The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-01-12

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they were not loyal in the sense Of .
party, which party had been the peculiar
advocates for years Of free speech and q
free press The Presidefit proceeds:
''He cannot be for the Constitution
he cannot be for the Uhion-Ahe cannot
acknowledge obedience to all the laws uu.
less he is loyal"
Agreed. Then loyalty in the Repre-
sentatives who are to be sent from the
South consists in being for the Constit6e
ton, being for the Onion, and acknowI-
clging obedience to all the laws. dood
That is sound Democratic doctrine-just
precisely what we proclaim, ana any man
who occupies that position to-day Is
loyal man, whether he bea citizen Of Ohio
or Of South Carolina And there Is no
doctrine upon which We e9n hope to have
lasting pacifcation in the United States.
Upon any other they will be as Hungary
until the Emperor Of Austria was obliged
70 give to Hungarians the full rights Of
Austrian subjects; as Poland is to-day,
and has been for century; and as Ire
land, glorious old Ireland, has been for
five hundred years; but, thank God, AZ
she will not be for many years longerL
under British rule @ ~ -
And further says the President-and
this clinches the point which I make1-i
when fhe people send such men IN good
faith, they arc .ehtillgd 70 representation
through them" @'T'' e" sNt'. .
stand upon the doctrine of the Presi-
dent. | am not is partisan, and do rot
support him as such. / anna Democrat:
and ever intend TO be Democrat, with.
out prefix or afix. Yes, for one at least,
mean to be by your consent, member
Of convention, d national c6nvention, I'd
nominate Democratic candidates for Presis
dent and Vice President in 1868. though
that convention should be no larger than
county Convention; and for one, meat
to cast my vote for those Democratic cana
didates, though they should receive no
more votes than James 9 Burney in 1874.
Let the men who talk about disbanding
The Democratic party, about its being
dead, with whom ssthe wish Is father TO
the thoHght,') let hin take notice that
there are two millions Of men, who wer9
born in that party. whose children hav6
been baptized in il, and who mean to sus-
tain it at every hazard, as long as they
shall live. [AppladsA. = - = -
Will any man tell me :? Is it because
the negro is better than the white mkn,,'
or is it because Benjamin f. Butler de.
clared in his great speech at Toledo, re-
ported correctly, / am sure, in the 'Cincin-
natl Coinmercial-I quote his own words
Il reject, with unutterable loathi6g and
scorn, the doctrine that this is.a'whits
mans Government" Dare he repeat
the declaration in Dayton? Win he,
/ upon Saturday, ia old Butler County,.
not called in honor of him, but of a-far
braver. robler man. utter it again II
challenge him to declare here that he re-
jects. with unuttefable scorr and ioath-
ing, the doctrine that this is white mans
Government. IF not a white hams Cog:
eminent, then it is either totally black or
it is mixed. [Applause.I I was taught
lit was the doctrine of the fathers; it
was the idea Of the Constitution, the fud-
damental theory'o of all parties-that this
was a white mans Government, Hmads
by white men for the government Of
whise men," That is the doctrine Of the
President to-day, and of the whole Demo
cratic party Of the United States, and by
tha. doctrine We must stand or fall II
this is to be black mans Government
, no, if it is to beea mulatto Government
5 part black aud part whitc-then I re-
nounceit forever. Cries of"So do We. u
/: 1t is not the country Twas born in. Isl
, not the land of my nativity. For forty
; years have been mistaken; these art
} uot the United States; this isnot the
Republic of America