Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-10-04
The gibeal Rrpubliran.
DAL4As. SATURDAY OCT. 1.
OUR PROMISE.

would give our views as to who
should be supported by the voters OF
Oregon at the coming election. After !
due delibers ton, we have come to the
conclusion that, to be consistent With |
our former course, answer our con-
science, apd avoid doing violence TO
the principles for which we have so
long contended, we must advise she
support of Mr.. J. W. Nesmith.
of course it will be expected that for
this opinion and advice, we should
giys a good and sufficient reason,
yAiah we post ehessIfsllz proceed to.
DO
First, then, yge ygs viii say,-the first
we ever knew Of Mr.. NesIith, was as
P public servant in .he Senate Of the
United States, at time, and under
circumstances which tried mep's souls.
It gas at time when the great super
structure of American liberty, reared
by the fathers Of the Revolution, and
sealed so honorably by their blood, was
shakep fyom cepter to circumference
aud realipg to and fro like drunken
man. 1t was a time when foul treason
stalked the streets at noepday at the
South, and lurked like y eeFopching
tiger in ambush, all over the North.
aud eYen showed its deformed head in
ths then President Of the United
States, and in the very balls of our
national capital Yes; it was at a
time when men congregated in armies,
watch could be counted by tens Of
thousands. taking sides for and against
this glorious Union-that We first knew
Nesmlth. 1t vas thep: that
our very soul was stirred to its depths
by the clarion voice of the Oregon hero
which made the very halls cf Congress
ring ont in sweet and upmeasured
terms, the key pote Of" Peath q
traitors and Democratic rebels"
Of course while all this was q pill
full of gaul aud bitterness to q large
portion of the then Democracy, it was
honey to our lips. # elected to
Congress, Mr. Nesmith, ever faithful &c
his loyal instincts, would do. the same
thmg oyer under similar. circumsta nces
Why then should we be so ipcopsis
tent as to abandon a faithful friend
tried in the hottest fire, and found tru
TO the principles of ublicanism to tn
last?
Secondly, We must support Nj
Nesmith, because When the war for th
Union was fairly inaugurated, he vote
to increase the army, so that tn
subjugation of the pro-slavery, unite,
ri6ed Democracy, should be made sure
becsaase, he voted to keep up the arm
by force Of tbedraft, if it failed i
sufficient volunteers TO, annihilate tn
then Democracy because he favore
the Imprisonment of leading Dcmocra'
Of the Yallandipgham stripe VII
4ympathized with the be Southern. Cor
fedqay,sey ; because be stood shoulder
shOa)dsE with the first administration {
RresiPd9n, Lincoln. because h4 favore
the, speedy emancipation of huma
slavery, the pet measure of the the
Democracy; because he voted from tin
to time full supplies. to our army. an
navy; because he was the bosom frlen
of General Grant, when that gre
modern Caesar, was dealing death ar
destruction to the rebel Democracy, ar
spreading devastation broadcast throue
out their land; because. he 10, that terr
ble struggle for. national existence, b
orc fell fatal stroke, gave death bio
to the Lane Democracy in Oregon, an
would. had be possessed the poWe
Carried out the. very hea5t's desire. +,
that then, brave unionist, Judge Haydel
thrown. them into.the battles and prisQ,
OF the. eopotFy, with snch celebrity, and
such ppmbers, as would have caused. the
arms and legs- to have SO protrnde
FROM the. port holes and windows, as
torn magnificent E;oQst for buzzardi
because he, exolufd'e!dA the Dsmoer
from. the PP'ailfp, for belohing treosf
TO q would be. loyalpeople. and, becau'
he would have suppressed all DenRcr
ic papers IN Oregon in sympathy wit
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