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Year: 1862

the power and territory Of slavery will be
vindicated and established.


The American people, no matter what
their political antecedents may have been,
will never consent to see slavery extend
ed over another foot of territory, will
never consent to predominance of the
slave power in the national councils, will
never consent to see slavery more than
an unwillingly tolerated institution. Re-
spect for the Constitution, as it was franz
ed by the fathers, is alone that will give
slavery a peaceful foothold in the Sta es
were it exists. The policy Of this nation,
dating from the moment Of the issue of
President Lincoln's message, is to be
for freedom, and not for slavery. The
Government forever changes front on
this question. 1t says that the abolition
of slavery is something to be desired
1t opens facilities and points out means
for its abolition by emancipation. Hero
stands the Administration, and here the
party that placed it in power.


Now if the Democrats in Congress and
around Washington wish to confront this
attitude of the Government, let them try
it. Let them start their old machine.
and advertise that it is to operate against
the emancipation Of the slaves in the
mode suggested by the President; and
the country will grind them to powder.
The country has learned something if
they have not, and will in time teach
what they do not know While we
think it would be well for them to wait
little, we do not make the request on ac.
count of the Government, and Republi-
can party or ourselves. The experiment
may as well be tried first as last, and the
rebels at the South aud their sympathiz.
ers at the North whipped out at the same
time. We simply warn them that the
reign of the slave power in this country
is ended, and that any party which
undertakes to stand upon the old ground
of the Democratic party, will be doomed
from the start.-Exchange.
Year: 1862

A church deacon laid his hand upon
the head OF a little urchin OF twelve years
of age. who was playing in the church
porch, and thus addressed him


My son, believe the devil has hold
Of you"


j believe he has too y was the sig.
nideant reply OF the urchin.
Year: 1862

Wolves RoBBISG THE MAIL.-A few
days since bag containing The through
mail was lost on the prairies between
Nermillion and fankton. Dakota, in a
snow storm, and was dug up out of the
snow by the wolves. They tore off the
strap and damaged the bag. but not hay
ing a literary appetite. did not devour
the contents
Year: 1862

A search of the houses in the village
resulted in one curious discovery. Our
soldiers entered small cottage, and were
assured that "a sick woman" lay ia a
chamber i; but having reason 10 suspect
a trick, they explored the premises, and
discovered rebel soldier snugly hidden
between The sheets. lie was clothed in
a gray uniform and had retired without
taking the trouble Of removing his boots,
which was covered with mud and water.
lie was seized as prize OF war and con
veyed to headquarters, when he aeknowl,
edged that he had served in the rebel
army from June 10 October, and had re
Gently been assigned 10 duty in the works
at Big Bethel


Our forces are now in possession Of the
place. The force OF fifteen hundred reb-
els who were SO summarily driven out
have left the results OF their labors ior
our benefit, and our soldiers, although
quite Disguised that they had nc chanc,
to fight, are in the full enjoyment of tbs
enemy's resources
Year: 1862

WALLA WALLA, Aug IS, 1862.


EDS. STATESMAN Having made a trip to
Auburn, Oregon, by the present wagon road, l
feel it to the interest of this valley to say some
thing in regard to the impractcablity of this
route as market road for the farmers and traders
b of this valley. To say the least of it l consider
all the routes south of the Umatilla. and the old
emigrant road as unsuitable and too rough and
mountainous to ever avail anything as a wagon
road. There is but one known pass over The
Blue mountains where a natural divide affords
way where good road can be constructed, and
which if done will inevitably control the trade
and travel of those mines and the Grand Ronde
and Powder river valleys, and that is by the route
of the trail recently opened by the people of this
city through by Linkton's mill to the northeast
end Of the Grand Ronde valley, thence up thu
east side of the valley through the low pass into
the Powder river valley, and then direct course
to Auburn. This is direct route, and when
good wagon road is opened, all of the goods
taken from below to those places for trade would
be shipped to Wallula and from thence bv teams
and pack trains through Walla Waa valley to
that region of country. Our farm produce would
then be directly on this line of trade, and as
consequence meet with ready sale at fair prices


No man can estimate The value that such
road would be to this valley and every farmer.
trader and mechanic should at once take hold and
secure this valuable advantage. Fox & Smith
have done good job in opening this trail and
have in addition opened the road through to
Powder river, and now the beginning should be
followed up by completion of the work


Walla Walla valley and this city are the most
tavorably located for securing the trade OF all the
northeastern mines of any other inland point.
and if the people will only take hold and improve
what nature has placed in their hands it will be
the most wealthy and populous region in this
Territory or in Oregon.


