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JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 187«.
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NO. 2.
Oregon Democratic Platform.
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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.
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most earnestly protest against the passage by the When the States adopted the clause of the Consti
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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.
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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.
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