The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-03-17
from the Cincinnati Enqaircr
THE FUTURE tONSTETETEOS.

HhE 4 1t - SSRSH eE AWN.
When the Constitution Of the United
States shall have been amended, accord
ing 10 the plans Of the party in power. it
will consist Of two distinct parts: a part
to which all the States have voluntarily
assenled, and part imposed upon some
of them by a process Of compulsion. In
other words, several Of the States and
their people will be holden bound to obey
provisions in whose adoption they bore
no part-not having been allowed TO act
either against them OF in their favor
and this while force is interposed 10 pre-
vent a withdrawal from their Jurisdiction
Under the old ideas Of liberty, such as
grew out Of the revolutionary struggle,
aud were embodied in the Declaration OF
Independence-the old ideas of which ne
and our ancestors have been 50 boastful
for three or four generations; and whIeb
until withina few years, TO call in question
would have been pronounced almost trea-
sonable. this would have been called tyran-
ny, and the condition which ii established
a despotism The ancient maxifms of po-
lltical freedom taught that however be-
nign in itself, and apparently useful a
measure might be, it could not sanction
the employment Of Injustice to give it the
form of law; and that the wisest devices
would be utterly Fitiated if force were used
tor their establishment
The process nov in hand is that of ad-
ministering doses Of political medicine to
patients tied down beyond the power Of
resistance The theory of the political
doctors Of the times is, that if can only be
forced down it will do its work But that
which may be true in therapeutics, is not
true in politics The mode of admins
tration is, in the latter, part of the char
aeter Of the thing administered, and will
adhere to it. No time can sanction an act
of injustice. No multiplication Of wrongs
can make right The people who are
not parties TO the making of a govern
ment are not parties to the government
that is made and this, which is not deem
ed to be true IN respect to governments as
a whole, is equally true in respect to every
part. institution and provision of which il
is composed
The means which are employed to unite
the North. in which the work of trusting
a code Unconstitutional law upon the South,
are among the worst features of the affair.
Ia single word, these means are SANDER.
Now. when the war is over, and when it
is Of the utmost importance, in every point
of view, that the angry passions general
ed BY it SHOULD subside, the journals of
the party in power are laboring, by every
form of Misrepresentation and abuse, to
increase The irritation The average Re-
publican editor and demagogue seems TO
think it beneath him to speak of the
Southern peopleexcept as traitors Claim
ing to have obtained great victory, and
to be in the enjoyment of a signal tri-
umph, they exhibit all the mean and mar
row yindietiyeness of a party that has
been half whipped, and has not got more
than half what it deserved. The airs and
manners of the party, as seen through It's
Journals. and the speeches of ifs politi-
clans. and those of the bully and the cow
ard, who has accidentally overcome his
antagonist, but is still afraid Of him. The
word chivalry has often been used against
the South as term Of derision: hereaE
ter the North will need no afidavits to
prove that it has little of the spirit of true
chivalry in its composition; for the occu-
patton and the enjoyment d the party in
power, and the only one in which the ap-
petite seems to grow with The indulgence,
is that of kicking fallen enemy
We may call this process of holding
down the South, while legal fetters are
being riveted upon it, establishing the
Union. bntit is not establishing the Union.
1t is virtually making one law for one part
Of the Union, and one class of the States,
and another for another. 1t is destroying
liberty and trampling upon right in the
name Of liberty and right 1t is making
the people of the South an oppressed peo-
pie, and perpetuating the evidence of their
oppression in the highest and most solemn
forn--in the organic law of the land. 1t
is imposing upon them and their posterity,
for all time to come, a moral obligation to
revolt It is generating issues that will
endure as long as the causes endure, to
disturb every question, obtrude into every
measure, and form the center of perpetu-
al dangers and agitations.
NATIONAL. DEBT.-The = Occasional !"