THE COLUMBIAN.
St. Helen, Columbia Co., Or.
FBIDAY, tfL? 21, 1832.
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ORATION,
DellTered by J. It. Ffterton at
Clatskanie, Oregon .
July 4, 188.
Continued from our last.
The necond day of rejoicing is Ihb h
re are here gathered together to cele
brate Tlie glorious 4th of July. Kow I
shall hot advise any man to get drunk to
day4 but If t waa a magistrate I would
never fine a man for getting " full" on
thia day. The vry soul is full of lift?
and vigor, a disposition to snout aim
yell and do something extraordinary
takes possession of us all.
The American boy has for weeks been
saving up his nickels in order to have
a good supply for investment in flags,
fire crackers, bombs, powder, soda-water
and other Fourth of July necessaries,
and he will have a good time, except in
sOrne places where parsimonious insur
ance Companies abridge his rights and
the dreaded policeman snatches him up
and while Causing him great fear gives
hicu a vivid idea of how king craft oper
ates on the ppople-. But here -in the
mountains where love of freedom is
drawn in with every breath of pure air
and our wood covered fastnesses seem
Nature's own stronghold of freedom the
boys can shout, whoop, yell, beat drunn,
shoot guns, fire bombs, shake themselves
all oVr, do what they piease and have
tich a good time as only an American
boy ttn such a day can have and there is
none to molest him or make him afraid,
though I must insure the Anxiety of the
mothers of the boys from day break un
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i vucjr mi c atuo iu auuu ill ucu tti
night.
come all who have come to join with us
and help us to properly celebrate thi.
day. Nehalem, St. Helen, Portland,
Marshland, Beaver, and other places
have sent us a share. Nearly every
country and clime has here some repre
sentative, and all of us who arc to
the manor born have not to look back
many years to find in our ancestors the
same kind of people as are the new ar
rivals who escaping from the king cursed
countries came where they are free.
Gathered together are the people of both
sexes and all agt the grey haired pio
neer, whose years have passed the three
fcore and ten, the aged matron who
Wai part of the peaceful yet conquering
army who endured privation, dangers
and exposures almost beyond leltef in
order toLBecure homes in the wilderness
and open the way or those who followed
r those yet to come. The struggles of
these people for years, was as heroic as
any ever undergono by any people, and
they were as brave as the soldiers of
any time. They can well be proud as
they look upon their work. Tha
stalwart eons and tair daughters or
these early pioneers are here mingling
together' with the later arrivals who
have made their homes on Clatskanie,
and are doing their utmost to build up
homes in the mighty forests that cover
the most fertile soil on Earth.
Young and old, married and single,
from what ever place, or country, all We
to-day as one in the one feeling that they
are part of the big fifty-fiye million peo
ple who go to make up the inhabitants of
our country. To-day all political jealous
ies ara buried, all sectional hatreds if
there arc any are covered up or oblitera
ted and we feel that we are one people
of one common country and one Flag,
Our haarU are large enough to take in
all ; to know no North, no South, no
'.Zast, no Went, but only one grand and
"indivisible country of the people, by
:the people and for the people,"
The pooreMt Iwy to-day i proud of the
i fact that his chances of beooming Presi
dent ara as goed a the pampered son of
VauderbiJt Stanford, or any other of
,mr Government subsidized aristocrats,
.rid evn Johnson's Chinese oook seems
.to partake of the American enthusiasm
.Everywhere prevalent and contagious to
day. The log cabins of our country have
been; famous fop the liberty loving men
and cornea reared iu them, and in the
homof dangff when foe threatened our
country, .these ame .country homes,
hnmbla though? they' be, will furnUh the
brave and sturdy aons who will stand a.
iUvU2 wajl of steel between oar home
and whatever dangers menace them.
When war's dread alarm sounds through
our land they will ' Rally 'round the
flag" though they perish there, or worse,
return wounded wrecks to suffer ever af
ter till merciful death relieves them.
