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li e .Oregon 111 e p u b I i ia n.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPSR.
DALLAS, SATURDAY, APltIL 0,
nciniblicnn State Ticket.
iFor Congres?, l
J. G. WILSON"; -of
Wasco. '
J'br Governor,
JOtiL PALMER,
- of Yamhill.
lor Secretary of .Slate,
. JAMES ELK IMS.
of Linn,
jFor Treasurer, :
JUYER UIUSCII,
of Marion. .
w- y--v ' ''"
iFor JStaie Printer,
KINCAID,
"s " ' jcrf Lane.
-.F? wify o dd District,
t ll. P. DOISE,
"of Polkr: -
fOisJrict Attorney of 2d District,
POWELL,
.of Linn.
Polk County -Union -Republican Con-
Tcmioiu
wrder pf, the Union Republican. Central
.Conimittoof Polkeouoty, the primary .matt
ings wiltfee held at the place of voting in each
, f cciuci, - i i uioca j. in., xnaay, uay .is,
,H70'to elect Delegates to the County Con
Ventionto.fco held at Dallas, at 10 o'clock a. ra.,
Saturday, May 14 ih, 1870, for the purpose of
o.uiinating a County Ticketand the transac
tion of f such other business as may properly
. corao before sucb convention,
,Th? jceveral PreciDct ra entitled to ;nd
JMegatcsas follows :
Bethel.....:
8
7
5
10
La Creole
Buena Vista
Luckiamute
.Bridgeport ...... ....
Monmouth
'1 ias..
Salt i
J 'fela .......
4
.... .....)
Jackson
.........
Total ............59
f. h, COLU2J3, Chairman.
JDallas, Jan! J9th,'lro.: V
: . MODERN DEMOCRACY.
Ai;otlicr Blind--l Jrit Plank In the
Democratic Flatfarm What does It
yte Albanj Convention resolved
thac weare unalterably attached to
he principles of pur republic as ex
'nndi d its founders." Now, while
y& claim no right to place a construe
tioiioa the language of th above reso-
1n(inn ilil vnnt) Mi.tt.i t'.
aer - the true meaaing ioteadtd by its
Authors, yet we" have a just right, aa
tJb.e language; is general and left . uncle
tane4, to so Construe it as to ruake'it
accord :S harmoniously with the well
inowa record of the Democratic party.
Were it not for the firm belief that
hundreds of Democrats, '.' in Oregon,
are about to be crossly deceived by it
in tins most important political cam
Ttniori. f filinnlil nnf. tnt- nr tita nnr
colunfns;to comment upon this first
.resolution. ." -
Vefore-going, then, to the law and
the testimony, we assart tht the rcso-
by minds that heartily sympathized
with rebels during our : late national
struggle for existence, and who hold,
ihen'i that, this Government is
simply a league bet weeu sovereign
.States, for mutual protection against
ioreiiiitfioemies only; and who hold
that there never was, nor is now, pow
er in the Government to coerce rebell
ions States; biat tho late war oaiost
'traitors was a flagrant outrage upon the
constitutional ': ,i ricrrita nf trin nnnnlA
. O 4 : i' VVJ V
against whom it was waged , who also
geneva inasieacn otatc, Deing sover
eign ,aadL;.independent of each other,
, Jias the tight to judge, each for itself,
any Infraction of the Constitution by
'pfl ogress, tjqd of the mode and manner
of redress -f And farther, they hold to
that .whenever the Congress of the
United States shall jpass a law, which,
in the judgment of the people of any
one of the States, i& not in accordance
with tieir construction of the Consti
tution and against their .particular in
terests, that they not only have the in
: hcrent original rights but that the only
. f pprcpriata remedy is nullification.
No, we are ; aware that this proposU
non, or assertion, stnjcs most barsbiy
the ear of thousands of honest men
who are " to-day identified with the
Pemocra tie party in this State. We
telicTc' these -men, so placed, are there
frozn tbe simple reason that they are
constantly imposed upon and kept en
tirely in the dark, by tho untiring ef
forts of. those men from whose bosoms
tho ftboyc, resolution emanated.
