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

the South are He will tell you that the
white men are the disloyal except those
carpetbaggers and freedmen's bureau
agents. Applause.1 Now, that is true
according TO his construction of disloyalty
He says that every man that went into
the rebellion is still disloyaI Well, the
truth is that ninety-nine out of hundred
of the substantial men of the South were
in the rebellion. We might as well meet
this fact. They fought, were conquered
aud surrendered, and they have quit, Gen
Lee setting the example, Gen. Lee is not
meant here, but only those white men
who vote the radical ticket. They only
are loyal. / am not loyal when it comes tc
radicals construction of the term only
those that vote the radical ticket are loyal
aud the negro is primd .f1cie loyal
| They say that black skin means loyalty
The presumption down South is that the
white man is disloyal and that the black
man is loyal. As the lawyers say, the
presumption runs against the white man.
So that this guarantee likewise means
the negro.
But if it is the right of the negro to
vote, it Is inalienable and why hasn't he
the right to vote in Indiana aud Ohio al
we'll as in Georgia? Yet last fall the
question of negro suffrage was submitted
to the people of Ohio, and they voted il
down by nearly fifty thousand majority.
L was submitted to the people of Michi-
gan, and it was voted down by forty
Thousand majority. But they dare not
submit the question to the people of iudi-
ana, and they dare not it ut the South, but
they enforce it South by legislative pro-
ceedings in congress, supported by the
bayonet, for which you pay out of your
hard earned taxes. Negro suffrage there
is a good thing. What is this but a party
trick What is this but a spotted aud
piebald platform If it is right for a
black man to vote there, it is right for
him to vote here. Why do this party
not stand up like men, and advocate the
doctrine logically? No meaner, no more
cowardfy, no more pitilul, no more evasive
and mean dodge was ever placed before
the American people in political plat
form than that second pitiful plank--white
North and black South. GCheers
Now let US see what comes next. All.
gentlemen, there will be reckoning.
Well they know that this people will not
go into partnership with the black man.
Well they know that they dare not submit
the question squarely to the people, but
appeal to your prejudices aud your pas
sions. A people that are powerless and
helpless they degrade, because they have
the power Ii this were doue 10 the aeo
pie of Indiana. so help my F.ther in
Heaven, / would lesTe the boundaries Of
your State aud take Up with some other
people, who believe in equal and exact
justice to all men, and exclusive privil
eges to no men, and that act on the prin.
ciple of the golden rule-'sDo unto other.
as you would have them do unto you. -
[Applause.l Here Is another:
's3. We denouuce all forms of repudia.
ton as national crimes, aud the national
honor requires the payment of the public
Indebtedness, in the utmost good faith tC
all creditors at home aud broad, moi
only according to the letter, but the
spirit of the laws under which it was con.
traeted."
l am not for reputation, nor are you
but Governor Morton and other leading
men say that the payment of bonds in
greenbaeks is reputation. "We denounce
all FORMS" and that includes denonncipl
the payment of your fve-twenties il
greenbaeks. They wanted to signify thai
they wanted to pay the bonds in gold, bu
they don't dare to say that. They would
pay the. bonds, mot only according Il
the letter, but the spirit of the law
The bondholder claims the the spirit o
the law especially. Those fellows tha
always want something wrong will get VI
some particular notion about a higher
law than the constitution, and seem Il
have got hold of that doctrine.
Allforms of repudiation they denounce
But democrats don't talk in any uncer
tain. tone on this question. We are no
for reputation, and, therefore, we are il
favor of paying every public credito
alike; for if you make determinations
and pay one class in one kind of none,
aud another class in another kind not s
valuable, I tell you reputation will come
for no people will allow the laboring me-
to pay the debt in kind of currene
that rich man has not likewise to pa
In In other words, this financial ques
ton is one of the greatest Of this age
! We have a national debt amounting {
! 100000 900, and that is no more tina
one-half of your Indebtedness. Let u
look calmly at this. question Of debt.
will stand on that plank of the platforr
long enough to do what Greeley said h
did when Scott was nominated-to spi
on it. It is hard to tell exactly how muc
we do owe, they have such way of coz
ering up things from the eyes Of the pei
/ pie. But when the national, State, coun
ty and municipal taxes are all summe
up, the American people, as body, d
not owe less than six thousand millions {
nollars. You may double the nation;
debt by adding to it the State and loc;
taxes. But all has to be paid, and pai
but in one way, and that is by your har
earned taxes. Now, the wealthy men {
4 this country are what are called bono
holders. The poor man that owns fort
or eighty acres of land cannot lay
money enough to buy bonds, but whe
you here of man living on the interes
of his money, you say that he is well of
Well, the bondhoIder is just that. Thi
congress of the United States exempts
law the wealth covered by these govern
ment bonds-in other words, the ma
that before the war owned asteamboat ha
to pay taxes on all his property. He ha