You are , 11 familiar with the Declar
ation of Independence which you have
just heard read. To every lover of free
dom it is the most sacred instrument
ever drawn Up. The time it was given
to the world, the noble men Who be
lieved in the rights of nien and who
dared place their names to ity and set at
defiance, not only England but all the
WOrlcL These wretches' who lacked
by ignorant and brutal soldiers rdthless
ly trampled down the people, denied
them all rights but the right to suffer,
respected neither sex or age, who took
from them all their subsistence but a
mere starving-portion, who denied them
the right of petition, who would not al
low them representation, who taxed ev
erything but the air hey breathed, and
who would have pensioned any one find
ing a way by which that could be taxed
and who claimed to govern by Divine
right; laughed in Scorn at the to them
futile attempt of these sons of liberty to
break their shackles. -These men of
i
the revolution still livo in the minds and
are cherished in the hearts of all the
people in our land, and that feeling will
never grow dim till time is no more, and
deed of all men are forgotton. That
Declaration scorned by j the crowned
heads, and the titled aristocrats was, as
if by the birds of the air borne to the
down trodden people all over Europe.
The lowliest peasant, and most ignorant
serf heard of it, and felt that it was the
masric sword which would sever the
chains of Slavery all over the world, and
would hew to pieces the thrones and
scepters of all Kings and Despots.
The poor people rejoitted in it, and
their hearts were with the little band
who defying the whole world fought for
liberty or death. These noble men askfd
no rights for themselves they were not
willing to allow to all the people. And
it, will yet be the means of freeing from
king rule the people of the world, and
giving to every man and! woman liberty
and equality.
With the eight years of war, the vic
tories arrtl defeats, the sufFrrings, dan
gers and trials, their hopes of success
great, or their despondency almost in
supportable, history has made you fa
miliar ahd I leave it out as you can read
it, or you know it better than I do.
They threw their live fcnd fortunes in
to the scale believing that " the noblest
place tor man to die is where he dies for
man," and the best of writers in song
and story have told their deeds of valor
so wll that it is not enough for me to
try to follow in their footsteps. I re
member when a boy sitting by my great
"rand-father Nathan Pratt llobbins
who died in 1857, aged 103 years, and
listening to him while he upoke of the
revolution, Lexington and its martyrs
to libeity's cause, Bunker Hill where
our undiciplined troops showed the Brit
ish what stuff was in a people deter
mined to be free, Wyoming and its de
fenceless people butchered by British
and savages, Valley Forge, with its cold
and hunger, Saratoga with its glorious
victories, Trenton and other places
seemed real. The merciless savages and
similar Hessians and Tories all seemed
real living personages. ) The burning
cabins, the fleeing women and children,
the yells of the fiends as they -shasedj
killed and calped a helpless woman ana
dashed out the brains of an innocent
babe, all were to me as they are to-day
to all of you, living and real pictures ot
what these people went through for us.
While crowned heads and their rain
ions nought our destruction, from every
part of Europe came noble and brave
men to cant their fortunes with us.
To France who sent us laPayette and
thousands of hnr bravest and best we
owp our liberty to-day, and the deeds of
the other brave foreigners who made
our cause their own axe wt on history's
page by th aide of Washington, and in
our hearts their memories are ever green.
Who can read cf Jasperj of John Paul
Jones, d'Estaing, Do Kalb, and hun
dreds of o' harts of these liberty loving
foreigners without having his heart ex
pand with patriotism and a desire to em
ulate their deeds should occasion ever
offer. History is full of the deeds of the
huroos of the revolution. To name the in
stven if I could remember them would
take a long time and the boys and girls
would get out of patience waiting for
the opening of the'lunch basket. You
have read of Wayne. Mr. Bryant the J
founder of Clatskanie, an aged veteran
nearly 80 years of age I believe remem
bers seeing him. Wayne if you reccol
lect was almost invincible. He once told
Washington that he " would storm Hell
if he would plan the attack." Rather
blasphemous perhaps but illustrative of
the man. Many songs were sung of
him. 1 had a collection of revolution
ary songs but don't know where they
are, I remember 'one stanza of a song
atoUt Wayne :
And many a red coat here to-night
The Continental Scorning,
Shan't live to See the blaic of the brbad sunlight
As it shines on the morrow morning.
