The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-26
TFrom the Daily Oregon Herald.
A PARTY WITHOUT pRINCI.

WhieH IS not II Ialse pfeSenSe, running
counter to its practices. Its professions
are as false as those of any Jeremy Did.
dler who ever obtained a livelihood by
sharp practices upon the credulity of his
victims, VIZ quote the platform of the
State Convention entire, with suitable
comments upon each section, aud ask the
reader to Judge if our position is not fully
sustained:
LIST. That VIC have an abiding confidence
in the justice, intelli genec and patriotism of
the people of the United States. That they
have the frmness and wisdom to preserve
the Union their valor has sustained.
This is q palpablc falsehood in view of
the fact that this same party deny the
right OF suffrage to one-third of the white
people Of the United States, and have
used the military power of the country to
prohibit the freedom of public discussion,
to trammel the press and to control the
of the people from enjoying the donstitp-
tional right of Il voice in the Government.
ID. That as to the best plan of restoring
the late reyolted States to their position in
the Union, and the legislation necessary in
relation to freedmen, loyalm men may honest
ly differ we deprecate that obstinacy and
pride wherever and by whom displayed. TINT
would give strength to the enemies of the
Union through discoFds and d~issentions
among It's friends.
This declaration is fllsiEed by the uni
@versal aud uniform praftices Of the party.
No man is regarded as s. loyal" or a
/" Union man" who sustains the plan of
restoration of the President in opposition
TO the dissolution plan of Congress.
3d. That holding the cardinal principles
of our Government to be that the right Of
representation goes with taxation, vi desire
Il fGl! recognition Of all civil and political
privileges to the inhabitants of the States
lately in revolt as soon as compatible with
national safety and the protection of loyal
people in those States.
If they believe, as a " cardinal princi-
pie" that representation goes with tax
%ation," they believe in the immediate
withdrawal of the tax collectors from the
Southern States, or the immediate admis-
sion of the representatives of those States
into Congress. No one will claim that
they are in favor of either of these latter
!, propositions. Then this declaration of
principles is a lie. Does any one believe
that it would be incompatible with the
t national safety to re,admit Mr.. Maynard
of Tennessee, to the seat in Congress
which he held unehallenged during two
I thirds of the war? The only excuse for
keeping him out, is that the State ha
represents is not in the Union, and dhe
inhabitants of all the States, whether
loyal to the Government or not, are aliens,
entitled to no rights III the Union. The
| Radical party in Oregon sustains the
c Radical party in Congress.
t 4th. That the name of the man, or of the
party, that would propose to the Nation To
repua;ate its just peeuniary obligations
I should be consigned to, everlasting infamy.
Was not the pay promised to the soldier
/ by the Government. a just pecuniary OBJ
lligation If the Government promised
the soldier twelve dollars a month, and
paid him in a deprecated currency worth
: only fifty cents on the dollar, was not one
half of the just p~eeaniary obligation re-
! pudiated Mr.. Vallandiaham, Mr.. Yocr-
hees, and every other Democrat in Con.
gress, voted to raise the pay of common
soldiers to an nou equal to the depre-
| citation of tbs currency in which he was
paid, and every such proposition was de-
: feated BY the Radical majority. The
Radical party of Oregon supports the
patty which r~ePudiated its just pecquiary
! obligations to the poor soldier who has.
arded his life in fighting the battles Of
his country, while it consigns to ever.
lasting infamy the man who talks of tax.
ing the ill-gotten gains of the shoddy con.
tractor to pay a portion of the war debt
5th. That the courage aud devotion Of
J those who have borne arms in the cause Of
I the Union entitle them to our enduring graf.
itude, and we pledge ourselves not to dis,
: honor them by deserving the principles Oh
/ surrendering the results for which they
fought and bled.
What other evidence of gratitude have
the Radicals ever given to those who
bore arms in the cause of the Union, shan
mere professions which lave been forever
o subordinate to party feeling. Genera
Mcclellan has constantly been denounced
as a traitor for trying to restore the Union
in the very manne to which Congress.
r stood pledged by unanimous resolution
: Sherman was denounced for granting the
s same terms of capitulation to the enemy
which he had conquered in the field
: Grants victory oyer Lee was sneeringly
n represented as a " surrender to Lee" and
he was afterwards denounced in the Sen
ate chamber by the Radical leader as
q falsiaer of facts, and a Whitewater
of rebels. What officer, who has no
been made a party tool, have the Radi
lcals not DETAINED T? What measure have
they ever proposed for the benefit or re
. lief of the white soldiers at all connnen
surate with the care and expense the,
have lavished upon the non-combatan
negroes. Every eommander who aistin
e g9ished himself in the war. fought foI
the restoration Of the Union, and noy
J sustains the plan of the President to tina
t end The Radicals honor these soldier
dIhy Bitterly opposing that policy.
9th. That we will, as we ever have, sup
port the State Governments in all thei
rights as the most competent administrator
: of their dom cstic concerns, as the sures
breastwork against anti repqblican tenden
tcies, and preserve the General Goyernmen
n in its whole constitutional yigor.
This is so VIGOROUSLY in direct conhic
with the whole policy of the Radica
! party thatit scarcely needs a word Of com
ment. There is not an orator of tn
a party or a newspaper editor who does no
: habltually harp upon the "infernal doc
trine Of State rights and there is no
single reserved right of the States whicI
IS not openly and fagitiously disregardes
In some phase Of Congressional legisla
d ton. We need only instance the CIV
Rights act, the Frecdmen's Bureau bill
. the exemption of Government bonds iron
.Statc taxation, and the system Of collect
= linz the Federal revenues in the States.