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JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1870. the authority of the Constitution, and of the great principles that should govern this people in their intercourse with the family of nations. 11. That we f.ivor the adoption of an ainend- mtnd to the Constitution of the United States, re seinding the 1 Itli and 15th amendments. 12. That we are in favor of a liberal policy 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 resigning 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 resp ct and 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 and resigning members, we unhesitatingly approve and endorse the conduct of the Democratic members in earnestly and faithful ly striving to restore and maintain the organiza tion of the Legislature, and provide for the due administration of the laws. Oregon Democratic Platform. |V whence he came. This immigration can only be compared with the irruption of the hordes of bar barians that in the middle ages swept from Nor thern Europe over the rich plains of Italy, and af- ter leaving desol ition in their track, returned to i tho north to be followed by others, each more in- ■atiable than the last. The Democratic party have done wisely in mak ing war upon this evil in its commencement, while yet they may, for in two years more it may be a part of the Constitution, and a “dead issue."— Plaimli ukr. NO. 1. Unrestricted Suffrage. Several of the very radical journals are rejoic The following are the resolutions adopted by the ing with exceeding great joy over the fact that a great Democratic Convention at Albany, embody Published Every Saturday Morning, ing the principles of the party in this State : bill has passed Congress granting unrestricted suf 1. That they are unalterably attached to the BY P. D. HULL, frage to the thousands of uneducated negroes in principles of our Republic as expounded by its I* u b U h h o r A I* r o p r i e t <» r. founders, and the paramount object of their or the District of Columbia. We look upon this ganization shall ever be to uphold and inuintuiu measure as one of the most destructive blows ever OFFICE-—On Third St. Between California and C. those principles inviolate. aimed at our institutions, opening, as it does, the 2. That they hold those political partizans, who, A TERMS: way to the ballot-box for seven hundred thousand occupying positions of trust, claiming to be repre .$ I 00 sentatives of the people, have usurped the author Subscription, per annum, in advance people, ninety-nine and a half per cent, of whom $2 00 ity confined to them, maliciously trampled under can neither read nor write, and whose training has Six months................................................ foot our sacred bill of rights, made civil law sub “T he labor party went with the democrats in been such as to wholly unfit them for exercising advertisements , ordinate to military rule, perverted the functions the highest duties of the citizen. The value and New Hampshire.” In T ub D emocratic N ews will be charged at of Government, and endeavored to concentrate its powers io the hands of an oligarchy, wholly disre The above we take from the Post published at perpetuity of Republican Institutions must, from the following rates garded the will anil wishes of their constituents, Wilmington, North Carolina, The paper is an ex- their very nature, depend wholly upon the average First insertion, (ten lines or less)................... $3 00 and instduously endeavored to disparage, debase treme radical one, and it must bc rather humilia- intelligence and capacity of those who, through For eaeh week thereafter.......................................$1 00 anti stigmatize the once proud title ot American ting for it to admit that the laboring men in New the ballot-box, make the laws of the country. In A liberal deduction from the above rates will be citizenship, as enemies to the best interests ol this commonwealth. made on quarterly andyeailv advertisements. England are becoming sufficiently independent to a country of five millions of voters, where parties 3. That the so-called reconstruction measures at oppose, by their votes, the will of the monopolists, are so evenly balanced as they usually are in tho tempted to be carried out i>y the present party in, JOB PRINTING. that tor years have driven them to the polls, forc United States, half a million or so of ignorant vo power is a nefarious scheme, revolutionary in de ing theiikto cast their ballots for men and f^»r a ters will always turn the scale, and therefore the Every variety of Job Work executed with neat sign, treasonable in execution, one which if ac quiesced in as a rightful exercise of authority will party that was robbing them of the daily proceeds destinies of the Nation must virtually Remain in ness and dispatch, at reasonable rates. establish a most dangerous precedent