Then who would shrink from the perilous brink.
When led on by id. I Attth ny Wiyni ?'
Our country should never forget the
debt WC owts them. The green sod of
Erin, nOw trampled to mud by soldiers
of the same crown from which we were
freed and whose, merciless, Avaricious,
bloody hand is on the throats of over
half the peOplo of the world, sent us
Montgomery, jasper, Wayne and thou
sands more. Braver men or more de
voted ones never fought in even holy
freedom's cause. We hear the piteous
wails of these pecple in every breeze
that comes .from Ireland, and still we do
nothing to help them. They cry to the
world to save them from annihilation &
they appeal to deaf ears, or else to those
unable to assist. In their fate we see
vhat wc have escaped from. We invite
these people, here as we do the whole
world, and each star on our flag as it
waves in the sunlight serves as a beacon
to the rlown trodden people of the old
world to light them to where Freedom
reigns supreme, a ltd after tHcir long
weary and dangerous voyage across the
ocean they catch a glimpse of Freedom's
banner and its glistening stars, they feel
a new life born into them, and are ready
to do and die with us. They ftel that
they are in a country of equal rights ahd
privilege?, and all who are worthy soon
throw off all allegiance to the despots
they eseaped from and Income Ameri
can citizens We welcome all the world
who will become as we are, but we do
n'rii want, :.nd in rpitt of fanatics and
greedy monopolists we will soon fix it so
that Asiatic slavery or ether of their
kind cannot come here-.
We all trust the day is not far off
when the world will contain only fre
people, when Ireland will take its rank
among the Nations of the Earth, its peo
ple be free and independent and the mer
ciless rule of riEnglanJ's crown be done
awy with forever, and while we hope
that, we a's") liopr for the speedy down
fall of all the tyrann'c d govt rnraents
and the giving of freedom to all the peo
ple. Not alone to the men of the revo
lution do we owe our success. The wo
men of that day proved more than Spar
tans in their courage and. willingness to
sacrifice all for the cause, and but for their
aid and ccmfort the British would have
triumphedv They worked in the fields
to raise provisions to feed the armies.
They spun wool and flaX and made
clothes for the soldiers. They gave their
jewels and silver over to be coined into
money to buy arms and other things
needed. They melted up their pewter
pots and pans into bullets, and many a red
coat Hessian and savage was made a de
cent fellow of by a bullet east by these
devoted women from a battered plate or
mug, and there were many instances
where like the famous Mollie Pitcher
they, like the Amazons of old went into
actual battle and proved the bravest of
the brave. At last the final surrender
cam a Peace was decried, and a Ne
Nation was born, and would soon take
't.i place among the nations of the earth,
king craft with all its safeguards was
broken down and the whole people would
have a voice in their o .n government.
George Washington refused a orown
also rejeoted a.third term as Pres
ident, and united with JeflWsqn, Adams
and other able men in securing for us
the form of government we now have.
From 3,000,000 people w have in
creased to 55,000,000. Prom a small
and thinly settled country on the Atlai.
tio seaboard we have spread out to where
the sun sets in the boundless waters of
the Pacific, and South to Mexico our
people have gone and a once wild waste
is coveiel with farms, cities and villages.
The wilderness has been peopled, and
school children take the place of naked
savages and hungry ciyotes. Th thir
teen States have increased to thirty-eight
and there Is territory enough for as
many more, and good soil enough for
5,000,000,000 people Railroads trav,
erse the land in every direction, Qi?r
broadest rivers have been bridged, our
inow-covered mountains bored throqgh
and the tireless 'iron horso speed along
day and night hauliug big trains of goads
and people, and transporting grain and
cattle to feed the world. Net-works of
telegraph wires cover the land. The
telephone, electric light, sewing machine;
motor needlegun and thousands of other
inventions for peace or war of American
mark our progress. To need a thing is
to see some American genius invent it
Legal Slavery does not exist in our
land, and the Flag of the Free" waves
in the sunlight free from smoke of pow
der. Schoolhouses are every where and
in them our children are taught that our
country is the greatest and best in the
world.