Now to: the. facts: 'At the close of
the Iievolution in .1781, tho leading
men of the colonics at once divided
into two factions. One advocated the
doctrine in which ho had been educat-cd,-that
man was not capable of self
government; that the people must al
ways have a head, in other words a great
leader or king, and that they had
fought the Revolutionary war not for
the purpose of throwing off entirely a
monaxchial -form of government, but
because their sacred and equal rights
had been almost totally disregarded by
the rules of the mother country. The
other party believed man competent to
govern himself or favored a govern
ment by the people. The result was
a government based upon the articles
of .''confederation,' which was considered
a compromise between the two factions.'
For about twelve, ye irs the people of
the .thirteen colonics lived on and
struggled hard to .establish a national
reputation, but the experiment was a
fTailure. Something had to be donc.H
Washington 'expressed his fears that
all. the blood and treasure, so freely and
heroically spilled and spent, had been
poured out in' vain. Finally a conveo-j
tion was called to revise the articles of
confederation.
When convened, with the father of
our country at its head, they saw at
onco the form of government must be
entirely changed, and, as a sequence,
the. old articles must be entirely disre
garded, and consequently the first reso
lution passed by the convention was :
"Resolved, That it is the opinion of
this, convention that a national govern
mont ought to be established of a Su
preme Legislative, Judiciary and Ex
ecutive." The convention proceeded to 'pro
pose: that form of government to the
people of all the States, and agreed
upon the present Constitution, upon
which the new government was to be
based, and if so ordained by a major
ity of all the people of nine of the old ;
colonies or States, then, the existing!
government, formed -by the confedcra-;
tion, was to be abolished and entirely i
changed by substituting for it a new j
government, where the only sovereign
ty shouly rest with" the people. " j
This proposition or constitution was
put out and held up before the people.
All pould see it ; all could read it Its
advocates and its enemies mounted the
rostrum with eagerness and energy.
The former, with Washington at their
head, to defend it, and the latter to de
feat it. The contest, taken altogether,
was probably the most spirited and able
of any ever witnessed on the continent.
Its defenders and friends ! succeeded.
The Constitution was ordained and es
tablishcd by tho people to be the fun
damental law of the land. The gov
ernment was changed from a confeder
ation, existing by contract between sov
ereign and independent States, to that
of a nationality, with the sovereignty
lield by the States as such, surrendered
without reserve to the people in the
aggregate ; to be exercised by a major
ity of them as they had ordained in
the instrument just adopted, and as
they should think best for the general
welfare thereafter, for all time.
That this wa3 the object of tho
framers of that instrument, and the
nature of the changes proposed there
by is shown by proofs too numerous to
mention , here. We givo but one :
When the Constitution was agreed
upon in convention it, was"sent to the
Continental Congress accompanied by
a letter signed by Washington himself,
an extract from which we reproduce;
Said. Washington, "It is obviously
impracticable in the. Federal Govern
ment of these States to secure all rights
and independent sovereignty to each
and yet provide for the interests and
safety of all. Individuals entering
into a society must give up a share of
liberty to preserve the rest. In all our
deliberations on this subject we kept
steadily in our view thatjwhich appear
ed to us the greatest interest of every
true American, the Constitution of our
Union, in which is involved our pros
perity, felicity, safety, perhaps our na
tional existence."
