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REPUB J JL 1 0 vol." a, NO. 31. DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCT. 19, 1872. WHOLE AO. 136. J1 Al Bht SJtrzl Bubli can Is Issued Every Saturday Morning, at Dallas, Folk County, Oregon. SP. C. SULLIVAN PROPRIETOR, SUBSCRIPTION BATES. SINGLE COPIES Ono Year, $2 00. Six tlonths, $1 35 .Three Mouths, $100 For Clubs of len or more $1 75 per annum. Subscription must 1e paid ttrictly in advance ADVERTISING RATES. One square (10 lines or less), first insert'n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion.... "1 00 ' A liberal deduction will bo made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will bo inserted at $12 00 tper annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for ia advance to insure publication. All other ad recusing bills must be paid quaiterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. 'Blanks and Job Work of every description famished at low rates on short notice. JHEELEY'S SPEEC JI AT CORRY PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow Citizens : A Presidential flection necessaiilly brings into review the aetioo of ycur Government, and ithe measures for good or ill which effect the prosperity of the country, uad the welfare of the people. Not that A r 13, who may be persons of moderate capacity and still more moderate worth, should he President or hold .some-, other office, but that you, the fxjople, should look over the whole ground, see what is right and what is amiss, ard use your best efiorts to .correct evils, and to sustain what is good jjfow, you are aware, as wdl as I aai, that our country has not been reconciled and regulated, and brought into peace and order, and thut nearly eiht year? iiave elapsed fiucc the war ended, and peace and security oupjit to have been attaiued much sooner than this. Look ixt the difficulties and obstacles to be 1 .overcome now. First in point of urgency, was what we call the Ku Klux outrages of the South. Certain person znainly open rebels and rebel soldier.-. ,ouspired together, formed theujsclve uto companies or organizations ol oiuc kind, niid in hideous Cisguit paraded the country, I mean certain portions of the Southern country, ibusiug and maltreating innocent. juie people, mainly black moo. I don't say don't mean to say there were not excuses and provocations for these outrages. There were, but 1 say then were no justification for any such conduct as that. .The pretence generally ras what that they called the carpet frag governments were abomniblo. True or Dot, that is no excuse for hauling quiet people out of their beds at u id night and subjecting thorn to all pianucra of indignities. Ido, then, 1 taid 1 d.d not recommend particular or extreme measures,but I said no doubt t is the duty of the State to protect their citizens respectively, and to put down all lawlessness. But suppose they jdon't or can't, or won't ? The people pre entitled to perfect protection. If the State Governments won't give it there must be a power somewhere that will give it. We look afier a man who s nit more than half a citizen, whom a foreign Government oppresses, and ajl the power of this great nation i3 put to 'Work to protect that man, he may perhaps have only declared his inten tior, tot become a citizen but all tbeCeanuon and all the force wc command is employed for liis protection. Our Government must have the power to "protect its own people at home as well as abroad. So I said a year ago last spring- Let the President tell us what sort of legislation he needs to tmt down these Ku-Klax, and I will Lack him out to the full extent. He said what he needed. Laws were passed, and after all they did not work. You have cot heard of any serious Ku-Klux outrages since those acts were passed. Sinpc those acts were passed a' year and a half ago, nobody lus heard of any serious outrages there, though there have been trials in one of two States, especially in North Coroliua, yet they are trials of offences pommitted two 6r three years ago, long before the act was passed. So the work' was done. The Ku-Klux conspiracy was crushed out by the act of ' Congress, and although outrages Recurred in a very narrow district of territory, they discredited and damaged all the Southern people who may be suspected of any sympathy with those who made the outrages that was done but still there remained that other element of discord and discontent at the South which was called 1 ho carpet bag thieves. WIk-ii thev .went into the South with our urates, a number off threwd, unscrupulous ujcm, undertook j to make themselves rich out of the property and misery of the vanquished South. They made themselves special leaders and champions of the black people there; they organized Union Leagues and other secret societies, of which tho first effect was to combine all the black men of the South in a consolidated phalanx, and thus give tho direction, real government, and management of these black men to these white leaders who were called carpet baggers ; So then they nominated those for ofHcc,an J they made themselves Governors and Congressmen, and Secretaries, and soon they, through tho machinery of legislation, using simple, ignoraut, negroes, some as legislators, and