Yours as ever, WALLA WAIIA.
Year: 1862

MASONIC HALL.-The members of the
Masonic fraternity in this city will com
mence the erection of a new hall in few
weeks, on the corner of Third and Alder
streets. The building is to be two stories
high, 80 by sixty feet, and will greatly i'm
prove the appearance of that portion of our
city.
Year: 1862

The Times and its secession allies and
blowers arc making q great splutter over
the vote Of the soldiers On the new consti-
tuition. By it the pretend they shall be
able to impose the infamy upon the State.
We happen to know how the vote thus far
taken stands. The commissioners have
taken in Missouri and Kentucky in all
about three thousand Votes-tDo to one OF
which are against the swindle. There have
been sent to Springfield by their officers
the votes Of some five or six regiments,
amounting in the aggregate to about the
same number Of votes taken By the COM
missioners. They also give two to one
against the infamy.


This, beyond all doubt, is fair index o'
the vote Of the soldiers; at least, it will bs
no more favorable to the constitution thar
the above figures indicate. We fancy il
will be found still mere overwhelming
against it There are some forty northern
regiments which the commissioners have
not yet found it convenient to visit They
will give Buckmaster s Co some very sig
nifcant figures to CANVASS in more ways
than the mere counting Of them Let oul
friends keep very cool over the hoTing
ofthe secession Times about the vote Of TIL
soldiers.
Year: 1862

e The Tax law will become political Issue


Seeing that all the Democrats iu the Sen
but one rqtsd for 1t, and all the Democrats
and Border State members but three or
four, in the House, voted for it, and helped
to frame it, We submit that there is mighty
small room tor political issue before the
country" against it. The secessionists
among us will undoubtedly oppose it OF
anr other tax law. In Indiana they have
organized secret lodges to prevent the col
lection Of tho taxes, and we have no doubt
but the z. G. C, lodges in this State, whose
organ the Times is, will attempt the same
thing. Let them try it.
Year: 1862

The good people Of tie State have Won
dcred how, since the Constitution was
-doptcd by nearly sixteen thousand
votes, the semi -seccssionists, who have that
sWindle in charge, would go to work to
make good their boasts that the soldiers
would carry it for them over the heads Of
the War Democrats and Republicans-th
soldiers friends home We see now
part OF the machinery that they have put
in motion. Every edition Of the Chicago
Iimes the editor Of which proposed, when
the war begun, to open " fire in the rear
ofour troops whenever they should start
South, contains at least twenty lies in re-
lation to the Constitution and the sound
policy that defeated it. We exposed its
fnlsehood which said that Gov. Yates is in
different about the defeat OF success Of tue
swindle- exposed it thoroughly but moth
ing daunted, i; falls to lying again with as
much impudcnce and assurance as any
other secessionist. On Thursday it got of
the following:





dollars for the benefit Of sick and wounded col
dicrs No: dollar has been distributed as yet be
cause OF the cutlery 1aiRed against the convention
BIZ Adiutant General Fuller. II the new constitu
tion Is adopted, every dollar Of the half mil]1o1
will be applied for the benefit OF our gallant boys


This is lie made out Of whole cloth
There is not sentence, line OF word in th
new constitution, the schedule, or the sep
a1ate articles, in relation to the distribution
Of half million Of dollars " for the benef
" Of the sick and wounded soldiers" or an
other soldicrs-not a word +; and the adoI
ton OF rejection Of the Constitution whic
the firc-in-the-rear men have got up, vi
not affect either one way or the other Il
validity of the resolution which the Co
yention passed making the appropriate
before named. That's the plain truth. Al
more: if the men who made and are tryi1
to engineer this new constitution, had hi
million Of dollars to distribute among 81
soldiers, they would be sure to select tht
friends, the rebel soldiers, as the recip1e1
Of their bounty! We trust, then, that


