The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-09-23
STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER ~. .00
ADOUT NEGNO %NuFFRAGE.

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and become greatly exercised upon that
subject. The 0regouian says:
We think the Copperheads must desire
negro suffrage, Judging from the constant
talk alont it. Ii so, they are taking the
very plan to got it. II they really do moi
want it, they had better be silent.
We should really ike to be informed
just what it is the oregonian intends to
convey by the above language. Cop
perheads" certainly have shown their an
tipathy to Negro Suffrage in all the days
Of the Republican Coppefhead is but
the present name by which Abolitionists
call a Democrat On the other hand, it
is the Abolition party which favors Negro
Suffrage, and has at all times ehampi1ned
that measure. Several Abolition States
have inaugurated Negro Suffrage; llor-
ace & ueley, Robert Dale Owen, Henry
Winter Davis, Senators Sumner, Wilson.
Pemeroy, Wilkinson, Wade, Chandler.
Chief Justice Chase, and a host of ether
Abolition dignitarics and. leaders, have
all proclaimed their desire to eN md il
throughout the whole Union. Is it not
plain. then, that it is not the Democrats,
but the Abolitionists who want itg Docs
not the Oregonian know this fact?
But what does it mean by saying that
C~oppcrheads, in constantly talking about
Negro Suffrage, are taking the very
plan to get it," we should like to know 7
Does it mean that the Abolition party is
not in favor of that measure simply for
itself, bat only rs a means to vex or pun.
ish Democrats that ir We keep our
mouths closed, they win not put it upon
u.s. Is it an iaaiction. then, and not a
good tRiag. per Sc? The Abolition party
sets up peculiar claims to be the party of
the people. which legislates only for the
benefit of the country at large. If hon
est in this, they will l~egislate upon Negro
Suffrage to the same end, and pass it or
no simply with a view to the greatest
good of the whole country. But if they
pass it merely because Copperheads talk
about it, will there not be substantial
reason to believe that they act from sheer
spite and in pure righteousness against
Democrats, and not from motives of pub
lie veal, or with a desire to do tardy
justice TO a long oppressed racey"
The oregonian. like all of its cotempo-
raries aad party brethren, is Gearfully
perrlexed yer this subject. This is APP
parent to every one. The fact is, they
have "nigger on the brain" so lamenta-
bly, al not to be very sane or consistent
in their treatment of Negro Suffrage or
any other analogous question. They
have packed their ebony idol until not
only their strength has become exhausted
under the incubus, bu. their wits arc
nearly departed-and yet he sits COM
posed, grinning and chuckling, but
mcrciless and unyielding. To carry him
farther win PROSTATE them; to throw him
off will leave them without capital to fur
Their gull the populace. Siamcse twins in
life, they cannot be sundered only with
death to both. Negro Eng viii cling to
Abolition Chang to the last gasp, and
then fall a victim himself to the destroy
ing influence of contamination with the
carcasc to which he is indissolubly bound,
The A~bolitionists shouldered Sambo to
kin of Democracy. Like the horse in
the fable which called the man to his
back to help him kill the before too for
midable lion, the Abolition party put
Sambo ON its back, to overcome Dcmoc-
racy. The analogy somewhat ceases here.
Abolitionism, with Sambo mounted, made
It's furious tilt at the Democracy and
the latter fell PROSTATE before the first
rough shock. But it was not killed. /;
has revived, recovered, and is again ready
for the contest, armed at all points, in,
vincible in its array. Meantime Sambo,
having discovered the good service he
can put his creature to, is resolved that
it shall bear him to the last. And more
over, the cunning black has further dis
covered that it was for no ultimate bene-
fit to himself. but from a purely selfish
..1%fr-a IL I.1.4s0- DIT o.llo1 him e.
its back in the fight against Democracy.
That noble lion never sought harm or in
jury to hint simply wished him to
continue in the sphere wherein Omnipo-
tenee had placed him. Democracy was
not his enemy, but his truest friend. Ii
sheltered, fed, clad, and humanely pro
tected him in all of his wisely ordained
rights. Abolitionism professed great re-
gard and love for him; it led him from
kind protectors, from a land of plenty
and his sphere of contentment, and turned
him loose in deserts itself had made il
left him without means, without prepare
ton, to beg or starve or die it put over
him masters more inhuman than the cru.
elest ne had ever encountered. who
worked him to exhaustion; and when he
had fallen, through want, hunger, and
disease, they left him to die ike a brute
in the mire; it told him he was q a mar
and a brother" and then treated hin
ike q dog and an outcast. Sambo ha,
painfully learned all this, and now, sit
ting astride his hypocritical Beast, h,
rides it to the encounter with Democracy