and imperil The Chinese Question. of their labor, making the poor poorer and the rich in their hands. Due regard for our own protec the safety and prosperity of our form of govern ment, and that the present Senators in the Con richer. It is undoubtedly true as the Pont sug tion, and for the interests, welfare, and honor of gress of the United States from this State in sup The Constitution of the State of Oregon. Art. gests that the labor party is assisting in revolution. the Nation, should deter us from ever placing the porting those measures have misrepresented the 1, Sec. 31, says: “White foreigners who are or izing the sentiment of even New England. The control of the Natien in the hands of those who wi-hes and outraged the sentiments of the people may hereafter become rcsi lents of this State shall loruy monopolist who with a million of dollars iq are so ignorant that even in tho ordinary business of Oregon. 4. That the systematic efforts made by that party enjoy the same rights in respect to the possession, untaxed government securities in his pocket, will affairs of life they cannot with safety be trusted to to extend to the African, the Indian, and the Chi enjoyment and descent of property as native born'soon discovcr that the laboring class of the people make their own contracts, but must be kept under naman all the civil and political rights and privi citizens. Ami the legislative assembly shall hare' m cre ,ong rcfuse to b(J 8nindleJ in the luanner the guardianship of Freedmen’s Bureuu agents. JACKSONVILLE LODGE No. 10 leges enjoyed by the white race, evinces a design power to restrain^and regulate the immigration to • practieuJ the p;,st kn ycj|rfl by the ra(Hcal party As was remarked by Acting Vice-President Foster, on the part of its leaders to destroy the high esti not qualified to become citi- m, e , . • . . „ . A. , . . placed upon that invaluable heritage and this State of persons • 1 ¡the fact has become too patent that the labor of when the District Suffrage bill was under discus olds its regular meetings ON mate render despotism less objectionable and more easy zens of the United States.” Sec. 35. “No free the country had become entirely subservient to cap sion in the United States Senate, the voters of tho every Saturday evening at the Odd Fell« »WS of acc unplishment. good standing are invited to negro or mulatto, not residing in this State at the llall. Brothers in ital. \\ hen the radicals admit that in radical New country are called upon to sit in judgment upon 5. That the ratification of the recently proposed SILAS J. DAY, N. G. attend. time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall amendment to the Constitution of tlie I nite i England it is cutting loose from the power that has the acts of Congress, Legi Matures, Presidents, and N. D. SHORT, R. See' V. States extending the right of suffrage to the be come, reside or be within this State, or hold any hitherto had it firmly bound, what can we expect1 Governors, an'l not unfrequently Congressional P. F ehley , ) nighted negro and Indian, and which opens the ■ real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain T rustees. will be tho result throughout the West, where a proceedings are reversed, and Congressional laws S. J. D ay , door for its enjoyment to the heathenish China “ No negro, |any s^it therein. Art. 11, See. 6. W m . R ay , man, is irregular, arbitrary and unlawful, and they far greater degree of independence exists than in virtually repealed, at the ballot-box. Is there, in t—f most earnest'y protest against the passage by the Chinaman, or mulatto shall have the right of suff- the manufacturing establishments of the East. all the land, a man who will say that any one of May 1st, 1869. United States Congress of the pending act de | rage.” The Pont, within the next four years will see that the haff million or more of the adult male appren signed to enforce this obnoxious and illegal pro JAMES R. NEIL, We do not publish these extracts for the purpose vision. the laboring class of our people not in any partic tices of the Freedmen's Bureau is fit to be a Sena ! of showing how utterly use'dVs a State Constitu 6. That they urge and entreat a repeal of the ular section but in every State and Territory in the tor or a Member of the Lower House of Congress? recent treaty concluded between the United States tion i-, in these days of Congressional usurpation, Third Street, (west side), between California and China «hich guarantees to the latter nation I but t<> refer to the well-considered policy adopted Union, will unite under one common banner, and If the ignorant and recently enfranchised freedmen » and Main. such extensive privileges an I immunities without 1 by the people in the year 1857. They belli out in their principles will be protection to all, equality in are not competent to sit in the halls of Congress corresponding