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U (3 k. JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 187«. f NO. 2. Oregon Democratic Platform. % the authority of the Constitution, and of the great Hypocricy Unparalleled. On the 22d of last month Hot,. William Mun- principles that should govern this people in their gen of Ohio, presente«! to the House the petition of intercourse with the family of nations. The following are the resolutions adopted by the 11. That we favor the adoption of an amend- Signficant and most cheering are the signs in 155 citizens of Worcester, Mass., praying for a re great Democratic Convention at Albany, embody mtnd to the Constitution of the United States, re the »Senate of the fast coming revolution. At the Published Every Saturday Morning, pudiation of the bonded debt. The petition was ing the principles of the party in this State : scinding the 14th and 15th amendments. opening yesterday the Committee on Disabilities 1. That they are unalterably attached to the 12. That we are in favor of a liberal policy be reported favorably Mr. Ferry’s bill repealing the enclose«! to him in a letter, which we are constrain BY P. D, HULL, principles of our Republic as expounded by its ing pursued by the Legislature of this State, in test acts Immediately afterward Mr. Revel- pre ed to publish, as it is indicative of a strong under P u b 1 1 N li e r & Proprietor. founders, and tho paramount object of their or the bestowal of the land grants to her for the pur sented the resolution of his Legislature asking the current of public sentiment which may be destined ganization shall ever be to uphold and maintain pose of public improvements. speedy removal of the political disabilities of all OFFICE-—On Third St. Between California and C. those principles inviolate. 13. That the Governor and resigning members the citizens of Mississippi, and Inter in the day to bear all before it. Here is the letter : 2. That they hold those political partisans, who, of the Legislature, in engaging in a conspiracy to Mr. Sumner withdrew his objections to tho bill W orcester , Mass., Jan. 20, 1870. TERMS: occupying positions of trust, claiming to be repre overthrow the State government, collect large lately passed relieving the disabilities of a large Subscription, per annum, in advance $4 00 sentatives of the people, have usurped the author amounts of coin as revenue, to he drawn from the number of persons therein named. At this rate D ear S ir :—We read with great interest your Six months................................................ $2 00 ity confided to them, maliciously trampled under business and hard earnings of the people, to be and in this humor we need not be long in reaching brave and timely speech for the repudiation of the toot our sacred bill of rights, made civil law sub idle in the treasury, or t»< be the subjects of gam universal amnesty.—.Vew York Tribune. National War Debt, and regard you as one of the ADVERTISEMENTS, ordinate to military rule, perverted the functions bling speculations in warrants, bonds and other This is tho language of that arch traitor and few, if not the only honest man in Congress. We •In T he D emocratic N ews will be charged at of Government, and endeavoretl to concentrate its securities, were guilty of a high crime against the vile hypocrite, Horace Greeley, who helped with can liken the tyrannical insolence with which your powers io the hands of an oligarchy, wholly disre Government of Oregon, rendering them unworthy the following rates garded the will and wishes of their constituents, the respect and confidence of the people, or of be all his might to shackle the white citizens of the views were received to nothing better than the »First insertion, (ten lines or less) $3 00 an<i insiduously endeavored to disparage, debase ing further entrusted with the administration of •South with these very “disabilities” he now, in scenes in the House in 1836 and 1837, and des iFor each week thereafter....................................... $1 00 ami stigmatize the once proud title of American the government ; and while we thus condemn the the snivilling cant of a Mawworm or an Arnina- cribed in Seward’» Life of John Quincy Adam», A liberal deduction from the above rates will be citizenship, as enemies to the best interests of this action of the Governor ami resigning members, we dab Sleek, pretends to depricate ! Will the peo commonwealth. . unhesitatingly approve and endorse the conduct of chap. 13, when the old hero presented petitions made on quarterly ar«i yearly advertisements. 