The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-02-02
REMARKS BY THE EDITOR.

LII we say 1t Is right. We believe
Democratic principles are essentially and
inherently right; and hat SOONER or later
they will prevail. One day last week q
radical friend Of ouFs-whom as a man
and citizen VIC greatly Eespept-stopped
US in the street sad wanted to know if we
really believed all we write and publish,
or whether We merely put forth our views
for effect? We told him in substance that
we are in downright earnest. We as fully
believe that the political principles we
advocate are right as we do the religious
principles we entertain. We are just as
sincere in the advocacy ofone as the other.
We, for one, will not endorse and advo-
cate a principle we believe TO be wrong,
political or otherwise. Pray, what is there
in the present condition Of the Demo
cratic party TO eause a man to be insin-
cere? 1t isSin the minority. 1t has no
Offices to bestow. Il is everywhere pro-
Iscribed. Greeley admits that, since tho
war, over $3.50, OOO, 900 per mum have
been stolen from tho Government; but
no democrat gets q dime of it. Democrats
were robbed, and imprisoned in Lincoln
b~astiles without the authority of law
indeed in direct conflict With It's provis-
ions. A reign Of terror was inaugurated
and many a Democrat was weighed in the
balances and found wanting. Many of
them forsook their principles, not because
convinced that they were wrong at ell
but to avoid persecution, prescription,
illegal imprisonment and probably q fel-
on's doom. We say it not boastingly-
but we have been tried and not found
wanting. We have repeatedly been
threatened with assassination-and in
1854 our Office was entered by an armed
and drunken mob of furloughcd soldiers.
But We neither quailed, nor run, nor abb
jpred our principles, thank GOd;-and
what Is more we don't believe We ever
will, because We believe they gre essen
tally and fundamentally right. Fire
can't burn this conviction out of us,
G2] No one, and yet he who would do.
this would be about as sensible and con-
sistent as is that map, or set of men who,
protesting Conservatism" and a desire to
.4placate" the Rupps, you'd adulterate
pure Democratic principles.
ri Every word true as preaching;
and much more than some we have heard.
E4] We are glad to hear this. III
nothing more it seems to confirm and
deepen our convictions that our political
principles are right.
[51 We find no. fault with any Demo-
crat who takes ga New York" or other
foreign paper; but he who does SO should
first take his home paper. He owes this
to the Democratic party Of which he is a
member ; he owes it to the Editor who
battles for his principles; and heoyes it to
himself and family; for a foreign journal,
its politics may be all right, will
not give his own State and local news.
T61 The fact that times "are hard" is
a strong reason Why these Democrats
should subscribe for some home organ im
mediately. When times are hard the
publisher experiences more difficulty than
ever in his business. It is then, more
than at any other time, that he needs to
be encouraged, and his hands strength
ened. While the paltry sum of So is not
much to anybody on the Pacific coast,
ifsome hundreds subscribe, their sub
,criptions make a nice little sum in the az
ri We must cordially thank you.
[S] Not at all-not at all. Serve US
70 again.
[9], We trust our respected friend
viii write US again and discourse on these
many things" he "would like to say"
thus reduce the intellectual rotundity
# which he complains.