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

Before the late elections took place
elections which generally resulted
very disastrously to the Mongrel par
ty-all the Mongrel papers of Oregon
favored, more or less positively, the
abhorrent doctrine of Negro Equali-
ty. But since the election some of
them have manifested desire to COW
er up their tracks and give Negro
Equality the cold shoulder. The Sa-
lem Record, though really an advo-
cate of the doctrine, is of this num-
Der. But the Journal, and Oregoni-
an, and U1aionist, are all outspoken in
favor of the dogma,
Occasionally we meet with Radi-
cal, of the rank and file, who does not
believe in Negro Equality Talk
with him on this subject and he will
tell you frankly that he thinks ne
groes should not be allowed to vote:
and that he does not believe that his
party desires to clothe them with this
power. We would ask all such to re-
member that Congress has already
given them that right in all the South
ern States and in all the Territories
and that Radical leaders, like Thad
Stevens, hold that the Constitution rs
it is now amended, confers the right
of suffrage not only upon negroes,
but also upon Indians, Cinnamon,
Kanakas and Greasers of every dis
cription. Please read what we pub
lish to-day in another column, on this
subject.
We need not, indeed, go from home
to obtain evidence that the chief Mon
grel leaders of Oregon are fully COM
mitted to this revolving doctrine of
Negro Equality. Gov. Woods, who
is advertised to address the faithful
of Albany next Tuesday, boldly ad-
vOeated it, on the stump, last fall, in
California. Senator Williams did the
same thing in his last speech in Al
bany, and in sundry other places in
Oregon. His Portland speech is print
ed. and there is no chance for dodging
1t. We ourself put him on the rec
ord on this point; and our report, so
far from being denied, was admitted
to be correct by the Oregoa,ian and
that mendacious sheet ridiculed the
idea that Williams would ever deny
such to be his position. The Albany
journal endorsed Williams speech
entire, thereby making the Senator's
views It's own; and not content with
this it continues, from week to week,
to urge its views upon the c0nsidera-
ton Of ats readers. Last MONDAYS
issue, for example, takes the ground
thatyno matter how many or how
great victories may be achieved by
the Democracy, Reconstruction can
not be reversed" It says the suff-
rage question is past ali recall, and
that the 40th Congress was elected to
"settle the question .foreger." It says
that what the South needed was
new constituency, and that its wants
in this regard have been supplied On
iy by the coIored element. That is to
say, in plain English, the niggers are
better qualified to exercise the right
of suffrage than the Caucasian race.
1t says that the Democratic party can
as well repeal emancipation or the
Declaration of Independence Gas i'm
partial suffrage" And the editor clo-
ses his niger article by declaring.
that he has reasons to believe the
blacks alone would prove quite as
good governors as the whites alone
have done"
Let no conservative Republican lay
the fattering JUNCTION to his soul that
the Mongrels, with whom he is acting,
have abandoned the doctrine of Ne
gro Equality. The late elections will
make the more cautious among them
thrust it in the background for a
time; but, unless they are checked, it
is as certain that the Mongrels will
ultimately establish Negro Equality
all over the Union as it is that the
earth will continue to reyolve upon
its axis, thus producing day and
night,-or that twill not cease its an
nual journey round the sun.