benefits to American citizens, ami Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts taxation and the elevation of the laboring masses, and make laws for the Nation, are they competent offers to its hordes of seini-i«arl> irians such favora ducements to white men ot all nations to come here, of this State. instead of their degred;ition, as the radical party to sit in judgment upon and pronounce against or ble inducements to s \ arm in upon us, occupying the strongest of which was that the hardy pioneer T-fF' Particular attention paid to the collection our mineral ami agricultural district-, create coin-1 wh • had only his stong arm and stout heart with propose, in sinking them to the same level with the in favor of the acts of Congress? Would weal- African and Mongolian. Is it to be wondered at low any man whom we did not believe to be com of Claims against the Federal and State Govern-! petition with our laLorin^ m s.-es, c-t ildi-ii immo whi< h to build a fortune and carve a name, would anents, the Entry of Lands under the Pre einption ral pursuits, disgusting rites, ceremonies an 1 prac , that they are waking up to-their trne interests in petent to sit on a Judge’s bench, to reverse decis and llomestea i Laws, ami to the Entry ot Mineral^ tices in <>ur towns, discourage and repel the immi not have the competition of the inferior races to ions of the Supreme Court? The white race, for gration of our own race, uecrea-e the white popu j contend against. This policy received the approval the manufacturing townsand cities of New Eng- Lodes under the recent Act of Congress. lation. retard thrift, impede the advancement of of nine tenths oi our citti/.ens at that time, and is lland, where the employees are compelled to work generations, had to pass through a series of train education and enlightenment, abstract from our re C. AV. KAHLER, fourteen hours every day, men, women and chil ing and education before it became competent to sources and send away our valuable mineral wealth, none the le-s esteemed by them now since exper- dren alike ; the miserable pittance allowed is use the ballot with judgment and discretion. Is and demoralize and apostatize our community, ami ience lias taught that it is foiin led upon the soun- they resolve that a party who will sustain a policy j dost principles of political economy. The freedom I searsely sufficient to purchase the necessaries re- the black race so far superior to the white race so unwise, ruinous and ruthless as that which up | quired to hold the body and soul together, and that it is competent to emerge at one bound from land welfare of a republic depends upon the balance J AC KSON VILLE, OREGON, holds such an infamous bargain, is unworthy the a condition of slavery and semi-barbarism to a po of power being retained in the hands of an intelli still you hear these hypocritical demogogues harp- support ot white men. sition where it can virtually decide the most im Will practice in the Supreme Court, District, and 7. That in the management of municipal affairs gent independent working class, composed of the ! ing about cheaper labor. There is not a white man other Courts of this State. they urge a judicious application of the principles husbandman, the mechanic and the labor. There in the employ of a New England abolitionist that portant and abstruse questions of statesmanship OFFICE—In building formerly occupied by 0. of sound political economy , a laudab c encourage can be no su.di thing as a democracy composed could retain his place for one day, if a moon-eyed at the ballot-box ? We trow not. Congress is un- ment to agricultural, mineral, manufacturing ami Jacobs—opposite Court House square. Mongolian should approach the employer and wise in hurrying these peoplo to the ballot-box. commercial interests ; a just and equitable protec alone of the immensely rich and the abjectly poor tion to the laborer and capitalist and the faithful entirely dependent upon them. The introduction promise to work lor a few farthings less per day. It is preparing the entering wedge which is to de DR. GEO. B. TOLMAN, exercise of a system of rigid retrenchment ; that stroy our Republican system. It is virtually de of any servile race, whether they be called slaves “Cheap labor” says the radical, “high protective the government should be administered for the tariff on everything they consume, ” protection to nying the efficacy and usefulness of our system of (late Surgeon ü. S. Army,) people ami not against them, in protecting their or not. so far as it tends to produce this last result, rights and interests and not in fostering monopo corrupts our system of Government and destroys our manufacturers, ’’ “exemption from taxation ot education, and holding out a premium for igno Physician, Surgeon,/ and Accoucheur, lies to prey upon them ami despoil them of their its prosperity. It is not surprising then that the