadth.
Dr. L. T. DAVIS
mous expeases for which the people r e faxed, people has proved himself superior to any other money to be more valuable than blood, and says
make a burden too intolerable to be buine without
liberty is inconsistent with material progress.
No D oubt of it .—A Radical paper says, “It is
an effort to find some speedy means of relief; that race of people. Yet the republican seeks to eom- There will be nothing left of Radicalism in Ore
evident that a spirit of incendiarism is abroad.*’
the amount of the bonded debt was increased more i pel the people, whom centuries of hard study, cul
Opposite tlie Old
than two-fold by the venal, illegal and unjustifia tivation and experience have placed above all the gon, when the fight is over, and for that result We have no doubt of it. It commenced its career
they may thank the great Convention at Albany, I
ble terms of its contraciion, and there is neither
with the advent of the Radical party, and has been
people of the earth and to whom all other races
justice
or
wisdom
in
the
repeated
payment
of
the
A rkansas L ivery S table , principal by the continued payment of the inler- and people look up, to take into partnership with which complied with their demand for “live issues,” ■stalking abroad ever since. It has applied the
by putting that eight resolution in the Democratic
est ; that it is no part of good pol'cry or good gov them in their heritage of civilization and greatness,
torch to the grand temple of our liberty which has
ernment to embarrass the energies of labor end a'l the negro and the mongolian. The former of whom platform.— Herald.
Jacksonville, Oregon.
well nigh fallen beneath the consuming flames of
business enterprise by excessive and oppressive
—
( The men who have Keen running
B. F. Dowell writes to his paper that Senator —
Radicalism.
taxation for tbe exclusive benefit o? a combination as a race are described as so low that they have no
E. H. GREENMAN,
of untaxed capital , that to relieve the country belief, no traditions and are dirty and beastly in Casserly, of California, and other Democrats, op Congress for the past three sessions are the worst
X>lx7’aiioi»'xx cfc Surgeon, and to restore prosperity we favor an enu’table ad their habits and aspirations, if they possess any of pose “every land grant.” Dowell wrote that kind of incendiaries deserving a fate worse than
of tue bonded debt of the United States. the latter. Every one should read the travels of
charge in the very face of a contrary showing te- his who fired the temple of Ephesus,
OFFICE—At hit residence on Fifth Street justment
9. That the desire of the present Congress, as
Jacksonville, Oregon,
manifested by tbe proceedings, to secure to the Speke, Grant nnd Baker in Africa to get some idea cord. The'position of Mr. Casserly and other
O ld S hora .—What becomes of old shoes ? They
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^3^Will practice in Jackson and adjacent coun- wealthy bondholders payment in coin on account of what the immediate ancestors of the negro and Democratic
Senators is that of land grants in prop are cut in small pieoes and those are put for a
âes, acd attend promptly to professional calls.
of indebtedness growing out of loans to the his relatives in the cenfraF parts of Africa have er quantities wi£h restrictions against speculators ;
couple of days in chloride of sulphur which makes
United States, of Treasury notes when wqrth ’ess
while that of the Republicans in Indiana and the
than one-half tbeir coin value, alter the holdeis been and still are.
DR. A. B. OVERBECK
theleatbe’ very hard and brittle. After thin ia
It is common for the radicals to accuse tbe dem Committees of the House is opposition to land
thereof have received exorbitant in crest thereon,
affected the material is washed with water, dried,
WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE AND SUR- ■ and at the same time leaving the pensions due un- ocrats of a wish to repudiate iqj honest debt. We grants under any circumstances. We have pub
If GERY, and will attend promptly to all calls i fortunate soldiers, their wives, children or other do not believe any such thing. No true democrat lished the evidence in support of our cha^e, while ground to powder and mixed with some substance
which makes the particles adhere together, as shel
^-on professional business. His oflice and residence i kindled to be paid in a depreciated currency, ex wishes to repudiate what the country honestly
that
of
Dowell
is
totally
and
completely
refuted
hibits
a
spirit
of
injustice
unsurpassed
in
the
his
are at
lac, good glue or thick solution of gum. It ia
tory of class legislation aad fully demonstrates owes, but they do wish to sift out the honest debts by the evidence.— Herald.
The Overbeck Hospital,
then pressed into moulds and shaped into combs,
existence of a design on the part of the monied from those stolen and forced from the people in
l-tf the
On Oregon Street, Jacksonville. Oregon.
aristocracy of the country to influenze the estab their time of need. They do say, that he who
The Oregonian having insisted that opposition to buttons, knife-handles, and many other articles.
lishment of a policy favoring the aggrandì- emeut
further grants of land and money to railroads was
JAMES D. EAV,
N atiox ,” “nation,” “nation I” Wbat nation?
of the rich at the expense of tbe uoor ; a policy however much mistaken who fought and bled amf
on
the
part
of
Democrats
alone,
and
was
a
party
which has for its object the aggregation of wealth, suffered personally for the government be loved, is
Even Southern papers have caught up this absurd
opulence and power on the one hand, and misery, a great deal more entitled to the interest on the measure, we commend to its attention, in additicn slang. This is no “nation”—in the sense never
poverty and slavery on the other ; a policy fitted
$1,500,000 than the New York bondholder, wha to the convincing proof already published in the has been, never will be, never can be a “nation.”
only to a monarchical form of government».
H erald , the following resolution of the Indiana It must be either a Federative Republic er an Em
OFFICE—In Court Honse, up stairs.
10. That the Democracy of this State now, as only loaned a small portion of his surplus oapital,
heretofore, ore strenuous advocates of a tariff for after almost careful calculation that he was going State Republican Convention.— Herald.
Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts
pire.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the donations
purposes
of
revenue
on
’
y
;
that
the
principle
of
to
get
from
15
to
25
per
cent
per
annum
on
his
of this State.
protection for the sake ot protection is at war with
S ome fellow at Elizabethport, N. J., built a
of the public lands or the grant of subsidies in
actual investment.
the
diversified
in
tereats
of
the
people
of
the
Sta
’
es,
/
Particular attention paid to the collection
money to railroads and other corporations, and schooner and named it “Benjamin Butler.” Bwt
The democracy, by its members, fought as tbe that we demand the reservation of the public do the gods will not be mocked, and the first time it
of Claims against the Federal and State Governr and experience has shown its tenderer to aggran
inents, the Entry of Lands under the Pre-emption, dize a class in the community at tbe expense «nd duty seemed to call; no force necessary—each main for the use of actual settlers and educational went to sea they cut the craft in two, and four men
and Homestead Laws, and to the Entry of Mineral to the injury of tbe producing and laboring m5’- heart felt and understood the God given right of purposes.
were lost with the wreck.
lroas, taxing their industry equity, iu violation of
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