The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-03-10
DALLEs CORRESPONDENCE.
DATES Cry, Feb. 2, 1866.

upon our city IoF SeFeral months, mas NOV
given place to quite a little excitement
and some intensity of political feeling.
Andy @Johnson-after going very far
astray from the principles which made
him a name in the land, and elevated him
to places of honor amongst the great men
of the nation-has shown some evidence
of returning reason, and vetoed the OBJ
~noxious Freedmen's Bureau bill. The
excitement produced by this act in the
East has extended to our usually quiet
city, and the report of his later speech
has intensified the feeling. About one
half the " Loyal Leaguers" give him an
equivocal endorsement, as if undecided
what to do next. A small portion of the
other half say nothing; but from their ex-
traordinary one would think
they find it very hard to determine wheth-
er Andy Johnson" or their party, is
played out"-while the remainder d-n
the President as San original Copper
head"
The Democracy ~hereabouts generally
refuse to endorse "Andy Johnson" but
they do endorse this act of his, as they
will any and every movement he or any
other man makes, Gin accordance ,cth the
Constitution, which has for its object the
restoration of our country to the condition
in which the Republican Administration
found it. There are, however, a few quasi
Democratic sore heads-late converts into
the & Mcclellan d~ispensation," whom the
old line Democracy have not yet admitted
to full communicable are jubilant over
JOhnson's speech. They endorse " Andy
johnson as a simon pure, old fashioned,
/" Jefferson, jackson, Martin VanBuren
and Young Hickory Democrat )" and feel
very confident that the entire party must
come over to them and-Andy johnson !!
They may be seen gathered in groups at
the street corners, retailing, to a few list
eners, the very little political knowledge
they possess, interspersed with numerous
anecdotes of Johnson's answering fdeli-
ty to the Constitution and the Union.
Having left their first love for the cabs"
and left them for the spoils they expected
from MoClellan's election-being disap-
pointed of them, and unable to find a po-
lsition again among the old Jefersonians
they seem noic disposed to form a grand
middle party, into which may be seduced
the Disseminated from both the others.
These gentlemen having endorsed the
President, l suggest that they embrace
Seward also.
He endorses johnson too-his entire
policy, including the veto. Indeed it has
been asserted time and again, by leading
Republicans, that the policy pursued by
the Executive toward the late rebellious
States, is of Stewards own designing, and
not the Presidents. If the pursuit of this
particular line of policy makes the one a
Democrat, it must the other, of necessity,
because no one pretends to base the
claims of johnson to admission into the
party, upon any previous act or policy of
his. Then, not only Seward must be re-
ceiyed, but every other member of the
Cabinet who sustains the President! In
clude the whole batch at once, l say, aud
be done It'll!
But | am much deceived in the De-
mocracy of Wasco county if they do not
require the veto of Mr.. johnson to be
followed by a long succession of constitu-
tional efforts to restore the Union as u
patriot fathers made it before they win
consent to receive him into their political
family.
We have been SO long frozen in-cut
off from all the news-that we are not at
all pested, and therefore PROFOUND the
following questions
LIST. IF Tennessee is not IN the Union,
how it that Andrew johnson is
President of the United States7 Ca
President cannot be chosen from a Terri
tory And if she is still in the Union,
why are not her members of Congressad
mitted to their seats?
I'd. IF the Southern States (lately in
rebellion) are put of the Union, aud in a
territorial condition, how could they have
anything to do with the ratification of
the Constitutional Amendment abolishing
slavery? And if they are not out, why
does Congress undertake to legislate for
them?
Sd. The earlier Union Generals, Nc
Clellan, Pope, Hooker, etc, fought under
Nj. Lincoln's instructions for the preser-
ration of the Union; Grant, Butler &
Co. for its restoration and the emancipa-
ton of the negroes and the entire Abo-
lition world have proclaimed the success
of Grant. Now, if the Union was pre-
served or is restored, why are the South
fern States compelled to submit to the die
tation Of the President in their selection
fof officers and representatives?
When weare enlightened on the above
we will propose a few more knots to be
united.
Everything hereabouts looks bright for
the Democracy, and I think next june
will witness such a political revolution in
this State as Oregonians never witnessed.
For the full discharge of their Censtitu.
ltional duties the Democrats of Wasco are
SEMPER PARATUs.
An. USwoRTHY oFrrcER.-The following
appears in the last Salem Review:
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