The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-09-23
tsenr1,n Addrcrs Once More.

4th of July Address. 1t is not the IN
%tcntion ofthe author to pay attention to Mr..
Geary as an individual, but simply to his
dogmas as an accepted leader and spokes-
man of the Abolition party in Oregon;
CORVALLIS, Sept. LIST, 1865.
Enron DEMOCRAT I'll think the
fact will not be controverted that the
leading idea in the address under eonsid-
GRAFTON, MS far as | have referred to 1t, is
the equality IF races. To make that
point even arise to the dignity of n so
phism, the speaker found il necessary To
pervert the history of the country 10
cast grave reflections upon the founders
of the Government, and to interpret Ian
guage contrary to all known and recog-
niSed rules of interpretation If he had
announced it MS a new theory he is en-
deayoring to estahlish-a recent discovery
Ia modern invention-an Improvement
upon our form of Government, | would
then admit, even rs odious us it is, that
he has the perfect right to preach 1t and
teach it. as long as he can find any one
foolish or knavish enough to pretend to
believe it. But this he does not do. He
desires to give it prestige by assoeiating
with it the names of the statesmen who
founded the Governments. although by
doing so he we'll knows he sets the whole
Example of their lives and all their teach
ings at defiance. lie says again:
Though slavery has been the apple Of dis.
i.anr.i anl thu Da,1nrafa Inv xrhNnaa bae
opened. to ALLEVIATE the hearts and leopard
the interests, and very existence of our Re.
public, evils of fearful magnitude, &c.
1t is true, Mr.. Editor, whatever evils
there may have been incident to the sub
ordination of the bAck to the white race,
that that has been the prolific " source OF
all our woes" Upon the contrary. if the
~malcontents, the factionists and fanatics,
just such as the speaker on the occasion
referred TO, had been satisfied with our
form of Government itself, and with the
condition of things as the founders Of the
Government left them, the multiplied
millions of dollars that have been squan.
dered, wasted and stolen, and the lives
that have been sacrificed at the shrine Of
this bigoted Intolerance might and would
have been spared.
This apple of discord is quite in
another direction, aud a different thing
from what the speaker describes it 10 be.
Always since the adoption of the Consti-
tuition there has been a party in existence
with as many forms as Proteus. and as
many hues as the chameleon. opposed IL
onr form of Government. That party, as
fast as one name became odious, was al
ways ready ready 10 assume another, but
always with the leading and cardinal idea
of opposition to our form Of government,
Henry Ward Beecher declares that:
The truth is. that it is the Constitution
itself that is the cause Of every division. =
1t has been the ioun.
tain and father of all cur troubles.
On the 9th of February, 1912, John
Quincy Adams presented a petition in tht
House of Representatives, signed by a large
number of citizens Of liaverhill, Mass, far
a peaccable dissolution of tire Union, assign,
ing as one of the reason, the inequality cl
benefits conferred upon the different sections.
History of Slavery, page 524.
Josiah Quincy, always opposed to the
Constitution, aud at the time of his deatl
a Republican in good standing, said in I;
speech in Congress, on the l4th of Janu
airy, 1911:
Virtual dissolution Of the bonds of tn,
Union = rendering the right 0
all, as it would become the duty of some Il
prepare definitely for separation dmicdbly i
they might, toTcibly if they must.-[Hil
dreth's Hist. U. s., p. go.
And during the last war with Grea
Britain the Massachusetts, Legislator,
took the following action:
lst, That a member of that body was no
disqualified to hold his seat on account o
having taken an oath not to bear arms agains
the enemy
ID, The House Of Representatives resolve,
that a Reverend member of this body ,ea
dtsqaGl lied to hold his seat therein becausl
! he had been appointed a chaplain in the ar
my of the United Substitutes Register
1915, vol. s, p. l3,
, The same Legislature voted to raise al
army for Estate defence" $1,000 strong
and appointed a !" Board Of War."-INiles
E Register, vol. I, p. 147.
In Gov. Story's message to the Legisla
ture, dated 10th of january, 1916, he refer
to the resolve of the year previous, which re
quired the " Board of War" to close &C
counts "of this Commonwealth with tn
United States, and file the same in the Sec
retary's Office which was done.-lNiles
/ Register, vol.o, p. 4l6.
: Similar citations from the history Q
| the country might be continued inde6n
litely: these are sufficient to show the an
tnlus of the acts which have always char
acterized this party of monarchists. First
Federal, then Federal Republican, the
Wigs, then KNOCK nothiags, then Re
r pu6ticans, then Union, and finally 10y
: dlists!
And this speaker announces himsel
the champion of the dogmas of this sam
t party in Oregon, and selects the Eourtl
Of July-a day when partizan rance
r should be stilled-and "degrades it to
r political saturnalia." The reason tn
speaker had for a~llusion to the sewers
exciting political questions known as tn
Missouri Compromise, the Compromis
of 1850, and the Kansas-N ebraska Bill
= are manifest, and were to all who hear
the address. But it were useless to poin
them out.
Even those who sympathized with tn
views of the speaker on the several que.
! tons discussed, reprobated as severely
democrats the abuse made of the occasio
to propagate political dogmas.
VINDEx.