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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1872.
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W' HN.vn A COI!'LETE ABSTRACT
of Ti 1 nt .ill pror.ertr in Ei'cene
Cit v, and perfect plats "f V" enmp. pren ired
wt'Ti 7rpT care. will practice in t? p
rtlTrent C nrts of the Stat -. Special at
teTfm srivprt to the collection of all claims
that -nar be nlace 1 in our hands. Lecul
Tenors bright rA sfl-J. Pt
Vrsv
Theodore Tiiton on Grant.
The followlns; is a document is
sued i'rom the Golden Age office bv
Theodore Tilton. It is erood read-
r
ing for all, and especially Republi
cans :
SUCCESSFUL FAILURE AT PHILADEL
PHIA. Xow that the Philadelphia Con
vention has hushed its shoutings
nvcl' lllf Tr(JSl(li'lt,; ni-nriinin-itifvii
and submits itself in silence to the
sober, second thought of the Amer
ican people, let us consider what
was its duty, and how it left this
undone.
It ought to have resented and
defeated the -President's attempt
to renominate himself, instead of
which it became the very ins ru
ment for accomplishing t his scheme.
It ought to hae impeached him at
the bar of public opinion for his
numerous violations of law. instead
of which it suffered these outrages
to ro uncondernned. It ourht to
have exposed the frauds perpetra
ted in his Custom Houses, instead
ot which it blindly shut its eyes to
these enormities. It ought to have
denounced his double-dealing with
civil service reform, instead of
which it made this reform impossi
ble by enacting the two-term prin
ciple. It ought to have protest! d
airainst his Federal intrusions into
local affairs, instead of which it
made a high-sounding declaration
in favor of both State rights and
their violator. It ought to have
denounced the corrupt incumbents
whom the President- has retained
in ollice, instead of which it be
came an accomplice for their reten
tion in power during another four
years. It ought to have commiser
ated the country on the Adminis
tration's ignominious surrender to
England, instead of which it calls
this shamelessness an "honorable
compromise." It ought to have
laid bare the failure of the Presi
dent's policy with the Indians, in
stead of which it took no notice of
the recent blood y massacres on the
frontier, or of General Sheridan's
report of wide-spread Indian hostil
ities. It ought to have rebuked
the President's attempt, through
his paitisans in Congress, to stretch
martial law over the South, instead
of which it silently joined in the
scheme to carry the next Presiden
tial election at the point of the bay
onet. It ought to have given a
stinging rebuke to the President's
extraordinary lavishness of public
offices among his relatives, instead
of which it sees in the nepotism of
a ruler no crime against the State.
Three-fourths of the Philadelphia
delegates consisted of those repub
licans who once symphatically aid
ed and abetted the impeachment of
Andrew Johnson for violating the
tenure-of-otlice law. Put Giant's
o Ileuses against the laws have been
more numerous than Johnson's. If
there was legal ground for the im
peachmcnt of one, there is far more
for the impeachment of the other.
We challenge even Mr. Poutwell,
with his celestial
rhetoric, oorrow-
ed from u the hole
in the skv," to
prove Grant less guilt v than John
son of naked violation of the law.
It was in violation of law that the
President, wit hout the authorization
of Congress, employed the navy in
a warlike action against I lay ti. It
was in violation of law that he sold
arms to one Kuropean nation to be
used against another. It was in
violation of law that he disposed
of the Secor and Chorpenning
claims. It is now in daily and
notorious violation of law that he
surrounds himself witli military in
stead of civil secretaries.
These are types of his violations
of the plain letter of written stat-
utes. t-eores or cases can oe auoeo
w here I;e has violated what
Mon-
tesquieu calls ' sj
;irit of the laws."
ITf Iims violated the
soirit of the
yu,v'ueLaw by usurping for Im
self functions wnkll that charl
tor hun
ter
tliG Stag's alone.
lb-
reserves to
has violated self-government by
suspending the operation of local
law. He has violated public liber
ty by intruding himself into politi
cal conventions to control them in
the interest of his administration
and renomination. He has violated
the moral sense of the people by
such arbitrary displacements from
position as that of 31 r. Sumner
from the chairmanship of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, and
by such retentions in ollice as that
of Leet and Stocking, and other
leeches on the public revenue. He
has violated common morality ly
taking private gifts and rewarding
the gfvers with public emoluments.
