The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-08-25

and societies can pledge their faith, their
engagement to bear true faith and allegi-
ance through all time to come to the Con-
stitut1on of Che United States and to all
laws that may be made in pursuance
thereof, Fellow eountrymen, we call up.
on you, in full reliance upon your intelli-
gence and your patriotism to accept with
generous and ungudging confidence this
full surrender on the part Of those lately
in arms against your authority, and TO
share with them the renoW6 and honor
which await those who bring back peace
and comfort to the jarring States,
The close Of the rebellion, With all of
its sorrows and disasters, has opened
new era Of glory to the nation it has
saved. It has swept away the hostilities
Of sentiment and interest which were
standing menaces to its peace. 1t has
destroyed the institution Of slavery. al
ways a cause Of sectional agitation and
strife. Ithas opened for our country the
way to unity Of interest, principle and ac-
tion, through all time to come 1t has
developed in both sections military ca
pacty for achievement Of war both by sea
and land before unknown even to our
selves, and maintain to the exercise here
after under united country an import
ant influence upon the character and des-
tiny Of the continent and world, and
while it has thus revealed, disciplined
and compacted our powers, it has proved
to us beyond controversy or doubt by the
course pursued towards both the contcn-
ding sections, by foreign powers, that we
must be the guardians Of OR own iude-
Ipendencc that the principles of repub-
lican freedom we represent can End
among the nations Of the earth no friends
or defenders but ourselves.
We call upon you, therefore, by every
/, consideration Of your own dignity and
safety, in the name Of liberty through
out the world, to complete the work Of
restoration and peace which the President
Of the United States has 50 well begun,
and which the policy adopted and and the
principles asserted by the present Con-
gress alone obstruct. The time is close
at hand when members Of the next Con-
f gress are to be elected. If that Congress
shall perpctuate this policy, and by ex-
GLIDING loyal States and people from rep
resentation in its halls, shall continue the
usurpation by which the legislative pow
crs Of the Government are now exercised;
p common prudence compels us to antici-
pate augmented discontents, n sullen
= withdrawal from the duties and obliga-
/ tions Of the Federal Government, inter
: nal dissensions and general collisions Of
sentiments and pretensions. which may
renew in still fearful shape the civil
: war from which we have just emerged
z We call upon you To iBterpose your pow
: CIR to prevent the occurrence Of so trans
: ceudant Il calamity. We call upon you
7 in every Congressional district in every
: State to secure the election Of members
: who, whatever other difference may char
| actcrize their political action, will all
e unite in recognizing the right of every
! Stale Of the Union to representation In
: Congress. and who will admit to seats in
either branch every loyal representative
E from every State in allegiance TO the Gov
. ernment. who may be found by each house
I in the exercise Of the power conferred
: upon 1t by the Constitution, to have been
9 duly elected. returned and qualified for
! seat there. When this shall have been
T done, the Government will have been re-
7 itb - 49, IAtS-tAts LHc NphSAIaueaon
: will have been re-established in it's su-
! premacy; the American Union will have
! again become what it was intended by
: those who formed it to be-a sovereign
! nation, composed of separate States, each,
: like itself moving in a distinct and indc-
pendent sphere. and exercising powers
already defined and ruled by n common
Constitution, resting upon the assent. the
! confidence and the cooperation of all the
States and all the people, subject to its
authority. Thus re-organized and re-
: stored to their Constitutional relations,
{ the States and the General Government
can enter in fraternal spirit with COM
G mon purpose and common interest upon
! whatever reforms and security of person
I al rights and the enlargement of popular
g liberty and the perfection of our repub-.
c lican institutions may demand.