The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-01-19

An IMPosTER.-The last Corvallis Gazette
contains q quite lengthy account of "a man
and a woman, each bearing q satchel, " who
entered his sanctum a week ago last Wednes-
day. The Gazette SAYS the man represent
ed himself as a Protestant Episcopal Mis-
s~ionary, from Mexico, giving his address as
Rev. DR.. L. c. Rowland, Corresponding Ed
itor of the Christian Herald"
The ''Rev. DR.. Z. c. Rowland is an
u~uestionably a great liar and humbug. He
lied when he said we advised him TO so to
Mr.. Carter. The truth is We did not see
him at all; but he sent his wife to US with a
letter from himself, in which he stated that
he was destitute, that be was a printer, and
had been an editor ola French paper in New
Orleans and that money and old clothes
would be very acceptable. We told the wo-
man, who passed for his wife, that we want
ed all our old ''duds'' ourself; and, as for
money, we had none to spare. If she had
known editors as well as we do, she would
not have applied to Us, for who ever saw an
editor that had a surplus of cash? But for
some reason she did not seem inclined to
leave. Gov. Gibbs happened at that time to
be in our ssnctum, and it may DO that she
saw something particularly attractive about
him. Atlast, in order to get rid of her, we
prevailed on our partner, Brown, to contrib
ute fifty cents; we added another half dollar
to it and handed ii to her, and bid her good
bye. with a briny tear in our eye. We pre-
sumo the "small Frenchman" lied when he
said he had spent q couple of weeks with
DIR. Wythe, and several days with Rev. j.
F. Damon, and we know he lied when he
said his wife came across the plains last sea-
son. All the papers in Southern Oregon
ought to give him a kick as he passes.
The LYcEUN.-After a quite spirited de-
bate the question, viz ''That Hezico ought
to belong to aud form a part Of the UHited
Sates"-was decided in the affirmative. =
Next Monday evening the same4uestion
will again be discussed. The disputants are
A6frmatire-Messrs. Hannah, Rice, Ii.
Smith, John Foster, I. Morgan, S. S. Mark.
ham and Sylvester.
Negatire-Messrs. Finn, Tate, Lister,
Brown, Pearce, A. Hill, and Cundif.
We can assure our citizens that it will pay
to attend these debates. Questions of great
moment are settled there without any trou.
bic. For example: Last Monday one ofthe
Orators successful disciple of E~sculapius,
HippOcrates, &e.-wanted Mexico to enable
him to settle forever the negro question. lie
would c~olonize the niger in Mexico and
have one vast country of greasers, Indian.
and niggers. We trust Congress wall take
this plan under adyisement. Let a commit,
tee of thirteen be appointed and see what
they think of it, and report.
"TAx-PArER."-We give room to a com
munication signed Taxpayer" The wri.
ter comes at Us very fercely, with his bris.
ties up, and seems to assume that we wrote
something about taxes 3 short time ago,
which said something he thinks was more
beterodox than orthodox. We insert it be,
cause we like freedom Of speech %ourseIf, and
van others to enjoy the same inestimabls
blessing. But we did not write the article
to which Taxpayer" alludes nor did we
endorse it. We inserted it as the views OF
another editor upon the points discussed,
and are content to let them go for what they
are worth.