The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-21
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In a recent issue the N4ri.
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IN Il recent tSsuS
bune said 49,
1t is a deadly assault upon the fdnda-
mental requirements of political morality for
a party when in power, not to be governed
By the principles it protested and pro.
claimed when seeking power.
Now. then, let u apply this very rule
to the present party in power, and see
what the result will show:
This party came into power in 1861
upon the principles and doctrines enunci-
ated in the Chicago platform adopted by
the Convention which nominated Abra-
ham Lincoln for President. That plat
form says:
The Federal Constitution, the Rights Of
The States, and the Union of the States, must
and shall be preserved.
The Constitution of the United States
declares hat to the States respectively
shall be reserved the appointment of off,
GERS in the State militia that no bill of
attainder or er posi- facto law shall be
passed; that the trial of all crimes, ex-
cept in cases of impeachment, shall be by
jury, IN the State where the crime was
committed; that no person shall be con-
victed of treason unless on the testimony
of two witnesses to the same overt act, or
on confession In open court that no at
tainder Of treason shall work corruption
ofblood, or forfeiture except during the
life of the person attainted; that citizens
of each State shall be entitled to all the
privileges and immunities of citizens o.
the several States; that no new State
shall be formed within the jurisdiction Of
any other State, without the consent d
that State that the United States shall
guarantee to every State in the Union !
republican form Of government; that ne
law shall prohibit the free exercise of re
fgion, abridge the freedom of speech, o
of the press; that the right of the peopl,
to keep and bear arms shall not be in
fringed; that the people shall be seq
in their persons. houses, papers, and eff
fects; that no person shall be deprived o.
aTe, liberty or property. without due pro
cess Of law; that in all criminal prosecu.
tons the accused shall have a speedy and
public trial by an impartial jury of the
State and district where the crime was
committed. with the privilege of counse,
and witnesses in his defence; that erue'
and unusual punishments shall not b.
inflicted; and that the powers not dele
gated to the United States by the Consti
tuition, nor prohibited by it to the States
are reserved to the States respectively.
1t is an incontroyertible fact that til,
party IN power have violated each and al
of these express provisions of the Consti
tuition. Therefore, they stand convicted
upon this first count, and of the trans
erosion of each of the specifications in
claded in il. Not only is this the fact
but they now turn upon their " plat
form avowal of the State Rights doetrin
and repudiate it, thus adding treachery t
their crime of violation of the Constitu
tiOn. In short, they have broken tn
Constitution, trampled on the Rights o
the States, and perverted the Union Q
the States from the spirit and intention
of its founders, to a Union in whieI
twenty-four States are made thu engin