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expect any favOrs from the next Congress
thew must vote the radical ticket. This Is
freedom with vengeance. The people at
the polls are supposed to express their hon
est convictions, but Senator Williams tells
them that if they voto as they believe, rad
icaI Congress will deny them the favors they
otherwise might obtain. Here is an argu-
ment that addresses itself exclusively to the
selfsbness of human nature, and serves to
indicate the character of the man with whom
it originated. Any thing for power or place
is old FLAX Brakes motto, and the radicals
being in power Williams is a radical. The
people, however, are not equally base, ana al
the risk of being out of favor, they Will
voto as their judgment dictates. Adopt the
theory, as promulgated by Senator William''
and every thing like freedom is gone "A
centralised despotsm organized at Washing
ton will dictate to the people of once soVer-
eiga States how they shall vote, and -uHi when n
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fkeHeeister the mar date will be denied all favor
at the hands of the Government. 1t matters
not how peaceable or law abiding che citizens
of State thus in opposition may be, the fact
that they are opposed to a centralized des-
potism is sufficient reason for excluding them
from the privileges and benefits that pertain
to citizenship 1t was General jackson who
said that the blessings of Government de.
scended like the dews of Heaven" but the
radicals have reversed all this, and now say
that if you want aid for your railroads, pos
tai facilities, or any of the great improve
ments which usually require the assistance
of Government, you must vote the radical
ticket This is the dictum as put forth by
a United States Senator, and the pie of
Oregon are thus forcibly reminded that
"thrift will follow fawning." We read of a
renegade who sold his birthright for mess
of pottage, but we doubt whether the voters
of Oregon will abandon their principles and
stultify themselves, even at the risk of being
denied their due share of Federal garbage.
If Government favor can only be secured by
an abandonment of principle, then the de-
mocracy Of Oregon will forego all share in
the distribution Of Federal pap.
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THE NEXT CONGRESS- Whatever may be
the result of the Presidential election, it is
now quite certain that the next Congress
will be q great Improvement upon the presenr
one. The S. T. Call, in this connection,
says that in the recent elections at the East,
the people have demonstrated, to some extent,
their disgust with the proceedings of the
present Congress, by giving an increased vote
against the party ii rerroeants, and BY placing
the seal of condemnation upon many Of its
members. 1t is difficult to decide which is
the worse. the reconstruction policy of the
present Congress, or its financial policy.
Both are iniquitous and injurious Both
have proven stupendous failures Both are
worthy only the most bitter execrations of
the people. In defeating Kelly, Meyers,
Coyode, Ashley, Eggleston, Julien, ETC., who
were among the most responsible for the mis-
deeds of the present Congress, the people of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana have ad-
ministered just rebuke 10 those who have
wrought so much mischief in the land. By
defeating those men, the people have entered
their protest against the reconstruction policy,
the financial policy, and the negro and Chi
Iese suffrage policy of the Fortieth Congress
Of the worst spirits that ruled in Congress,
Butler only remains, and the prospect now is
that even he will be spowed out by the peo-
pie Of Massachusetts,.
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HIS REcoRD.-The official report of the
Know. Nothing Convention in Philadel phia,
in June 1850 NUTS Colfax second in the list