soldier in the service Of this still loyal $


patriotic State, will suffer himself to


bamboezled By a falsehood SO shallow


this last one that the Times has invent


To be bribed by it would be quite as q


creditsblc to his patriotism as to his co


mon sense.
Year: 1862

cred with its iron arms. For all important
as it is to the cause Of progress and ciyili-
zation, that the army Of the Union should
triumph and crush ont this rebellion; it Is
thus important, chiefly that the great ener-
gies and stresources Of the country may
be henceforth emancipated from the thral-
dom of secession and rebellion; and be de-
voted to the more magnificent works and
far better triumphs Of peace. Among
these enterprises none is grander
in conception, or more worthy Of a great
nation, than the Pacific Railroad. Let us,
then, with all our energies, cut down and
bind up together treason, secession and
slavery, and casting them into consuming
fire, be free once more, to give hereafter all
our thought and labor to the great enter
prises which are to develope, enrich and
elevate the whole country. A thousandth
| part Of the cost Of this wicked and internal
| shareholders war would have built thii
great work. It is enough to drive true anc
| loyal men mad, to think how much good


rhat grand and noble works to benefit tht
country and all the earth through al
time, might have been achieved with th'
| money spent in this war with slavery. lie
Us at least make thorough work Of it now


and put secession and slavery both in sucl


strait limits, that they shall never more fet
ter the arm Of our industry, no longe


bring to nought the best and wisest Of on


enterprises, and never hereafter condemn


this people to fierce and cruel work 9


bloodshcd and misery, instead Of directing


all their energies to the Improvements an


labo1s which can alone make peopl


great, prosperous and free
Year: 1862

Congress has passed bill for the con
struction Of the Pacific railroad. The
scheme Of such road, which is to span the |
continent, and link together with an iron
band the two great oceans Of the world, so
that the wares that heaye the depths Of |
one shall throb in the bosom Of the other
and the tides Of trade and commerce that
have broken for SO mary ages On the strand |
OF either continent, shall henceforth roll in
one unchanged food around the world,
sending fe1tilizlng stream into every bar
rcn land, and en1iching with golden fruits
all the waste and desolate places, is the
most gigantic and magnificent undertaking
Of the age. One Of the greatest spectacles
that the sun has ever shone upon, is the
sturcndous conflict Of the Union with the
great and terrible power Of treason and
slavery. Never before has this world seem
contest Of such immense magnitude, and
holding such vast results suspended on its
issue The arena Of this great struggle is
continent; and hosts Of mighty states are
wripging and wrestling with each other for
power and trophies Of 1mmeasurable value
and unboundcd extent. All Europe and
all the world may well watch with deepest
interest the progress Of this terrible strife
for, in this conflict are to be determined,
not only the character and destiny Of the
young States that are growing up amid the
forests Of this new world; but Kingdoms
and empires in every part Of the earth will
have their future being and welfare settled
by the far reaching and ever working con
sequences Of the fearful struggle.


But wide, powerful and enduring as must
Inevitably be the results Of this tremendous
ciyil conflict. vet its CHEF and great pur.
nose and work is one Of desolation and


ruin. It's sent forth to destroy treason, tc
crush rebellion. to trample down and Gu,
Year: 1862

Ones pleasure, after all, is much af-
fected by the quality of ones neighbors,
even though one may not be on speaking
terms with them. A pleasant, bright face
at window, is surely better than dis
contented, cross one and house that
has the air of being inhabited, is prefera-
excluding every ray of sunlight and SYM
pathy. We like to see the glancing cheer
full light through the windows on cold
night, or watching them az. evening deep
ems, gradually creeping from the parlor
to the upper stories of the houses near
US. We like to watch the little children
go in and out the door to play or to
school. We like to see whiterobed ba-
by dancing up and down at the window in
its mothers arms, or the father reading
his newspaper there at evening, or any of
these cheerful, impromptu home glimpses,
which, though we are no Paul Pry, go to
make pleasant neighborhood to those
who live for comfort instead of show
Sad, indeed, some morning on waking to
see the blinds down and the shutters clos
ed, and know that deaths angel, though
it spared our threshold, has crossed that
of our cheerful neighbor. Sad to miss too
the white-robed baby from the win
dow, and see the little coffin at nightfall
borne into the house. Sad to see the in :
nocent little faces pressed at eventide
against the window pane, watching for
the ''dear papa who has gone to his long
home.


