The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-12-14

Editor State Rights Democrat
Items Of nows, just now, are scarce enough.
Some improvement in the way Of building is
being made in our town. Politics very quiet,
with the exception that two or three Office
hungry Rumptos-ono wanting very badly
a nomination for tho Judgcship, another
clcrkship mt the next general election, and
the third earnestly desiring certain Indian
Agency with its attendant 'stealings gs'--haye
been oanvassing tho "Ynquina," at which
plnce the Radicals, not being properly watch
cd at tho last election, committed n fraud on
the ballot box heinous enough TO damn any
party You may be rssured we will watch
them in future.
The uasi'temperance organ is still in OPP
Grafton, its godly editor applying quarantine
rules for the morals Of our town tho wovhy
gazetteer sees as much terror in u glass Of
sweet cider rs would Massachusetts, Puritan
discern in n surplce and squire cap.
And your fair city is at last redeemed
We arc right glad up here in Benton to hear
such news. see too, from your paper, that
tho Jacobins made desperate struggle; that
they died hard. What wonder that their
death throes should be fearful7 When the
entire career of u party has been evil, and
il cannot plead one single mitigating circum.
stance in its faYor--one act Of national ben.
eft conferred after it has indirectly invoy.
cd tho country in a war, wnged in II spirit
not less cruel than it was destructive
after it has, time and again, under the
tyrannous plea Of necessity, invaded the
most sacred rights Of freemen aftor it has
piled up debt which the expanding resour.
ces of our country md the thrice redoubled
energy of it's thirty millions Of tax .burdcncd
people can never pay or; after it has solemn.
ly declared that the late war should be car.
ried on solely 10 crush the rebellion, and
when that was accomplished il ought to
cease, and that every State should resume
Immediately those functions which had been
suspended, yet notwithstanding these assu.
RANGES are to-day. refusing 10 recognize them
as States in the Union and holding them an
conquered provinces under the most CALLING
despotism the world has ever seen. Since it
isnow zealously engaged in practically giving
to men just emancipated from slavery, but
not from the gr0ssost ignorance, the control
in ten or eleven States in order that this self.
same party may the moro eifectually perpet.
uatc power when all this and more Is done,
wo think il time such party should die.
, We say down with party the most revolu-
tionary that has ever had an existence in any
governments party that had Its inauspicious
birth in "a section Of the Union where the
! doctrine Of secession was fret advocated a
party that sworc that the Constitution Of the
United States was an agreement with death
and a covenant with hell 4; party that, sec
tionsl in its incipieney, first threw into the
politics Of tho country such hre.brands as
the ''IIcIper Book, Z" Uncle Toms Cabin, 4"
John Browns soul Is marching on, "Per
sonai Liberty Bills" "Emigra,ion Aid So.
cieties," street aud pulpit preaching Of po.
litieai priests-the curse Of every country
all Of which served 10 bring on the late civil
war: Truly this monstrous political python,
shining ia the threshold and over the altars
, Of our dearest liberties, has already felt the
: pang ofdissolHtion, and tho terrible gangrenc
is lurking round its heart and rushing to Its
cxtremites. And Democracy has just begun
70 show signs Of awakening. IL gave a start
in its sleep last year in old Connecticut it
rubbed its eyes and rose to its elbow short
time ago in California it sprang to It's feet
last fall in New York. Pennsylvania and
Ohio. and next Presidential election it will
have shaken of forever the dull, leaden, en-.
ervating leihargy that Radical trickery and
deyilish incantation have hung about it. II
will cast out from our fair temple Of liberty
those worse than "money. changers and those
that sold dove" THAT ruthless, Constitution.
violating. mistress. keeping Congress-thosc
. national butchers, the most of.whom have
traficked, aud rioted, and reeked in the blood
of our best citizens, and who arc day try
ing to crush out eight millions Of white men
. gsoes, ignorant and brutal and bat shade
E removed from the natives of central Africa
! in their dispositions and tendencies-a Con.
, gross that has laid tho burden of taxation on
the toiling poor, and exempted tho rich-a
: Congress that would gladly impcach the
President because he dares to do right, TO
: stand like wall of fire between tho execu-
toner and the victim--a Congress which, as
such, is the most corrupt body Of men ever
assembled as Legislators for q free people,
and whose private vices would put a
Charles II. to the blush.
---fIs there not some hidden bolt,
Some chosen thunder in the stores Of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast
5 Tho party that owes its naedImess to
It's country's run?"
! assure you, Mr.. Editor, the Democracy
arc not idle here, either. We expect to, we
D intend to carry the county by a handsome
: majority at the next election. In the mean.
, while keep the ball rolling; let US lash the
Radical hounds on every occasion and drive
: them to their kennels. More anon.
! yINDEX.
d FERN LAND.-Linn county is almost en-.
: tireIy free from that pest of farmers in Ore.
2 gon-Fern. But Polk and Benton counties
] are not so fortunate. The following, on the
management of fern lands, by w. L. Newly,
. of Yamhill county is prize essay, deliver.