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

Httoat anu feIlHitteu Hlt to SUM tltt
fsociety of respectable people, They lief
me TO choose my own company, aud yoa
sec how | have done it. [Cheers. No
merely docs Congress refuse admission t.
the Scared victorian of tho Union, but i
has settled ON this policy.
In the broad regions af the South there
is heavy population Of fignorant creatures
that are to be enfranchised, not because
they expect them to vote intelligently
| but the programme has been that when
the war was over, by usurping the powers
of the States to disfranchise Southel.i
white people and enfranchise the blacks
aud confseate the lands, your blaascd
manufacturers from the East. who gathoi
the profits of your hard carnngs under
the tariff laws, will 20 South and buy
those large landed estates. Around sncl
as these the enlranchiseds black man will
settle, and thousands of them will become
voters under his beck and bidding.
The plan is to transfer New England
aristocracy to the South, and there cstab.
| lish such an oligarchy as the South never
thought of or dreamed Of for themselves
This is no conviction of my own; have
heard it from their own lips. 1t is the
boast of their loading men
When you shrink back from the negro
suffrage in the DISTRICT of Columbia, you
must not imagine you see the horrid thing
in all its proportions. They say every
where he is man aud brother. Equal
ity before the law Is what Sumner has in
sciibcd on their baauer. aud what Con
gress indorzos. You viii find them skuk-
ing and lodging here at home, but you
must hold them &c the record. Congress
has voted foE negro suffrage. and there is
no propriety in forcing it upon the people
of one section, who are opposed to It, and
withhold it from those of another section.
He called upon the Qfths and the Ju-
laps, who had voted for negro suffrage in
the DISTRICT, TO CONC home and make the
issue here; to force negro suffrage upon
the people of Indiana, as they had forced
it upon the District Of Columbia. 1t was
not manly to cram the oa'hse,ne pill
down the throats OF a helpless community
thousand miles away, which they were
afraid TO offer 10 their own constituents.
Mr.. Voorhees, then considered the char
acter of the Freedmen's Bureau bill. and
extolled the President for vctoing it, say
Jug:
care not fer past affiliations I hailed
him as friend of the people, as taking
a step in the right direction to preserve
constitutional liberty. Y on indorse Con
grcss. do you IGries of I" No, nos'1
was speaking of the Convention that met
here SOME weeks ago. They Endorsed
Congress. Let them indorse the Freed
mems Bureau if they dare. / will pay
any NAH S expenses who will go With me
as far as the Presidenf said in his speech
of February % arA in-the field once
more, aud will discussgthat bin before the
people This little Freedmen's Bureau
bill called for an appropriation, not six
weeks ago, of S12, ,000, 900 of the peoples
money to support nigger's and the agents
of the bureau. Will some loyal. patriotic
man go with me to defend Congress by
telling the people that It is their duty to
work from sun to sun, denying their chill
dren the comforts of life, for the purpose
of supporting the .ablc-bodiea and strong.
boncd negroes of this country in idleness I
They wanted SI2, 100000 of this over.
burdehed peoples mopey--mope than it
cost John Quincy Adams to administer
the Government year by year.
My friend Ross, in the House, moved
to sot aside one day in the week to attend
to the white mans bnsiaess. j saw one
such day. 1t was when the President
gave to the country that noble veto mes
sage, not merely crushing a monstrous
usurpation of power, but enunciating the
grand and wise principles Of just govern
ment..
On the 22d of February his friends raj
lied to that great mccting which closed
by himself stepping ont and laying aside
tho President for a while, telling these
scoundrcls that they were traitors, TO their
teeth. Men walked the streets that day
with tears IN their eyes for. gladness,
shouting, /" Get out of the way, bigger
and Yankees; this is the white man $ day
once more in Washington" Let us eel
citrate the White mans day in IndigEa.
Let them take their side of this issue aud
We viii take ours. Let them tie to Con-
gress, and We will, step by step, keep
equal pace with the wise measures given
to the country by Andrew johnson. We
will go no faster than he goes. But
will give my opinion that he will astonish
you with the speed and power with which
he viii make war upon them.
a man, who elected by party, could
in six months make himself so secure as
to take off his coat and walk out and call
the men by their true name, of traitors
and disunionists-this is man not to be
trifed with. In all our calculations take
him into account / know it makes our
Republican friends sleep bad Of nights.
They have not only drawn an elephant,
but an uncaged Numidian lion. Like
Belshazzar, they have their feast before.
them. They legislatc for the principle Of
hate: and upon all such Providence visits
a Just retribution. That which sweetens
the cup drink now, is that which most
embitters the cup now pressed to the lips
of these Radicals. 1t is. the thought 1
HaTe heard them utter about the Presi-
dents speech. G just to think that We
elected him" Yes, they elected him.
They called him into Presidential exist
ence. and he, is a retribntion for their
crimes. He uses up their grim and ter
ribIs destroyer, denounces and scatters
them. Why, they plod along the streets,
cllatterigg and glbbering like ghosts at
daylight. Don't let these men for q mo-
ment imagine that they can CRY good God