But soon after the adoption tf that
most sacred charter of the liberties of
the America0 people, some of the; very
men who opposed its adoptiouand who
were enemips 9 it, set to work their
gigantic intellect, shrewdness and wit,
to so construe the instrument as to dc
feat the object for whicJi it "was framed
and adopted, and thus "retain the, old
form of government under the confed
eration, 'or create a political hobby
upon which they could easily ride into
power and position. Then came the
resolutions of '98 aud '99, placing a
construction which entirely "changed
the government under it as intended
by - its makers and defenders, back to
the very form that the Constitution was
intended to abolish. That construction
was adopted by a faction in this coun
try, and by them insisted upon to be
the true one from that cjay to the pres
ent. That construction found an able
defender in the person of John C. Cal
houn, but when that statesman under
took to enforce tho construction and
heresy, by means of nullification, Old
Hickory was President and Calhoun
soou found it out, and a timely retrac
tion saved himself the unpleasant task
of pulling hemp. Webster, with an
unequaled power of mind, ftood a firm
pillar in the Senate it defence of con
stitutional liberty. Mainly, by the ef
forts of these two, among tho greatest
minds that ever lived, an iron heel was
placed upon the revolutionary construc
tion tljat buried it in undistinguished
ruins for thirty years.
Uut duricg all this time, the youth
of the South, at least a great Munityer
of them were secretly educated into
this political heresy, until finally, in
1860, when the advocates of that con
struction and the .universal ' and per
petual spread of slavery having man
aged to get possession of our national
Capitol, the archives of the Govern
ment, the President, the Cabinet, our
army and navyf forts, arsenals, dock
yaras ana mo iemocrauc party
throughout the land. They appeared
before the American people with Hreck
enridge and Lane as their standard
bearcr.-j, declaring that unless their
construction was now accepted by the
election of thoso men they would se
cede from the Union, peaceably if they
could or forcibly if they must.
Tho election came, Lincoln, whose
name is immortal, was elected. These
constructionists made good their word. 1
The war notewa3 sounded and an army
of rebels,! with all the advantage we i
havelmentioncd, made war on the Gov
ernment, while Buchanan, he being
ooo of these constructionists, was pro
claiming from the White House that
he had searched tho Constitution in
voin to find the power to cocrcp rebell
ious Statcs.j War, did we say; no, a
cowardly attack on AndersouV little
patriotic band at Sumpter. The great
loyal heart of this nation was fired, ir
respective of party, and the time of
sifting came. -
And now, as th'e record shows, every
politician, both North and South, who
did not go into the Union organization
against relels, and who took sides with
the constructionists and with Buchan
an, organized thcuie?ves into what, we
term the modern democracy, thechief
corner stone of whoso faith was slavery
and State supremacy. This is no new
doctrine, for 'it was always held and
maintained-as the .fcrue dogma by that
faction of the ; Democratic party, and
now, the leaders of this modern De
mocracy, mad over their defeat in the
wa-, and thir.stTng for rolitlcal power,
so they may satiate their defre for rc
venge by first humbugging tho people
and then gain at the ballot box what
they lost by the bullet. In proof of
this we TcfWall thinking, reading and
honest Democrats to the records of the
Democratic members of Congress aa
reported in the Olohe for the year 1860,
and during the war.
, To" show that the principle involved
in the 1st resolution of the Albany,
platform has always bcejr the bone of
contention in this Government, and also
its true meaning and to show that the
line so plainly ; drawn between the
friends and enemies of the Constitu
tion land Republican institutions, has
not been confioect to the legislative
branchff our Government, but that
the Executive ancitho Supreme Court
have kept up constantly the same line
of demarkation, we quote the following
which are only a few from the many
that might be produced. Mr. Justice
V ilson, who was a member of tho Con
stitutional Convention, made use of
strong language in tho Pennsylvania
debates an its adoption.
lie said: "We were told that tho
convention, no doubtthought it was
forming a compact or contract of the
greatest importance. It is a matter of
surprise to see the great leading princi
ples of this system still so very much
misunderstood. I cannot answer for
what every member thought, but I be
lieve.it cannot be said they thought
they were making a compact, becaiigo
I cannot discover the 'least trace oT a
compact in the system. There can be
no. compact junless there are more, par
ties than one. It is a new doctrine
that one can make a compact with him
self. The convention was making con
tracts ; with whom? I am unable to
conceive who the parties ctfuld be. 'The
States governments made a bargaiu
with each other. -That isthe doctrine
that is endeavored to be established by
gentlemen in the opposition;, their
State sovereignties wish to bo repre
sented. But far otherwise were the
ideas of the convention. -This is not a
government founded upon compact.