there commenced measures of gigantic robbery. In the first place they made for themselves great salaries, such as the poor Southern States were unable to pay, and they pretended to start a great many internal improvements, and issued bonds in behalf or in aid of those improvements, and they contrived to steal the bonds, sell them for the most they could get, make no improvements, and leave the States, wai'Wasted and desolate before overwhelmed with debt. I doubt whether these debts ever can be paid, and I am sure there is very little disposition to pay them among the people who own the property of the South. They regard them as frauds, simple iniquity imposed upon them, and the charges unjust burden they cannot bear. I app,elend that if they were to sell cut all the property in South Carolina to-day, it would uot very much more than pay these .'pre tended debts which have been inposcd upon her by the carpet-baggers who rule the negro legislators. Some of them negroes, and all of them being without property, were without proper responsibility. There U na element of discord and hatred, and a general; belief ou the part tS the Southern people that we of the North sent these villiaus down tlwira to rob them, and by t niranehUiug the blacks, and ether measures of reconstruction, we have delivered these people bound hand and foot iuto the clutches of these corrupt carpet-baggers, to be robbed at their mercy. Now let me try to give you m illustration of the way the thing works. Men soy suppose they do steal, what can we do ahout it ? You mttend to be in favor of local self government they have gut if, and tbce Imial telf-gov-ornmcut authorities are the rebels What are you going to do about it? I will tell you of a .case. In the year 1808 the State ol Arkansas, among other States, was reconstructed under our I.'-epublicau ifgin'ation. Thoy reconstructed a very large portion f her people; probably one half of tlie whole people being disfranchised, not allowed to vote; that is, the poor whites, whom they regarded of no account, voted, while property holding whites were disfranchised, and allowod no voice in the administration of their Government. So, then, Powell Clay ton a Kansas man, who came in there as a commander of a regiment of our soldiers, or else following in their wake and one of the leaders of the carpet bag crowd,was elected Gov. of the Stale The Constitution then prescribed that ail whom Congress had disfranchised should be .denied the right to vote. Well, Congress pruceded very properly though tardily, to take off this dis franchisement, so that the ninety-five or uinet-ninc, certainly ninety-five out of every hundred of those who had been disfranchised as Hebe Is were re-eufrauchiiied, by Congress but the carpet-baggers said no. Congress has nothing to do with it Our State Consti tution, which we framed iu 18Gii,disf ran chii'.ed these uxcu whom Congress had there disfranchised. Now Congress takes off the ban : we uo i not. We are going to keep them tiht. They appoint this Governor Clayton; ho appoints the Roatel of Registration, for every county, and from the decisions of of that Hoard there is no appeal, and they put in the registry just whoever they please. I met thirty or fotty citizens of Arkansas in Louisvillo two or three days ago, and they told me that over 20,000 of the property-bold-crs and land owners of Atkausas were now disfranchised, kcpt.off the register; not that the laws require so many, but where the laws did not, the Register did. They had the powef, and they would put on such as they chose, and no more ; and when they found they were not going to get the majority without striking oil, they would strike off, so as to have the vote kept right, That is tho government under which the people to-day are living there. The land holders ouiiht to be enfranchised but they arc disfranchised by the carpct- bng Government; wuca mean ty cause the Electorial vote of the State against the people of the State, by keeping a large part of the people disfranchised and at the late Grant State Convention it was solemnly resolved that none of these people disfranchised should be allowed to vote this fall. After that they would see about it. Let me tell you how is opperatcs. In the year 1870 they had their second election, under tho State Government, not for Governor,1 but for Legislature aud Congress. Powell Clayton, tho Gov. of tho State, controller of all this elec tion machinery, appointed the Register all over the State, and was a candidate for United States Senator. It was a safe thing. He would bo elected under that system first making all the Reg isters aud then putting on just as many voters as they saw fit. Suppose you have e title to be on the registry, they will not put you ou, aui you cannot get on, and there is no remedy for it. There is another hitch beyond that : Powel Clayton, Governor, aud his subordinates are the State Roard of Canvassers, with absolute power to reject whatever votes they see lit, aud bring out such a result as they choose. So then, it appeared, when the Legisla ture was chosen, that it was largely Republican, yet Mr Clayton had not got control of it enough to elect him for the Senate, lie has to throw out votes as President of the Hoard of Cauvassers. He