The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-12-08

period that attention is directed to its
At the adoption of the Fed
eral Constitution the population of the
United States was three millions. From
thence, at the expiration Of eighty years
the population Of the United States was
more than thirty millions, with cores.
ponding increase of all the elements that
constitute great, powerful and pros
porous nation. During this long period,
this seating cancer had been praying
upon the ebOdy polite, " producing no in
convenience or complaint in the immedi-
ate region Of its locality. But the evil
dent tranquility aud prosperity that mark
ed its progresss, excited jealous appre-
tensions in remote members of the sbody
polite" that prompted them to cut out
this "eating cancer" and they at once
with sword in hand, to perform
the huge aud bloody operation. One
portion of the "body polite" refused to
submit to the operation. A struggle en-
sued that has no parallel in the loss of
blood, ferocity and unbridled beastiality
after fearful sanguinary struggle of
four years--after more than ten hundred
thousand men were slain-after more
than 6ye hundred thousand widows were
made-after more than two million FIVE
hundred thousand orphans and invailds
were thrust upon the country, helpless
and destitute-after more than three thou
sand millions of money have been wasted,
and when the strength of the ''body poll
tic was completely exhausted, the heroic
politico-c1irar9erists finished the opera
tion-leaying the "body polite" almost
bloodles, lifeless, gasping iadrtierlO NOR
tis. Then, with 6endish glee they loudly
proclaim to the world the success of their
brutal butchery, and the "great and good
result that has followed the great calami-
ty." That the disease has not been re-
moved, or the condition of the "body pol
itic" in any wise ameiorated is plainly
and painfully apparent. Whilst we ad-
NIT the "eating cancer" has been cut out,
the wound remains unhealed, an open,
bleeding, fostering, corrosive, malignant
ulcer upon the "bOdy polite" that irri-
tates every fibre, poisons every secretion,
and deranges every function, that must
ultimately undermine and break down the
constitution, leaving the "body polite"
the inevitable victim of speedy decay and
unless change of remedies
is speedily resorted to. This is not an
over-draWn picture, as every man whose
mental vision is sufficiently enlightened
to enable him to reason from analogy, and
from cause to effect, must see. The eyi-
dence in support of the proposition seems
too apparent for elucidation, and such, it
appears, is the conviction of our State
subordinate Executive for in his maiden
State paper he says: "But while the re-
bellion has been suppressed by the valOr
of our arms, slavery and treason buried
together in one common grave, and the
national unity and honor fully vindicated,
other questions of vital importance, and
equally calculated to agitate the public
mind, have arisen" Here, then, is
clear and unequivocal acknowledgment
that, notwithstanding We have buried
slavery and treason, in 80 doing we have
other difficulties equally
grave and fearful in their consequences.
Who does not know that another conflict
would overthrow our inimitible system Of
free government, and lay the beautiful
temple of American Liberty in a rude
mass ofunshapen ruins +?
There is little pleasure in contemplating
the dismal gloom that envelopes our coun--
try's destiny, and there should be less,
still, to embrace horrid phantom that
will only prove delusive and fatal snare.
The aggregated acts of the Republican
Union party, throughout, have been a
tragic drama of base treachery and de-
ceit, They have been unfaithful to the
fulfllment of their most solemn pledges
to that Constitution all good
men obey and defend-unfaithful to any
consistent or commendable devotion to
the white mans Government to enlighten
and elevate faithful only to abridge his
liberty, curtail his happiness, degrade
and debase him. Such have been the
acs of the past, such is the avowed policy
Of the present. Can we reasonably hope
for a different course in the future p
There is only one faint CLEAN peering
through the gloom-that is, for the old
guard Democracy to remarshal its forces,
stand firm to its colors, never retreat from
the position assigned them by the found
ers Of the Republic, and We may yet dis
arm and put to fight the allied hosts of
impartial freedom, anarchy and oppres-
sion, that We and our posterity may enjoy
the blessings Of civil liberty forever 1t
is just as certain as any result can be de-
pending upon the contingency of human
action, that if the present party in power
is permitted to carry out the practical
of their theory of govern
ment, all is lost. Every act of the Re-
publican-Union party tends to centralize