The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-02-17
STATE RIGHTS AND ABoAI.
TlONESM.
The following excellent article is taken
from the Placerville Democrat:

AuS lug cACeHGnt uItlSiS H "iNS
from the Placerville Democrat:
The Abolitionists and their corrupt
tools denounee State Rights. call it an
accursed doctrine" and declare it dis
loyal to advocate it Theirignorantfol-
lowers chime in. Who were the authors
and endorsers of the now unpopular doc
trine of State Rights - The disloyal
sisners of the Declaration of %Indepcnd-
encc-the trainers Of our Federal Consti-
tntion-thc rebels who achieved our
independence-the rchef who gaze uS
the +" best GovernmentM AID the freest aud
happicst country the sun ever shohe up
on" They alleged that in all matters,
social aud domestic, the coloaies-thc
States-were. aad must of necessity, be
sovereign /; that the never bad and never
would, surrender to any power on earth,
these reserved rights. Reader, examine
the resolutions passed by the disloyal "
Continental Congress Congress OF pa
triots aud statesmen, though stigmatized
as 9 rebels" by the loyalists of their day
which met in Philadelphia, and Of
which the renowned Peyton Randolph
was President. Those resolutions, from
the adoption of which not a single dele
gate dissented, were as follows
Resolped, LIST, That we are entitled to life,
liberty and property, and that We never
lceded 70 any sovereign power whatever, a
fright to dispose of either without our consent.
ResoEeed. I'd Tha. our ancestors who first
settled these colonies, were at the time of
their emigration from the mother country
entitlcd to all the rights, liberties, and I'M
Inunities Of free and natural bern subjects
within the realm of England.
ReSolced, Sd, That by such emigration
they by no means forfeited, surrendered or
lost, any of those rights; but that they were
and their descendants nov are, entitled 10
the exercise and enjoyaent of all such OF
them as their locnl and other circumstance
enable them 10 exercise and enjoy.
Here then is an unanswerable demon
stration that, with u ancestors, this
great fundamental principle was a eardi-
nal one. 1t was one which, under no cir
cumstanees, could they be induced to
lyield. There was a time when this vital
idea was practieed and defended IS essen
GA to oar Union; and while this princi-
pie was even measurablF observed IS the
people of the United States, L past his
tory declares and yindicates the fact. that
we were a great, a prosperous. a united
and a happy people. We assert, without
fear of contradiction, and We call the rec
ord to answer, until We violated that great
fundamental doctrinc-untiI ne suffered
ourselves to be led away from the doctrines
of our fathers, and began to concern our
selves about the especial affairs of oul
neighbors, We had none of that turmoil
which has ultimately eliminated in the
terrible scenes through which We have
lately passed. Peace and prosperity were
onr happy lot before we threw down the
barrier hat separates State and National
institutions. But just SO soon as 3 ma
jority, or perhaps a large minority of the
people of our country we're made to be-
iieye and acted on the belief that il was
necessary that the sectional ard partial
views of any portion of this Union should
obtain in the States, en- matters of mere
State concern, when it became evident
that that false, unnatural aud impossible
idea was to be carried out in our National
councils. the result was suffering, ruin,
blood. Our fathers eheerfully yielded t.
the central Government the c~ognizance 81
matters external and national and defend
ed, as belonging exclusively to the States.
the management of all concerns internal,
local and domestic and the result was
happiness and prosperity. Both have
been destroyed by ignoring the doctrine
of State Rights.