The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-12
DEmoOsArEc sTATn PzArroRm

l. Resolced, That We reafirT. 40 the creed
Of our political faith and practice, our steadfasl
devotion to the following principles. Wis: Equal
and exact justics to all men, of whatever State,
party, or sect the support of the State gov.
eruments in all their rights, and Of the Fcd.
esal Government in all its vigor . Jealous
care OF the elective franchise; the supremacy Of
the civil over the military authority opposition to
the GENERALIZATION Of power ; economy 10 all public
expenditures; the general diffusion of education
the encouragement Of morality and the highest
civilization the right Of every man to worship
God according to the dictates Of his own conscience;
Freedom Of speech, freedom Of the press and free
dom Of the person under the kabeas eorpas.
2. Resotred. That the action Of the majority in
Congress IN refusing to admit the representative
OF eleven States is an unwArranted assumption OF
power upon the part of Congress. revolutionary in
its tendency, and dangerous to chs liberties of the
peoples that We do and will sustain President
johnson In his determination and efforts for the
complete restoration Of all the constitutional rights
Of al the States. and Ne unreservedly approve his
veto OF the Ffeedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights
bills, and all his constitutional efforts to prevent
the ~fansticAl majority in Congress from changing
OF destroying our cherished form of Government
3. Resotred, That the position assumed by Pres
idsnt johnson. that Representatives from the South.
ern States ought to be At once admitted to seats il
Congress, and that legislation affecting such States
W4AAS ~ 80 u 40tOudGlGUtAODAL
meets with our hearty approval.
4. ResOtrsd. That the assumptions Of the oppo-
Eition that the Democratic party is 10 favor Of re-
pudiating the public debt, and that it il in favor Of
notification and secession, are slAnderOus land
false.
S. Rssolped, That We endorse the sentiment OF
Senator Douglas, that this Government Was made
on q white basis for the benefit Of the white man,
and We are opposed to extending the right Of
suffrage to any other than white men.
8. ResOtVed, That the exemption Of United
STATES bonds from taxation il substantially the
exemption Of rich men from taxation because they
are rich. and the taxation Of poor men because
they are poor, and We ere in favor Of taxing those
bonds for county, State and municipal purposes.
z. Resobred, That strict and impartial Justice
demands that the expenses Of the General Govern
ment. ~ veil as of the State governments, should
and not according to their necessities and hence,
We condemn now, as in the past, , protective tariff
that tends necessarily TO Cypress the masses for
the benefit Of the rich.
8. Resolpsd, That in > Demoeratic Government
he real soversignfy rests in the people, and eli
Efforts tending 70 EFest power from the people 10
var upon them. revolutionary and dangerous; AID
list the e~xistencs Of National Banks, after the Ok.
~perieace we have had with and without them
especially in tines Of peace, Il subject Of just
alarm.
q. Rssolrsd, That the unlawfal End shsmeful
lsquAadering Of the peoples money by our present
etats oMciAlE meets With our emphatic condemns
ton.
10. Resolsed, That ws viii ever hold il grateful
memory those through whose R~striOtic, not msr-
eensFy or partisan s~ervisee, the 6ignity Of the Re
pablie sad the integrity Of the Usion were pro-
served; and Ne dsnoanoe - . base insui5 70 the
gallsu. living and her0ie dead, The present efforts
Of The Radicals 70 convert the nations yictUry into
> PastizaR triumph, seeking % make the late Wal
Iona AZ oonoueats instand Of the supDresataa Of thu