It is founded upon the power the peo
ple. They express in their name and
their authority, we, the people, do or
dain and establish, &c." ' i.
This was the plain reasoning of aU
the friends of tho Constitution, and
all those who advocate its adoption.
The following is from the people of
Virginia to their members of Con
gress: '
"Government without coercion is a
proposition at once so absurd and con
tradictory that the idea creates 0 con
fusion of the understanding. It is
form without substance ; at best a body
without a soul.'
This is the opinion 1icld by the ad
vocates of constitutional liberty at the
commencement of our Government,
and we hold it now to be the true prin
ciple. In the language of aa eminent
writer, we ask, "if the Constitution is
a compact, whan and how-did the
Union become a party ? If a compact
why is it never so denominated, but
often and invariably in the instruments
itself and ,in its amendments sty
and .in its amendments sty iedTas independent, sovereign ana equal in
this Constitution? and if a compact
why did the framers and people call it
the supreme law ?, Even if it could
be considered a -compact in any sense
before its adoption the moment the
people declared for it, it became an ex
ecuted contract and at once stripped of
allj the e'emcuts of a contract lo be
performed by any party
The enemies of the Constitution
when the same was befure the people
for action, admitted that) if adopted,
it would establish the very form of gov
ernment for which we now contend
In tho Virginia debates, Patrick Henry
said : , "That it is a consolidated gov
ernment is demonstrably 1 clear. The
language is, We, the people instead
of we, the States. States are the char-i
acteristic and soul of a confederation.
If the States be not the agents of the
compact, it must be one great consoli
dated government of the people of all
the States." The enemies and friends
alike of that instrument admitted, in
all the States at that time, as the re
cord will show, that if it was adopted
and ordained by the people as the su
preme law tf the land, then, under it,
we should have d great National sover
eignty, the people. -
But soon after camo this unfortunate
construction of which we speak, and
upon it the country became divided,
and still is, and the only question to
day before tho American people is
whether we aro a national government
of the people, who alone are sovereign,
ora confederation of independent States.
If the former, and the people so de
clare it, then the great experiment to
establish republicanism is a success; if
the latter, a mournful failure.
The Supreme Court, as We have said,
has always been divided on this all im
portant question. Chief -Justice TV
ncy, and ttrose memoers 01 tee uourr
who held with him, agreed "that the
powers of the general government fare
divided by the States, who alone are
sovereign, and must be exercised in
subordination to the States, who alone
possess supremo dominion." On tho
contrary, Chief Justice Marshall and t
Justioo Joy and other members of the
Court, always held that this was a gov
ernment by the people, and the reason
ing of a majority of the Court, in the
case of McCullocb vs. Maryland, was,
"But when, in order to form a more
perfect Union, it was deemed necessary
to change the alliance of States into an
effective government, possessing great
and sovereign powers and noting direct
ly on the people, tho nocissity of re
ferring it to the people and deriving its
was felt and ac-
The government
of the Union, then, is emphatically and
trulv a eovernment of the people. In
form and substance it emanates from
them. Its powers are granted by them,
and are to be exercised directly on
them and for their benefit."
This 13 the doctrine for which we
contend, and we believe that three-
fourths of the legal
held the same; and
understand thajthe
1st resolution in the
vofcrs of Oregon
when they shall
intention "of the
Albany; platform
is to establish a contrary dogma, they
will cast their votes a jainst'it irrespect
ive of all other considerations and
party name. This treasonable con
struction of the Constitution is held
i . -
by all the leading Democrats and Dem
ocratic journals in Oregon. This we
assert without fear of contradiction,
and it is the essence of secession and
disintegration that forms the base of
all our national troubles, and is tho
only great-pillow standing directly in
the pathway to the permanent estab
lishment of republicanism.
