THE HERALD. I ¡of the tree tops reaching overhead brimstone down my throat that I Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. i told me that dav was breaking. ican hardly talk, and that is not very We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legisla­ “Wai, Kurnel’air ye come’round fair, some of my enemies may ture to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have re­ WITH PKX AND INK. • ..... . say of me that I will get fire and minded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement all right, said a deep voice at my brinlHtfine quick enough without get- BY WALTE# LEARNED. T hs H erald offers a prize to any school-boy in Harney Valley, here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and head. Raising my eyes I saw ting it now. With pen and ink one might indite over me the grizzly face of the out- You will not expect me to make who will read the following copy of the Declaration of Independence, we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow A sonnet, or indeed might write law, Cap Hawkins. He broke into 11 political speech to-night. When write out in his best style of penmanship and aendin to our address the theBe usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections A billet-doux, or, eke to raise a wild laugh at my look of aston- mar’ Specifications to each of the Twenty-seven Charges made against the and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice, The wind, a note for thirty days. ", B 7 shaled in the field; when the issues, ishment. ag tbe ]awyerg call them, shall be Monarchy of Great Britain, as set forth in the article given below. and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity Not mine the poogi; they’d s,uen Make wits and poets of dull men. frighten the revenue men; they’ll cal opponents. That was never my and our sacred honors. [Signed] J ohn H anco O c , T homas J effer ­ DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. style of speaking, even when I was be after you again.” son , and by 54 other as brave American patriots. bo this the miracle explains, He used his pen and ink with brains. Again he roared as if he would a very young man, I might say no When, in the course of human events, it becomes Necessary for man at all, for the first stump speech Mine is the harder task, I think, • split his sides over the joke. He I ever made I was nothing but a one people to dissolve the Political bands which have connected To write with only pen and ink. was immensely tickled. boy. Ever since then I have al­ them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, AMONG MOONSHINEIW. | ‘‘Say your prayers, Cap,” I con- ways endeavored to keep a civil the Separate and Equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of CELEBRATION! ! tongue in my head. 1 always rec­ Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect for the Opinions of Man­ When, a few years ago, a United j tinned. “It’ll be a Jong time before ognize the right of every man to do kind requires that they should declare the Causes which Impel them Ftates marshal was murdered by | you see daylight again.” his own thinking, and if he would moonshiners in the mountains of I ‘‘Whut air yedrivin’at, Kurnel?” only think honestly, and be as tol­ to the separation. We hold these truths to be Self-evident: that All Men are Created north Georgia, a New York news­ he asked, seriously, casting his eye erant of me as I was of him, there paper said that another notch was about him. My shot had missed, should be no harsh words fall from Equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain Inalienable my lips in respect to him. Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happi­ cut in the big poplar that guards but I kept firing. No, my friends, I am here to ad­ ness. That to Secure these rights, Governments are instituted among “ Well, you see, Hawkins, now the entrance to Sleepy Cove, the re-1 i vocate the right of every free Amer­ treat of the outlaws, making five in i I that I’ve got you in my power, I’m ican to think for himself. I believe men, deriving their Just Powers from the Consent of the Governed; all, each significant of the death at going to put you away for good. in it, and always have believed in that, whenever any form of government becomes Destructive of these All Harney Valley is Earnestly Solicited to take the hands of the illicit whisky mak-: You come along with me to the ; it, as the very essence of Democra- ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute hold and make this the Most Successful Cele­ Cove. There ’ s a warm hole in the <7 «nd free government; and there- a new government, laying its Foundations on such Principles, and or­ ers, of a revenue officer. Tfiat bration in Grant County. Last Year the 4th I side of the mountain in which you I !or® W*T8^ to 8aJr ,to,You aV‘ ^or ganizing its powers in such form, as to Them Bhall seem most likely to fourth notch was cut for me. I saw i “in the Harney Country’’ was Universally Denom­ it done, with death staring me in I j can spend the winter, board and ,narkg) e]se our friend. from Phila- effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that inated the Event of the Season, and This Year the face. Is it possible that the lodging free. Come, brace up, Cap; | delphia will not reach the depot in governments long established, should not be changed