The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-07
FREEDMEN.s MEETING.

addressed an assemblage of eighteen
persons, all told, in behalf of the free
negroes of the South. We were sur
prised that so few attended. For a
good while there were only a bakers
dozen present, and one of these was
boy (none the worse for that, how
ever, and another was our very use
fnl citizen of African scent, William,
the s'pioneer jobber."
The professed object of the Revel-
end Doctor is the ''relief, education
and elevation of the Freedmen of the
United States" We have no hesita-
tion in saying that this professed OBJ
ject is good one; and we endorse it.
We have ever been in favor of educa-
ting and elevating all men everywhere,
and of course we would not exclude
the negro. 1t is true, we are of the
opinion that, as general fact, it is
loves labor lost to try to educate and
elevate the wild Indian, or the negro
in his native land for the one will
kill and scalp his benefactor; and the
other will kill and eat him the first
good opportunity which presents it
self But the negro that has been
taught some sense by the white race
that has been taught to be industri-
ous, and pOlite-who has had the
blessings of civilization and Christian
ity thrown around him from his earIi-
est infancy-may sometimes be bene-
ftted-may sometimes be elevated
and Christianized to some extent.
We have said that we endorse the
prOfessed object; but we shall not,
therefore, lend it our influence. The
Reverend Doctor, in his address to
the handful present, spent some time
in trying to show that the Society of
which he Is the agent is not partizan
one that it is neither Democratic
nor Radical, but that it is entirely free
from all partizan bias. Yet Salmon
P. Chase man who, when he was
called to fill place in Lincoln's cabi-
net was poor man, and when he left
1t to assume the ermine that a Mar
shall and a Taney had worn was a
millionaire-this man Chase is Presi-
dent of the Society; VIM. Lloyd Gar
rison-the man who for the last thirty
years has contended that the Consti-
tion is a covenant with death and a
league with helI-is one of the Vice
Presidents and we believe there is
not man, of any prominence, con
nected with it, who IS a Democrat
We do not recognize any in the Exec.
utive Committee, or the branch off.
cers-not one And the same policy
obtains elsewhere. For example: at
the meeting last Wednesday evening
a committee to solicit subscriptions
were appointed, and not one is Dem
ocrat. As citizens we say nothing
against them; they are each and all
upright and worthy; they are person
al friends of ours we believe. But
their appointment, with other facts
proves that the movement is partizar
in character, notwithstanding all pro
fessions to the contrary. DIR. Haync
stated repeatedly that the Society il
connected and co-operates with The
Negro Bureau and that alone is suf
ficient to stamp it with a partizan as
pect. But, aside from these consider
ations, we shall not lend our infuenc,
humble though it be-to this Soeie
ty for other reasons. The Reverend
Doctor stated that he himself had col
lected in Great Britain and Paris. fiv.
hundred thousand dollars for thes,
free negroes of the South. Add thii
to the s2e,oOo,Oo0 annually expended
on them by Congress-money that i
paid by every taxpayer in the United
States-and we have avery handsom,
sum to be expended upon lazy, greasy
worthless negroes. The abolitionist
told us, before the war, that if the ne
/groes were only free they could tax
care of themselves-they could d,
wonders. We hold them to thei
word. Poor white men, women an,
children do not receive money for ed
ucationaI purposes-they are not fe,
and pampered by Government. Ar
negroes any better than poor whites
We advise Democrats, all things con
sidered, not to contribute cent t,
the professed object. It will be eithe
swallowed up by those into who's
hands it passes, or be used indirectl,
to place you on a level with the negr
race and overthrow the last vestige q
the old Constitution