Now, to give our readers in this
county proof of JtbV-above assertion,"
we quote the language of the Polk
County Times, and also its correspond
ent, a resident of this county. In
complaining of the course pursued by
the World, a Democratic paper, the
Times says :
"Now is not the IT Torld a singular
Dcmocraticjournal ? It has advised
the party to acquie ce in negro suf
frage; it has arguec the payment of
the swindling war debt iu gold ; and
now it covertly ignores the true
Democratic exposition of tho Govern
ment enunciated by (Madison, .Jeffer
son and Calhoun' .Its correspondent,
from-Monmouth, says: "The Demo-
cratic principle, as I
understand it, i.
to recognize each State of the Uniou
its sovereignty. This is why 1 am a
Democrat.
Now, the doctrine
son, Madi.on and Ca
taught by JcfTer
houn, and opposed
by Washington, Jackson, Hamilton
and others, was the ! very construction
of the Constitution which we claim i
so pernicious and dangerous to our in
stitutions, and h found in the resolu
tions of '98 and 9D,
the Federal States
judge of any iufracti
and reads, "That
have a right to
ons of the Consti
tut ion, and that a ouj
llification by those
sovereignties of all
unauthorized acts
done pndcr the color of that instru
ment, is the rightful
remedy."
The Virginia Legislature, in 1829,
resolved "That the I Constitution of th
United States, herni a federative com
pact betwjen the sovereign States,' iu
construing which noj common arbitrator
i3 known. Each State has a right to
construe the compac
for itself." The
Kentucky resolutions also declared,
"That to the compaq
t each State acced
an integral party;
cd.as a State and is
that the government created by this
compact was not made the exclusive
or final judge of the
"powers delegated
to itself; but that, as in all other cases
of compact among
common jude, each
parties having no
party has an equal
right to judge for itself, as well of in
fractions as the mode and measure of
redress' j
This, then, is what we claim is
meant by the first resolution in the
Democratic platform that the State
authorities are supreme; that they
have a right to nullify a law of Con
gress whenever, In their opinion, it is
unconstitutional. President Jackson
said that "nullification is secession,"
.1 ' '
and if this .theory is correct then the
war was all wrong,1
and the national
debt a fraud and ou
ght to . be repudi
ated. We appeal to honest Democrats
who wo know denounce this heresy,
and ask how long will you be deluded v?
Ask your leaders and leading journals
what means this tfirst resolution, and
if they will come out and talk English
and tell you their real sentiments; ;we
venture the assertion that they will de
clare that it means secession, repudia
tion and State sovereignty. !
To tho Democratic journals and
stump orators of Oregon we make an
appeal ; Gentlemen, what means the
first resolution? j There is no disguis
ing the fact that the founders of the
government were divided upon this
question. There Was" and Is but two
theories upon this question. Which do
you mean ? Toll tho honest voters of
your party. Do you moan, as expound
powers from them,
knowledgetl by all.
ed by those founders, who drafted and
voted for tho resolutions of '98-9, and
as held by the 'authorities we have
above quoted ? : Do you mean that this
government is a creation of the States,
who alone possessed absolute sovereign
tyor do you mean that it is a great
national government oy the people m
the aggregate, who are the sovereigns
of this-country, and that the States,
when the Constitution was formed and
uuupieu, surreuueieu iucu owisinguy
as such to the people ? Be honest,
gentlemen ; tell us the facts and Jet
the people of Oregon know for once,
fairly and squarely, what the Issue is.
fepeaK out, gentlemen; aon 1 ne 11mm,
for e assure you wo are prepared, and
it is entirely convenient for us to prove
every assertion that we have made,
ami rvtittn fta rrTr4riinnt Cnr 11 frt BlflUT
up your record.
NE W AD VER TISEMEXTS.
Wagon & Carriage Ilakcrj,
Blalu Street, Dallas.
I HAVE ON HAND AN ASSORTMENT
of Lumber Wagons. Expreua Wagon and
Buggies of various kinds, ready for sale.
