The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-03-03
AROUT SENATOR WILLIAMS.

considered pretty steep, but the following
bangs anything We have yet seen from
ever that 6ctional fountain. It is the
q pen-aud-ink sketch of Senator Williams
of Oregon" by the Richmond cOrrespon-
dent of the New York Herald. The fcl.
low says:
Senator Williams is q gentleman Of equal
~ impressive appearance and manners, and
to the eye ellis the measure of an American
Senator. he is nearly If not quite six feet
high, slim but proportionate of build, with
ample forehead, thick dark hair, dark
complexion, and possessed of q quick, mov.
ing and sharp, penetrating eye. His utter
ance is both intelligent and decisive, and his
reasoning logical, close and convincing. In
personal manners he is wholly genial, enter
tanning and unusually instructive, and pre-
sents the appearance Of q calm, unimpas-
stoned and thoughtful man Of public affairs,
skilled in dialectics and immovable in his
convictions.
Now We ask any old 0regonian if Sim
bad or Munchnusen ever beat that ?
Think of a Old F~laxbrake" as an Adonis
in appeafSn&EaCheste r6clt in manners!
Never since Ttania, under the mischiev-
Gus influence of Puck and VHsfOn, wasted
sweet Establishments on podNBOttOm with
the ass's head on him, has there been so
shocking a misapplicatiOu of compliment
tary words. And then, his utterance is
both intelligent and deeisiveF T. Some
wag must have told the correspondent of
Williams maudlin slobberings at the IA
nous jackson Jubilee in Salem in 1857,
when he didn't try to "appcal from Phil
ip drank to Philip sober" They have
a bird in Nevada they call a +" Washoe
nightingale Everybody who has heard
the ~melIiHuous notes of that charming
warbler, but who has not listened to the
utterances of. our Senator, can form a
pretty fair estimate of the latter's notes
when we assure them that there is a re-
markable similarity between the Senator'S
" utterances," and the thrilled warblings''
of that bird. "Skilled in dialectics,'
too; that's good-but diabOlics would
have been nearer the truth. And, to
conclude, " immovable in his convictions"
Well, yes. We remember that he i:
strangely ~immoyable, and . show how
well We remember it, will just mention
= few instances in his political career in
Oregon.
In 1857 be WA immovable in hi:
conviction" that aSouth Carolina was the
modest State in the Union, and he hon
onored her above ali others" In Febru.
airy, 1858, he was " immovable in his con-
yictiOns" that Stephen A. Douglas theory
of Popular Sovereignty was right. and
that President buchanan was altogether
wrong. From the adjournment of the
State Convention at Salem in March
1858, down Il the day when Delazor
Smith was elected over him to the US
Senate, he was "immovable in his AoA
victions' that Senator Douglas way
q d~isorgani1er," and his Popular Sover
eighty was a " heresy;" and further tha
President Buchanan was exactly right il
his whole policy, and that the bred Scot
decision was in "exact accordance will
the spirit aud intention Of the Constita
tion Of the United States" In the fal
Of that same year he undertook a self-im
posed, unlimited pilgrimage over tn
State, to convince the people that he va
e immovabIe in his convictions" that Pres
ident Buchanan was entirely to blame 70
the division inthe Democratic party; tina
his Kansas policy VA wrong in ever,
particular; that Stephen A. Douglas wa
entirely right in all that he had done, an
That his Popular Sovereignty was the tru
Democratic doctrine. In 1859 he aga;
displayed how " immoVable we're his con
victions," by FIRST entering into the can
vass with great zeal to secure his owl
. election to the Senate, and, when agai
defeated, by not>only Withdrawing fron
ac6ye campaigning, but in stealthily or
-posing the election Of the Democrat
candidate for Congress.
In 1860, he was " immovable in hi
convictions that Senator Douglas ongh
to be President-PopuIar Sovereignty an
an in 1861 he went over 10 Abolition
ism; helped to make the Abolition Stat
platform at Eugene in 1862, in which I'll
tdoctrine Of State Rights was e~mphaticall
asserted, and then, in q few months after
wards, to again prove that he was " in
movable in his convictions" he dcnoun,
ed State Rights as a heresy, and kicke
$ Popular Sovereignty to the devil. l
October Of 1868 he declared that Abr.
: ham Lincoln was the living flesh an
9 blood Of the Government" and whe
Pearne oyerslaughed him in the Abol
tion State Conference in the city of Alb
e ny in 1854, he declared that "Abe Lii
coin was . damned old fool" and tn,
again showed that his convictions wei
q ~immovxble. But zhen. In September IA