The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-05-16

A CARD.
Editor Gkate Ria1ts Democrat,

Editor State Rights Democrat:
Permit the undersigned, through the col.
umns of your valuable paper, to correct a
false report which has found its way into our
community through the fallibility Of human
nature to err, when measuring another
mans corn in their own half. bushel - and
more especially the Republican party just
now on their errands Of charity to sore. headed
Democrats-such creatures rs we do not have
in the whole rank and file Of the Linn coun.
ty Democracy.
Not long since | was politely accosted by
q Republican friend, in Albany, to know
whether wished my name run on m indie.
pendent ticket for Commissioner to which
| replied that | did not want Office, and that
this thing Of running on independent tickets
never took with me. lie informed me that
such was the report. Now it Is in order to
correct such report that | ask some humble
corner in your paper.
l here most emphatically state that have
never given the shadow Of a cause for such
report ; and IL the Republican party were
to elect me to any Office Of either honor or
profit, | would utterly refuse to serve. /
owe allegiance to none but 10 my country.
My motto is principle before self. interest.
The lifc.germ of the liberty of my country
is now bleeding at every pore, through the
malfeasance of Republican misrulc, and
lives only in the bosom Of true Democracy,
where my home has ever been, politically.
Il is there that ! ever have worked, and there
alone that shall continue 10 work and
hereby forewarn the Republican party, or
the fag.cnd of any political party, TO mix
not my name with the destroyers Of my
country to conspire against true Democratic
party rules, usages or principles thing
which have never done, and trust / never
shall do. It very forcibly occurs TO my mind
that our Republican friends are very hard
run, indeed, when they have to resort to the
Democratic party to "gobble up" a mongrel
ticket. o, consistency, where art thou? Not
in the Republican ranks, for but a few years
or months have elapsed since the Democratic
party were denounced by them as a band Of
traitors to their country; ard there has been
no change since then in the Democratic par,
~; yet they have little enough regard for their
own judgment to turn around, when theii
own corrupt maneuycring has caused them
TO fall in the rear, and try to destroy the
Democratic party by the pitiful subterfug'
Of mixing up. Let it be remembered by tbs
Democracy that the Republican party have
already amalgama.ed one shade darker IL
color than 10 calculated to suit men Of taste
Let them appeal 10 their equals for succor il
time Of great need-that is, to their Ameri
can friends Of African descent, whom the,
esteem as their equals. The Democracy, IL
their rure III eyes, were not worthy Of equal
ity with themselves aud sable equals. Now,
BY what legcrdemain can they call on rebels
traitors and copperheads 10 Gil Offices Of trust
and support them at the polls 10 the cxclu
sion Of themselves aud their equals?
! now purpose, life and health bein,
spared, 10 g 10 the polls the first Of Jun
next. and there 10 cast d vote for the rhoI
Democratic ticket-not ono left out. And
would say to my friends, come up 10 tn
polls we have q common cause. and that j
the good Of our country. We have no enc
mics to punish. no favori,es 60 reward. n
freedom Of speech TO suppress, no presses {
demolish-ss our friends did when they haf
a little brief show of power; but We hay
Goals Of fire 20 heap upon their guilty head
by marching up 70 the polls like men an
using our power, through the elective fran
chise. for the good Of our country and no
for the wreaking of vengeance on a ~vanquish
cd foe. or, like wolves or dogs, 20 giut an in
satiable appetite with the spoils OF our coun
try. Constitutional power is all that tn
Democracy ever asked, ell they ever exer
cised, and all they ever want. This power
rest assured, they mean to exercise at tn
coming polls, till its thunder shall be hear,
nfar OF. and fear shall cause the dark den
Of the Union lcaguers 10 shake from centr
TO circumference.
Yours. truly, A. MILLER, in.