The war of 1812, the Mexican war,
and the late struggle We went through
have shown the world that Uncle Sam
is a hard one to handle.
All the ill feeling between the North
and South is fast dying out, and would
lonr aafO have been dead were not the
dying embers fannc-d into life by a lot of
hungry and rapacious men who keep
them alive for their own base ertds. The
soldiers Of both sides now fraternize, ahd
every lover of our country Is willing to
forget and forgive, and I hope-, and I
know all of you hope that even the po
litical bummers will have the decency to
drop iU We must remember that our
country is as of one body, no part of it
can suffer without all of it feeling it.
We are all Americans. The nieh who
wore the grey took as much pride in the
deeds in which their ancestors bore a
part as did those who wore -the blue, and
the glorious FoUrtli of July attd Wash
ington's birthday were celebrated by
them with as much Vim as we showed,
and should foreign foes assail us these
men will to the front and prove as brave
as they did when thV.y faced the boys
who wore the blue. Our country is yet
too young in years, to prove that a gov
ernment of the people can exist for any
gre.t length of time, and able raeli who
love our country s wj do fear we can
noc much longer txist a a free people.
We have passed through many storms
when our old ship avemed doomed, and
we are now Hearing ths plage where old
er republics were Wrecked and which
Washington, Jefferson and others
warned us to beware of Or we would
perish. A Republican Government
properly administered is one in which
all the. people rich and poor should have
an equal roic and equal rights, and
while the pursuit of life, liberty and
happiness should not be interfered with,
there should be no legislation that would
tend to enrich individuals and clothe
theui with such powers as would place
them above the people. When any per
son in our country tells the people that
their rights and liberties arc in danger
from combined capital and political mo
nopoly ho is put down by the cry that
we owe all to capital, and that our mil
lionaire! are the friends of the working
classes. I believe there is no one here
who would wish to take from any man
one dollar without rendering an equiva
lent in some form,. but I ask you wheth
er labor has not also helped to build up
;pur country, and whether the man who
buys up hundreds of thousands of acres
of public land at a small sura per acre
and without paying taxes on it holds it
for higher prices, thus shutting ofl peo
ple of moderate means from sett'ing on it
and building up the country is a bless
ing to our country or a curse ? Is the
man with millions of money in Railroads
who taxes the pioneer of what he re
ceives to transport to market, a bene
fit or a cirs? ?
Is the protected manufacturer who
doubles his capital every few years and
refuses to pay the muscle and brain em
ployed by him more than starvation wa
ges, a hfcssing-ora curse to our 3ountryl
The best and ruost intolligent men we
have ever had, have left their warning"
against such a condition of things and
we shoifld profit by them.
( To be continued.)
An Extraordinary Offer.
Thare are a number of persons out of
employment in every oounty, yet ener
getic men wjljing to work do' not need
to be. Those willing to work can make
from $100 to $500 a month oleay, work
ing for us in a pleasant and permanent
business, Tho amount our agents make
varies, acme making at high as $500 a
month, while others as low as $100, all
depending on the energy of the agent.
We have an article of great merit It
should be sold to every House-owner,
and pay over 100 per oont profit, Each
oae is from $3.50 o $10.00. One agent
in Pennsylvania sold 32 in two days,
and eloare4 $64.00, An agent m New
York mJ $45,00 in one day. Any
man with energy enough to work a full
day, and will do this during the year
can make from $2,000 to $6,000 a year.
We only want one man in each county,
and to him will give the exclusive sale
as long as he continues to work faith
fully for us. There is no competition,
and nothing like our invention made.
Parties having from $200 to $r,000 to
iuve3t, cau obtain a General Agency for
ten counties or a state. An ohe can
make an investment of from $25 to $1,
000 without the least risk of loss, as bur
Qirculars Will show that those investing
$25 can after a 30 day's trial return the
goods tinsold to us and get their money
back, if they do not clear at least $100
They show that a General Agent who
will take len counties and invest $216.
