The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-19

the Union, We think they should aud
would be allowed to do 30. Any attempt
to compel them by force to remain would
be contrary to tho principles enunciated
in the immortal Declaration of Independ-
enee, contrary to the fundamental ideas
On which human liberty is based.-ITrib-
une, Nov. &c, 1860.
Whenever it shall become clear that
the great body of the Southern people
have become conelusively a%lienated from
the Union, and anxious to escape from it,
we viii do cur best TO forward their views.
Tribune, Feb. %, 1861.
During the war;
II we cannot beat the rebels, beat them
fairly and thoroughly, and with reason
able promptitude-wo ought to aeknowl,
edge their independence. If we are too
few or weak to conquer them by arms,
we should be ashamed TO reduce them by
famine. x = IF the rebels are not vir-
nally whipped when the next spring
opens, and if they shall meanwhile have
steadfastly confronted our troops on every
mutual fre tier. without losing ground,
we may consider that the nepu3lic has
been betrayed BIZ the folly or ineompe-
tence of its trusted leaders, and hat dis
union is a fixed fact.
1t is just absurd to talk of a three
years wal for the Union-[Tribune.
june 27, 1861.
If three months more of earnest fight
ing shall not serve to make a serious i'm
preston on the rebels-if the end of that
term shall find US no farther advanced
than its beginning-if some malignant
fate has deereed that the blood and cas-
ure of the nation shall ever be s~quandered
in huitless efforts, let us bow to our des-
tiny and make the best attainable peace,
Tribune: Jan. 90, 1852.
THE cnIcAdo TRIBUNE.
The Chicago Tribune, in December,
1860, in discussing the policy Of the in
coming Administration said:
ssThe drift of opinion seemsto be that
if peaeeable secession is possible, che re-
firing States will be assisted to go" and
appealed to its readers, edo not let US
make that impossible"
INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
The New York journal of Commerce
says the Indianapolis journal was in
1e69-'6l, as now, an able and ardent ex-
Ponent of Radical views, and that the
following quotations are a sample Of the
u%tteranee Of alarge part of the Radicals
at that time:
From the indianapolis Journal, nov. Is, 1850. !
They know very we'll that if they are
determined to leave the Union, no Re-
publican will care to have them stay. A
Union preserved only by intimidation and
force is a mockery, and it is better broken
than whole. IF South Carolina aud her
associates in folly really want to leave the
Union, they can go without a word of
objection from any man north Of Mason
and Dixon line. 50 =
We do not believe in resisting IN seces-
sion movement in the least.
IRON the indianapolis Journal. Nov. Is. is6O.l
There will be no collision of hostile
forces unless she (South Cardinal makes
1t, for the people Of the North will never
raise or use an army TO force n State to
stay in the Union. Such a Union would
combine all the burtheHs of Union and
and all the weakness of disunion. Co
ereion !" we regard as out of the question
in any case.
from the Indianapolis Journal, Dec. :, 1861
The Declaration Of Independence is our
authority that any State or nation DELHI
efately resolving that It's government is
intolerable, has Alright to change it. And
it nowhere declares that anybody has the
to judge whether the government
is intolerabh but those who propose to.
change it. We would not permit Eng
hnd 20 Judge for us whether her govern
ment was oppressive to US. We have no
right to Judge of South Carolina whether
our government Is oppressive to her.
Thus, re neither strengthen
our government or increase our revenue,
or assist our prosperity, by fighting the
seeded States, aud we violate a right
asserted in our own Declaration of hide
pendeace We meanly insist upon an aaso-
clahen that is -centemptuoutly repealed,
and We aid in splitting the governments
little more Acpelessly than any peaceable
secession could do.
From the indianapolis Journals Jan, 10, 1851.
We believed, and still believe, that the
true province Of government is not more
TO preserve itself than to adept itself to
the demands of the governed, and that a
war to maintain one government over
those who believe that they would be
better off under another, is unwise, cruel,
and in Americans, inconsistent.