The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-08-15

does the philosophy of the radical for the
black man embrace those other races and
tribes.
But let us go stop further. These
people that are so wild and crazy on the
subject of the black mans vote say, in
the Chicago platform, that TO deny to the
race the right of suffrage or the power OF
free government, is sort of sacrilege
against humanity They say he is man
and brother; consequently capable of
selfgovernment. am opposed to negro
suffrage because he is not capable of self.
government. He is not safe deposito.
~ for the ballot. In all the annals of
the human race, you remain to-day as
the last people left between the earth aud
the sun upholding FREQ government -
but how much longer you viii do it, God
In His mercy alone knows. One-third of
your sky is darkened-one-third of your
land encountered with chains
Dir. Voorhees, further discussed the
question of the negro and his ability to
exercise the right eff suffrage, and then
continued:
4nE Nd4S<AOO
But let Us go step farther, and for
the purpose of discussing two or three
other questions. / want to take up this
Chicago platform. They met at Chiea-
60 short time ago to nominate their can
didates. There was spot here and there
demonstrating to the great American
people, that, so far as one great political
party is concerned, they have broken
down the barrier that kept the black map
from civil aud social, as well as politich
equality. The first resolution is as FL
lows.
81. We congratulate the country on
the assured success Of the reconstruction
policy of Congress, as evinced 3y the
adoption, II a majority of the Safes late
ly in rebellioa, of constitution, securing
equal civil and political right to all -
and We regard it as the dutv of the gov
ernment to sustain those Institutions, and
to prevent the people of such States from
being remitted to stat Of anarchy"
Now, they congratulate the country
and State proposition as totally false as.
any proposition couli be made. need
only call your attertion to the fact that
In every one of tIeSe Southern State con-
:stitutions seven-enths of the white peo-
pie of those Sntes are disfranehised.-
Every person IN Arkansas that participa-
ted in the slightest degree In the rebel
lion, ACCORDING to one clause Of the con-
stitution, Is rendered incapable even of
keepinga ferry, or mill, l believe, or
any of those necessary pursuits, unless
he csn take the test oath and, when
4heg say that they have extended equal,
cifil and political rights to all, they mean
simply to all negroes, not to all white
men. (Cheers.) Of course they don't
mean to all white men, because that is
false. Two-thirds of the people there
are disfranchised- of them
under those bastard constitutions gotten
up by the agents Of the freedmen's bu-
reau and the worthless negro population
there. When this party comes before
the country congratulating it that equal
civil and pOlitieal,rights are extended to
all IN those States adopting these negro
constitutions, they state paipable, will
full and preneditated falsehood- The on
ly escape from it in the world IS to say
that they didn't mean that the large
body of white people down there was
anybody at all, but that the aegroes were
all. Equal civil and political rights are
extended to the negroes, but when that
Is saidallissaid; for outside the negro
officials gathered up Of broken-down, de-
generate sons of the North, unable to
earn an honest living anywhere else than
by eating your bread and drinking your
wine at public expcnse-outside of such
worthless EAgabonds as they, the white
people of the South, as body, are dis
franchised by the State constitutions now
being adopted. Go to Tennessee-it is
not so bad as Arkansas. 1t has been in
operation there some time, and you can
witness its effects. How many white
people there are stricken from political
existence2 When Emerson Ethridge ran
for governor, he got about 10000 votes.
The other man, Brownlow, got about 20 :
900 or $4,000 It was conceded that
within small fraction Ethridge got the
whole of the white vote that was cast, es-
pecially outside of East Tennessee. A
still more sweeping prescription prevails
IN the constitution of Arkansas.
The constitution of Louisiana is as pro-
scriptive as the bloody laws once marked
out by Scylla, by Marius-marked by
the great leaders of victorious party
1t is as mischievous as the resolutions of
the jacobin club of France. And yet they
come before the country as if they had
restored millennium of peace and good
fellowship. By these constitutions they
have simply planted negro supremacy in
these States. given them the power to
elect members of Congress, which they
will speedily do, and senators; and /
heard Mr. Sumner say, that he hoped
soon to welcome negro senator's upon
that floor, to occupy the seats once occu.
pied by Clay, by Silas Wright, by Lew
Woodbury., by Webster and by Benton.
6irs, when you gs to Washington, and
sit in the galleries and you hear Pom
pey's name called, and Caesars, and Cuff
fees, you will hear the field hand of the
South vote upon the great questions Of
taxation, of commerce, of finance, and OF
national progress and national glory!
This is the programme marked out by
radiealism, fastened upon these States by
virtue of these resolutions that Colonel
Thompson drafted at Chicago, and came
down here to tell you that they meant all
we could desire. l ask of eonVersatiye men
OF the second district, outside of the dem
ocratle party, can you justify these things
w. II.