00 can after a trial of 90 days return all
goods Unsold to Us, and have money re
turned to them if they fail to clear at
$750.00 in that time. We are not pay
ing salaries, but want rn;n willing to
work and obtain as their pay the profits
of their energy. Men not willing to
work on oltr terms will not Work on
any. Those meaning business will re
ceive bur large descriptive circular, and
extraordinary offer by enclosing a three
cent stamp, with their address. The
first to comply with our terms will se
cure the county or counties they may
wish to work.
Address, Renneh Manufacturing Co.,
118 imithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
LOCAL 2T22WS.
There came near leing a law-suit on
the bottoms of Lewis River. A Pro
fessor there fell in love with a female
pupil. She declined his addresses when
he transferred them to her cousin, when
No. 1 arose and blowed " on him, tell
ing damsel No. 2 'his affectious were
third-handed (lib was a widower when
he started in) whereat he shed copious
tears of wrathj and - went to a Justice of
the Peace to have damsel No. 1 arretted
for willful and malicious lying and inter
ference with his amorous intentions.
We don't know the result as our inform
ant ftiepped out just as things Welti com
ing to a crisis(cry sis)
j
We have received the Breeder and
Sportsman, published in San Francisco.
Its Editor is John Cairii Simpson, and
it lias a host of splendid writers. Its
typographical execution is perfect, and
it will command the attention of every
one who loves the animals God has made
as attendants of that prince of animals,
man. The information it conveys is well
worth itn subscription price $5.00.
Office No. 508 Montgomery Street
Mrs. Dr. Yergain is on a visit home
from Cheney. We heard some very
beautiful singing to-niht ai church, and
wondered where the voice came from so
musical and enchanting, but the ques
tion was solved aftf? church was ended
by the appearance of Mrs. Yergaiti.
The mountain air has detracted nothing
from her voice which is as melli(luou
as ever.
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vNciv tioods.
Arrived this week a full assortment of
newest styles of dress goods including
Brocades, Grenadines, liiocatels, Seer
suckers, Fancy Ginghams aud mom
ie cloths also American prints, white
goods, Ladies' and. Misses' hosiery in all
colors, Lisle-thread gloves, Embroidery
tfce. tc. at McBride's Store.
In the pubjie. school t the end of the
term Professor Quick awarded the fol
lowing prizes to the Spelling Classes,
iu the First Class, Miss Sarah Smith, of
Columbia City, Sir Walter Scott's poems;
Second Classf Miss Norah Cony era, Nat
ural History; Third Class, Miss Emily
M, Co, Picture Story Book, AH the
pupils were on the roll of honor,
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TIII5 BEST IS TUB
A largo and well absortd 4ock of
men's boots, men's women's, and child
ren's uhoes of all kinds carefully sheeted
by Mr, Giltner in San Francisco now ar
riving and to arrive at McBride's store.
EspeoU! oare has been taken to get
tho very best goods in the market.
Received D. W. Prentice & Co.'s Mu
sical Journal for July. It contains all
the latest gems of song, " The Mill,"
Two Angels," " Mountain Stream,"
and Bring Me a Vtter from Home."
All who would be posted in tlje world
of music should take it, only 75 ots, per
year, 107 First Street, Portland, Oregon.
Miss Helena Hplman is on a visit
hero during her vacation at Wilbur
Academy where she js teacher of music,
Her mother, Mrs. Mary Holraan will
soon go to the Wisconsin to visit her
brother, Dr. Jamas. McBri4, who has
charge of ft fcunatic Asylum at Wauna
tosa, near Millwauke
Will give an account of our trip to
the Cowlitz jiezt week.
1st, 1882, Semi-Anno a I
i Settlement.
Parties Whose accounts are du tire re
quested to call and make the regular
senii-anttttal settlement of accounUon or
before July 18thv Acjtounts which
have been diie for one year or more
must be paid, or Settled by note imme
diately. !
Q. W. McBRlDE.
ReV-. Mr! Campbell, President of Mon
mouth College preached on Thursday .
and Friday evenings to iiiteniive audi
ences. His last discourse was a master
pi'Cce Of augument dressed in the most
becoming language. Rev. Mr. Wolver
ton will preach here on Sunday at the
usual hours.
