The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-01-04

By Negro Equality we mean that
policy or doctrine which would place
the Negro race on the same political,
legal and social footing with the white
race 1t is that doctrine that would
give the negro the balIot;-that would
allow him to sit on juries to try white
men that would give him a seat in
our State and National Legislatures !;
that would clothe him with the
judicial ermine that would send
him to foreign countries as Minister
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary;-
and that would, when opportunity
shall offer, place him in the Chair a
Washington once occupied. 1t is that
doctrine which, when fully carried out,
gives the negro the right to aspire to
matrimonial alliances with white wo-
men, and which inevitably leads to
the amalgamation of the races. 1t is
that doctrine which claims that the
negroes of the South can not only gov
ern themselves, but they shall rule
the white race down there, and to a
greater or less extent, the future des-
tiny of the whole country.
Thisls what we mean by Negro Equal
ity. It is to this we are irreconcilably
opposed. But it is this that the great
Headers of the Mongrels, all over the
Union, are sustaining with all their
power and eloquence. Some may de-
ny this; some Of the small-fry in Or
.egon do deny it, for the reason they
fear it will be unpopular in this State.
But all their great meR-all their lead
ers-all theirP Phillipses, and Stevenses,
and Wades, and Summers, and Gree
leys,-men who made the party and
control its moyements-are each and
all In favor of this odious and disgust
ing doctrine of Negro Equality; and
the little chiefs who spout grandilo-
quently before primaries and "Grant
Clubs, Together with the rank and
file, will follow wherever the big chiefs
lead. This has been their history IN
the past, and it viii continue such in
the future. When Lincoln was elect
ed they said they had no right, nor
desire to modest slavery in those States
where it then existed. We believed
them insincere when they made this
declaration, and in short time after
that, the war was prosecuted ostensi-
bly, to "save the Union," but really to
give vitality to Lincoln's Emancipa-
ton Proclamation.
We have been led thus distinctly
and clearly, as we trust, to state this
issue of Negro Equality, in conse-
quence of sundry newspaper squibs
that have appeared during this week
in some of our exchanges. In the lat
ter part of last week business called
us to Salem. We went down by boat !;
and it SO happened that small dele
cation of 'sAmerican citizens of Afri-
can descent" from Albany, went on
board at the same time, intending to
have a sort of glorifcation on the an
niyersary of the Emancipation Procla-
nation. The journal, the Unionist
and the Record, each refer to our trip
and we are told that one of the speak
ers who addressed the "Grant Club
last Monday evening, in referring to
it, succeeded in raising laugh at our
expense. The subjoined is clipped
from the Record
'sMr. Abbott, OF the Democrat, came down las
Friday with the delegation of colored people who
desire to attend the Anniversary Of Emancipation
While he lent his eountenanee to the good cause
thus far, regret that urgent business calls make
it ineonyenient for him to attend the services OF
next Wednesday,
We do not object at all to this thing
of perpetrating jokes on US; indeed
We usually laugh heartily at then
ourseIf But IN this case we have not