INDErENDENcE.--No, my son, a life OF
independence is generally life Of virtue.
1t is that which fits the soul for every
generous flight of humanity, freedom and
friendship. To give should be our pleas
ure, to receive our shame. Serenity,
health and aff1uence attend the desire Of
rising by labor; misery. repentance and
disrespect that Of exceeding by extorted
benevolence. The man who can thank
himself a4>e aa44=s>se for the happiness he enjoys,
is truly blesl; and lovely, far more lovely
the sturdy gloom of laborious indigence,
than the fawning simper of thriving adu
lation.
Year: 1862

There is bit Of sermon and snatch
of song in the fact, that not out of the
clear but out of the cloud, come bows of
promise, and out Of the tempest spring
elements of beauty, even as the pure,
from the bosom of the stormy water
The hope that never kindles in languid,
is sure to be curved in the falling tear.
Year: 1862

The nightingale is a lively bird to the
yonng and joyous a melancholy one to
the declining and pensive. He has notes
for every ear he has feelings for every
bosom and he exercises over gentle souls
a wider and more welcome dominion than
any other creature.
Year: 1862

A little frock but slightly worn,


OF blue and white delaine,
With edging round the neck and sleeves,
Lay folded neat and plain;
Beside little pair of shoes,


With here and there flaw
Lay half concealed among the things
In mothers bureau draw.
Summer had passed away from earth,
With all its sweetest times
The birds had left their summer baunts
For more congenial climes;
The twilight breeZes softly played
Among the dews of even
An angel left bis home on high


To gather flowers in heaven.
The angel near and nearer came


Where sister sick did lie,
And gently famed the little cheek,
And pointed to the sky.
The morning shone upon the bed
The Autumn wind blew free
The angel moved his sivery wing,
And whispered" Come with me-"
We gathered round her dying bed,
With hearts to weep and pray!
And bitter were the tears we shed
When darling went away.
No scalding tears had she TO weep
No sins to be forgiven
But closed her little eyes in sleep
To open them in Heaven.
We laid her in the earth's green breast
Down by the village green,
Where gently waves the dewy grass,
And Summer flowers are seen.
And often wher dear mother goes
To get her things to use,
see her drop a silent tear


On sisters frock and shoes
TIE Placerville papers announce the arrival
in that town of the great North American Pie
Bitter"
CAST away the staff of duty, and like the
prophets wand, it changes to a snake.
THE fisherman who trusted to 4" coming events"
caught only a shad, oh



THE solar system has large family, but only
one sun.
Year: 1862

Music teacher once wrote that +" the art OF
playing the violin required the noest perception
aud the most sensibility of any art in the known
world" Upon which an editor comments in the
following manner "The art of publishing n
country newspaper, and making it pay, and at
the same time have it please everybody, beats
the art Of lddling higher than kite"
Year: 1862

SNAKE River has risen so as to flood Lewiston
to the depth Of two or three feet, and, at last ad
vices, was still rising Only one store was out of
water Lewiston is the rendezvous for Salmon
hound miners
Year: 1862

- WtdfItu WII1 yVaIh aHu
surrow, they sink from the walks of man. You
must leave them where they fall ; and you are
to go little further until you find eternal rest
Whatever you may have to encounter between
the cradle and the grave, every moment is big
with events, which come not in succession, but
busting forcibly from revolving and unknown
cause, ty over this orb with diversified influence
Year: 1862

the hatred CT the southern people and ban
ded them together. History in all her am
pie volumes car net find parallel 10 the
madness of the fanaticism that has control
ed this government with the exception
of the President) since the beginning of this
contest. Ali rules Of warfare have been
overridden. and all proverbs of policy
thrown aside. Is it strange that we ale
defeated, or that the people should ask in
dismay, looking on at our terrible disasters
can we ever succeed? Never, never, SO
long as cause shall precede effect, unless
we kill faction and fanaticism among u.s.
They have defeated us; they are running
us; and, unless their power be broken. the
future will be as the past, save in the ra-
pidity of the destruction that shall come
upoC us.