3. That the so-called reconstruction measures at- the Democratic members in earnestly and faithful- ple of the United States ever awake to the concep for the abolition of chattel bondage at the South. tempted to be carried out by the present party in i ly striving to restore awd maintain the organiza tion of the real character of this Mephistopheles You have met and defied a mightier despotism, the JOB PRINTING. power is a nefarious scheme, revolutionary in de tion <<f the Legislature, and provide for the due of the Tribune? After Greeley, Sumner »t Co. 1 scat of whose power is not in Charleston or New Every variety of Job Work executed with neat sign, treasonable in execution, one which if ac administration of the laws. have kept the intelligent white voters of the South Orleans, but in New Yrork and Boston. I send quiesced in as a rightful exercise of authority will ness and dispatch, at reasonable rates. establish a most dangerous precedent and imperil The Fifteenth Amendment Fraud. chained ami gagged, politically powerless, till this you herewith a petition, of II. II. Bigelow and 154 the safety and prosperity of our form of govern infamous nigger amendment was forced upon the other citizens of Worcester, which you will pleaso ment, and that the present Senators in the Con country, after resistance to this outrage was ren I present an«l have referred to the Committee on Fi- gress of the United States from this State in sup A leading Mongrel paper says : — dered impossible in those States, by a standing , nance. Mr. Bigel«»w is a Republican, and one of porting those measures have misrepresented the “Every political measure that has not the sanc wishes ami outraged the sentiments of the people tion of the Democracy is, in their estimation a army of 60,000 men, placed there by Greeley an«i ¡the largest manufacturers in Massachusetts. I do of Oregon. his political confreres, and the emasculation of the not exaggerate in saying that an equal number of 4. That the systematic efforts made by that party ‘fraud.’ Amendments to the Constitution, though I proposed and ratified exactly ns provided in that! white man a fixed fact, niggers in full official an«l ¡the signers embody quite as much intelligence and to extend to the African, the Indian, and the Chi naman all the civil and political rights and privi instrument, are tricks of unscrupulous partizansj social swing, from the jury box to the Senate, honest patriotism as the 123 scoundrels who voted while the Fifteenth Amendment, that has «lone JACKSONVILLE LODGE No. 10 leges enjoyed by the white race, evinces a design more to make a reality of the first paragraph of their late masters too weak for resistance, and un for Garfield’s resolution. Politically there are on the part of its leaders to destroy the high esti the i'eelaration in Independence than all the bal der the very feet of this ignorant and inferior race, about three Republicans to one Democrat among OLDS ITS REGULAR MEETINGS ON I mate placed upon that invaluable heritage ami ance of the Constitution put together, is denounced then these scoundrelly lea«lers assume the role of the signers, an«l more than one hundred of the every Saturday eveuiug at the Odd Fell ows’ render despotism less objectionable and more easy by them as tyrannical.” of acc »inplishinent. philanthropists, and cry “let the poor white man whole number work in one sh oe factory. You can Hall, Brothers in good standing are invited to We do not quote this paragraph with a view of 5. That the ratification of the recently proposed attend. SILAS J. DAY, N. G. | up ; proclaim universal amnesty I” But the time judge by that how our people will stand when the amendment to the Constitution of the United convincing the author of its foolishness or false N. D. SHORT, R. Secy. States extending the right of suffrage to the be hood, because we do not imagine that he supposes will come, whether “amnesty” is granted or not, issue is frankly and intelligently considered. * * P. F ehlet , ) when the shackles will be off the limbs of the nighted negro and Indian, and which opens the I Yours, truly, S. J. D ay , > Trustees. door for its enjoyment to the heathenish China there is a word of truth in what he says about the white men of the South, and when, too, they can E. H. H aywood . W m . R ay , J man. is irregular, arbitrary ami unlawful, and they fair ratification of the “Fifteenth Amendment.” afford to express their political and social views. May 1st, 1869. t—f most earnestly protest against the passage by the When the States adopted the clause of the Consti I practically ; when the bayonets will not, as now, I W arning to H usbands .—A la<ly ia the Revolu United States Congress of the pending act de tution in relation to .1 mendmentx, it was fhuir in JAMES R. NEIL, signed to enforce this obnoxious and illegal pro be pointed at their breasts, with the besotted nig tion, (Sister Anthony’s paper) writes as follows : tention that the fair and full expression of the peo vision. ger, and the doubly besotted carpet-bagg r, play The great want of women at present is money 6. That they urgo ami entreat a repeal of the ple ol the States should he taken on the subject. ing the role of despotism. They must bide their money for their personal wants, an 1 monej to car I recent treaty concluded between the Unite«! States Third Street, (west side), between California an 1 China whieti guarantees to the latter nation But this so-called Amendment has been compassed time with patience.