He has violated the decent usages
of gentlemanly breeding by enter
ing "newspaper oflieos and demand
ing the removal of offensive editors
who fell into his disfavor by criti
cisms on his maladministration.
He has violated the common stand
ard of private character by over
addiction to the wine-cup.
The shallowest of all answers to
these charges is that lie was renom
inated unanimously by whom?
'ot br tbo KepnMican party
which he has severed in twainjikc
a house divided against, itself. Ev
ery man who has partisans and no
public man is without them can
get a unanimous vote from his own
friends. Three years ago the Pres
ident had a party ; now he has only
a part of one. That noble, royal,
invincible party no longer exists.
The President has put an end to it.
Almost any other man could have
united it; almost no other man
could have divided it. To ils
chosen chief was reserve! the sail
distinction of destroying it. He
has wrought more mischief in our
politics than ten Andrew Johnsons.
Xay, more if the House and Sen
ate had continued in the same sen
sitive and inflamed temper toward
a law-breaking Executive as they
manifested in May, 18GS, Piesideiit
Grant w ould have been impeat hed
at Washington instead of being re
nominated at Philadelphia.
There are two aspects in which
this renomination is especially a
calamity to the country; one as a
blow a, official honesty, the other
as a blow at popular liberty.
As to public honesty, if an Am
erican President can enrich a whole
army of relatives by bestowing
upon them the public funds, why
m ly not other public officers do
the
ame
F
or instance, it tin
President gives lucrative positions
to his father, his brother, his cous
ins, and his nephews and wife's
cousins, why may not Mr. Thomas
Murphy in like manner call togeth
er the whole circle of his kith and
kin, and portion out among them
the salaried and fat places of the
Custom House? Why may not
Patrick Jones do the same with
the clerkships of the Post Ollice?
Why not Mr. Casey the same at
Xew Or'eans? Why not every
other principal office-holder the
same everywhere so that the 50,
000 offices in the gift of the Admin
istration shall thus be considered
the family property of a few favor
ed appointees? In other words,
why should not the whole govern
ment be turned at once, like the
Presidency itself, into a continental
gift enterprise ?
As to public liberty, if in time of
peace the military power is to
reign supreme over the civil, then
farewell republicanism ! Indeed,
the Republican party itself, as one
reads in the debates in Congress,
has largely lost, or stifled, its in
stinct for republicanism. Mr. Sum
ner's fearful indictment of the Pres
ident, accompanied as it. was with
proo's and specifications, w:is an
swered how? l3r an admission of
tne g-nliy tacts, coupled with the
astou.iding extenuation that they
were frivolous. Is there nepotism ?
Yes, but it is a trifling crime. Is
there gift-taking? Yes, but its a
venal offense. Is there law-breaking?
Yes. but its of no conse
quence. Like Senator Carpenter,
t'le Philadelphia Convention con
si lered none of these things worthv
of notice.
How quenched is the ancient
spirit of Saxon liberty ! How our
forefathers, both of Old England
and Xew, would have resented
such encroachments on the people!
John Hampden, rather than pay 31
shillings and G pence for ship mon
ey, made a revolution in England.
The liostonians, rather than pay 3
pence per pound on tea, made a
revolution in America. The gen
ius of Liberty is like a sensitive
plant it need not be struck but
only touched, to show when it is
wounded President Grant has
violated the laws more flagrantly
than King Charles I, or George
HI ; and it argues a deadness to
the sentiment of liberty to suffer
such violation to pass uurebuked.
Has it come, then, to this that
the American people are so far
subservien'. to the existing military
regime as to be indifferent to the
supremacy of civil law? Not so.
They are gathering wrath against
the day of wrath. Unless the
present tendency of the Adminis
tration is rebuked and reversed
we predict that if Grant is re-elected--which
may Heaven forbid!
the very men who were lately
cheering his renomination will be
demanding his impeachment.
There is now no existing differ
ence of opinion concerning the
ne"To in which the South takes
one side and the North the other.
