, 1864-03-12

| down and placed IN their collins.
/ Judging from the significant gances and
smiles passing between Howard and Lower,
the entire change Of demeanor from the
time Of their last two weeks intimacy-the
frequent recurrence of Lower to the inno-
cence of the other two, it would seem that
new programme had been adopted and a
different system Of tactics was to be put in
practice.
Lower referred on two or three occasions,
| (the last time on the scaffod) to letter he
had written, which he did not want opened
until after he should be cut down from the
galOWs. After he was cut down the sher-
if took the letter from his pocket, and the
contents proved to be the most obscene and
revolving language that a depraved mind
could conjure up STANDER By.
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FUNNY REsoLYEs,-The Abiquaites
in Marion county, Oregon, recently held
a precinct meeting and passed the following
rather nervous set of Union resolutions
Reso1oed That in Abraham Lincoln we
recognize the noblest work of God-an
honest man--leading his country through
seas Of blood to the goal Of universal eman-
cipation.
ReSoloed, That there are but two issues
before the American people the one is
Abraham Lincoln and his entire policy for
crushing out rebellion; the other isn't. We
support the former rar
Reso50ed, That the man who is afraid to
endorse these sentiments openly and above
board, we are afraid to endorse at the polls;
and more than that, we won't do it.
Il. strikes US that this last resolution
should have terminated with "you bet, to
have made it complete. The following
one on the currency question is about an
average specimen Of radical logic: '
Resozoed, That the currency that is good
enough to pay the brave soldiers who are de-
Tending our flag and country, is good enough
to pay State and county taxes, notwithstand-
ing the decisions Of our judges"
Just as if the brave soldiers were claim
ing that greepbacks at par are as good as
the gold, and plenty good enough for them
The truth of the matter is, the soldier dis
likes to take greenbacks at par just as much
as State officer Or any one else.
Charles Sumner, in recent letter sent by
him to the New England Society says the
Mayfower brought to America an auti-sla-
very society, and states that the pilgrim
fathers were "consecrated to human liberty"
whereupon the ~ z Journal Of Commerce
comes out with a series of articles, modestly
telling Mr. Sumner that be "belies history"
andequotes from the laws adopted by the
pilgrim fathers, sustaining slavery. The
Journal says however much the fathers
were ''ccnsecrated to human liberty they
were nota whit better in respect to slavery
than are the people of South Carolina.
THE GOLDEN AqE-Mr. A. Lcland's
name appears as editor of the Golden Age
From Mr. Us salutatory, we judge that the
Age will not be quite SO radical in politics
as some numbers have recently appeared.
He says;
GAS may readily be inferred, we shall en-
deavor to speak independently upon all qucs-
tions upon which we dilate, The Political
state of the country will not form an excep-
ton to this rule but, in relation to its gov
ernment, we shall know but one legitimate
Goyernment and that will be vested in the
legally constituted and Constitutional au-
thortics TO seek to foster, or bolster up,
or give encouragement to any other, would
be the hight of folly and madness. This
duty does not preclude the exposing Of the
weaknesses and bunders of the existing
and constantly recognized Government, with
view. to its improvement and purity, We
know not, nor do we recognize any obliga-
tion which imposes the duty upon a citizen
of republican Government of keeping ST.
lent, when he sees important evils coursing
through all or any of the main arteries of
the system. To thus keep silent would be
to deny his individual sovereignty, and adj
nit that he was a mere serf of power whose
wisdom and justice he had no right to call
in question"
A correspondent writing to the Portland
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