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

dlanapols last week, of which the follow,
ing is the substance:
spkEeH OF MIR. VOORHEES,.
Under the circumstances in the midst
OF which have returned to Indiana. a
welcome such as you have given me is
peculiarly gratifying. Iattribute it, how
ever, Dat 10 our thing--not to personal
merit, but to that integrity that has com.
manded the respect of our fellow citizens
ever since it WAS enunciated in Holy
Scripture g have fought the good fght.
and kept the faith My first thought
to-day is one Of fervent gratitude to Al
mighty God for the changed circum.
stances that surround as since | was in a
Democratic Convention in Indiana. There
are no cannon now TO the riglt or left of
US, aud no bayonets around or about us,
as there was then. l congratulate the
Democrats of Indiana that thay hare a
compact organization that il stands frm
and true. where it has ever stood, for the
Constitution os ogr country. for the Union
of our States for liberty and law. We
arRpow rapidly advancing into terrible
conflict in behalf of our ancient prinei-
pies. We are approaching one of the
most eventful crisis that has ever occurred
in the history of political parties in this
country. The contest IS not with any
new or unknown foe.
| am not an old man, but I have met
this enemy before. We fought that party
before tho late war thirty years ago, when
it had disunion, the higher law, disrup-
ton Of the bonds of harmony inscribed Ms
now upon its banner. 1t is represented
now by the Congress of the United States
The Union of the States, supremacy of
the Constitution, preservation of civil lib
erty, is to-day, so far as civil power can
represent it represented now BY the Pres
ident Of the United States. TGreat cheers.
Here stands the two contending parties
the Cogyention that met here on the 22d
|ef February made their choice; they
chose to say in the miserable insulting
resolusiento the President that they would
stand by him while he stood By tbs Con-
stitution, and that they would Judge how
far and how long he stood by the Consti-
tuition. but that Congress was the proper
of power to enunciate the prin-
ciples of restoration; and further, that
they weaid support Congress at all haz-
ards. On that resolution the issue is pre-.
sented TO the people Of Indiana. [ have
said that the party to which We are m
posed IS disunion party. It is repre-
sented By the Stevenses and Summers.
the leading disunionists Of the land. But
for them the Southern men would never
have moved Ia their schemes of disunion.
These men were not for the Union in
the beginning. when the South attempted
to secede. Witness the.f newspapers-
the Indianapolis Journal, Cincinnati Com.
mereial, New York Tribune, all saying
: Let the South GO They talk about
as being the disunion party When aud
where was there ever convention. town
ship, county, State or National, but what
resolved that the Union of these States
must be restored 7 The only difference
between them and US was that when. the
war broke out, these men that never loved
tbe Union, seeing schemes of plunder and
political rule looming up, thought they
would slide into power on professions of
patriotism and Of being honest men.
u hat do VIC see now ? Are they for the
Union of the States? /? They say the South
ern States shall not be restored except
upon their destructive, despotic tyrannical
partisan principles. The war is over and
those States desire to return. The Pres
ident desires to assist them to return. but
the leaders Of this party, the men whom
the Republican pasty of indiana indorsas.
shut the door IN their faces and refuse
to receive them. Is there a man who
says It is done because disloyal Represents
ativcs offer themselves / saw a battle
SCARED Colonel from Arkansas present
himself, but he was not permitted even
the courtesy Of the floor of the House
Why Because they regard the State as
dead, having no political existence; that
IN attempting to destroy the Union, they
killed themselves. ] bold no such doc
frile.
When they say they win admit repre-
sentation from the South as soon as they
send loyal men, il is false, for the record
has been made against them twenty times
by men who have taken the oath, and
who have borne scars of honorable EarsI
fare in defense of the Union. Shall this
state of things be prolonged? Ny Scrip
ture does not read, Thou shalt hate thy
but Thou shalt love thy
and when I see the President
Of the United States adopting the words
Of Cancellation, saying g I want to see har-
lnony once more. I desire nothing more
than the restoration Of the Union of the
fathers. Ny foreign policy would Le|
strengthened by Representatives being
admitted from the South. bly, fnancial
policy would become stronger, the credit
Of the Government increased by seeing
the war completely terminated" And
when, on the other hand, see the malig-
nant savage majority in Congress, hunger
ing for the spoilgof plunder, still can hes
Ifate what course / should pursue.
I took my stand early for the President.
thought ] saw his policy tending for
good Hs vas not my President or yours,
but let Us do right and stand by him who
riyes eYidsnce to the country that he is
Erying to do right; him whom knsW tol
Be an IRON man, iHiho has this day his gripl
N the throat Of that fsctioEs majority IN |
Congress When I know that he intsndsl
o mash them, or that they shall mash
him, when that maslling process goes on
am for assisting Andy johnson. Great
cheers. You may think I bear some
memory Of the wrongs have received atl
lie hands Of Congress Not at all 0nl
.he contrary, they paid me compliment
when, il rotation Of law and deeeney, /
they dAMissed me from the body that bel