To aria' one section of the Union
against the other on the negro
question creates a false issue which
has no existence in reality. In re
viving this antagonism the Phila
delphia Convention has failed to
adjust itself to the circumstances
of the time. Feigned and fictitious
is the contest which Senator Mor
ton prefigures when he re-paints the
boys in hiue as once more lighting
the boys in giay. The boys in blue
have put off their blue; the boys
in gray have put off their gray.
Former Union soldiers now mingfe
freely with their fellow-citizens in
the South, and former Confederate
soldiers do the same thing in the
North. From the moment when
there was an enu 10 tue pouucai
distinction between a Trbito
and a black, from that moment
there was an end of the partisan
distinction between a blue coat and
a gray.
The Cincinnati Convention, rec
ognizing this great fact, "built up
on the event in marble." It dared
to say there was no longer a war,
no longer a rebellion, no Iongtr
a traitor. It hurried the past.
Its motto was, "Let bygones
be bygones." It clasped hands
across the bloody chasm.
Put the Philadelphia Convention,
not content to see the South accept
ing the verdict of the war, not con
tent to see the former slaveholders
subscribing to the doctrine ol
equality, not content to see the or
iginal secessionists pledging them
selves to the perpetual union of
these States, not content to see the
rebels volunteering to keep invio
late the national debt, not content
to see the whole South joyfully ac
cepting the Fourteenth and Fif
teenth Amendments and seeking tit
be at peace not only with the negro
but the North not content with
all this, the Philadelphia Conven
tion no w proposes to tight the fin
ished battle over again ; reconvert
ing our present friends into our
former foes; re-imperiling the peace
and safety of the negro by unnec
essarily creating a political antag
ouism against him in the South;
and rekindling a quenched animosi
ty between the sections at a mo
ment w hen both are anxious to be
of one mind and heart. In other
words the Philadelphia Conveuti n
inaugurated a policy of unfratei ual
s rife.
Let us therefore draw a parallel
between the two Republican par
tics. Cincinnati, fresh from the people,
initiated a long needed movement
of reform; Philadelphia, drawing
its breath from the public offices,
clamored like claquers in a theatre
for the continuance of the adminis
tration and th? re-appointment of
its 50,000 paid stipendiaries. Cin
cinnati declared for the one-term
principle ; Philadelphia was as hush
as the grave concerning this cen
tral and mainspring measure of civil
service reform. Cincinnati demand
ed that our foreign policy should
ask far nothing that was not right,
and submit to nothing that was
wrong; Philadelphia, forgetting
this maxim ot Jackson, connived
at the Alabama surrender, and gave
this ignominy the name of honor.
Cincinnati protested against elevat
ing the military over the civil law;
Philadelphia entertained itself with
a picture of Grant on horseback, as
typical of the administration which
it seeks to maintain in power. Cin
cinnati denounced the abuses which
the government lias feared to in
vestigate; Philadelphia was pre
arranged mechanism, subordinat
ing me indiv i.tn;d lieedom ot its
delegates to affect a unanimity
w hieh did not exist, by an enginery
which itself was one of the chief
abuses of which the administration
has been guilty. Cincinnati was
lor universal amnesty; Philadel
phia was for limning this clemency.
Cincinnati denounced the distribu
tion of public offices among persons
who had given gifts to the Presi
dent ; Philadelphia represents the
interests of these givers and receiv
ers. Cineinnati denounced nepo
tism ; Philadelphia bandaged its
eyes into blindness to it. Cincin
nati indicated the President as a
violater of law ; Philadelphia gave
a sycophant's compliment to his
practical wisdom. Cincinnati pro
poses to unite the North and South
on tlie basis of hbert', equality,
and fraternity ; Philadelphia deter
mines to tear open afresh the heal
ed wounds of the two sections.
Cincinnati is for peace; Philadel
phia is for war. Fellow country-
1
men, choose between them !
A Glorious ltcsult.
In a recent interview with a
newspaper reporter. Judge Jere-
miah JiiacK ot I'ennsyivania
said: The defeat of Grant and the
suppression ot the evils his admin
istration has brought upon the
country would indeed be a glori
ous result. The election of Gree
ley will effect a great deal. I
know nothing of Greeley personal
ly. The opinion I have formed of
his character from other sources
is most favorable; but one thing
all admit he is an honest man.
