The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-06
OUR OREGON CORRESPONDENCE.

OREGON, Feb. 90, 1862
The SeAim in the Democratic Party Oresoa-Lans AMI
Grorcr, dc.
frierd has just handed column from your issue
Of January IT, containing your Oregon correspondence
with requett that would correct your spouden
errors and ments There il unfortunate split
in the democratic party in Oregon which, healed,
will certainly ruin the party there and give the State this
year. VITA two Senators and representative, to the op
position The factions designated az the Bush wing
and the Lane wing Lane has, up this date, managed
Oregon as though he held 1t politically his pro-
perry. BODY Of sturdy democrats like the Oresonsns
CANNOT be managed like plantation OF Southern aoorers;
hence tire difficulty with Lane They we're willing TO keep
him III Office, but when he required them to All all toe othsr
Offices with his tools and minicns they rebeied They
could endure for few months in the Senate Delazon
Smith formerly respectable county court lawyer from
the Westen part OF New York State but when ordered
BIN 10 the Senate for ak years. they said they had
10 the party other ADLER and better They Gro
yer Washington their first representative by
jority Of Geo
Without bis interchangeable winters work at Washington
in 1859 Oregon could not have been admitted His con-
stt1epts were satisfied with his and wished him
this Congress. Laue found him stropg
frank and outspOken man to be tool of; and in
his absence packed vention against MIN aud had
Stout in his stead The democracy Of the
Safe st cheated and insuted ASd though Grover sup
by barely npe vetes Instead OF clear majority OF $780,
A ~oTd from Grover would have Insured opposition
victory. Grover was offered, In the Grst instance the
SeBatorshp but bong young man ony thirty i've he
declined 1t in iAsor Of Smith. TIE democracy being
cheated out Of bs services representative BY Lane
return him to the Senate though he had against
him the com biz ed Influence Of Lane his two tools,
Sm,th and Stout, he lacked but vote Of nomn
Tse opposition, knowing his merits aad
rains STATE OF inc West offered him enough
h election to the Senate If he would permit
tpds TO s.art hr before the Legislature a. candidate,
Enf ~1tll hat mi In rfv
cre the prchersd aid hence the vacancy Of one seat
frlp that State.
deU's well the talents Of Grover endeavsys - elan
der him your Columns This r,ay be fsx - Seitics,
that Grover cannot Ike Lsne boast OF having prepared
himself for statesman by keeping wood yard for
steamboats, on the hssssippi rvcr HIS family are all
dens for their tssrt His father, seventy
five DID, OF the most enpeut In Maize,
has been de mocrat since the days OF Jnersou On
ple.ng his medical stu lies, the last with England
broke out, and be shouidered bis mUsket and volun
teered as private. Under Scott he fought
lundy's lane After ha. bloody victory the surgeons
private Grover volunteered sssist Hts skill 10 cutting
OF legs and arms and dressing wounds at once caused
him 70 be trans 'er red 70 the surgical SAT-
His Oldest son, leading democratic politician in
Maine, has BEEN State Senator, ant delegsc to
CesrettoD. His second son, for eu years Professor OF
MoGerp Languages in q college in Of the Middle
States, died lsst Snmmer while travelling Europe at
Upsas, In Sweden His fourth son Lieutenant Grover,
OF the army and graduate 81 west Point led twenty
two survey rg party OF four the Rocky Noun
tsns III the desd OF WINTER sSeping IN tue snow,
fepaded rightly by choirs OF wolves and with shcr
moue,er often thriytwo degrees below His third
son, lafayette Grover, as we'll rs his three bro
Tiers, educated at Bowdon College, in Name.
From there he went to Philadelphia, and stu.
died law for three years. Tia writer Of this
sketch vas ecbooimate of his for sorc six years and
recoects him both In the academy and at college
Of the nos; thorough scholars able aeb and Clear
est and strongest writer's Of his class.
On finishing his Law studies bis pstron-An eminent
lawyer OF the Quaker Ctyinpressod with his Abilities
made him very liberal eir'r Of partnership 70 his
Informed bis patron that he wss going 70 take q law
library and start Tor Oregon Nothing could have as
tonehed the old Phatephia lawyer more and he asked
"wby DO you 90 to that wild and distant Territory,
province, when you have fine practice In the
metropolis" His reply, though spor;ively made, has
turned out prophecy Said be, Lke Caesar 60 TO the
provinces TO return upon the capital +"
Es law argume before the federal courts Of Oregon
show him to be OF sound judgment and great dscrmina
ton and strerg 9Th Of mind such slapdered by
the employees Of Lane, and counted out by hs packed
conventions, the democratic party IN Oregon is doomed
has sent It's last Senator and last representative to
Warrington