for Light and if all Unite in the Work, that Record will be outlaws still believe my bones are when you sec how comfortable it is time^to catch their train, that so Transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that Totally Eclipsed. Come One, and Como All ! in there, you’ll want to lease the jongas God gives me strength to mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to bleaching on the damp ground ir. speak to my fellow men, so long place for life.” right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accus­ Smoky Hole? shall I talk to them good, honest, Programme. The qutlaw made no response to . straight Democracy, on which I was tomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing When notch No. 3 was cut, there i rny random talk, nor did he laugh schooled and in which I believe. ~ invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under was a great stir in north Georgia. OPENING EXERCISES: before. Something seemed to j And now, friends, I should be absolute despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such We laid the murder of Weston at ¡as i ..................................................... B y ... all present . GRAND PARADE the door of notorious Cap Hawkins, 'worry him, for he fidgeted about, Paying Gie part of Hamlet with government, and to provide new guards for their future security. The scratched his uncombed head and j Camlet left out if I did not say an- history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated MUSIC*................. ....................................................... B y B rass B and . the daring leader of a fearlegfi hand I ' other thincr that that I I am am going orr»ir»cr io aav other thing to say, PRAYER ............. .......................................................... B y C haplain , of outlaws in the Cohutta moun­ ran his bony fingers through his and which I have reserved upon the injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment MUSIC....................... *..................................................... B y G lee C lub . ¡grizzled, tangled beard. teaching of the testament that the of an absolute tyranny over these states. To Prove this, let Facts be tains, and as soon as possible we j REMARKS BY PRESIDENT..................................... A. W. W aters . were on his trail with a good pack I “Look a-hyar, Kurnel,” said the master of the feast brings the best submitted to a candid world: READING DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE... D. L. GRACE. last. I tell you, my friends, that 1. He has refused his assent to laws the most Wholesome and Nec­ of blood hounds. The scent was I moonshiner, leaning close to me the St. Louis convention did a thing MUSIC.............................................................................B y G lee C lub . | and boring into me with his black cold, and when we hgd penetrated of itself which should immortalize essary for the Public Good. D r . T. V. B. E mbree . ORATION.. . some eight miles into the range, the 1 eyes, “ajr ye ever been thar?” it. It did a thing which of itself 2. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of Immediate and should command the gratitude of Pressing Importance, unless suspended in their operations till his as­ dogs became disheartened. After ' : ‘‘There? Where, Cap?” circling round up time and again in I I “That thar hole ye air goin’ on the American people. It did one sent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neg­ thing which set a magnificent ex­ lected to attend to them. A GRAND PIC-NIC DINNER search of the trail they gave it up, ' about.” ample for all time to come to the 3. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large and we were forced to retreat with­ ■ “Why, of course; don’t I know American people, and indeed to all Will be served at noon, free for all. out having accomplished anything. 1 every hole and crag in the Co- other people who have anything to districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of huttas?” i do ____________________ ,___ ___ representation in the legislature—a right inestimable to them, and in the choice of rulers, and that It was dusk when we got out of “Then that settles it, Kurnel. I thing was to re-nominate Grover formidable to tyrants only. the deep woods, and we began to |’lowed ye war jokin’. Waw, Patsy; Cleveland The Circular Swing by the unanimous voice ' 4. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, un­ look about for a place to stay for waw, Suck; wawp.” of the convention. comfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records, “THE HARNEY BELLE,” Now, my friends, when I speak the night. He reined his horses and stopped A log cabin of two rooms was not I i the wagon. Taking up an ax he of Grover Cleveland I do not speak for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his meas­ Will be on the Grounds. inviting, hut the old crone who i handed it to some person on the of a stranger to me. I never saw ures. him until after he was inaugurated 5. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, came to the door said that she ground, and said a few words which President of the United States, but ATHLETIC SPORTS : could provide for one of the party. I did not understand. At the first I have seen him many times since, with manly firmness, his Invasions on the Rights of the People. 6. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause CATCHING GREASED PIG....................................................... P urse , $5.00. While I ate she smoked a clay sound of the ax, Cap Hawkins put talked with him much, consulted pipe, sitting in tho chimney cor­ his arm under my back and forced ' with him much, and although I others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of an­ CLIMBING GREASED POLE.................................................... P urse , $5.00. * sit " upright. • • ■ | have not seen him for months, I nihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the' SACK RACE................................................................................... P urse , $5.00. ner with her legs crossed and her me to [Continued.] j know that man, I think, and I State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of inva­ FOOT RACE, BY INDIANS, HALF MILE F or S ilver W atch foot swinging incessantly. When | think I know him well; and if there sions from without, and convulsions within. A SPEECH FROM THV11MAN. she spoke to me, which she did | is a brave, honest, upright, cour- 7. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for oftener than I liked, I could not I Tho Thurman Club got up alageous, patriotic man on the face HORSE RACES : that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners; grand demonstration at Columbus, ; of God s earth, Grover Cleveland is help feeling that she was trying to HORSE RACE, ON THE FOURTH, FREE FOR ALL refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising pump me. , Ohio, in honor of Allen G. Thur- ?uc.h a n,“n\ Why, mv friends, if SADDLE HORSES, ONE-FOURTH MILE....... P urse , $50.00. , . .. . ... ,, . 1 he is not such a man, if his admin­ When the old woman showed me man s nomination for \ ice I resi- igtration ha8 not bccn „ grand guc. the conditions of new appropriations of lands. HORSE RACE, ON THE FIFTH, FREE FOR ALL, 8. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his to my room and my eyes grew ac­ dent. Following we give the old ; (.cgg| ¡f the people have not found 600 YDS. AND REPEAT, FIVE TO ENTER assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. customed |o the darkness and wan­ J Roman’s speech in full, addressed that be was worthy to sit in the AND THREE TO START..................................... P urse , $50.00, 9. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure dered aimlessly over the ceiling, 1 to the cheering, happy throng of; chair that Jefferson, and Madison, ^ Monroe, ami Jackson occupied, . * ’ of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. saw something about the size of the democrats, when the large proces-; aTl if such is not a fact, how can it be 10. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither bed hanging directly over me. It. Bion reached his house: accounted for that he received ewarn* of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. TO CONCLUDE WITH “F riends and F allow C itizens : every vote in the convention at St. seemed to swing slowly back and 11. He has kept among us in times of peace, standing armies, with ­ I sincerely thank you for this man ­ Louis, and that there was not a forth. I stood up nnd touched it, ifestation of your good will and es­ dissenter from one end of the United out the consent of our legislatures. examined it as minutely ns possi­ teem. I* It has been well said, 'find States to the other? I do not get 12. He has affected to render the military independent of, and su­ ble, and again laid down. It wns how a man _____ ... as that. “*“ is thought of by v y his '"3 ___ SuCh an ___ endorsement For the Benefit of the Burns Brass Band. nothing but three or four bpd quilts neighbors, and you can form a cor- Traitoreto the country" and party perior to the civil power. 13. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction for­ not get such an endorsement as stretched across two boards sup­ reel judgment of that man a char- ported at the ends by short ropes. acter and worth. If I may judge that; men of small brain do not eign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his thia demonstration, as well as ge(, gueh an endorsement as that; assent to their acts of pretended legislation. The Red, White and Blue If it grew colder in the night I | from from all actions of kindness that I nion of doubtful integrity do not 14. For quartering large bodies of troops among us; would reach up to them for more , have received from a goodly num- get such an endorsement as that. [Published by request, so the girls representing the States may learn the words.) 15. For protecting the*n, by a mock trial, from punishment for any cover. | bcr ot the people of Columbus for Xo, it if» because Grover Cleveland O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, And her flag proudly floating before us, The home of the brave and the free, The boast of the rod white and blue. I intended to stay awake, but more than a third of a century, I ¡3 upright, honest, and a brave, able murder which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states; The shrine of each patriot’s devotion, 16. For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; must have been nearly asleep when may indulge in a hope that I stand n]all) that the whole democratic C ho : Hurrah for the red, white and blue! The world offers homage to thee. well in the affections of my neigh pnrtv ;n the l/nited States, from 17. For imposing taxes on us without our consent; Hurrah for the red, white and blue! a creaking noise aroused me. The hors; and when, in addition to that. onP t,nj fo (he other, be it state or Thy mandates make heroe’s assemble, With her flag proudly floating before us, For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. 