The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-12-21

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for some plausible excuse for the result
OF the elections in California and Maine,
but seem to be blind to the real one. The
Belfast, Me-, Jowndt thus enlightens
them:
A war began in this country six years
and half ago. Ten States of the Union
declared they would go out Of it-~that
they had the right TO go, and the power
to go aud they would go. Abraham Lin.
coin, then president, said they couldn't
go. Resscndon said they couldn't GO
Morrill, said they couldn't go. So did
Baine aud Pike, aud all tho radicals.--
All the governors Of the States and all
the legislatures said they couldn't go out
All the radical papers said the same
The small fry politicians and hangers on
the party echoed the cry
They can't 90 out! They mustn't GO
OUT! THEY sHAN'T GO OUT!
The ministers prayed that the States
might all be kept in the Union. They
implored the Lord TO aid in comprising
that end. They asked him TO counsel, di.
rect and aid everybody who was trying
to keep the States from going out of the
| Union.
The radical party claimed to be the
party that was going TO keep the States
10 the Union. Mr. Lincoln said the par
~ that elected him was strong enough TO
do it. No one was allowed TO doubt that
the party was going to keep the States in
the Union. If any one said he had
doubts about it, the cry was "Mob him
Tar and Jcather him ! KNOCK hin
DOWN! KILL HIM p
/ Men irere mobbcd, and beaten, and kill
cd, and their murdcrers acquitted, be.
cause they doubted if the party meant 10
keep the Union together. Jails, and pris.
ons, and forts, were full of men who said
they doubted it. Men who couldn't per.
.suade themselves that the radicals meant
to do il, were habitually slighted, ill-treat-
cd, insulted. They were called copper
heads, knayes, fools, villains, rebels, trai-
l tors. They were annoyed. insulted and
injured 10 every possible way.
II a newspaper doubted that they
would keep the states in the Union, il
was speedily nobbed, its presses broken
its type thrown out of doors, its furniture
burned by rufhans, superintended by Ueyy
respectable radicals in the back ground
Or else they indicted the editor by a ju.
J ry of dirt eaters, aud then refused them a
trial.
To keep the States in the Union i'm.
mcnse armies were raised There was
volunteering, there was conscription, there
, was drafting. Nothing was heard but
the din of arms. Steamers and train,
carried men to the front and brought back
corpses, for four years.
To keep the States in the Union, q!
they said, money was raised By the thou
sand millions. Bonds were sold Green
, backs were made. Honest men became
c poor. Knaves got rich.
{ For four years this fair and heretofore
happy land was made hell on earth
, 10 kcep the States all IN The Union
At last the rebels yielded and surren
dered one day under an apple tree at Ap
pomattox Court House-acknowiedgcc
k that they couldn't get out.
I, They acknowledged that secession wa
. beaten out of them-that the coafedera
! cy had gone up. They tcerc scittiag q
e stay IN the Union.
!. Wasn't the question settled then P
:. Settled that the Union was kept togeth
;. or
T Oh. no! The radicals in Congress sal,
c the war had been glorious--had beel
: brilliant in achicyemeut-hadb been won
. derful in result-but after all, the State
4 HAD GOT OUT! The rebels had accom-
e plished their object! The Union wa
!. not perpetual! 1t could be dissolved
d The people of the South sent us sena
. tors and representatives-Union men
: : men who never believed in secession
: soldiers who had been in the federal army
3 Congress didn't know them! Congress
o said their States had got out, and the
d must stay out.
g What spectacle!
2 A half million men in their graves
: who died to keep these States in ]! Hun
dreds of thousands manned for life, j
efforts to keep these States in The cour
;, try filed with mournefs, ravaged by wal
impoverished by taxes, loaded with debt
= ana tHe Cnton NOT SdDea
r More than that. The men who perst
) cuted those who could not believe tbs
&c they intended to keep the States in tn
u Union, are now equally vindichve towar
Is those who insist that the States are sti
IL legally in it. Did they dare, there woul
s. be again mobbing of men-thcrc woul
- be tarring and feathering-there woul
L be shooting. Men would again be in
g prisoned. Printing Offices would agai
u be sacked, and malicious prosecutor
10 commenced against editors. They
! what they dare to, towards compellin
70 men to be as false to professions as the
s have been. They hold the South by mi
% itary rule. They put ballots in the hane
Of of blacks, who burlesque the franchise
~ their ldiotic appearance. They overrid
70 the constitution. They threaten tt
nt president. The man they. themselv,
% elected, they call a traitor, and threate
q to remove him.
OF And this party had the efFrontery
le ask-the people to vote it their confidence
er After having kept the country four yea
OF in war, awful, shocking, bloody war
=, pushes rebellion from its pedestal of s
ID cession, and placing itself thereon, pr
9 claims secession to have triumphed Ar
IN this to lengthen out little the power
n has abused. This, that it may hope
re rule little longer an insulted and botra
y ed people,
ar Reader, We promised to tell you VIII