The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-28

Aiu cHlluTen, mute auu IOatne our OOV-
ernment, to hate it with perfect hatred,
10 gather around the family altar upon
heir Bonded knees 10 curse it, and in the
agony Of prayer to call upon God to curse
10, rs this Radical reconstruction which
'ecks 10 disfranchise the heart and brain
4 the South, and to subject at the point
OF the bayonct the white race to the do
minion of their late half civilized African
slaves Instead of peace it gives them
a sword instead Of hope it fills them
with despair; instead o. civil liberty it
gives them military dcspolism. White
leiranchiscment and negro domination
sas the idea which inspired and proyok-
d the riot at New Orleans. 1t has a..
Eyed everywhere the blacks and white
in hostility 10 each other, often resulting
n bloodshed all over the South. II tends
lIrecily to bring on that war Of races
which in the West Indies enacted scenes
OF horror TO sicken and appal the world.
That war is now impending over all the
SDuth-it il only the presence Of the
Federal army which prevents its outbreak
upon gigantic scale-a war which, once
begun, will end. ! fear, in the exile of
determination Of the blacks, from the Po.
tomac 10 the Rio Grandc. On the Sd of
January, 1867, Dir. Stevens, in the
House of Representatives, used this Ian
guagc, which find reported iu the GkoLe:
Another good reason is, il would insure
the asccndancy of the Union party. Do
You avow the party purposes, cxclaims
some horror stricken demagogue? / do"
The party purpose is here avowed in the
House In his speeches and letters else
where, Mr. Stevens again and again. in
stronger language, ayows the real pur-
pose of this legislation TO them main.
ly refer. The negroes, under the tutel
age Of the Freedmen's Bureau, led by
Radical emissaries, or pushed by Federal
bayonets, must take the political control
OF these States in order to obtain their
votes in the Electoral College, or in the
House of Representatives. or in the cleo
iion Of the next President. Here is n
reason, and just such reason as the bold
Radical would give. II is in keepipg
with his revolutionary history. The let
ter Of General Pope when in command
Of the districts, recently published, draws
aside the veil aud discloses the fact that
the same party purpose seeks to control
the bayonet also. This argument for
purity ascendancy all can understand. 1t
IS bold. clear aud logical. 1t is the argu.
fncnt of necessity addressing itself to un.
scrupulous ambition. One syilogiSm con-
taIns the whole Of it: '.We must" saws
the Radical, "clect the next President
The negroes, under the lead of our Bu.
reau or the control of our bayoncts. will
vote for our candidate. The whites. out
ragged By our attempt to put the negro
over them, will vote against him. There
fore the bayonet must place the negro in
power in these States TO give US seventy
electoral votes for President. twenty SEN
ators, and fifty members of the House"
The result Of the recent elections, show
ing that majority in the Northern and
Western States is opposed to that policy,
so far from changing a resolution from
which the Radical party dare not retreat,
is pushing it on to the madness OF de-
spair. II sees that its majority in the
North and West is already lost. 1t dare
not exclude the South in the next cleo
ton. The South must be forced at the
point of the bayonet, by white disfran-
chiscment and negro suffrage, to vote for
the Radical candidate, or he will be beat
en-. The majority in the Northern and
Western States against him must, there
fore. be overcome by the negro vote of
the South.
Sir, We shall see if the people of the
United States will allow the regular army,
which now control this ignorant vote in
the South, to hold the balance of power
in the Republic and to elect to the Presi-
dency the candidate of negro supremacy,
upheld by military despotism. Shall Pre-
torian bands control the Presidency, as in
the degenerate days of Rome they set up
the empire for sale? am no prophet
but, if not mistaken in the signs of the
times, the American people are not yet
for that. The Democratic party,
everywhere freeing itself from the errors
of the past, planting itself upon the liv-
ing issues of the hour, welcoming into its
ranks all who are opposed to this Radical
and barbarian policy of subjugating the
States of the South to negro supremacy
by military dictatorship, all who are in ia-
vor of maintaining the integrity of the
Union, the rights of the States, and the
Liberties of the people under the Consti-
tuition, and all who admit neither the doc
trine of Southern radicalisim, that State
may secede from the Union, nor admit
that other doctrine of the Northern radi-
Gals, no less revolutionary, that Congress
may exclude or disfranchise ten States
from tho Union, are now coming together
upon the platform of the fathers of the
Constitution, and in the same fraternal
spirit in which it was formed, and by
which alone it can be maintained In the
actual prosecution of the war, in the
camp, and on the field of battle, in the
rank aud file. as well as in command, we
found no distinction whatever. Shoulder
to shoulder, Democrats and Republicans
stood together like brothers on every bat
tlefeld from the beginning to the end of
the rebellion. To defend the Union and
the Constitution against overthrow by
Southern radicalism in arms againstt them,
they brayed every danger and endured
every hardship. Together they stood in
the day Of conflict, freely barring their bo-
SONS to each others defence together Of
ten their life's blood gushed and mingled,
md side by side they now sleep their last
sleep in their honored graves. There they
will sleep together till Heaven calls them
20 their reward.