discards these votes, those that he please, so as to briug in the candidate that he pleases. For instance, in one county there was an anti-Claytoo ticket. He throws votes out, three-fourths of the Republican vote, lie throws oat these and brings in the Democratic ticket, rather than I avo the Republican ticket elected which was against him; so he goes through like this, and makes out u Clayton majoiity, which elects him to the Senate. Rut iu doing this, you understand that you cannot nject th vots cast fr e-r.e oiTiccr, an V't omit the votes cast by the same voters fir auoth r rffker. That is perfectly plain. If yiw ieeide that this poll is not a leal poll, you have got to throw it out fur all purposes. So Mr. Clayton throws out the votes of the Republi cans there, because tJiey were electing anti-Clayton ticket, and thereby defeats Thomas Bowles, Republican candidate, and elects John Edwards, the Demo cratic candidate. John Kdwards com forward with a certificate as good as anybody. Mr Rowles don't like it. People generally don't, lie lie goes and cunfe.-ts the election, and. with abundance of testimony, proves that these votes of hi, thruwu out for the sake of electing Clayton, were not rightfully thrown out, and a Committee of the lloiu'o of representatives takes he case up, considers it from top to bottom, and hay unanimously, without a dissenting voice, tho people elected Rowles. He must have the vote ; so that on tho vote it goes up to the House, which, by an equally unanimous vote says the same thing, and Rowlcs is cut in. It wa3 not because he wn? a Republican, because they fought just he same thing in Texas, where they turned out Win. T. Clark, a Republi can, and put iu 1). C. (biddings, a Democrat, because he was elected by a good majority, and there was not a dissenting voice in the Committee or in the House. So then you see you arc not resting ou my story about Mr. Clayton and his government.. Here is a unanimous decision of tho Committee on Flections, that Mr. Clayton had fraudulently returned the votes, and had returned tho mau not elected ; then ousted the man who was elected. This is not a .statement, but a conclu sion by tho highest authority. Well, geutlemen, the Federal Court was con vened and held a session two or three months after these outrages, of which I tell you, by Clayton and his board, and the Grand .Jury of that court, examined into these facts and indicted Powell Claytou and his confederates for this crime. Mr. Catlcrson, appointed byj General Grant, as good a Republican I as ever lived, was goint: to put Mr. CI;yton through, and the State's Prison was before him ; but now Claytou and i his sa ellites walked on to Washinyton, and induced General Grant to remove that righteous and faithful District Attorney, put one of Clayton'o tools in his place, and that is the end of the j prosccutiou. That was the end of the whole thing, all gone to rack I and ruin. Mr. Clayton goes swiming into the United States Senate instead j 0f into the State's Prison. You are j asked what the Government has to do about it 'I I will tell you. Thoy all back themselves riht on the power at j Washington. They all cry out, ."Hurrah for Grant; give him two 'terms." Give him twenty terms if you like. These othor fellows are disloyal. They are one torni men. Put them out, they say ; turn them out and put in these men who will stand by Clayton and his board, and it is done. I want you to see that this thing goes all back on .you. People of the United States, you are sustaincrs of these iniquities. If we had a Govern ment in Washington which frowned upou the evils, that Government would stop all this business in a short time. Applause. The men who are robbing South Carolina to-day would be on a dead race out of that Stato two days af ter they had heard that another Gov ernment was about to be installed at Washington, just as Rullock, of Geor gia, resigned aud ran away ; so these men would all get out if they did not feel that the mighty arm of the Feder al Govcuerment was outstretched for their protection and defence. It is agaius-t this iniquity tbat we fight. The villains who corrupt clectious In Arkansas are all shouting for Grant,1 shouting and working for him, and theyj are gaming immunity lor their crimes. Fellow citizens, I do not know what will be the decision of the people in the contest now before us. Everybody else is confident that what they wish will be the result. I only know that if the people could look into these wicked Governments at the South, and sco them as they are, they would no longer be sustained by the public sentiment of the North. I know that, and I believe that light is creeping in Two thirds of your journals have never told the eople what the truth is about these cartt-bag villiatrs. They sup press tue facts. J hey conceal the : facts, and, as a censtquence, the people do not undcr-tand to day. They pay what rceoiiciliation do you want ' Thy say wcj are reconciled. What more do you want? Now, I am not reconciled to have such robbers govern the States. I want to be reconciled I want Governments that honest men can affjrd to be reconciled to. 1 plead for t ('conciliation. The South ern people have greatly sinned, in my judgment, and have greatly suffered