men who hold government securities by the rance, by placing the political judgment and wis substan e; that a system of taxation which has dom of the graduates of our schools and colleges ILL PRACTICE IN JACKSON AND for its object the establishment of privileged orders Cooleisin or Chinese immigration, as it is called by million,” tax the homestead and the only cow of adjacent counties, and attend promptly to under the Government, either l»y preferring one its Radical defenders, should have proved to be, the poor laboring man. Crush him in his hopes up?n a par with a class of people whom Congress . I all culls on professional business. class to another or by imposing grievou, i hurthens though yet in its infancy, an unmitigated evil. The and aspirations and keep him toiling year in and admits are not capable of managing their own pri vate affairs, and so placed them in all business upon the taxpayers, while conferring favors, exemp State of California has been the first to feel its let- j year out, early and late ” OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, tions and immunities upon the holders of Govern This is the plain, inevitable result of tlie work- matters under the guardianship of Government on 4th street, opposite the M. E. Church, Jack ment securities deserves no other name than legal feet, and already ten thousand skilful and common ! agents. The great mischief of the steps taken by sonville, Oregon. workmen arc out of employment in the city of San ings of tho radical party, and the laborers have ized public plunder. janS-tf. Jan. 8th, 1870. 8. Tha’ the continual payment of the semi-an Francisco alone. While this State of affairs may discovered it, the military glory and achievments Congress lies in the fact that in matters of suffrage nual interest on the bonded debt of the United arise in part from other causes, it is chiefly owing of Gen. Grant will not be sufficient to insure anoth it is impossible to go backward. A mistake once States without abatement, together with other enor- made in this direction cannot be rectified. Once Dr. L. T. DAVIS, mous expenses for which the people are taxed, ^ie ^heir places in the workshops, the er victory to the radical party. It was the only make a burden too intolerable to be borne without mines and other occupations have been filled by thing that prevented the election of Iloratio Sey a lowed access to the ballot-box no class will ever an effort to find some speedy means of relief; that the raj eatin g pagans who will labor for a pittanc* mour in the last election but his glory cannot save vote to close it against themselves. The mischief the amount of the bonded debt was increased more1 once set afoot must keep on with its work until de ' it again.— Capital Chronicle. Opposite tlie Old than two-fold by the venal, illegal and unjustifia upon which a decent white man would starve. The struction ensues. When once the little teredo has ble terms of its contraction, and tkere is neither question presses, what shall be done for these thou A M inisterial M istake .—An amusing incident secured a position in a plank of a ship’s bottom, A rkansas L ivery S taimi :, justice or wisdom in the repeated payment of the sands of starving workingmen and their families? principal by the continued payment ot tho inter The auswer must be given without delay, or the ' occurred at one of our churches on Sunday last, it docs not cease its dangerous work until the est ; that it is no part of good policy or good gov which will do to make a note of. A sombre-dress- grand and glorious vessel is a helpless wreck. ernment to embarrass the energies of labor anti all peace ot the State will be endangered. Men who I Jacksonville, Oregon. Thus far Congress has only extended suffrage in business enterprise by excessive and oppressive are willing to work, will not quietly starve in a led and well-behaved young gentleman, and a the District of Columbia, and is endeavoring to taxation for the exclusive benefit of a combination land of plenty, which they can well call their own, stranger in the city, wended his way into a place E. H. GREENMAN, of untaXed capital , that to relieve the country where the Gospel is dispensed, and upon entering extend it in the Territories. If it would pause ’H'Hyilciari. db Surgeon, and to restore prosperity we favor an equitable ad since its wealth and progress is the work of their the church tho minister bowed politely as in recog there all might yet be will, for as the voters in tho justment of tne bonded debt of the United States. hands. In spite of all this, active measures are be OFFICE—At his residence on Fifth Street V. That the desire of the present Congress, as ing taken to increase the evil. Congress has, or is nition of the young gentleman, which salutation i District and Territories do not make membors of Jacksonville, Oregon. manifested by the proceedings, to secure