COME ON WITH Y0UR AS!ir
You all knor what my wagons are; fori,
Live' been well patronixed for the last TEN j
YEARS, for which I feel thankful. And th
last year they went off like Hot Cake. '
I am well prepared to do all kinds of work
in icy trade. .
I have in my employ the best Blacksmith,
in the County, who is prepared to do Shoeing;
in tho best Style, on thort notice, and every
kind of blacksmith work dona in a neat and
workmanlike manner, and according to Order,
at reasonable rates. " 1 i
Also Painting done to order. Bring along,
your old Wagons Buggies, and get theui paint
ed. W.H. TEAL.
Dallas, April 9, 1870. ; 6:6m
DALLAS
HOTEL,
COBKEE MAIN & C3TJBT STREETS,.
Dallas, Orcgofa.
A. snuivrz, : : : PROPRIETOR..
rilHIS HOUSE HAS RECENTLY BEN!
JL reCftel .and rearranjed, and it is now
pen fr the accommolation of the traveling
publie, whose patronage Is respectfully solic
ited. i .
The TABLE will at all times be found weU
provided with every delicacy of the season, as
f ell as the substantial, and our guests may
isssl assured of courteous and prompt attend
ance. -'''
Tho SLEEPING APARTMENTS will also
found clean, wholesome and cc in Portable.
jjrr"Mea4if will bo furuuhed Travelers at all
hours. ' ,
i?" Li very Stable opposite the hotel.
( . A. SIICLTZ.
Da!Hs, April 9, 1870. . 6:3m,
CITATION
TT0 ALL rER?OX3 INTERESTED I?T
JL- the etafe of Alonzo Wood, late of Polk
puunty"r Oregon, deceased: In tho camo of
the State of Oregon you are hereby required to
ppear in the Couuty Court of Polk county.
Oregon, on Monday the 2d of May, 1870, and
!how cause, if any there be, why the prayer or
the petition of M. Rosendorf, Administrator of
aid estate, should not bo granted ; and an or
der made granting license to said Adminiatra.
tor t sell tho following real estate, belonging'
to said e? tate, to-wit : Lot No. l io Block. No.
11, in North Salem, Marion county, Ogn.
J. L. COLLINS, Co. Judge.
Dalla?, April 8, 1S70. 6:4w
iUOiEY ! iWOXEY ! r
4 .LL PERSONS HOLDING WARRANTS
j agiinsl Polk Ct?uny, are hereby notifiod
that I am prepared to pay tho same, at4 that
I will pay no interest thereon after th data
hereof, this, April 9, 1870.
i R.M. MAY,
' Treas. of Polk Co.
Dallas, April 8, 1S7D. 8:4w
C. X. PARMEXTEIt.
N I
T. J. 8ABC0CK.
. PARfflEfiTER & BABCOCKi
Manufacturers, and Wholesale and Re
tail Dealers lu
Commercial Street Salem, Oregon,
AVB.ON
HAND THE LARGEST
JUL Stock of
Fur ii it lire,
Bed din ff,
Window-Shades,
ISoIIands, and
PAPE5X-IIAlOIIGS -
To be found in Marion County, j
All kinds of Picture Frames, Comas and
Caskets made to order on short notice and at
reasonable rates.
PARMENTER it BABCOCK.
. Salem, Maroh 23, 1870. 4 tf
CAPITAL 2m L1VERY-
STABLE-
lu rear of the Capital Hotel Corner.
SALEM, OREGON.
HOUSES AND CARRIAGES TO LET
on reasonable terms. Special attention
paid to transient and boarding horses.
... TtnnTir A PLAMONDON'. '
2-tf
Proprietors.
WOOL WAITED. ; j
TnE ELLEND ALE MILL COMPANY
will give the highest market prlca for
wool, delivered at their factory in Polk Co.
A Their Storo is also open, with a general aj
aortmont of Dry Goods. Groceries, Hardware.
Ac' . tS V
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