The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-28
RESISTING FATE--.NEGRO SUI
FRAGE.

there is no use in resisting fate. He
holds that the Negro Question is un-
alterably fixed; and hence it matters
not whether they like what has been
done or not all they can say or do
will effect no change in the law what
ever.
In producing these arguments our
neighbor but echoes Senator Williams.
He advanced substantially the same
reasons in the speech he delivered
short time since in Albany. He, too,
told US that the Negro Question was
settled and that it is useless for Dem
oerats to ''kick against the pricks" -
we would only peel our own shins by
the operation.
We cannot help entertaining feel
ing something akin to contempt for
any one who seriously urges such rea
sons why all opposition to any meas
ure should cease. All tyrants argue
in the same manner. They issue ty-
la1nical edicts; and if their subjects
evince any restlessness or disquietude,
they inform them, in courtly language,
that it is useless to say aught against
them, or to oppose them in any man
ner whatever. The questions involved
are settled If this does not close the
mouths of their people, they point
significantly to the sword, the bayo-
net and bastile, and these are argu-
ments generally too potent to be with
stood.
No man, who is in the least infuenc-
ed by such considerations, is fit to be
freeman. He ought to be governed
by tyrant and wear the chains a ty-
rant would rivet upon his limbs. Had
all men been influenced by such con-
siderations the world to-day would be
hoPelesSly enslaved. Such a theory,
acquiesced In, makes a man a mere
machine servant ninny-a pa
tient, passive, quiescent ass-and he
deserves the blows which he is sure to
receive at the unfeeling hands of his
masters.
When the Savior of mankind began
his ministerial career the whole world
the Jewish nation excepted-were
idolaters; and the great bulk Of his
own nation possessed none ofthe true
spirit of religion they were mere
Journalists. Suppose some one had told
him that it was useless for him to op-
pose any Of the prevailing vices of
the age-that polygamy and polythe-
ism were unalterabIy fixed; that man.
kind were hopelessly debauched and
degraded that he was poor, power
less and unbefriended, and that there
fore he could not hope to make any
headway against any of the forms of
error, and vice, and crime, and the ty-
rannical governments so prevalent in
his day and suppose he had been
Influenced by such considerations
what would have been the condition
.of the world to-day ? The whole world
would have been like the Chinese, the
Hottentots, the Indians and the native
Mexicans whom Cortez subdued. It
would have been one vast lazar-house
of fostering rottenness and corruption,
without one feature to redeem its hid
eousness and loathsomeness.
The history of the world is full of
examples Of those who have success
fully labored for its good but who
were uninfuenced by the plea of ty-
rants which Senator Williams and the
Journal use so fippantlY. Witness a
Luther, and his coadjutors Patrick
Henry and other heroes of the Reyo-
luton.
When we cease to oppose Negro
Sufrage-when we cease to oppose
the inevitable sequence of Social Ne
gro Equality-when we cease to raise
our voice against the intermarriage of
the kinky-haired, fat-nosed, thick
Tipped, ,long-heeIed, sweet-scented, lazy
negro with the Caucasian race-may
our right hand forget it's cunning, and
our tongue cleaVe to the roof of our
mouth. It may be true that Negro
Suffrage is unaIterably fixed in the
United States; but we intend to fight
it as long as we live and move and
have our being in the Union.
We don't wonder that Radical lead
ers are desirous that further agitation
of the Negro Question should cease.
It is an apparition they would have
vanish from their sight forever. But,
like Banquo's ghost, it will not down
at their bidding. One of the great
questions OH which the recent elections
in Montana Territory, Maine and Cal
ifornia hinged, was that of Negro
Suffrage. The people, now that their
ewes are not bedizzened by the fuss,
and feathers, and glare, and glitter,
and tinselry of war, are beginning to
view this question in its proper light
and we have no doubt that they will