The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-01

me. as provided in section four, article
four of the Constitution, to protect the
State against domestic violence. As Con-
gress is now investigating the political
affairs of Arkansas, have declined to in-
terfere with the subject, for Executive In
reference with the affairs of State ts
repugnant TO the public, and 10 the feel
ings of those who, from their official ca
pacity. must be used in such interpOsition,
and TO him or to those who must direct
others most clearly ON the side of law,
such interference becomesa claim without
the law to support 1t, and he ts condemned
wifllont q hearing. / desire, therefore,
that all necessity for executive direction
In local affairs may become unnecessary,
and invite the attention not of Congress.
but of the people of the United States, to
quesiions. IL there not a disposition on
one side I o magnify wrongs and outrages,
and on the other side to beiittle or justify
them? II public opinion could he directed
TO O correct survey Of what is-and reiJuk-
ing wrong, and aiding the proper author
ities in nunishing It. q better state OF feel
VIC would have that peace which would
leave the States free indeed TO regulate
their own domestic affairs. / believe on
the part of our citizens of the Southern
States, the better part of them. there is n
disposition TO be law-nhiding. and TO do no
violence either to individuals or the laws
existing"
As merely design to state facts, in or
der DER that your readers ,ad may form their own ,1
anything TO what the President llas said,
except that Smith is not regarded by
people generally in this latitude. irrcspec-
live of party. as having any legal right TO
the office of Governor or any other. So
much for Arkansas.
Look ut Louisiana. Alabama, Florida,
South Carolina, and even North Carolina,
whose credit always stood sans TeT0oche,
but which has come down so low now that
her Legislature is actually considering
| proposition with every probability of be-
ing adopfedl. to- buy up her bonds ut dis
| counts ranging from seventy-1ve to ninety
| per cent. and pay that ten or twenty per
| cent. in 0tl"r b9Tl1s. am southern born.
native OF North Carolina. and II is pain,
| reduced to such bankruptcy and discord
and CONFUSION worse confOunded" asnow
entire South. / find myself longing for
| my quiet, ps,aceful, happy home In the
| prosperous and balmy valley Of the Will
| lamette.
| But a truce to bad news and croaking.
| Let the gallant. starchy Oregon boys, and
now: am going 10 convince them that
| I've been talking righ., about Oregon. since
insnrn oec. f fh nnn ,haa ann 19e the nice
/ young beaux for the other, are after me
| all the time, orally and by letter, to know
nice, sweet Young Iaeiv. whom never
saw. but know she's nice and sweet by her
writing. wrote TO me from the lower part
beef Of n er rev
| mother, brother, etc. They want to go
next Spring. a gentleman friend-true
|
others, male and female, are sending and
writing and talking TO me all the time.
| If our Winnemucca rnilrodd was in opera
tion. and people here could peddle OFF their
| lands. and receive even stipend of the
price in money. Oregon would receive a
fair proportion of the emigrants who are
seeking homes on the Pacific coast; and
when the era shall dawn, and peonle pouf
into Oregon as l believe they will. then
'TSe wilderness and the solitary place
shall be glad for them: the desert shall re-
joice and blossom as the rose"
Some comnAnieS and trains of eTnigrants
from Oregon were published as going
down to settle in California below San
FranciSco not long ago. and this excited q
good deal of surprise and enquiry Cal!
If so do it at once, and fully. or both Or.
egon and my veracity may sutfer-for
| Oregon and stay a few months or n year
they viii never want to leave. lam happy
| to say that certain gallant youHg gentle
man who went with me to Albany. and
remained there, so far corroborates my
statements and views in this particular as
that he Ia writing letters back here which
make the old folks think he Is enthusias
tic. cause the young men to talk Oregon
more strongly. and make all the girls
| just. one or two.) California being more
readily antEeasily reached, and lands be
| ing offered, in many desirable localities
much lower, is getting her full share. ant
perhaps more, of the emigrnnts who art
going westward. saw and urged, wher
in Oregon, the very great necessity for
railroad connection. and until this is sc
ceured 1 do not think the State will l,'
settled and populated as thick V as it ough
to be and will be in time. The cost ant
incOnN enieuce of getting there is nloTt
serious obstacle than ''you alp fully rea
lie. Diminish the one and remove o
lessen the other, and in the mean tim
let the Grangers suggest reasonable le
duction i'll the price of lands. and thel
look out for "a good time coming"
Permit me to suggest that you give II
every issne the daily range of the theI
1nometcr for the preceding week. fin
J | 1t iOpINOSSibfa n VincR folks fln
you are not .'froze up' and ''snowed ur
der even now, when, if could show h
actual state of the weather and range q
the thermometer each week, they migh
be convinced-and if not then, they Nigh
90 to grass!
wish 1 were up among you to he'll
build the railroads. Mr.. S. II. Butler. VIII
sold ont few weeks ago, has already,
learn. written to Linn county TO rent
small farm for next year. Tell the boy
and girls to look ont! Rosy cheeks an
, merry black eyes and curly locks in tlla
Tarty. and more coming! But enough fo
the present. An TeUofr. .-,
SOUTHWEST.