The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-07-07
LETTER FROM WALLTLA.

WALLuLA, ". T.. June 20. 1866
GpiToR DRNoceAT:-Alas, how the mighty
Radical party in Congress have fallen !
How these blatant scrap book statesmen
have dropped back into their wee small
holes-locatcd at the small end of their horn.
4 few. months ago and the aaale- hrainea.
crooked legged g Tslad boldly assumed the
Apssition that Congress should coufiseate all
property south Of sIasen and Dixon's line.
and parcel4t out among The negroes Of that
region Of country; that the right Of suffrage
should at once be given the negroes and for-
ever withheld from persons lwhite only whe
participated in tho rebellion. Tha. if this
was not done Immediately. then the war had
been failure, and the present Congress
would be forever disgraced in the eyes Of the
world
| "Thad's" marshaling, drilling. h.rang-
| ing, bawling, and bowling at what he con
sidered his forces in Congress, and his dis
astrous failure, is only equallel by the in
n,ortdls, N. p. Banks, and Ben Bottle But-
ller of military fame, who, with ali their
bowling, negro stealing and cotton bagging,
would get whipped.
Congress, seeing that if something was not
done soon . Thad y would lash them to
death, appointed the great Committee of Fif-
teen simply that they might get rid of his
nigger drivers whip for the time being.
This Committee was intended to he Iittle
/ Congress. where the pros and Cons could be
talked over and feelers thrown out as bait to
the people Time was to be taken by said
Committee for them to ascertain how fan
they could go in wrong direction and be
supported by the people-for not hayine
been elected on this issue they did not know
where they (the people) stood. They fell
aud acted very much like they had new
Iparty to form, and that party was to be
formed at the expense of Congress. Their
first intentions were to clineh everything
political for the next generation, to leave
nothing undone that would perpetuate then
power and make a. whisky drinking Con
gress superior and independent of the Exec
utiye and Judiciary-that is to say, centralizC
leyery power of government within them
selves. But alas for their statesmanship
they had zone among them to shape theil
lends. "Thad, y their leader, could tel
I lthem-Iike Banks and Butler did theil
Isoldiers-what he ,caatca done, but coulC
not tell them hosc to do it; consequently til,
: lpatient died while the quacks were holding
their consultation. Something must b'
done, however, if for no other reason than t,
showsstlae people they could do something
!, After several months hard labor, they sa
and hatched the great Civil Rights Bill
and what is the result2 They trotted OH
their bantling, and 10 and behold it g won
eight r-don't fill the bill. The small gull
Iswallowed the " Civil Rights bait, tool
the name fer the thing itself; but they nov
/ find that the provisions of the bill annuls al
law-C Constitution and sll and that the onl,
way the Civil Rights Bill will be of seryie
to mankind (colored) is to engraft it into th
!. Constitution
Il For six months this great Congress wer
framing amendments to our Constitution, t
be voted on by the States, and in less than
t month they frame and pass bill over th
Presidents veto that annuls the PLANES
provisions of that Constitution.
q Poor Thad,' he is fat on his back agai
has abandoned his colored brethren in tn
South, for the present, and his last effoi
: was to get up counter current in favor c
: the poor Mexicans., Have you seen Thad'
last = Radical Rattle in favor of strictl
J enforcing the Monroe doctrine against Mas
e ~. you Ougnt 10 SEE tIlat. IL Is 1lttHucu 4
sop for Seward and johnson. Tha
{ got into such deep water with bis first Rad
e lcal break he came near swampingl he
il now anxious to get back under the lee {
: Seward and johnson. All this proves ths
t the Reconstruction gate must turn on th
Il tlSeward and johnson pivot or not turn at al
during the session of this Rump Congress;
You can consider the Radical slate nwipe
v Ioffp for the present. The entries on it wel
nj so poorly written, and were in such
Z iiuinbled condition, that those who dictate
t the items couldn' t tell anything about then
: So farewell to the split between the Pres
dent and the stcum Congress. III
q backbone of, that rebellion is broken
: WALLuLA.