— Day Book. ry out their plans. I propose that they shall earn and Main. i-meh extensive privileges ami immunities without by cheating the people. For instance, Ohio is it, that they shall consider it as honorable to work Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts curroponding benefits to American citizens, ami counted for the A i.endtnent, when only in 1868 Why Mr. Hoar was not Confirmed. fur money as for board, and demand lor them ol this State. 'oilers to its hordes of semi-barbarians such favora the people of that State voted against the measure equal pay for equal work. I demand that the ble inducements t>> saarm in upon us, occupying I I by a majority of over 50.000. A direct vote of the The true reason why the Senate refused to con 1 bearing ami rearing of children, the most exacting TJBr Particular attention paid to the collection our mineral ami agricultural districts, create com of Claims against the Federal an 1 State Govern petition with ot:r laboring in s-es, establish immo people of Missouri went overwhelmingly against is firm the nomination of Mr. lloar as Associate Jus of employments, and involving the must terrible of ments, the Entry of Lands under the Pre empti»>n ral pursuits, «iisgiisting rites, ceremonies ami prac- at the same time. The people of the State of Illi tice of the Supreme Court is leaking out at last. risks, shall be the best paid work in the world, an<i Hoinesfea i Laws, an l t « the Entry of Mineral ti'-es in our towns, di-courage and repel the immi nois v >ted against it by 100,090 majority. Only The surly Attorney General had the audacity to an«! that husbands shall treat their wives with at Lodes under the recent Act of Congre-su. gration <«f our own race, uccrea*e tin* white popti last fall, the people of the State of New York went lation, retard thrift, impede the advancement <>f question the infallibility of Congress ; this was least as much consideration, and acknowledge them C. W. KAIILEB, education and enlightenment, abstract from our re again-«! it by a direct vote of over 50.000, and on a his crime, and tor this ho was made the recipient entitled to as much money as wet nurses. The sources and send away our valuable mineral wealth, full vote would have thrown 100,000 against it. of a deliberate and unusual affront. The Wash meaning of this is that wives are about to strike ami demoralize and apostatize our community, and Connecticut, tlm last fiffie it voted on the question, ington correspondent of the Hartford (Conn.) for greenbacks, so much for every baby burn. . No they resolve that a party who will sustain a p««Ufy so unwise, ruinous ami ruthless as that whiow iup cast, we think, 7,000 against it. No one doubts Timex says savs : greenbacks, no more sons and daughters. No JACKSONVILLE. OREGON, holds such an infamous bargain, is unworthy the that a direct vote of the people of Pennsylvania The true reason of his rejection will not be sent I greenbacks, no more population ; no more buys to support of white men. would sl'ow 100,000 against it. And yet all these over the country by telegraphic despatches, It j Will practice in the Supreme Court, District, and 7. That iu the management of municipal affairs carry on the great enterprises of the age. The other Courts of this State. they urge a judicious application of the principles States are reckoned for it 1 Here is possibly where will be claimed that he was rejected for the reason scale of prices for maternal duties are given as fol OFFICE—In building formerly occupied by 0. of sound political economy , a lamlab e encourage tho fraud comes in. The people nre cheated, that he belonged at the North and in Massachu- , lows girl babies, $101) ; boy, $200 ; twin, $300 ; ment to agricultural, mineral, manufacturing and Their will has not only not been consulted, but the I setts. But that State Jacobs—opposite Court House square. has no Justice upon the I twin, (both boys,) $100 ; triplets, $600 ; triplets, commercial interests ; a just and equitable protec measure is declared carried by those States where Bench and the Senate cares nothing for this rea- I tion to the laborer and capitalist and the faithful (all boys,) $1,000. Terms, C. O. D. No credit DR. GEO. B. TOLMAN, exercise of a system of rigid retrenchment ; that it is known that an overwhelming majority are son. With the South full of Northern men in beyond first child, motto being “pay up or dry the government should be administered for the against it. Under the pressure of party, the Leg every Executive office, and sustained there by the (late Surgeon U. S. Army,) up.” Husbands who desire to transmit their people ami not against them, in protecting their islature of these States have abominably abused Senate, very few people can be made to believe ami interests and not in fostering monopo names to posterity