The he w Nehalem mail-carrier " has
bought on Columbia Street a lot with a
tax itle of James Muckle, and is build
ing on it a new barn, and will remove
the house . lately , occupied by W. H.
Whitney also to it. The lot fronts on
Mrs. Meeker's residence:
The Manzanillo makes trips every
Monday and Friday to Astoria and
every Wednesday to Clatskanie. This
is a finely finished boat, and its Captain;
officers and ereWrtre very civil and oblig
ing. It has a cosy cabin and nice fur
niture to match.
Mr. W. II. Whitney will occupy the
Trutch house while Mr. Taylor and his.
daughter Lillie visit Vermont. Mr.
Taylor's father is living and Mr. Tay
lor's mother in Wbtfield in that state.
Mrs. Enoch Meeker has returned from"
her visit to Klickitat County, W. Ti
She reports everything there entirely
burnt up by i.he sun, crops corked in the,
ground instead of on th stove
John R. Watts, Mr. and Mrs. Shat
tuck and Mrs. Stewart intend to take a
summering at Baker's Bay. Mr. Blanch
ard will go to Yamhill.
Mrs. Capt. Henderson's grandfather
Collins by namu 'fought in the Rovolu
tionary War. ile -.vas a nati . e u Captt
Cod, Mass.
g, .
Hon. F. A. Moore is having an ell . f-
fixed to his residence.
.
After Six Vvar?
San Francisco. Cut; Ms.y 30, 15 81;
H. H. Warner & Co.': - To youf
Safe jvidUey urtd Liver Cure. I ascribn
tho restoration of my wife to perfect
health, after six years of nervous afflic
tion from diseased kidueys and live-.
ClfAKLES E. BlTROANS;
Notlre tf Application to Purrllcc
Timber Land.
Land OrritK at Vancovver, W. T. I
July Hth, 1S82.
Xotice is lieri-lv g"v that in compliAiice witJ
the provisions of the Act of Conresa approved
Juiih, lSftf, entitled "An Act for the of
Tinihcr Luiuls iu the State of California, Oregon,
Nev.nU, an.i Wahin-lon Territory, Bartholo
mew T. SvHlen, of Multnomah County, Oregon,
has this day filed in this ouio hU application to
purchase the North West of Section 12, Town
ship 0 North of lvanye 2 West, of the Wiilam
ette Meridian.
Testimony in the above case r ill be taken b- -fore
the ltejrwter and Ueciver, at' Vancouver,
V. T. on Sstturday. S-pteibr J3, 1882.
Any and all persons having-ad veic claims to
the above :fecrilx?d land, or any portion thereof ,
are hereby required to file their claims in this of
fice within pixty(X) days from date hereof.
FKKJD. W. SPAHLINO, Iten'ster.
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Kifrai
few igrurga'cgT"
ft laaiin? Scintist of foIay tgTMt&at
mott diseases an cause f br diseased Kidneys ci
Liv er. If, therefore, the Kidneys and Livrr ar
kept in perfect npjar. perfect health will be tha
result. fhi truth h only be,n known a short
time and for years people suffered KtttX agony
withut U'ine ahle to, fand relief. The discovery
of Vaxn:r' bafe Kidney and Liver Cur mark
a new era in'the treatment of those troubles.
Made from a imple tropical leaf of rare value,
it contains just the elements n.fOeAry to nour
ishand invigorate both of thtae great ergan
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cause pains in the lower part of the body for
Torpid Liver HeadachesJaundice Dizziness
Gravel Fever. Ague Malarial Fever, and
all difficulties of the Kidneys, Liver and Urina
ry Oryani. , ,
It in an excellent and safe remjdy for female
during Pn jrnanoy. It will oontroi Menstruation
and is invaluable for Leucnrrha or Falling of
to Womb,
As a Blood Purifier it la unequal!, for it cure
th organs that hake the blood.
ThU Kemedy, which has done ench wonders,
i put up in the LARGEST SIZED BOTTLE
cf any medicine upon the market, and is sold by
Druggists and all dealer at $1.25 per bottle. For
Diabetes, enquire for WAKNKIVS SAFE DIA.
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July
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