The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Volume 17Oregon Historical Society, 1916 - Local history |
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Page 114 - Each elector who offers to vote upon this Constitution, shall be asked by the judges of election this question : Do you vote for the Constitution — yes, or no? And also this question: Do you vote for slavery in Oregon — yes, or no? And also this question: Do you vote for free negroes in Oregon — yes, or no? And in the poll books shall be columns headed respectively, "Constitution, yes;" "Constitution, no;" "free negroes, yes;" "free negroes, no;" "slavery, yes;
Page 99 - The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and under such provisions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold, or paper, shall be at all times equal.
Page 130 - Resides in that heavenly word! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared.
Page 161 - CORRESPONDENCE 161 waning. But we suppose we shall receive accessions from the States to fill up in part the places vacated. Provisions on the Pacific coast must be scarce in less than eighteen months. Numbers of our brethren have gone to spend the winter at the gold mines and others will go in the spring, probably to make a home. You will see by this that no time should be lost by your Board in securing the labors of two or three efficient ministers for California. We feel that we, more than ever...
Page 113 - A home agitation, for election and disunion purposes, is all that is intended by thrusting this fire-brand question into your bill ! and, at the next session, when it is thrust in again, we will scourge it out ! and pass your bill as it ought to be. I promise you this ia the name of the SOUTH as well as of the NORTH ; and the event will not deceive me.
Page 182 - We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region immigrants from the Old World and free laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves.
Page 113 - January, passed a bill to give you a territorial government, and in that bill had sanctioned and legalized your provisional organic act, one of the clauses of which forever prohibited the existence of slavery in Oregon. An amendment from the senate's committee, to which this bill was referred, proposed to abrogate that prohibition; and in the delays and vexations to which that amendment gave rise, the whole bill was laid upon the table and lost for the session. This will be a great disappointment...
Page 19 - Thompson, who was with the Indians longest and met as many new tribes intimately as any explorer not even excepting Vancouver, says that their religion was simple and natural, without sacrifices or superstitions. They acknowledged a Great Spirit who dwelt in the clouds to be the master of everything. Mackenzie75 says that their religion was of a very contracted nature. Of the Bella Coolas76 he says that they believed in two spirits, Good and Evil ; they tried to conciliate the one and avert the enmity...
Page 379 - Surrogate, upon the proof aforesaid, being satisfied of the genuineness and validity of the said will, order that the said will be admitted to probate, and that Letters Testamentary thereon be granted to Donald MacKenzie Executor in the said will named, after the expiration of thirty days from the time of taking the proof aforesaid, on his taking and subscribing the oath of office prescribed by law. In Testimony Whereof, we have caused the seal of office of our Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. LS...
Page 110 - Section 6. That if any such free negro or mulatto shall fail to quit the country as required by this act, he or she may be arrested upon a warrant issued by some justice of the peace, and if guilty upon trial before such justice, shall receive upon his or her bare back not less than twenty nor more than thirty-nine stripes, to be inflicted by the constable of the proper county.