No person, I believe, has ever
charged him with corruption.
Then, again, the fact he will be
elevated to power by a coalition
of good men of all parties would
alone be a sufficient guarantee of
the purity and straight-forwardness
of his administration. A
party composed of such elements
has but little cohesive power, and
the administration which depends
upon it for support must tread cau
tiously in a very narrow path. I
would have very little fears of
Greeley or any othef sensible man
going very far astray, without anv
question, under such circumstan-cep."
Magical Kfiert of Music.
Some poetical genius, not Wa't
Whitman, nor Joaquin Miller, nor
George F rancis Train, but some
one of a similai school, has told in
that Music hr.s charms to !,ooth a parage.
Rend n rock and split Ciibhujre."
We always deemed the above
stanza as a poetic fiction, but we
are now almost convinced that i
may be truth, after having read the
following account of the wonderful
effect of Gihnore's big jubilee, held
in Iloston from June 17th to July
4th, as narrated by a correspond
ent of the New York Standard :
The effe cts of the Jubilee are al
ready beginning to be felt and seen
in all pails of the city. The girb
walk the streets like dancing-masters.
The witch waltzes of tin
wonderful Strauss have taken the
city by storm. People handle thei.
knives and forks at their meals
with admirabL- time. All of their
movements are governed by the
rules of music. Ladies fan
themselves as their wind instru
ments were batons. Go to Cop
land's, and you will see the girls
from Roxbury making tuning-forks
of their spoons. The street cars
have so many beats to the measure,
and the conductors pay the strict
est attention to the various kind ol
time, written in the railway galop.
The street railway officials find
conductors as fully as necessary in
their business as in Mr. Gihnore's
position. The hand-organ music is
improving, and most of the eating
house artists can run up the scab
on their gongs with the accuracy
of an old performer. -Their musical
atmosphere is working wonders al
ready. A system and spirit of
harmony is being introduced into
all of the common walks of life.
When the guests are through eat
ing they rise at the one time. The
sopranos use their tooth-picks with
striking effect, the altos abvjij's
coming in just at the right time.
The base eaters provide themselves
with heavier wood, but their time
and execution is perfect. If any
one of an observing turn of mind
will watch the boot blacks about
the time that Strauss is announced
to lead his spiritual hosts, he will
notice that every brush moves in
perfect harmony with the music.
The same is true of the barbers and
carpet beaters.
It is estimated that the percent,
of wear and tear on the pavements
is rapidlv decreasing, for since the
Jubilee commenced, the horses and
mules throughout the city have
a looted the harmonic step uncon
sciously. It is said that during the
performance to-day, all of the piston-rods
on the South Shore and
Providence lines, moved in perfect
unison.
As I write the lodgers in the
station house are singing, and the
prospect b" fair for the convicts in
the State Prison to break forth into
a Jubilee of song.
The Future Iady of The While House.
In view of the possibility of her
becoming next year "the lady
ot the White House," the New
York JTendd gives the following
sketch of Miss Ida Greeley, daugh
ter of the sage of Chappaqua:
"Miss Greeley's mother has for
many years been an invalid, and
is now so unwell that Mr. Greeley
hesitates about removing her from
the St. Cloud Hotel, where she is
staying in this city, to the home
stead at Chappaqua, and in the
event of election, the most ardu
ous duties as hostess of tie Exe
cutive Mansion would devolve up
on his eldest daughter. Miss Ida
Greeley is a young lady of about
eighteen years, of medium height,
handsome, with the soft, dark
eye, shapely features, and line
eotnulcx'on of her father. A
mass of dark brown hair is done
up in becoming fMs about her
head. Her manners are affable
and cordial, her conversation
ready and sprightly, and from the
success with which, assisted by
Mrs. Stuart she presided at the
first state dinner of the coming
Administration under the ever
green shades on the farm at Chap
paqua, Saturday, it was evident
that her domestic accomplishments
are thorough. She may be epi
grammatically described as the
philosopher refined out of his ang
ularities and eccentricities and fren
zied. She heard of her father's
nomination first in London. Mr.
