The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-09-23

was unanimously nominated for Congress.
and the pretended Senator and Repre-
sentative from that county was unani-
mously requested 10 resign.
! was TO have addressed similar meet
ing at Paris, Henry county, ON Saturday
last, and wonld have done 50 had not
been arrested As the offensive words
are alleged TO have been spoken in my
Dresden speech, (they were substantially
repeated at Tenton) l will givo you, ac-
eurately aud eoncisely as | can, what |
said OF you at Dresden. Indeed, ! viii
give you the precise words of my exordi-
um in which you were first personally al
iaded 70. Addressing myself to the audi
ence l said
You have witnessed the rise, oulmi-
nation and overthrow of rebellion, in all
respects the most astonishing in the
worlds history; astonishing because Of
I the numbers engaged, the resources 1t So
suddenly improvised, and the duration
aud intensity of the conflict. Ii twas only
less astonishing than the numbers aud
resources il encountered. II has ended
as all rehellions must end. when opposed
| by greatly superior resources and mum
hers. The rebellion is over. Its leaders
are captives, exiles or supplicants for par,
don; It's sarmed adherents have saluted
their fag for the last time, aud its friends
throughout the South have yielded the
contest Their submission has been grace
ful, unanimtus, and in all apparent good
faith. Not an armed Confederate is tC
| be found within the limits of the State
The Federal Government proiessed I,
draw the sword only for the sole purpose
of enforcing its Constitutional authority
wherever it was opposed; il is this day
United States. No opposition is any
where attempted; nor, indeed, can any
be organized Why, then, | ask, arc we
threatened with despotism as inexcusa
bic as rebellion? Why are free elections
i denied 10 the Union men and qualified
voters of the State Why have non-res
idcnts aud loungers around Federal camps
without Your knowledge or consent, and
in defiance of your protests and appeals
been permitted 10 usurp the high ant
responsible places of power and declare
/ themselves yoar oppressors and masters
I--and this. too. in contempt of that Do
claration ofGightS, whose sacred prinoi
piles are inyiolable, and by your Constitu
tion excepted out of the general power,
iof Government? p Why are offensive
rulers being set over the loyal people o.
the State by those who are jointly re
lsponsihle for the war Why are bands
of armed negroes permitted to roam oyel
i the country, plundoring and insulting
] the timid aud dcfenseless And NOR,
than these, why are you and |, who's,
souls are unstained by treason, compelled
to drain this cup of shame at the hands
of those who were the original iastigator'
of the rebelliony"
beg leave to assure your Excellenc,
that, in using the words ''oRIGINAL IN
sTIGAToRS or THE REBELLION" allud
ed TO .yoa; further, that | spoke in NJ
Pickwickian sense. And now that ma,
Invoke your clemency, not for myself, bu
for those who listened to my remarks,
frankly confess that submitted certain
proofs of the truth Of my charges.
told the people that the first time l eve
lsa2 eou. you were haranguing the multi
ltude to prove me an Abolitionist; tha
it was somewhat raw and gusty day,
and that your yehemence in the open al
tcaused you to contract a throat disease
from which, unfortunately for the ooun
try, you profess not to have recovered,
alluded to your early speeches in Con
gress, in which you resorted to the bitter
est personal abuse of John Quincy Ad
ans, because of his religious, anti-slaver,
Opinions to your reveFential confession
that God had killed off General Harrison
because he was an Abolitionist. | ais
told the people that you had, in 1856, il
the State Of Tennessee, proposed tina
every Southern man should 6 join in on
. fraternal hug" and plunge into rebellion
. IF Fremont and Dayton were elected. Il
addition to this, | informed the audienc
that heard you, IN the Senate. in De
eember, 1859, denounce Mr.. Seward an'
the Republican party as wholly responsl
bic for the murderous raid of 9 this oil
man Brown whom you then stigmatize
as i" nothing more than a murderer,
firobber, thief and traitor" / said, alsC
that you not only supported Breckir
fridge. the candidate of the avowed di'
unionists, but that after the election {
Lincoln, after the meeting of Congress
: December, 1860, and only one day befor
the assembling of the Convention whic
|. declared South Carolina out of the Uniol
: you had, in the Senate of the Unite
. States, made a labored speech, embra'
/ ing part of two days, in which you pos
: lively pledged yourself, in a eontlngene
E which has long since happened, 20 Jol
: these same rebels, q to perish In the las
: breach" to " burn every blade of grass,
+ and to make your grave in x the last II
! trenehments" of rebel freedom. tol
/ the people that heard this speech, (dul
ing the delivery of which Jefferson Day
,fi offered you a most unprovoked insult, th
4 effect of which I viii not now attempt
f state, and that every word of it was d
3 signed to convince the people of Tenne
+ see that they we're an oppressed peop
: and you their champion; that their Col
stitutional rights were in imminent dal
= ger, and that they ought to demand az
ditional securities :" that you then an
: there submitted the following write
f g basis, upon which you declared an u
4 alterable purpose to fight the gre
j battle for our rights !"
Il g Resolped, That we deeply sympathi
# with our sister Southern States, and free
s admit that there is good cause for dissatl
s faction and complaint on their part, on
/; count of the recent election of sectional ca
: didates to the Presidency and Vice Pres
= dency of the United States; yet we, as
{ portion Of people Of slayeholding comm
hinity, are not for seeding or breaking |