will please notice, and take a Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, rights lies to prey upon them ami despoil them of their their constituents, and ratified a measure that is that Mr. Hoar was rejected on account of his lo- new departure. substance ; that a system of taxation which has hateful to them. So much for tho fraud of the cility. The true reason is this : He has express ILL PRACTICE IN JACKSON AND for its object the establishment of privileged orders ed opinions of the unconstitutionality of some of adjaeeut counties, and attend promptly to under the Government, either by preferring one AmrnJmcHf in the Northern States, Man. In the South it one of is even worse. Every all calls on professional business. the acts of Congress, and he does not like the Rad class to another or by imposing grievous burthens upon the taxpayers, while conferring favors, exemp those States have been forced to carry the measure ical plan of subjugating the Judiciary. This kil- OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, tions and immunities upon the holders of Govern against their judgment and their will. The thing ed him off. Tho Government is to a considerable Man is a wonderful creature, but if he equaled on 4th street, opposite the M. E. Church, Jack ment securities deserves no other name than legal has been carried there wholly by bayonets, and no extent revolutionized. The States and the people the beasts, birds and insects, in their own peculiar sonville, Oregon. ized public plunder. man in his senses, who is not willing to be looked have little power, and centralization will be su powers, how much more wonderful he would be ! Jan. 8th, 1870. janR-tf. 8. Tha- the continual payment of the semi-an nual interest on the bonded debt of the United upon as a liar, will pretend that such a ratification preme. Already you will notice that Farnsworth, If, for instance, he could swim like a fish, run like States without abatement, together with other enor is valid, or of binding effect upon any State. No Dawes and Bingham are alarm 1, and have enter ian antelope, gallop like a horse^glimb like a mon Dr. L. T. DAVIS, mous expenses for which the people are taxed, one doubts that if this so-called Amendment were ed protests as boldly as they dare. But they dare key, spring like a tiger, an 1 fly like an eagle ; or make a burden too intolerable to be borne without an effort to find some speedy means of relief; that submitted to a perfectly fair vote of the people of not say much, for tyranny is so great here that if ho could roar like a lion, sing like a nightingale, the amount of the bonded debt was increased more all the States, it would be rejectod by a majority of Republicans who are really alarmed dare not scent like a hound, hear like a rabbit, hold on like Opposite 1 he Old than two-fold by the venal, illegal and unjustifia e ght-tenths at least. The Amendment is, there speak boldly and freely. But a good many of a leech, persevere like an ant, see as tar as a bird, ble terms of its contraction, ami there is neither justice or wisdom in the repeated payment of the fore, a fraud. It is an oppression. It is and act them are shaking with fear. There has not been guide himself like a bee. jump like a grasshopper, A rkansas L ivery S ta bi E, principal by the continued payment of the inter of despotism, which the people ought to resist in a good feeling between the President and Con- sleep like a toad, and diet like an anaconda, what est ; that it is no part of good policy or good gov any and every way which should secure them their gross for some time, and Grant is now very much a marvel of creation would he be 1 But, taking ernment to embarrass the energies of labor and all Jacksonville, Oregon. rights in the premises. The man who declares this incensed. his short comings into consideration, he is not so business enterprise by excessive ami oppressive much, after all. Think of itj If a man’s voice taxation for the exclusive benefit of a combination an amendment, to the Constitution, within the E. H. GREENMAN, E xciting I ncident at a F ire .—At a fire in a of untaxed capital , that to relieve the country meaning of that sacred instrument, must be either bore the same proportion to his weight that a liquor saloon in St. Louis one right, through the Physician. cfc Surgeon, and to restore prosperity we favor an equitable ad he is not an ignoramus or a down right liar. If j canary does, his lightest word could he heard at smoke the figure of, as was supposed, a negro was justment of tne bonded debt of the Urited States. OFFICE—At his residence on Fifth Street Democrat one, he must be the other. And tho as if the <listan;® of eiKht hundred miles ; and if, at the 9. That the desire of the present Congress, as seen inside standing with outstretched arms Jacksonville, Oregon. same time, he had, relatively to his bulk, the same manifested by the proceedings, to secure to the who advises passive submission to such an abonn #£TWill practice in Jackson and adjacentcoun- wealthy bondholders payment in coin on account nable fraud ought to be looked upon as really imploring aid. A gall mt fireman, seizing an axe jumping powers as the tiniest flea, he could spring ies, ar.d attend promptly to provisional calls. of indebtedness growing out of loans to the working in the interest of the negro party, He broke the door open and rushed in amid the fire from New York City to China at a single bound, United States, of Treasury notes when worth less and smoke, presently returning with the sufferer may be a traitor to his party, or he may be a fool, Ah ! that would be something like.