The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-05-02

ly to the fact that the "pcople" are moro
and more ranging themselves with the
Democracy, and that the year 1868 will
install that party in supreme power
Missouri Republican, February 20.
The High CrIme-Thc Real CrirnI-
mails.
Were the President as guilty as he is
guiltless, there are men at Washington
guiltier than he, and u greater crime is
doing than any he is accused Of. I'm
parchment is but the blind of these great
or criminals to hide this greater crime. 1t
behoovcs tho people Of the United States
to keep their attention fastened on this
great crime--the crime Of the Republican
party aud the Rump Congress-thc crime
of Disunion. Every other crime Of theirs
is less than this, or is adjuvaut to this
the greatest Of their crimes. Their US
urpation of the powers Of the Executive /,
their usurpation of the powers Of the
Judiciary; their attempted occupancy of
the Executive chair by the impeachment
process; their squandering Of the public
treasure their wholesale frauds upon the
revenue their continuance of the whis-
ky.tax at two dollars so an to get a few
millions of money for carrying the No
vembcr elections by suffering the whisky
thieves aud the bribed revenue officers to
plumber the people of fifty millions their
usurpation of the rights Of States to
control the suffrage and the prostitution
of the power thus usurped to abridge
white suffrage and confer the ballot by
wholesale upon ignorant blacks; these
indeed are crimes, but they are less than,
or tributary to, their greater crime.
Four years of successful war they pros
tituted to party purposes. Three years
of complete peace they have prostituted
to party purposes. Disunion still exists,
despite successful war, despite entire
peace. Party ascendancy is still their
sole purpose, aud their plan is to main
tain it by negro supremacy worked through
Il military despotism over ten States
Grant has consented 10 be their tool in
working the military despotism, but he is
only the General of the Armies of the
United States. A successful despotism
is not assured unless they can control the
Commander-in-C Chief Hence they i'm
peach the President who was the choice
of the people, to replace him by another
who has just been rejected by the people
Wade will be their plant tool. johnson
will not.
Disunion prolonged to keep the Repub-
lican party in power; Negro supremacy
worked by Military Dcspotism to keep
the Republican party in power after Dis
union becomes impossible These are
the high crimes of the Republican party,
these the misdemeanors of the Rump.-
These high crimes and misdcmeanors of
their own they now seek to abet, yet
draw attention from, by their sensational
impeachment of the President of the
United States.
Their charges against President John
son arc trash. It is scandalous effrontery
to utter or urge them. They deserve not
the dignity of fat denial. It is an in
suit to the understanding of any man to
demand their disproof. The obstinate
defender of the Constitution they impugn
as its violator. Their charges are trash,
as their schemes are glass.
Not he is the criminal. They are the
traitors. The Rump Congress are usurp-
ers and reyolutionists. They band to-
e tScF uNd boot their scandalous and inn
pudent lie in the fSSe Sece u HE natiaa. against
the Chief Magistrate whose crime Tor,
them has been that he has upheld aud
obeyed the Supreme Law--that he has
refused to conspire with them in disobe-
1ience and disunion, in usurpation and
treason.
Let the people keep their eyes on the
real traitors and the great crime. Let
them watch the genuine criminals as they
90 through their solemn mockery of i'm
peaching him who refused his consent to
every step of their crime. Let them fas-
Ten their gaze on the usurpers, the trai-
tors, the disunionists ~who mako of this
solemn procedure of an injured nation
The instrument of their hate against the
'teadfast upholder Of the nations laws.
Mark the revolutionists of the Rump as
hey insult the face of day with the pre-
;ence of concern for the laws which in
heir hands have been nothing but the
record of party caucus and the register
If party plans-for the constitution which
$ everywhere rent with the trampling of
heir brutal heels.
Let the sensational-spectacle of great
impeachment go on. Let traitors be min
sters of Justice; let usurpers affect re-
gard for divisions of power in the struct-
ire they have undermined, let revolu-
ionist uphold the Ark of the Covenant,
ct faithful Chief Magistrate stand in
he dock and Chief.J ustice preside who
$ ambitious Of his chair let the amaz-
ng mockery go on, but refuse to be |
by the disguises of their role,
} fellow Citizens and forget not for a
lay the real criminals and their high
Y. World.
A EAWYER ha;np sick mada his last