to the about to grant to the steamship lines, an additional tho stranger could but return. The minister then Congress, the evil might yet be abolished, for as ^»¡0» Will practice in Jackson and adjacent coun- wealthy bondholders payment in coin on account subsidy for the purpose of facilitating Coolie im arose from his seat in the pulpit, come down to the soon as the new system is tried, even on a circum ies, and attend promptly to protessional calls. of indebtedness growing out of loans to the scribed scale, it will be demonstrated to be perni- United States, of Treasury notes when worth less migration, against the earnest protest of that Slate. place where the young min had seated himse’f, than one-half their coin value, after the holders The result is easily foreseen. In a few years and asked him to take a place in the pulpit and 1cious. dangerous and destructive. But Congress DR. A. B. OVERBECK I has no intention of pausing. Having introduced thereof have received exorbitant interest thereon, white immigration will have entirely ceased, and make a prayer. and at the same time leaving the pensions duo un 1I/1IX PRACTICE MEDICINE AND &UR- Stranger—‘Guess you’re mistaken in your man, the Trojan Horse within the walls of the Republic, VV GERY, and will attend promptly to all calls fortunate so diers, their wives, children or other the laboring class, “the bone and sinew of the that body will endeavor to keep it running until on professional business. His oilice and residence kindred to be paid in a depreciated currency, ex country” will be crushed out or driven to the wall, sir.’ Minister—‘You are the gentleman, I believe, the animal succeeds in overthrowing them. Our hibits a spirit of injustice unsurpassed in the his with all these evils it brings no compensating ad are at tory of class legislation and fully demonstrates vantages. It is said that without their pauper la with whom I had the conversation yesterday.’ only hope is that a kind Providence will interpose The Overbeck Hospital, the existence of a dr-sign on the part of the monied 1-tf ! Stranger—‘No sir, I am agent for a wholesale some obstacle to prevent the full accomplishment On Oregon Street, Jacksonville. Oregon. aristocracy of the country to influence the estab hor we could build no railroads. But railroads are of the designs now on foot. If Congress succeeds lishment of a policy favoring the aggrandizement only desirable when they conduce to tho wealth i liquor house in Chicago.’ JAMES D. FAY, of the rich at the expense of ttie uoor ; a policy and comfort of the people. A road built by white Minister retiring to his pulpit disgusted breathes in imposing complete negro suffrage on the coun which has for its object the aggregation of wealth/ a prayer of more than ordinary fervor.— Carnun try, there are adult men who will read this article opulence and power on the one hand, and misery, men, though not so profitable perhaps to the con who will live long enough to see our Republican poverty and slavery on the other ; a policy fitted tractors, is more so to the country. The workmen Appeal, institutions destroyed by this new system, and only to a monarchical form of government. settle upon the line of the road, and open farms, OFFICE—In Court Ilonse, up stairs. Several Chicago business firms have secured 10. That the Democracy of this State now, as new hamlets towns and cities spring up, and new cognate measures that are traveling hand in hand «rood-looking females to collcot their bills. The| Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts heretofore, are strenuous advocates of a tariff for with the abominable mischief.— F. Call. purposes of revenue only ; that the principle of life and vigor pervades tho land. The Chinaman only trouble is that bachelor debtors are inclined of this State. protection for the sake ot protection is at war with on the other hand confers no benefits, ho buys to show causo why the dear dunners should call I ntemperance in A laska —The Alaska Times eg?- Particular attention paid to the collection the diversified interests of the people of the States, none of our products, not even the rice upon which again. of Claims against the Federal and State Govern and experience has shown its tendency to aggran he feeds, and when his work is done, the wages of says there are only six hundred people in Sitka, ments, the Entry of Lands under the Pre-emption dize a class in the community at the expense and ; Woman is like the ivy, the more sho loves you all told, yet there sixty bar-rooms and two brew and Homestead Laws, and to the Entry of Mineral to the injury of the producing and laboring mil-[his labor, the gold from our mines and the ashes eries in full blast. lions, taxing their industry equally, in violation of of his dead are taken back to the great hive from the closer she clings to you. 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