The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-14
WHO ARE THE NULLIFIERs:

in the whole history of the coun- G
ry where the people of any State who
,rofessed to belong to the Democratic t
,arty nulliied or attempted to nullify an a
Act of the Federal Congress, and thence 4
abor, and 1istort the facts, to show that /
he Democratic party is in favor of nulli- s
.ication.
Now, what are the facts in relation to
the notification of South Carolina in
1872? That State was not then actu-
ally a Democratic State. Gen. Jackson
was President of the United States. He
was a Democrat. The Administration
was Democratic. South Carolina and
President Jackson stood in hostile atti-
.tude towards each other. The Demo-
cratic Administration, wl-4n of thA
Democratic States opposed the action
and the arguments Of South Carolina in
regard to notification. And in the
election for President in 1882 South
Carolina east her full number of electoral
votes against Andrew Jackson, the Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency.
Then how, with these facts before them.
can the Abolitionists have the ~effrontery
and injustice to stigmatize the Demo-
cratic party as the party of notification ?
But let us turn from the Democratic
record and examine into that of the party
IN opposition-Federalists in early years,
but now Abolitionists. In the Admins
~tration of John Adams they set the ex-
ample of nulhfying the Constitution by
the enactment of the Alien and Sedition
laws. During the Administration of
Thomas Jefferson Massachusetts, nullifed
and declared the Federal Embargo Act
unconstitutional. In the Administration
of James Madison, Connecticut, Massa-
chusctts and Vermont, nulliied the Acts
of Congress pertaining to the enlistment
of troops, aud to the conduct of the war.
Again, the eleven States Of Maine.
New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Isl
and, Connecticut, New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wis
cousin, all under the control of Republi-
can or Abolition Administrations, subse-
quent TO the passage of the Fugitive
Slave law of 1850. nulli6ed that law and
the law of Congress of 1893 on the same
subject, by solemn action of their State
Governments.
And now we come down to a period
when the Abolitionists cannot shirk the
responsibility or waive the charge, by
saving it was not themselves who commit
united these acts IT n-unis-~tivn. kue
their ancestors or countrymen. We re-
fer to the acts of the State Governments
of that party during their own Federal
Administrations-that of President Lin
coins, and this of President Johnson's.
The States of California and Oregon
have both nullifed the Act of the Abo-
lition Congress which declared legal ten
der notes a lawful tender for all debts,
public and private, except those specially
mentioned in the Act, aud these came
not within the purview of the State en-
actments. The Abolition States of Wis
eonsin and Indiana have, by their Adolf
} ton Supreme Courts, nulli6ed and de-
/; iclared the Stamp Act of the Abolition
: Congress unconstitutional and void in Its
most important features. And lastly,
the Abolition State of New Hampshire.
, by her Legislature, n~ulliies another Act
of the Abolition Congress. by which the
purchasers of Government bonds exempt
Fled from taxation by the Congress, are
taxed twenty-five per cent. by the State
, and the Abolition House of the Connec-
ticut Legislature pass a similar Act Of
t notification of the Act of Congress, tt
r tax the same bonds fifteen per cent.
These are facts, official, truthful, stub.
born facts, and yet the party which en-
/ acts all of these Acts of notification have
the astounding shamefacedness to cry GU
n against the Democratic party that Demo
Gratis are nullifers, and therefore traitors
We might fill this and ~subsequen'
? issues of our paper with truthful record,
of the notification by the Abolitionists o
t the Federal Constitution, and of the law
: of the General and State Governments
but we have shown enough to convince
any reasonable mind that when the Abo
; ~litionists cry out against notification ant
!; nulli6ers, they simply cry ont agains
q themselves. We defy any Abolitionis
!! ! to point to a single instance in the who'll
! history of the country in which a Demo
I cratic State Administration undertook t
! or did nullify any portion of the Fedora
. Constitution or the laws of Congress mad
Z under it. Their own party is the part,
Z of notification and nulli6ers, and n
! sophistry, ~falsehood, or misrepresenta
: ton, can relieve or divest them from thi
) true charge. IF notification is treason
!. they are the traitors.