Smalley of the Tr:bune having tel
egraph hd to her mother at once on
receiving notice of it, and, as she
admits naively, "was glad to hear
it." She endorses his proposed
nomination at the Baltimore Con
vention, and in the event of it, be
lieves he will be elected. She
does not advocate woman suffrage,
but if she could vote would vote
for Mr. Greeley, which she thinks
the woman suffragists as a party
T-onM not b likely to do."
Ku Klux Prisoners.
From The Xew York Sun.
The Ship Champion, fron
Charleston, arrived at Pier 2f
North River last night, having o
ooard twenty-three Ku Klux pri
mers among them were gray-hair
d men and beardless boys; strom
nen and cripples. Tl.ey were un
ler a guard of U. S. soid'e -s, an
n their way to the Albany Pen:
entiary to serve out a term of im
nsonment. AW of them profess
d to be farmers or farm workmen
md their sunburned faces an!
hardened hands gave proof of it
THE TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT
ire: Three for 10 years and $l,00f
ine; two, 4 years and $100 fine
me 4 years and $500 fine; three, 3
years and $100 fine; four; 2 yeai
tnd $100 fine; three, a year and a
alt" and $100 fine; and one, 1 year
and $100 tine.
All of these men lived in York
ounty, South Carolina, one of tin
line counties in which martial law
aiis declared last October. Some
f them have already been impris
oned for months.
a "sun" reporter
went on board the Champion, and
round the prisoners stowed away
hetwen decks in the fore part f
the ship. No air circulated
through the place, and the ther
mometer indicated ninety-eight de
grees. They are rough looking
men, haggard and tattered, but
have not a vicious look. The re
porter's questions were promptly
answered, and by many of the
men with much intelligence. They
said they had been arrested ' for
belonging to the order." A gray
haired man told the following sto
ry: WHEN MARTIAL LAW "WAS DECLARED
last October, no outrage had been
committed for a year, and none
since, in our county at h a-t. But
the military authorities have been
makin- arrests for the past eight
months. The prisoners are taken
before Judge Bond in the U. S.
Circuit Court, and the charges are
alike in all cases. They are .accus
ed of being, or having been, mem
bers of the Ku Klux, and are told
that this can be proven by mem
bers of the baud who are witnesses
for tlie prosecution, and advised to
plead guilty to mitigate their pun
ishment. Knowing how useless resistance
is, the poor wretches plead guilty
to avoid
A SEVERER PENALTY.
Thus twenty-two of these men are
suffering the penalties of convicts
through fear, and not from any evi
dence of their crime. One man of
fifty years approached the the re
porter and said vehemently:
"I did not plead guilty. I am
not guilty, and I would not make
s ich a confession for the world.
They tried me on two charges, but
no evidence w as adduced to con
vict me. Yet it was incut, that I
should be punished, and they
gave me two years. Two years
for being and American citizen un
fortunate enough to live in South
Carolina! I am not, nor never was
a Ku Klux w hatever they may be
and have always been a peacea
ble, law-abiding citizen. I go to
prison an innocent man, but the
hardest criminal never left his
prison with a worse heart than I
shall leave mine. If my life is
1, this indignity shall be
avenge
1."
THE MEN COMPLAINED BITTERLY
of being sent north for con fine
tiH'iit. l he
ly
thought it bad
enough to be summarily arrested
by soldiers, illegally tried, and un
justly convicted, without being
taken so far from home, and where
their friends cannot visit them.
THEY ARE TO REMAIN IN PRISON
until the fines are paid. Some of
them are without money, or friends
that have means, and they see no
limit to their incarceration.
The reporter said to one:
"How are you to pay your fine ?"
"By death," was the answer.
He was a cripple, pale, andema
ciated, and evidently lapidly fall
ing away through the ravages of
a hidden disease. Death no doubt
will pay his fine, and cheat the
prison of a tenant.
At 7 o'clock the men were put
into a street car, and taken to the
Grand Central Depot, and they
embarked for Albany on the eight
o'clock train.
How it is Doxb. Republicans are
continually enquiring how it i-i that Dem
ocrats can support Greeley. If we were
good at answering conundrums we might
try to answer the question lor the non
plussed "iinterriSed." but we '-give it tip."