— Hearth and than one-half their coin value, after tho holders DR. A. B. OVERBECK in his arms. The cheers of the crowd greeted thereof have received exorbitant interest thereon, but wv cannot comprehend how he can help being him as he bore his burden into the street and at- Home. lfrILL PRACTICE MEDICINE AND SUR- and at the same time leaving the pensions due un one or the other. To submit to such a fraud is to I tempted to set it down. It was stiff and couldn't VV GERY, and will attend promptly to all calls fortunate so diers, their wives, children or other consent to make an end of the Democratic party, A R evolving B attery to BE WORN OK THE on professional business. Ills office and residence kindred to be paid in a depreciated currency, ex sit down. The rescued victim was a wooden In hibits a spirit of injustice unsurpassed in the his and of American civilization together. It buries dian, used as a sign for the saloon and taken iD P erson .—We clip the following fmm the Parisian are at correspondent of the New York Mercantile Journal : tory of class legislation ami fully demonstrates both in one grave. And the man who councils sub The Overbeck Hospital, every night. the existence of a design on the part of the monied mission to such a monstrous cheat deserves to be “The newest invention of double repeating pis On Oregon Street, Jacksonville. Oregon. 1-tf aristocracy of the country to influence the estab buried in oblivion so deep, that eternity shall nev Charge this to Marietta Register : “An elderly tols and impenetrable breastplanting, are totally lishment of a policy favoring the aggrandizement JAMES D. FAY, er bring his worthless carcass to the light again. of the rioh at the expense of the uoor ; a policy baptist lady living up the Muskingum, writes a and very amusingly eclipsed by the suggestion of which has for its objeot the aggregation of wealth, There are some so-called Democratic papers which private letter to a friend : “We can’t get to meet a facetious mechanist, who proposes to furnish, at opulence and power on the one hand, and misery, advise submission, but they invariably belong to a comparatively light expense a revolving battery ing this weather ; but the minister staid with us poverty and slavery on the other ; a policy fitted class of papers whioh have aoted all through the only to a monarchical form of government. three days ; we gave him ten pounds of butter and belt, which the individual using it has merely to OFFICE—In Court Ilonse, up stairs. 10. That the Democracy of this State now, as war as tails to the negro kite. They have no a ham, and you better believe we kept him pray fasten around his body in order to be nearly as Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts heretofore, are strenuous advocates of a tariff for claims to be looked upon as Democratic organs. formidably as a whole squad of armed men. He ing while he staid.” of this State. purposes of revenue only ; that the principle of They are merely commercial ventures, as their may have as many as six rows of revolver barrels, protection for the sake of protection is at war with very Little three-year-old Mary was playing one above the other, issuing from the belt, and, by Particular attention paid to the collection the diversified interests of the people of the States, course is solely controlled by considerations purely tail. roughly with the kitten — carrying it by the of Claims against the Federal and State Govern and experience has shown its tendency to aggran venal. Every true Democrat who lends his pat the aid of a spring, can fire and reload them all at ments, the Entry of Lands under the Pre-emption dize a class in the community at the expense and ronage to such sheets, gives aid and comfort to the Her mother told her that she would hurt it. “ Why once. This would be a pleasant customer in a and Homsstcad Laws, had to tho Entry of Mineral to the injury of the producing and laboring mil common enemies of his party an I of his country.— no I won’t” said she ; I’m carrying it by the crowd !” handle I” lions, taxing their industry equally, in violation of Dag Book. Lodes under the recent Act of Congress. 1 tf. OZarits. II Attorney & Counsellor-at-Law, 1 Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, 9 K Attorney & Counsellor-at-Law, r t r