The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-07-06

Many persons taking o general glance
at the discord everywhere observable in
the Radical ranks, attribute it to accident.
nj causes. To our " minds il is simply
the certain result of the unnatural ALI.
ance. which, for a time and for a purpose
was effected between the representatives
of a~ntagonistic political organizations.
Who make up the so-callcd Union Par
ty? Among ifs leaders and in its ranks
wc find the agitator and abolitionist of
thirty years ago; the anttextensionist,
the silver gray wing, the protectionist
and national bank man. Then again, VIC
see prominent among them members
once Of the Democratic party, when its
great ADD glorious victories were won by
statesmen ~contendjng for ffee.trade, strict
construction. hard money and all the true
principles Of government. This singular
alliance we all know took place upon one
single and common ground-"the ydr
for the Union"
A long and bloody struggle has been
fought. supported, provided for and sus-
tanned by the means and agencies which
the lenders Of this temporary brotherhood
devised and its members approved. Men,
money and armies were gathered and ere
afcd until the South, who had taken up
the sword. was forced to lay it down
Thus far these otherwise discrodant polit-
icai elements would and could move in
harmony. Under the influence Of pas
sion and hatred the agifator end abolition
it could bring himself tn bear a great bur-
den of taxation, although particularly
careful about approaching the field Of ac-
iual conflict. lie and his kindred spirits
saw with delight how fire and sword were
consuming the land they so thoroughly
dctested. By false promises. by ~clouding
the true issues involved, by appeals to
that love Of country which every freeman
and defender of the Constitution feels.
thousands Of good and pure men were led
to quit the party organization in which
they had been educated from childhood
under the temporary delusion that that
great Constitutional party was slow to see
the danger Of a divided Union and wrong
in the measures it thought could avert it.
The question OF disruption and war
was not only a serious ne, but novel in
tho extreme; the best of minds we're
confoundcd. and the most honest men
we're confused by the magnitude Of the
issue. Force was decided at last to be
the only and the surest means of holding
the nation together, and ii was applied
with all the terrible cruelty of sectional
welfare. This measure oDcc resolved up
on. was made the only test Of patriotism,
and its support became the sole ground on
which the citizen could enjoy immunity
from seizure and bastile. This measure
has accomplished in one sense its purpose;
and 80 long as the war of cannon was
heard in the land, that purpose was a suf-
icient bond Of union between men. who.
on almost every other political PROPOSE
ton differed widely. even to the extent of
a hopeless a~ntagonism of opinion. Now
that foroo hoe opeut its fury, and the
peace Of desolation reigns through one
half of orr once happy Iand-now that
the General must give way to the States
man, and the bayonet to the ballot-we
see at once the reason for discord in the
councils of the Radical leaders. and for
disafection in their rank and file.
For a time the cry was, preserve the
Union-let us not lose our form of gov
eminent but since those arrayed inarms
against the continuance Of one General
Government over all the States have Quit
the field, and yielded to the Federal au-
thorities, the question IL, how TO admins
ter the government and TO continue the
Union which force has thus far secured
and preserved. Here then is heard anew
the conflict of ideas. which for 4 time was
hushed in the presence of a serious and
common danger. Reason begins to ava.
ken from its sleep, and as the necessity
which INSCRIPTIONS men pleaded in ex-
tenuation of acts of oppression has pass
ed away, a rational and national system
of government, suited to the rights of a
free people, is now demanded BY thou
sands of those, who were once willing to
give oyer the civil to tho dominion of mil
itary law.
Most naturally, then, should we see the
various elements of which the Mongrel
party IS made up, begin to clash as the
discussion of peace measures is revived
AaAdtlou-thS puWStS VI thC ocucIal
Government-the reserved powers of the
States - paper currency = government
banks-protective and revenae tariffs
internal improvements-extension of ter.
ritory-are all questions touching our
present and future welfare. These vita
matters are to be adjusted for the good
of this people, and by and through the
| civil law and its tribunals-as distinguish,
ed from the harsh and repulsive system
of military authority. How can the Rad.
zeal party hang together on these issues |
It is impossible. The new dogmas which
are fast rendering it odious to the white
man and freeman of America, may for q
brief period divert its members from the
real and serious matters to be disposed of
but this diversion can not last long. W.
repeat that our conviction is the seeds Of
dissolution are scattered broadcast in the
Radical ranks, and that soon the power.
full, corrupt and proscriptive "King'
which has been permitted to control that
party, must break and go to pieces
God speed the day !1Examiner.
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