The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-11-03
Letter from the Capital.
SALEM. Oct. 26, 1866.


bers of the Oregon Legislature, III my
!. last letter, I will do so now.
Cyrus Olnoy was selected at the begin
ming of the session just closed as the
leader of the Radical side of the House.
Being naturally dishonest, therefore he
Q opposed every measure of the Democracy
no matter how just, simply to have it said
that he was carrying the war into Atri-
Ca" Olney is cold-blooded, mercenary
and cruel, liar instinctively, hypocrito
. by profession, and knave by practice
All of the good traits of human character
that ever lighted up his soul, have been
crushed out, and instead thereof the most
fostering corruption supplanted that ever
ranked in the human heart; disbeliever
in God-an infdel; he loves to infict
misery alike upon the good and bad, on
every occasion, to crafty his own de-
pravity; is n stranger to every sense OF
shame, and wholly inflated with the idea
of victory, regardless Of the means by
; which it is accomplished. He is false to
every other relation in life but the Radical
party to which he belongs, and doubtless
would be to his own party if all his sym
pathies and affiliations were not fully called
forth to brood with pleasure over the cor
ruption of his confedcrates. His only
incentive to do deeds of righteousness is
the fattering hallucination that his acts
will be mistaken and that he may thereby
deceive His impulses are depraved, his
enthusiasm affected; his standard Of true
eloquence is power. He would gladly
see the fair fields of his State laid waste
and blazing in flames, if upon Its smoking
ruins he could call around him victori-
Gus party organization, shouting hosanuaa
to Olney. There is nothing of good in
this man; he was never born to benefit
his country CT countrymen, but, on the
contrary, being deformcd in mind and
body, to SOW the seeds of discord and af-
Fiction among his neighbors. In the
language of Lord Macaulcy, "Of all the
liars of his time, he is the most delibcr-
ate, the most inventive and the most cir
cumstantiai." Onley was born for a
bloo9ier age in villainy he would have
stood the peer of the heinous Bavare, so
renowned in the history Of the Reign Of
of Terror in France. With pleasure We
therefore part with Olney, and, we pray,
forever-hoping the halls of Legislation
will never again be disgraccd with his
presence.
Of Lockhart, of Coos and Curry, ]
have had occasion to speak heretofore
could not, perhaps, deal out justice to
: him were | to make an effort to do So
His record is most inconsistent as parti.
! san; an Abolitionist by profession and a
Radical at heart, fully up to the most ex.
tended idea of equalizing the races, he
voted against the Constitutional Amend
ment! Radicals, do you endorse the vote
Of Lockhart upon that measure :? Demo
, Gratis, do you believe that he was sincere !
7 Lockhart is ar1ow-minded, ignorant,
faithless, designing demagogue upon a
cheap scale. Never mind, Mr.. Lockhart,
the people of Oregon see your bad faith
at glance, and will reward your aspira-
tions to win reelection in 1869 by theft
and deception, with crown Of thorns
He was fettered slave and plant tool to
la personal faction in the Senatorial con-
test in 1866, and has now to return to his
constituents with record burning with
too much disgrace and shame to incur the
= dignity of contempt SO let him retire
and reap the reward of his ill-gotten
; glory and gains, if the Almighty in his
8 wrath does not cut him down prema.
r turely.
The principal notoriety won by Nick.
lin, of Marion, during the session just
closed, was his proposed amendment tc
( Thornton's amorous ram bill, adoped al
the extra session. This measure found
no corresponding sympathy in the affec
ton of any member upon the floor, ex
cept Collins, the contestant from Polk
and when Collins was butted out and SEN
home to grass, by the House, Nicklin'i
I amendment was likewise rammed upo1
. the table, and there the fondest aspira
: tions of the gentleman from Marion are
blighting in obscurity.
Roland, of Marion, and Herman, O
Douglas, are among the little fishes, anC
: were nominated and elected under thu
coalition contract between Mitchell anG
Mallory, because they could be easily
used. They arc wordy and squirty chaps
and especially Herman was remarkabl.
lavish in the use of the pronoun II" il
debate. Roland excels, it is said, in fnan
y ciering, having bilked his friends out o
$50 to procure his enlistment as private
I I soldier in the Oregon cavalry; while Her
mans "forte" is the creditable manner ii