The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-14

| In the midst OF these dark kening days, when
the laborer goes about the streets in quest Of
food, and grinding is low, and the skeleton
want looks in Mt the doors aud windows Of
many an honest household, you are taxed
by Congress for the support of n standing
army beyond what any other people endures
beneath the sun.
1.-THE people of tho United States are pay.
| ing over five hundred millions of annual
revenue. More than one half of that most
enormous amount is swallowed up by the
Congressional policy Of reconstruction. Ii
the farmer or mechanic pay twenty dollars
to the tax-gathorcr, ten of it goes rs n trib.
ute 10 II vast military government, which
exists in plain, open and confessed violation
Of the Constitution. If your property is
advertised on the trees, mt crossroads, and
ON the doors of public houses for delinquent
and unpaid taxes, remember that they would
not have been heavy, and you might easily
have paid them II the standing army had
been abolished and the expense of govern.
ing the Southern States left where it belongs.
with the people of those States"
CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
And the generous aud growing farms,
those plantations Of more than Orenta!
magniteenec, from which all this startling
wealth was obtained, aud which have been
derided by the disciples of New England
what was their value? They were worth
over one thousand four hundred millions Of
dollars, while all the real estate of a similar
character in New England was appriscd at
four hundred and seyenty.five millions.
Where n0w is MI this mighty wealth Of
the South? Where Is her corn, her cotton,
aud her cattle? Why do her ineahaustable
acres lie barren aud unworked? Why do
her gigantic resources invite none of the
capital of the world? Why does business
enterprise tnrn away from this natural par.
adise of trade? Why does the cmigrant, in
search Of home, 60 To colder. harder and
poorer regions? There. YOU can look and
behold the reasons. for yourselves. The
Radical Congress has killed the life. the
hope. and the prosperity of the most fruit.
ful portion Of tho Republic
=" Oace il poured into the lap Of foster.
ling and protesting government n stream oi
treasure as deep and strong as the current
of It's own Mississippi. Now it hangs like
a paralyzed limb. helpless incumbrauce.
Ia poor pensioner and burden upon the pa.
tience AMI bounty to the rest uf the body
It's fields are smittcn with m unnatural ster.
|illty. Every production has withcred and
died. as If some vast upas tree had cast il.
shade over all. i fatal and dezolntine
blight is upon the land, upon the noun.
tains, nud upon the corn, and upon the new
wine, aud upon the oil. and upon that which
the ground bringeih forth, and upon men.
and upon the labor of tho hands In her
ancient glory aud strength she could meet
one-half the taxation which now darkens
the face Of the land She could take from
your shoulder one.half the load that uow
beads You TO the earth. The South. in a
natural condition of prospcrity-,he child
Iof protection instead If oppression--an oh
lject Of love, and not Of hate. spoliation and
venge'mce ON the part Of the government
could pay two hundred aud fifty millions q
year, rs her share Of the revenue
Under the present murderous policy
however, toward her, 1t costs two hundred
land fifty millions year ~ govern, erusl
and destroy her--tnaking difference 0f fiy.
hundred millions. an amount almost equa
20 the entire expenses Of the government
The Radical policy has not only set fire I,
and consumed one half Of the granaries, th'
stacks aud harvest. fields of the United
States, but it likewise taxes what is left q
keep standing army over ihc CHASTITY ant
Ismonidering ruins il has made.
But may be told that the destruction o
lslayery is the cause Of the destruction Of 81
much wealth that the figures which hayi
produced from the census Of 1860 were base,
upon slave labor. At that time the Soutl
containcd a white population of 4,G04, 900
rs black population numbered 1896, 900
There that population, trained to labor, re
mains to-day. The ravagcs Of war and tn
results OF emancipation have been made up
or nearly so, by the law Of natural increase
The statcsmanship, then. Of the country
finds a vast laboring population in possession
Of the most fertile and productive region o
the earth, and by its policy, turns that regiol
into barren desert and h0wling wilder
, ness. The rich lands are all flltre. Th
brawny and stalwart labor is there, and nc
tual want is there. But the miserable m,
lncendiary politician from tho North il ais
there the infamous Union League, wit
r which to seduee the negro to his ruin, i
there; a vast and appalling military despot
ism, created and used by political party 70
purposes of party abomination, is there; th
Freedmen's Bureau, that guarantee out O
our pockets that the negro may live withou
work, is there, with its mighty clan Of PERM
cious, poisonous emissaries and the dark
ness, reptiles, locusts and plaques were no
more fatal to Egypt than are these giganti
D evils to that ruined land. We hear the dread
full cry of actual starvation coming up Mt thi
moment from country richer far than tn
: delta Of the Nile. A loan of thirty millions
to be paid by you, is in contemplation by tn
s officers of the Freedmen's Bureau at Wash
ington, with which to maintain people VIII
will not work or let others work, in the gal
= den spot of creation. Is this the banquet I
!. which you were invited by the abolition {
!. slavery Is this the feast Of good things I
. which you were bidden by the Abolition en-
isaries?' IH
s. RADICAL PURPOSES.
"Thus Radical reconstruction proceeds, an
it is the.open and avowed purpose Of Congret
4 TO admit these States thus in the hands an
e under the control Of the negroes, before tn
session closes. The great crime is presse
now each day and hour with fierce desperi
q ton. And who so blind as not to see til
0dious purposes. A Presidential election
at hand, and the first fruits of this accurse
!, conspiracy are to be seventy electoral yot'
y deposited for the Radical candidate by I'll
hands of the negro. The negroes ofGeorgi
in their dense barbarity, are to outvote II
b freemen of Indiana in the choice of a Chi
" Magistrate The negro on the levees Of Il
Mississippi is to drown the voice of the inte
/ ligent farmer of the North. I speak adyi
It edIy.
'sThe Radical leaders, since the late ele
tions. expect to carry but few of the Mort
:. Eern States. They despair ofcontrolling az
70 longer the white vote Of the country. Thf
seek no longer to govern this great repnbl
q by the white mans influence, They yie
+ all that to the Democratic party, and denoun
a white mans party as an intolerable offens
But with seventy negro electoral votes, al
IN Ffn fhor41 addad xyofocs of accnQ a.