18. When Liberty ’ s form stands in view; next moment it was repeated, and I have every reason to believe, from territory, be it on the Atlantic wave The boast of the red, white and blue\ 19. For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses; Thy banners make tyranny tremble. the quilts above me descended rap­ the attendance here to-night of that or bp it'where the Pacific rolls her When borne by the red, white and blue. The wine cup, the yine cup bring hither, 20. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbor­ idly. It Hashed U|>on me that I splendid body of men, the Randall mighty volumes of water on our And fill ye it up tn the brim— club of Philadelphia, that I stand ing province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarg ­ western coast, be it on the great C ho : Hurrah for the red. white and blue ! was in a trap. May the mem’ry of Washington ne’er well in the grand old State which [ lakes, , or be it on the gulf, every ing its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instru­ Hurrah for the red, white and blue! wither, Drawing my weapon, I attempted used to be called the Keystone of Thy banners make tyranny tremble. man of the democratic party, every ment for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies. Nor a star of his glory grow dim; to spring out of bed, determined to the democratic arch, and which I one who has -i7 \ L n, considering * T 1 23. He han With a frantic struggle I cocked insensible and cold-blooded man in ought-to O, the Army and Navy forever! have 1 Hix>k< B As so proudly she bore het brave crew, Three cheers for the red, white and blue! my pistol, and, placing the muzzle the world if I did not feel grateful that our Pennavlvaniii friend« have protwtion, and waging war against us. 24. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our close against the quilt, pulled tho for the kimlnc«-« you have mani­ so long a march to make and little fested towards me to-night. Yes, time to catch the train. 1 give you towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. trigger. I tired at random, trust­ and I may say that you have man­ 25. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercena­ ing that fate might guide the ball ifested towards me before to-night; my heartiest thanks for the kind compliment you have paid me, and into the heart or head of some of; and yet,I do not know about that wishing you one and all happiness ries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already my cowardly assailants. The con­ ! quite. 1 say, ‘kindness;' yet was it in your life, I bid you good night.” begun with circumstance« of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized cussion was awftil in that narrow kindness? I was living in my own The Portland “World” says that quiet home, with my good old wife, space. The suioke filled my eyes, my children and my grandchildren, Cleveland and Thurman, with tar­ ■ nation. 26. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the nose and ears; the shot rang and friends around me. rvishing for iff reform and the Mills bill, suits high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the execu­ through my brain; but I felt that nothing in this world but peace and the World tioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. my l*st hour had (onm. My God. quiet, when you and others like you . Same here; shake. 27. He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has en­ how I sufferer! ! I remember a de­ forced me once more into the polit- Harrison and Morton, with pro ­ eal arena. Whether that was kind risive laugh that seemed to come or not, time will tell; whether it was tection to corporations, trusts. Rum, deavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the mcrcilces In­ from the other world, then some­ well advised or not, time will dis­ Romanism and Rebellion, and— dian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished de­ struction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. thing heavy struck me on the head. close; but one thing I need not wait defeat.__________ ___ Oregon has gone republican and for time to disclose, and that is that When I recovered consciouancM, I owe to you the deepest and pro- the price of wool has been run in , In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in I was lying on my back in a jolting foundest gratitude, from the very the ground. Another grand repub­ the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered wagon, with my hand* and feet se­ bottom of my heart.” [Cheers and lican victory and wool-growers will only by repeated injury. A prince whose f haracter is thus marked by have to pay for the privilege of giv- ' every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free curely bound. The pale blue of the fireworks. | | people. “I got so much of that fire and ing away their productions sky above me and the hazy outline < of July COME TO BURNS FOR A GOOD TIME II MS t M S