The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-11-17
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they are endowed By their Creator With
certain inalienabls rights; that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit Of
happiness No sentence Of Holy Writ
has ever been more harped upon BY the
Radicals than the above quotation from
the Declaratioh dc Independence. Liter
ally construed, the declaration Is . self
evident falsehood. No two men we're
ever created equal 10 oil respects. In
equality is Divine law, as is evident IN
all created matter or intelligence. De-
grees are represented by the wise and
simple, strong and weak, male and fe-
male, black, white, red and yellow. Tol
make anything more OF II than an inn
practicable abstraction--a glittering gem
erality- the meaning must be sought in
the circumstances under which it was
promulgated the application made BY
its authors, The Radicals only construe
the meaning TO be an absolute equality
|of races. This construction, taken in
connection with circumstances, only con-
Wet the authors OF the declaration OF
falsehood and hypocrisy. They we're
men while declaring that all men are
created equal They we're asserting the
Divine right Of man to liberty without
proposing TO relinquish their power over
their slaves. In that view the immortal
declaration was moasifous fraud and its
lauthors liars and hypOcrites. But no
Historical fact Is better established than
that at that day the negroes were uni
versally regarded as having no rights
(which white man was bound TO respect
The 9 equality" declared was simply and
lsolely protest against the Divine right
of kings and hereditary rulers; declar.
alton in favor OF popular rights and self
government, against aristocratic privi.
iieges and special immunities. The deela
ration was made bywhite men for the gov.
ernmentof white men and had no preference
whatever to the negro any more than IL
the savages who inhabit the forests of the
: country. The one class had never at
tanned to any condition of usefulness oi
civilization but as the slave of the white
man; the other class was hunted from
his native wilds like the beast of the for
est as necessity to the expansion of civ
ilization by the dominant race
But how dc these strict construction
: lists OF declaration in behalf of the equal
! ty of the negroes apply their doctrine ii
relation to the equality of the whites? /
, it not the uniform practice of Radica
employers and manufacturers to coerct
$ the suffrages of their employees in all no
0 litfcal elections? Is that the meaning o
j natural equality and inalienable rights
Is it equal rights to exempt from taxatioi
one-quarter of the entire estimated wealtl
, of the country exclusively in the hand
of capitalists, and shoulder the Who'll
: burdens of government upon the produC
J, ersl Is it consistent with the Radica
a ideas OF equality for Congress to vote
!, bounty to its members of four thousan
dollars each and to the soldiers who ha
served three years bounty of one hun
; dred dollarsg Is it in accordance wit
equal rights to pay Congressman fiv
thousand dollars and mileage for thre
J, months service aud the soldier twely
+ dollars month for exposing his life o
: the battle field? These are but few ,
tine HiufN pEdCtlGdA which IN
Radicals give of their application ofthe
, much vaunted doctrine of equal right
Il Under the rule of np other party hs
there been so much special legislation fl
the exclusive benefit of privileged elasse
so much done to build up an aristocrac
of wealth without regard to merit
so many measures adopted with no 9th,
II view than to make the rich richer an
u the poor poorer
in Is it not about time to construe II
a declaration of equality go as to embra,
the poor downtrodden whites, who hav
. been enslaved that the negroes might |
free Cannot compromise be effected |
which the poor whites can be restored
equalrig ghts with the eenfranchised negroe
ie Who will start an abolition party for ell
n, ancipating the laboring poor whites fro
- the expressions of government and 7
or storing them to an equality of rights wi
their wealthy task masters.-[ Greg,
Herald.