The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-21

uoc1EAheS anu scHItiIeAess gwen 10 tie
world at that time, during their lease of
Federal control.
And in order that their excusists or
champions shall not have any chance to
escape by declaring that the war n%ecessi-
tated the numerous violations of their
own set rules, we win show that they have
been equally false to the doctrines and
sentiments proclaimed in their last Ma
tional platform, adopted at Baltimore in
1854. That says:
Reso1red, That the national faith pledged
for the redemption of the public debt, must
I've kept inviolate; and that for this purpose
we recommend economy and rigid response
bility in the public expenditures and a
vigorous and Just system of taxation !; that
it is the duty of every loyal State to sustain
the credit and promote the use of the national
currency.
Already has Horace Greeley, the
greatest popular leader of the party, pro-
posed to keep Ponic faith in the redemp-
ton of the public debt, by reducing the
pledged rates of interest-seven and
three-tenths, and FIVE and two-tenths per
cent. per annum, respectively, to four
per cent. per annum-and this PROPOSE
ton will of itself shake and impair the
faith of the moneyed world in the re-
demption of the debt, and further, it car
ries with it the recognition of the right
to wholly repudiate the debt, for if part
can be rightfully repudiated, the whole
can be with equal right. The last SEN
tence of the resolution hits with crush
ing force the Abolitionists of Oregon and
California, who have passed Specific Con-
tract Acts which, instead of sustaining
the credit and promoting the use of the
national currency, have the effect TO i'm
pair It's credit and retard its usefulness.
The Baltimore platform again says:
Reso7rcd, That the foreign emigration
which, in the past, has added so much to
the wealth and development of
and increase of power to this nation, the
tasylum of the oppressed ofall nations, should
be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and
just policy.
In violent antagonism to this, the Aho-
~litionists of nearly all the New England
States have set upon foot a scheme BY
which the negro is to be elevated above
the foreign born resident or citizen, in the
political as well as social sphere, and
their views are reflected by a large ma
ljority of Abolitionists scattered through
other States.
And lastly, we copy the following from
the Baltimore platform:
I That ne approve the position taken By
nthe Government, that the people of the Uni.
tied States can never regard with indifference
the attempt of any European power to over
throw by force or to supplant by fraud, thu
institutions of any republican Government
on the Western continent and that they
will view with extreme jealousy. as men
acing to the peace and independence of thi,
our country, the efforts of any such power
to obtain new footholds for m~enarchical gov
ernments sustained by a foreign miiitar,
force in near proximity to the United States
This is intended as an emphatic ac
acknowledgements and approval of the Mon
roe Doctrine. What is the position o.
the party in power, aud of the Admins
tration itself, upon this very Doctrine
now? But recently the telegraph in
formed us that President johnson ant
tSeeretary Seward had concluded to recog
nize the Imperial Government of Maxi
milan, and they asserted that to do so
Instead of being an infraction or repudi
alton of the Monroe Doctrine, would b,
actually in strict conformity with it
Thus they added insult to injury, and de
elared virtually because they asserted tina
black was white, the people must here
after recognize it to be so.
But we need not extend these remark
1any further. We have tried the part
a power by the very rule announced b
schief organ and leader, and incontestibl
hown that Its members, its State authori
les, and its Federal Administration, ar
ZACH and all alike and equally guilt
Don the counts and specifications pre-
ented. The Tribune dared only to pu
orth the rule as if it were in earnest j
Is expression. and in the trust that tn
oeople would be gulled into the belle
bat its party observed hat rule. But
Jared not essay to show that in a singl
~1stance, except in the interest of tn
gro. its party has eve chung to its ow-
proclaimed principles, policy, or sent
nents; that it has not, on the contrary
n turn, violated, spurned. and repudi
ted, every doctrine o pledge it ever vi
cred to the people, by medium of il
platforms or Conventions.