The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-14

Emperor turned to the conquest of SPAIN
He inveigled the royal family to his camp
and kept them prisoners. He bought
the mobiles He seized the fortresses.
He declared Joseph king, aud sent three
hundred thousand men TO place him on
his throne. Men called Spain weak. 1t
lacked unity. It's parts were loosely con-
federated through the crown. Catalonia
and Andalusia aud Aragon and old Cas-
tile retained their separate organizations
and manifested jealousy, even hostility to
each other Yetwhen Napoleon reached
the Capital and sent his forces to overrun
the country, these provinces called their
troops together, aud acting each for itself,
drove back those veterans who had mover
paused in their victorious march from the
Mincio to the Vistula, aud by the capture
of Dupont, shattered that prestige Of sue
cess which had made France invincible.
They tell us We Democrats will cling
to dead issues The integrity of the re-
publican government, the preservation of
liberty, the maintenance of our Constitu-
tOa aud Government, the happiest of man.
kind Are these dead issues Our love
for them may be dead, our fidelity may
be dead, our worthiness for them and our
enjoyment may be dead, but the issues
will live till they are settled in their full
fruition aud the principles which underlie
them arc as durable as the eternal throne.
They tell us that like the BOaFbons we
will forget and learn nothing We will
not submit to accomplished facts. 1t is q
tr,I al a. cs.k
theinexihb!e We would bow reyerent-
IL Ia It's presence. But who shall open
the book of fate, and say of any course Of
events or of any condition of things, it is
fixed forever? Who shall with prophetic
power read the secrets of the Almighty,
and repeat In another connection the
words which once uttered throughout all
tAe.ages. reverberate along the course of
eighteen centuries "H IS flashed"
When William Pitt came back to the
ministry, he formed with incredible ener-
gy and exertion the Continental Alliance.
Itrequired the labor of two years. Napo-
leon broke up his camp at Boulogue,
marched his heroic legions to the Danube,
and in one hundred days captured an army
at Ulm, and shattered the coalition on the
bloody field of Austerlitz. The great
statesman was bowed to the earth-his
hope was gOne-his courage broken-his
efforts at an end. Broken-hearted he ex-
claimed, Roll up the map of Europe for
Napolean had attained to universal do
minion.
Austria was despoiled of her fairest
possession; Jena followed and Prussia was
humbled to the dust; Friedland follow
ed, and the monarch of the North bowed
his naughty head before the imperial ca
gles. Napoleon was mighty. His fiat
vacated the throne of Naples. He pro-
nounced the sentence, '.The House of
Braganza has ceased to regin," and that
family went fugitives from Portugal to
Brazil Louis was King Of Holland, Jo-
seph was King Of Spain. Murat was
King of Naples The confederation of
the Rhine guarded his frontier. The
Dukedom Of Warsaw and the Kingdom
of WestphaIa were the props of his throne.
Here seemed to be an accomplished fact.
But England refused to ''aecept the situ-
alton" and In less than three years Aus
tria was in arms, Prussia was recuperated-
Russia had become hostile, and in less
than six years the empire of Napolean
had passed away; the fabric of his power
had been dissolved; Europe was re-estab-
ished within its original limits, and he
himself laBgaished prisoner on the IS
land of St. Helena.
In 1850 the compromise measures we're
passed. They consisted of the admission
Of California, the amendment of the fugi-
tive slave law, the establishment of gov
ernmeut in the Territories They com.
manded the support of the leading states.
men of both great political parties. They
were declared to be an honest, honorable,
final settlement of the issues of slavery as
connected with the Federal Government
The National Conventions of 1852 both
approved them. The people thoroughly
= indorsed them. But Chase, and Sumner,
and Hale, and Giddiugs refused to sac.
eept the situation" and on repeal of the
Missouri Compromise they recommended
the agitation, which ended in war, and
has obliterated from the statute book nOt
only those laws, but the very principles
on which those laws were based.
Who shall dare to say what facts ara
accomplished Who shall predict thu
"ways which are past finding out ?" TX
staccept the situation" if it be wrong, il
the eowardice of a timid spirit, or the
weakness Of weaTied one.
Error is never fixed wrong is neEe
established; the courses Of evil are never
accomplished. Truth wages against then
perpetual war. It never wearies. tt
strength never fails. It's spirits neyel
flag, and it is immortal "The eterna
years Of God are hers"
Letus be her soldiers and emulate he,
virtue. Let Us accept nothing as accom-
plished, unless our judgments and con
science approving approve the result a
right.
Let US stand by oqr Copstitutiop, which
We believe to be right, apd maintain ou
form of government which we haye foups
to be benefcept Let rs accept no re
suit as fpal which sccmplishes their over
throw. Let us be qnVeari:d in this con
test, and believe We shall save oqr in
stitutions to bless our ehildEen even a
they have blessed our fathers. IF we fail
I'VE shall at least have deserved well Of on
countrymen, and shall have done tina
which, like the seed after being hidden il
the frosts and now and darkness of winter
shall bear fruit; and if this land and gov
.ernment must follow the footsteps of tn
mast we shall be able then To comfort our