The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-14
WADYEAL

RADICAL PLATFORM!
The Alliance Between the Purifans
and the Observation-Disclosures
issues Her E.ersect
Equality for II Negro ia Every
thing.
1t is a noteworthy faet. that the Adolf
ton organs of Oregon do not lay before
their readers the real doctrines, views and
measures. promulgated by their foremost
and most potential party. managers at the
East. and particularly in the New Eng
land States, with reference to the great
tissues now before the people, That there
is 4 sinister reason for this marked 81
lcnce on the part of the Abolition press
of Oregon. must be obvious to all. They
are we'll aware that not one-half Of their
own party brethren in this State win ac-
cept or support the doctrines or policy
promulgated by the Radicals of the East
ern States, who actually and quite ahso-
lutely control the whole Abolition organ
@ization of the country, and by uniting to
keep their readers in Ignorance Of the
Radical platform, they hope to save them
selves from the impending certain defeat
in the next State election, in June, 1866.
To foil them in this design, and TO afford
our Democratic patrons an opportunity to
show to their benighted. erring, but we'll
disposed Abolition neighbors, just what
the radicals of theirparty demand and will,
if able, practically carry out, we shall from
time to time give publication to the doe
~trines and sentiments contended for and
promulgated by the great high priests Of
Abolitionism. And with this view, we
now give the following Address Of the
Massachusetts, Republican State Commit
tee, as officially printed. We ask every
reader to perusc it carefully, and note is
hideous features. Perfect equality for
the Negro is the leading idea which per
yades the whole thing. Negro suffrage
IS made an indispensable condition. And
Indeed, Negro superiority in the South Is
also demanded. Read and peruse it, for
tits Massachusetts, hat speaks, and her
sdicta is now the law and sole rule in the
Abolition party:
HEADQUARTERS, No. 81
BRoMFIELD-sT., July Is, 1865.
To the People Of Massachusetts,: In IS
suing their annual invitation to the sup
perters of the national and State Admin
istrations to meet in convention for tht
purpose of completing their organization
and presenting candidates for the variou,
State offices made elective by the wholt
people. the Republican State COMMITTEE,
deem it proper to call attention to tbs
present condition Of public affairs as one
which requires that a more than ordinary
degree Of regard should now be paid BY
every voter to his rights and obligation:
as a citizen. We desire to speak TO til,
people as citizens and patriots; but If ",
shall address them also as members of
i#politieal organization we shall deem NJ
apology necessary.
During the contest whichthe loyal pep
pie of the country made against all It's dis
loyal clements. from the breaking out o
the war u9 to the day of the Presidential
election in 1864, it was found ~indispensa
: bic to maiatain and strengthen the powe.
eof our organization as the only hope of TIL
! country against the triumph Of the rebe
Confederates and their sympathizers
; And now that the strife of arms is eve
and that of opinion begins, it is certainl
no time for relinquishing those advantage
which have heretofore proved so vital t
: our success. Those who think alik,
must act together" In this familia
maxim is found ample excuse for partie
/ in a Government ike this, and especial
in times of public danger; and we appre
bend it viii be found that in the discus
$ sion and settlement of the great question
which viii arise between this time and tn
7 next Presidential election, the same MOI
! substantially, who acted in 1864 agains
the party whose success there is good rea
e son to fear would have given the victor
t in the field Of arms to the rebel Confede
/; Tracy will be again found acting togethe
against the same party, marshalled for tn
: dangerous purpose of depriving the pee
q pie Of the fruits of their hardly won an
) glorious victory.
This is no time for pa~rtisanship. or f.
. appeals to party prejudices or t~raditionar
attachments; least Of all for any attemT
{ to limit the boundaries of a party whic
we hope to see more and more widely ez
tended until it shall embrace all friend
a of the country, by whatever party nam
e they have heretofore been known. Blu
while an organized political force exist
: hostile to the principles which have tr
umphed in the nation, and Watching fo
: Opportunities to recover its forfeited pow
E or, We deem it Of vital importance t
r strengthen and enlarge that organizatio
which has followed the patriotic instinc
7 and systematized and made effective til
Z sound political opinion of the loyal State
i while the gallant armies of the Unio
were ~eontending for It's existence on tn
field of battle.
It is true that cur organization has take
e no public position, for it has had no OF
! portunity to take a public position, on tn
new questions which have arisen sine
the surrender of Lees army, and whic
: are daily arising. It is doubtless tru.
q also, that'there are, and will be, shades {
4 difference of opinion, on these topics anon
2 the supporters of the Administration j
{ the various sections Of the country. It
not indispensable that, for the present .
!. least, these shades of opinion should b
Q obliterated. We do not forget that yer
large number of the supporters of Pres
dent Lincoln's ADMINISTRATION, like th
3 President himself, were slow to see til
: necessity Of the Emancipation policy. 81