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

the result { 1t Is now proclaimed Dy the
victorious party, that State Rights is a
damnable political heresy, and is joint
tenant in the grave with Slavery and Sc
cession. Thus, the melancholy fact con-
fronts us that, within the short space of
Eve years, under the demoralizing inhu-
ence of civil strife, and consequent sec
tional animosities, the people are prepared
to tear away that magnificent structure Of
State Rights, reared by the sturdy arms,
and cemented with the blood of our an
cestors-the only refuge to protect us
against the crushing encroachments Of
Capitalization. It is now an accepted
theory of the Union party, and unless the
signs Of the times are deceptive, It is
soon to be incorporated into the Constitu-
tion as one of the organic principles Of
our Government, that State Rights shall
20 longer be recognized in that sense and
signifcatiOn they were during the purer,
better and more prosperous days of the
Republic, even up to the Inauguration Of
the party that has, and still misrules the
country.
Prior to the induction of the so-called
Union party, the man that would have
pointed to tho reaiizatiUn Of the popular
doctrines of the present hour would have
been regarded more in the light of ia.
natical crackbrain than political astrolo-
ger. No one will question the co-exist
ence Of State Rights with the Govern.
ment, or that every administration from
Washington to Lincoln, with one excep
tion,' has administered the Government In
strict conformity Herewith and from the
Inauguration of Jefferson the doctrine o.
State Rights has been accepted by all par
ties, and the Government uniformly ad
ministered in accordance with the prlnci
pies enunciated in the Virginia and Ken.
tucky resolutions. Even the Republican
Convention that nominated Abraham
Lincoln, in 1860, reassured the people oi
their endorsement of, and adherence tC
the doctrine of State Rights in these
words: s'That the maintenance inviolate
of the rights of the States, and especially
the right of each State to order and con-
troll its own domestic institutions accord
ing to its own judgment, exclusively, i;
essential to that balance of power or
which the perfection and endurance oi
our political fabric depends and we de
nounee the lawless invasion by armed
force of the soil ofany State or Territory,
no matter under what pretext, as among
the gravest of crimes"
Yet, in the very face of these glaring
facts, We find this same Republican Union
party denouncing the doctrine of State
Rights, and eongratulating the country
upon the extinction Of the very measures
that gave them political ascendency-
When We see, as at present, the major
portion of the people SO thoroughly dis
eased from the contact of party rancor
and sectional strife, that they exultingly
declare themselves the willing victims OF
falsehood, treachery and oppression,
among such a people the maintainace of
free government has but little encourage
ment. Editors, preachers, orators, public
officials and private persons in every sta
ton of life commingle their sepulchral
notes In celebrating the death of State
Rights, which ''is essential to that bal
ance of power on which the perfection
and endurance of our political fabric de-
pends."
The present occupant of the guberna-
torial chair of Oregon, in his inaugural,
Informs the people that great and good
result has followed the great calamity of
civil war. The prime constituent of that
'great and good result" is the destruction
of that "hated and pernicious doctrine of
State Rights" Another element of the
''great and good result" growing out of
the ''great calamity" is the death of ne
gro slavery, which the profound researches
of His Exeellency's diagnosis proves to
be an eating cancer upon the body polite
that has been gnawing upon the vitals of
the nation until it had well nigh resulted
in the death of the nation itself; but he
relieves the mortifying suspense that is
necessarily associated with such rehec-
tion, by assuring the people that the ''eat-
ing cancer" has been cut out by the
sword, completely eradicating all diseased
aetion-leaving the nation renewed and
reinVigorated with redoubled energy,
displaying physical and moral grandeur
that crowns it the model Republic of
earth.
Being indisposed to infict unfriendly
criticism upon the appropriateness of His
Exeelleney's hyperbolical cancer upon the
body polite, or its treatment, it is to be
hoped that little objection can be urged
against the suggestion, that if more
thorough knowledge of the pathology of
this "eating cancer" were understood, and
a more consistent avowal of It's effect upon
the "body polite" were made, different
phase would appear Of the "great and
good result following the great calamity" !"
Experience has established the fact that