Hot suppose some Republican oblige? us
with explanation how. it was thai the Re
publicans supported Morten of Indiana, a
strong Democrat up to 185b". or how tbey
learned to "love, honor and obey" Todd,
Broogh. Butler. Bnnks. Cameron, Trum
bull, rYnton. Lo?an. the immortal cigar
h ilder. UlyHes. or hundreds of others,
fresh from" the Democracy." An nn?wer
to th'H conundrum would help the Demo
crats to answer that proposed to thtfra.-
44 Making Circumstances." .
BY A. C. WILSON.
Twenty years ago, while a stu
lent in a Southern University, it
vas my good fortune to be placed
uider the tutorship of a gentleman
vhose professional acquirements
minently fitted him for the post
ion he filled. Like many men of
lis stamp who have had to climb
he hill "difficulty," to obtain an
ducation under adverse circum
stances. Professor G could
aever countenance any difference
o studies in a student. Headways
leld that success was a paramount
luty of every one to achieve, and
n the majority of cases it was pos
ible to "make circumstances," in
stead of being governed by them
In the Junior class, which was a
large one, were a young man by the
name of F. whose predilections for
studv, was of a somewhat negative
character. Being reprimanded for
his general direlections, and show
ing no apparent improvement, he
was at last informed one day after
recitation, that as he had not come
up to the standard required by the
institution, it would be necessary
to report him to the Faculty for
dismissal at its next meeting. This
was a severe blow to F., whofnot
withstanding his shortcomings, felt
himself humbled before his class
mates. The next day, however,
after the announcement by the
Professor, F. was called upon in
recitation, and to the surprise of
Professor G., answered all of the
questions propounded to him read
ily and correctly. All went1 well
with F. for some days, until a
circumstance happened, which fully
demonstrated the truth of the Pro
fessor's favorite aphorism. As was
the custom in those days, each
Professor took turns fo make the
general rounds of the College
"Cabins" at night to see if the
students wre rightly employing
their time. It so happened on the
night in question that Professor G.
was on duty; each room was visit
ed, and among the number was F's,
who was found busily engaged in
studying hisr "calcus ;" but there
was something about his looks tlfat
excited the suspicion of the Prof.
He passed on however, and was
about to retire for the night, when
he resolved to make another visit
to F's. room to satisfy himself that
all was right. Avoiding all the
other "cabins," he proceeded to
wards F's., and on nearing
it certain ominous sounds broke
upon his car, like a slap and bang
upon a table. Arriving at the door G
he ushered himself in without cere-Q
mony,in time to hearF. say "you're
to stand ended for me to-morrow,
Buck." The consternation that0
was depicted on the countenances
of the occupants of that room, on
the sudden appearance oi the Pro
fessor, can be betttr imagined than
described. Seated around the table
with F., were three of the best
students of the class, all engaged
in that gentle and refined game
known as "draw poker," at which
game F. was particularly an adept.
Professor G. comprehended the
whole thing at a glance, and
with savage coolness, remarked,
" Who is to contribute to your
recitation to-morrow Mr. F.?" noth
ing abashed, F. replied, "I make
circumstances."
The following is the latest piece
of doggerel ground out by a Gree
ley machine :
The pbUosonhic Horace quaffs.
From Chappaqua's cool stream.
And at Ulysses softly laughs
Who slakes his thirst wiih steam.
Though (ii eeley drinks his water cold,
(And in no measure scant,)
No shrewd observer need be told,
IIe?ll ' make it hot for Grant."
Sarcastic. A bookbinder said
to his wife at the wedding: "It
seems that now we ar0 bound to
gether, two volumes fn one, with
clasps." "Yes," observed one of
the guests, "one side highly orna
mented Turkey morocco, and the
other plain calf," and the next mo
ment was taking rapid strides
down stairs.
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One of the young ladies employ
ed in the Treasury is a great-granddaughter
of a singer of the De
claration of Independence, has
been engaged to three men and
married a fourth, and is yet not 21.
She is a blonde, with lovely curls.0
Grant's Platform "Give us
piece.
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