The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-09-30

champion Of constitutional law and Amer
lean liberty, is hereafter to bea mere or
ganizatioh TOR the control Of public plum
der, and if Democracy Is hereafter to
mean only weak and impotent opposi-
ton 10 Black Republieanism, the sooner
We have d new party, pledged % unecus-
/ isg hdstilityto NEuRo EuuAITTY. and a
sturdy aud anyielding defense of OuR
CoNFEpLRATg SYSTEM, the better for
i America, for humanity, aud Sfor liberty.
i t
DIsfNksaNG TIE REk1. RssUE.
wSeStraet the following able and clear
lefposiiion &C political issues from II speech
! delivered BY Cen George W. Morgan.
at Mount verno1, N0hio: on Tie .4th 81
i,tuly. tfscvery Democrat in the land
/ wsdl,l take hold Of subject in the style
6f The following arguments, We should
soon reason ~ Abolitionists oa' Of ex-
lstcnce:
Thee sar thatnll men are created equal
ianll q,i1ie the Declaration Of lndcpend-
ence 10 sustain the assertion Now, the
phrase, NIL -ip9n are created equal
either applies TO thu v hole human Family.
or else il wns used IN limited bnd res
tricted ~ease. 4Ataning y pceplc Of conn
mon origin. as the deeendaht&f of Euro
peans, If the phrase be true in a gen
cral sense. then the Root Digger" II
tic Rocky Mountains, who has No inteIli-
--ihle lan9nage. hut chatiers Eke I'll ape.
Is The created e9nal Of tho Englshman.
the German, the lrishnlan. the Scotch.
man or the American And il such Is
true of the : Root Digger" it is equally
true Of the Iiottentots Of South Africa.
Does any sane man believe that such is
the fact II 50. Why is il that TIE Root
! Digger" and the llottcntots' lave never
/ risen above the lowest grade Of barl,arism
/ Does any une believe that The East Indian
/ is the created equal of the Briton? 1t
50. how happens il that more than one
hundred millions Last Indians were crush
Cd and conquered hy less than sixty thou
sand Britonsy And the American lu-
dian is he the created equal Of the White
Man IL 50. why Is il that all attempts
/ te ciyilze him had proved nlcalaneholy
/ failures And the negroes Of Dahomey u
land Congo. from whom tho negroes ot
the United States have descended, are
/ they. teo. the equals OF Amerieansz The
/ King Of Dahomey has ut this moment his
/ human sacrifices. and lnxuriates in his
bath of human blood If the negro race
was equal to the Europeans. or even to the
Asiatie race. would they not. at some one
period since The birth OF Ham. their first
progcniior, have emerged from the bar
barism which enshrouls them After
the overthrow Of the Roman Empire,
religion, civilization, literature were
iohseurcd lhy he centuries known as the
dark ages; but the intellect Of tic white
race at length broke forth, dimly ut first,
but afterwards with an cfulgcnce which
i Illuminated the world Non SO with the
negro, for relatively as hc was thousands
of yelrs ago so il he now, and 50 must he
ever remain, for slicd, isthc Law OF his
being But ii may lie said TINT the negro
must be taught to. read aud write. and
thus be made "a good citigen9 Education
is . good thing. but where, there is native
/ intelligence, is il indispensable 70 cqnsti-
tute goul citizcni2 When fheaturdy
lbsrons forced king John b. grant them
the Great Charter, not one among them
Eceuld write his name--4yet aAey laid the
foundation .of o English . libertyse- And
fwhere there ii not native 4htellige Hnes
1 |kneiYiHg sslHas to read or write AFRO not
sufficient ghnlifcatiohsfo for citizenship.
/ Il nm not actdated fby any teeling OF
uakiafl ness, and 1 trust byia higher mo-
fftisa thanvylgar prejuditn, gWhen 1 oppose
CONFORMING lie rights of citizenship upon
the snegrogd To be a eitizen,fis net.siiohe
Ito haEeAhei right topyote, but to become
Judge, jArpr antl Legislators, torthesS are
rights which belong to citisenship.a But
lit will be said that If the negro is not
dcompetent Tor these high duties. he viii
i become so, There are Tree negroes now
j living in the United States, whose grand
i fathers were free before them, but the
i Egrand-child. of to-day. like the grand
parent Of "a past generation, is inferior
4 to the white man, Before tho srebelilon,
there were half million of free blacks.
i Tell me, he who can, the names OF a
i dozenWhe have become. remarkable. as
mecanies, farmers, poets, painters or ora
tors An emigrant ship, on the other
hand, arriyesfrom Europe, ,pcrchance with
persons on board who can neithef read
} nor write. Mark the effect OF single
generation. The child is an American,
it hearns to read, to write, to, think, to
act like an American, and, in fact, is an
/ American, Such was the case with An
drew jackson. His father was poor,
ignorant and destitute; necessity drove
4 him from the shores of ireland, and his
first born boy after reaching the United
j States, not only became President, but
took rank among the first statesmen OF
the age, a But it is said that the war has
proved the capacity Of the negro for self
j goyernment-his rightto become aieitlzen.
In what does the proof consist? /? Is itiin
the fact that negroes, free or slave, could
not be found of sufficient intelligence to
make lieutenants, and that all commissions
ed officers of black regiments are white
, men Does, that fact prove the equality
of races ?--%the right to become citizen
i Was his capacity for selfgoyernment
proven by the conspiracy at Charleston,
] to murder their white officers, and ali
white citizens, out of gratitude for being
: made free Or is it to be found in the
mutinyl OF the negro troops at Memphis,
4 Norfolk and Portsmouth l
I The capacity of man for self-govern,