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OREGON. 



OSGOOD, SAMUEL. 



with the Mississippi Valley and the Atlantic 

 seaboard to which they have long looked for- 

 ward with impatient expectancy. The Oregon 

 Central, the Western Oregon, and the Oregon 

 and California Railroads, which have been of 

 great service in developing the western parts 

 of the State, though unprofitable to their origi- 

 nal owners, have been consolidated under one 

 management. The Oregonian Railway Com- 

 pany, limited, is constructing a series of nar- 

 row-gauge roads through some of the richest 

 sections of the Willamette Valley. 



A new channel was made through the bar 

 of the Columbia River by scraping. It was 

 opened to the depth of eighteen feet in August, 

 and in a couple of months the scouring action 

 of the tides deepened it about three feet more. 

 The need of a deep channel from Portland to 

 the sea is strongly felt. The cost and delay of 

 lighterage, and the impossibility of large ships 

 ascending the Columbia, occasion a constant 

 dearth of tonnage and excessive charter rates. 

 There are four bars, consisting of sand or clay, 

 to be dredged away'. The Board of Engineers 

 appointed by authority of Congress to select a 

 harbor of refuge, have decided upon Port Or- 

 ford, in southern Oregon. This project, like 

 the locks at the Cascades of the Columbia, for 

 which improvement the chief of engineers 

 presented an estimate of $500,000 for the work 

 to be done in 1881, is considered unprofitable ; 

 whereas there are pressing demands made on 

 the Government for needed improvements in 

 the navigation of the rivers. 



The Republican State Convention assembled 

 at Portland, April 21st. The Convention de- 

 clared Elaine its choice for Presidential candi- 

 date, and nominated M. C. George for Con- 

 gress. The platform contained the following 

 resolutions: 



That we are in favor of regulating and equalizing 

 the salaries of county and State officers so that they 

 shall receive such compensations as are usually paid 

 to private persons under like circumstances of service 

 and responsibility. 



That we favor a thorough revision and equalization 

 of our system of taxation, to the end that every species 

 of property within its limits, whether owned or pos- 

 sessed by citizens of this or of foreign states, shall 

 bear its equal proportion of the burdens of the Gov- 

 ernment which protects it. 



That the recent action of the Democratic party in 

 State Convention assembled, in denouncing the Su- 

 preme Court of the United States of America, and im- 

 puting the most unworthy and unpatriotic motives to 

 that high and honorable Court, is unworthy of law- 

 abiding, intelligent, and patriotic American citizens, 

 and directly tends to the loosening of the foundation of 

 our Government, the subversion of all law, and the 

 overthrow of the sanctity of a system of judicature, 

 venerable with age and perfected by wisdom. 



That the attempt by the leaders of the Democratic 

 party to defraud the people of the State out of an elec- 

 toral vote, was an outrage unparalleled in the political 

 history of the State, which, together with the Maine 

 infamy and the attempt to unseat members in the halls 

 of Congress for base partisan advantage, deserves the 

 condemnation of all fair-minded men. 



That we condemn the outrageous conduct of our Dem- 

 ocratic State administrations from 1870 to 1878, their 

 extravagance, their corruption, and their peculations. 



That while we are in favor of a revenue for the sup- 

 port of the General Government by duties upon im- 

 ports, sound policy requires such adjustment of import 

 duties as to encourage the development of the indus- 

 trial interests of the whole country, and we commend 

 that policy of national exchange which secures to the 

 workingman liberal wages, to agriculture remunera- 

 tive prices, to mechanics and manufacturers an ade- 

 quate reward for their skill, labor, and enterprise, 

 and to the nation commercial prosperity and inde- 

 pendence. 



That we are in favor of judicious appropriations by 

 the General Government for the improvement of our 

 rivers and seaports, as well as for the construction of 

 such lines of railway communication as will develop 

 the resources of the country and connect our State 

 with other parts of the Union, under such restrictions 

 as will amply protect the rights of the people from 

 unjust discrimination and extortionate charges ; and 

 that in the grants of lands to railroads we favor the 

 sale of the same by the Government to the people at 

 the lowest price for public lands, giving the proceeds 

 only to the corporations. 



That we demand of our representation in Congress 

 their best endeavors to secure just and judicious ap- 

 propriations and favorable legislation by the General 

 Government ibr the free navigation of the Columbia 

 and the rivers of the State, the improvement of the 

 mouth of the Columbia and the harbors at Yaquina 

 and Coos Bays, the location of a harbor of refuge at 

 the point along our coast most available to the inter- 

 ests of commerce, the extension of the public surveys 

 to meet the wants of our increasing population, and 

 aid and assistance to railroads, and the opening up for 

 settlement such of our Indian reservations as the in- 

 terest of civilization demands and necessitates. 



That we demand a modification of the treaty with 

 China so as to restrict Chinese immigration to Amer- 

 ica. 



The election returns showed 20,618 votes 

 cast in the State for the Garfield electors, 19,- 

 950 votes for the Hancock electors, and 226 

 votes for the Weaver electors. 



OSGOOD, Rev. SAMUEL, D. D., LL. D., was 

 born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, August 

 30, 1812, of an old Puritan family, which has 

 produced more than one eminent divine. He 

 was a pupil of Dr. Willard Parker before en- 

 tering Harvard College. He graduated in 1832, 

 at the time when Ware and Channing were 

 exercising their strong influence. He studied 

 divinity at the Harvard School, and in 1835 

 entered the Unitarian ministry. In 1836 he 

 moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and edited the 

 " Western Messenger." In 1838 he returned 

 to New England, and employed himself in pas- 

 toral duty there until 1849, when he was called 

 to take charge of the Church of the Messiah, 

 the leading Unitarian congregation of New 

 York City. He filled this pastorate until 1869, 

 when a change in his religions convictions re- 

 quired him to resign it. On his return from 

 Europe in the following year, he was admitted 

 to holy orders in the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church. He sought no preferment in the 

 church of his adoption. He was an erudite 

 theologian and a fervent orator. He married 

 Miss Murdock, daughter of the authoress of 

 " Charlotte Temple." In early life Dr. Osgood 

 was somewhat tinged by the novel social and 

 religious ideas which permeated New England. 

 He was versed in German philosophy. His 

 first publications were translations of Olshau- 