We shall succeed in this war when we
shall absolutely Danish all considerations
of the negro from the management of it,
and shall as absolutely exclude all partisan
influence from interference with it,--and
not until then. Let every citizen make
up his mind to that. There is no more
doubt than that the sun shines at high.
noon on cloudless day, that. had not the
South been pushed to desperation by the
negro legislation of Congress, and had not
Gen. McClelan's plans been broken by
partisan interference, Richmond would
have been captured. and the rebellion sub
stantially suppressed. months ago. If the
negro, and if partisan interference. shall
not be banished from the management OF
the war, not only will the government sup
press the rebellion. but the rebellion Wi
suppress the government.


The fate Of the nation to-day hangs
trembling in the balance. 1t is not the
arms of the confederates that we have to
fear. The decisive battle upon which
hangs the destiny of this Republic is to be
fought not with steel but with the ballot
| November decides our lale. L he greai
struggle is not between Mcclellan and Lee.
but between conservatism and fanaticisT


Can we not succeed? Yes. Sustain the
President against abolitionism. Sustain
trled Generals against demagogues. Sus-
tain method against confusion. Sustain
the constitution aud the laws against an
arcny and despotism. Ard we have to-
day soldiers enough il the field to redeem
our tarnished honor, crush rebellion, and
re.establish the government upon a rock
that shall "bear it stiffly up


'Until the sun grows cold


And the stars are old"


CHicogo Times.
Year: 1862

signed to keep it in. We hope never to
live in republic whereof one section is
pinned to another by bayonets-N York
Tribune.


"You may shed as much blood as you
please. North or South, and that will not
change the convictions Of the two sections.


Now when we look at those antagonistic
systems which lie at the bottom of our So
cial and governmental structure calmly, is
it not evident that separation is wiser than
coercion?


Now, after all expenditure Of military
pluck, which will be pretty soon let off, we
shall come right back to the starting point
and that will be, to let these two systems
of labor work out their destiny separately.
and independent from each other.--Bnffa-
10 IN. W Express. Republican paper.


mot few of the Republican journals
of the interior are working themselves up
to the belief, which they are trying to i'm
press upon their readers, that the seeded
Statss, be they few OF many. will be whip
ped back into the Union. We caution all
such that in language Of that sort they are
adding new fuel to the flame which Is al
ready blazing too fiercely; and that the
probabilities now are that the result will
prove them to be false prophets. No man
knows what public prosperity may demand
of the incoming administration; but the
drift of opinion seems tob be that, if peace
able secession is possible the retiring States
will be assisted to 60, that this needless
and bitter controversy may be brought to
an end. If The Unisn is TO be dissolved, a
blrodless separation is by all means to be
coveted. Do no: let us make that impos-
sibe Chicago Tribune.


Yet these men and these journals, and
their supporters and followers are now 10y
alists par excellence, and shout traitor at
Democrats whose life labor has been to
avert the evils the madness and treason OF
these men have FASTENED upon US.
Year: 1862

Upon the hill he turned,


To take last fond look
Of the valley and the village church,
And the cottage by the brook,
He listened to the sounds


So familiar to his ear
And the soldier leaned upon his sword
And brushed away tear.
Beside the cottage porch,


A ri was on her knees,
She held aloft a scarf


Which tlLttered in the breeze;
She breathed prayer for him,


A prayer he could not hear
But he paused to bless her as she knelt,
And wipe away tear.
He turned away and left the spot,
o, 90 not deem him weak,
For dauntless was the soldiers heart,
Though tears were on his cheek.
Go watch the foremost rank,


In dangers dark career
BE sure the hand most daring there
Has wiped away tear.
Year: 1862

THE Governor of Massachusetts declared
the other day in public speech. in so
many words. that "the emancipation Of tie
negroes was the only motive which actua-
ted him in participating m the deadly con
troversy now raging between the two sec
tions of the country" We have no doubt
of it, and as ii is with him so it is with the
whole radical element of the republican
party everywhere. 1t is not to preserve
the government, or to maintain order. or
to do anything for which the war WAS a
vowedly commenced, but to emancipate
the negroes. that they are participating
in the deadly controversy" Everything
government, constitution. law. order
is subordinate to the negro!


Have we not rightly said that one of the
most essential conditions to the suppress
ion of the rebellion and the restoration OF
the::aulhorilyiof the government is the over
throw, at the ensuing elections, of this
northern negro fanaticism?