I have a fricird who went down to South Carolina aud spcot some time there aud came back. He is a very zealous Republican, and he said that he had seen many things that he did not like. He aid . " I saw a man who, when the secession began, was living iu Paris on an allowance from his father of $25,000 a year. He is now clerk to a negro assessor in Chaileston at 82 a day, and mighty glad to get it." Now, such things do take place, and I do think that the people have suffered a good deal. 1 think that it is time that a geacrous hand was outstretched to aid them. 1 think it is time tint the Northern people should say : "Country men of the South, wo have insisted that all the blacks shall be enfran chised, and they have been enfran chised. Now, then, we insist that you shall all be enfranchised likewise." There arc twenty thousand disfran chised this day in Arkansas, and the only hope of carrying that State for Grant is to keep them disfranchised That is one of their purposes to keep them disfranchised ; aud all over the South there are such iniquities as this, I think, hiding f rom the light. Now, then, wc want th Northern people to say to the South, to those who have been our enemies : "Let us forget the past; let us come together on one com moo platform. We wipe out all dis franciuscment, all proscriptions ; stand with us on a common platform of nationality, equal rights, equal law for all the people, and let us all again take hold and push forward this mighty Republic on its career of greatness and prosperity." This is what I think the people ought to see iu this election, and make the Southern people feel that, though they have been very wrong, that we have forgotten all that wrong, and are now prepared to take hold with them, and to carry forward the destinies, to promote and advance tho greatness and glory of this country as one united fraternal people To that end 1 labored ; that end 1 seek, and I do believe that that movement, the Cincinnati movemeut," of which I am the exposition and symbol before you, is calculated to produce that end. To secure the end, I am individually noth ing, but, that movement was right, and r- I I T I was not a moment too soon. ( ;ppiauso.j I implore the people to take cure and reach it successfully aud triumphantly. Three cheers. Be industrious and faithful, young man, and a bright future will nwait you. Many a poor young mau with only a little crow-bar and a good deal of skill has opened a bank. 'PROFESSIONAL CARDS, d C wfkN "jhTe x ca X'piif is Si LOON. fllTtE FINEST tftUAlITY OF jWines, Liquor, Alee Porter, Cigars etc., etc., dUpensed at this Temple df Itaectrat, All the State paper kept on file in the reading room- Cull and see hi'u, Win Clinghan Pro. VV, H. R U B E L I, DENTIST Has located in Dallas, anft rs teady to attend to all those requiring bis aseWance. Artificial Teeth of the very finest aud best kind. Fatinfaetion guaranteed, or no charges made. Now is tho time to call on the L.ctur. Office, opposite Kiucaid's Photographic Oal ery. 37-tf JOUt J DAI1T, At Vy V Coiuisellc r a t Law, DALLAS, OREGON, f Will practice in the Courts f .Record and In ctior Couru. Collections attended to promptly. OFFICE In Uc Court llouso. 41-tt J. C. GRUB3S, Fil. D.. IMIYMICIAN AND .UHC2EON, Offers his Services to the Citizens Dallas and Viciuity. OFFICE-ii NICHOLS Drug Store. 34-tf J.11.SITES.M.D Physician ui &areoQ liallas Oregon OFFICE at Koeifence 24-tf L 1 CIII-OLE ACAIOIY Will comment the academic year Monday Sept. 2d 1872, with a full corps "of teachers as follows : F-II. GM'BR. rnnnrAL, Mb. L. A. liKUIsBS, PitKCKjfRtsMts. M. E. SMITH Tf.Ai HKH Or MI MC Kates of tuition a fciiuvs.. ArAnr.Mio Pi-p'r. ..... KkCJtiMI Hravciikk. Pkimaky Dice'r $S 00 $6 00 ...... ?i oo FnENon'Pi r l)l(AlC M Mesic Term... 2 50 2 50 $12 00 P. C. SULLIVAIY, Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dalian, OregoH, Will practice iu all the Courts of the State. 1 K. R KISKK. C. II. HALL. DNS. FISKE & HALT, OFFICE-No 1 MOORES BLOCK, alem... Oregon io-tf "GEM" SALOON JIAIIV STREET IttDE PEIVOEreCE. Fjlhe host of wines, liquors, ales, porters and JL TKMPKUANCE CORDIALS always on hand. I'm Havana cigars. 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KIIC AID, HAVING ALL LATE IMPROVEMENT fyr taking pictures, I invite the patroa ge of the public Pleae call at the photo graphic GaMery, Main strret, opposite Dr. R bell's office, Dallas. ltf DALLAS LIVERY, TRD & SALE Cor. Main aud Court Street, Taos. G. Richmond, Proprietor, HAVING PURCHASED TIIE ABOVE Stand of Mr. A. II. Whitley, we have re fitted and re stocked it iu ucb a manner as will satisfactorily meet evocy wwt W vbe om iuunity. Ituggtes, single or double. Hacks, Co it cord Wagons, etc., etc Furnished at at! hours, day or night, oa chert notice. Superior Saddle IIores, let bjr torn Dy r 'eek. TERMS, REASON A TILS. 4 T. G. RICHMOND EOsLtA STOitE. HAVING PURCHASED A LARGE AND H4fiplte Stock of GENERAL MEJU CilANDLZE, coasting in part Dry Goods, Groceries" Glass, Queens ware, Tobacco, Cigars, And all article found in a GENERAL VARI ETY STORE, I wo Id respectfully call the attention of the Public to my Establishment. Highest Cash price paid for IrURS AND PELTKT. It. A. 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