The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-11-02
PRIsoIp1p AaAIssr PoIlcy. : The STATE

PRINCIPLE AGAINST POLICY. Inc Otdte
Rights Democrat addresses its Democratic
readers, in it's issue of the 2Sth of October, on
the propriety of dropping the expedency
"dodge," and reverting to principle as the
basis of future party action. The Democrat
shows very corclusively the great improperly
committed by the party In Thinning General
Mcclellan on the Democratic platform and
his letter of acceptance at the same time. 1t
plainly shows that the two-faced policy has
to be dropped or the party will die. That
Journal is, above all, opposed to making nom
nations from among the officers of the army
who have lately been down South whipping
the right wing of the Democratic party. Taken
altogether, this is very good advice to the
party but there is something else needed to
that is just a little abatement of the ran
corous hostility evinced by the Democratic
press to every man who has been earnestly in
favor of the Union since the beginning of the
war. 1t is also eminently proper that the
black Jonah Of the party should be thrown
overheard. The African must be eliminated
from the platform, because people will not
20 back on what has been done against slavery
in the South. The man must be very blind
that cannot see that the army was made thor
oughly antagonistic to slavery before the war
closed. For one symptom Of a contrary feel
ing in the country journals of the North, there
are a thousand in proof of it. Since the war
has closed, the former military element has
voted right on the way they were doing while
| improper influences at the military elections
| during the war, but the part taken by the SOL
| dies since their return to civil life does not
prove it. They may have been largely Dem
they certainly became abolitionized while
they were the service, and still remain so.
Slavery is a subject over which the people
of the Pacifc could. and can have but little
influence. The African is an individual who
can and will be easily managed here, and the
wild outcry about the probable equality of the
race in this section has ceased to create any
alarm even on Long Tom and Soap Creek
localities which have been in fever OF anx-
iety lest they should be subjected to the con.
tamnation of negro association for the las
ten years.
The Democrat appears to think that the
Democracy of Oregon ought to set an exam.
| pie to the balance of the party throughou
the Union, but does not lay down any partic
ular principle of action for the future. W.
certainly hope that the party in Oregon will
do something to get the party 10 general OF
the right track, as it stands ss much in neeC
of a good example in its own ranks as an,
party in existence. For the lack of any illus
t7ious model in that patty at the present time
it might be well to study the life and politica
opinions of Andrew Jackson, and the poitica
conduct of Thomas H. Benton. Those tw,
gentlemen are rather ld-fashoued, aud wer
never much alarmed about being put on al
equality with the negroes, and for that reaso
may not be accounted very good Democrat
authority in these days, but they certainl
were in their own times.
QUARTZ MILLS IN Boise BAsiN.--The Chick
ahominy mill, at Idaho City, is about read
to commence crushing ore. There are wv
mills at the head of Grimes Creek at worl
in one of which our fellow townsmen, @
Humason and j. H. Jackson are interested