The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-31
PHILLIPS PHOTOGRAPHS
GRANT.

Wendell Phillips is the ablcst repre-.
sentative man Of the Mongrel party. lie
did more to build up Radicalism as at
present embodied in the so-called Repub-
licau party than any man in the country.
He has u right, therefore, to speak for
and 70 his party, with freedom that
mightnot be tolerablc in men Of lesser
note aud calibrc. This right at any rate
he INDUCES. In tho Anti.Slavcry Stand
ard Of September oath under the caption
OF " Our Duty" he says some hard things
of his party and its nominee. We give
some extracts from it:
A GRAVE MISTAKE.
In 1864, when Lincoln was nominated,
we made an earnest effort to rally third
party on a more Radical platform We
rejoice that we made the effort, and still
esteem it evidence of wise patriotism.
The reelection Of 1r. LtacoM gcas a
brare mistake, from, tchich Kind Provi-
deace saved as by his death.
NO THIRD PARTY.
Our effort and protest in 1864 were
vain. AS useless aud vain now it seems
to us, would be any effort to organize
third party. And there arc some reasons
which render it largely, ifnot wholly un-
necessary. In 1864 the MASSES were not,
by any means, alive to the duty Of the
hour. Ready for any step, they had no
idea what step was needed. Further,
they leaned with far too much trust on
Nlr, Lincoln's supposed craftsmanship and
honesty.
Now the case is different. The people
have been largely educated to the Ma
tons necessity aud duty, and do not af-
feet to put off any share Of it OH the
shoulders Of Grant, or fancy that he can
or will lead anybody, or anything. THEY
see IN him n to0i, not Il ieaier
SLAP AT THE RUMP.
Our latest criticism en- the Republican
party is that they, BY shear incapacity,
hare put H,e nation into unnecessary peril.
When the impeachment failed, il was
madness to 60 on aud admit the rebel
States 10 their old places Without land
without arms, with but little organiza.
ton, the loyal vote lies at the mercy Of
/
tlat whoever votes the Democratic ticket
viii be discharged from the mills, how
many will risk sutfcrines 10 support their
principles? The negro not only risks
starvation, but walks to the ballot box with
pistol at his breast, II m such ci.cum.
stances he stands by the flag. VIC shall
hcnceiorth maintain that hc Jidck race
u superior 10 our ocH-ticre Is no J,age
IN tie american or Engiish history ichich
records II cicH right maintained by he
masses under such fearfat conditions.
/ Congress betrayed It's trust when it sub
ljccled the nation to such peril The
members proved Themselves thoroughly
| Incapable or dishonest, when they ad-
| journcd in the presence of such danger.
4 BEoADsIDE At GRANT
/ IHc hare little confidence IN Grant
Tie best thing about him Is that lie Is dc
siirous 10 erecute The Nations sciU He i
no taaitor like johnson, neither has he
any statesDian-iIe comprehension 4:
hour We fear he belongs more TO Mor.
gan, Conkling aud Howard than TO Sum-
ncr aud W e. lie icas drunk IN The
IpuJiic street since tie first day IF .IanH-
ary. This is fact as patent as the sun
at MONDAY; r but those too dishonest
to be trusted public journals (bats
passing thems, . off for owls), deny it.
lie is West Point graduate with his
sympathies all in the wrong direction.-
lie has just been through a war which
was Gods command to one race TO do
Justice to another war whose root was
slavery aud whose fruit was Freedom
Yct Of the hatCdozen catch ioords the
Nation has ertor1ed from, his lips, not
one has any relation to Liberty. The
notices he has lent to politics, or history,
are such as bulldog might have growl-
ed forth. A nation battling for an idea
takes for its leader man confessedly
destitute Of ideas. 4 stout soldier, an
honest administrative ofiicer--but had
the nation been made of Grants, there
never would have been an anti.slayery
enterprise, an emancipation proclamation,
any " North" or any "South." France
might as we'll have taken Murat for her
Napoleon, or England put Rocbuck in
PeePs place. Our King Log IS not i'm
posed Vpon as ace select him ourseloes.
GRANT A MERE MITE.
Nevertheless he is but shallow and
short-sightcd critic who sees only Grant
before him. Grant is only the almost in
visible point of the broad and every day
broadening mass of purpose and resolve
and necessity behind him. Though the
nation has not been lifted to the full com
prehension Of its own work, it builds de-
termnatcly, by instinct, as it were. 1t
cannot comprehend, much more accept, a
principle. 1t gropes, half in light, half
in darkness has found out Fessenden's
incapacity, but still hugs the delusion OF
his honesty. Like Millions lion, it has
not wholly emerged into shape or freed
I"its hinderparts." But its purpose is
clear and full-over no matter how maSy
pref udices, it will put beyond contingency
the nation-and leave it nothing to blush
for when it stands in the sisterhood OF
Christendom,
A wHITE-HoUsE BUMBAILIFF.
j We must accept the hour, not force it.
Grants election means progress. We
, hope it means iron hand of a just govern.
; ment laid relentlessly on rebels. We
hope to see at last lover of liberty in the
White House, one who loved and under.
stood what Lincoln only submitted to-
IF we cannot have that, give US at least 6
constable who will remorselessly execute