The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-04-18
WHAT DEMOCRATs Will DO.

the Reconstruction measures of Con.
gress, said that Mr.. Smith was very
good at finding fault with everything
the Union party had done; but he
does not tell us what he would do if
he were in Congress. lie wanted to
know of Mr.. Smith and the Democrat
ic party how they would reconstruct
the Union if they had the power
Mr.. Smith, in reply, noticed this
point of Nh. Logan, but did not ham
die it as fully as he would have done
If he had had more time. We will tell
Mr.. Logan what the Democratic par
ty will do when they shall have again
attained power.
First, as to Reconstruction. The
five military satraps will be recalled,
and the army under them will be dis
banded-thus saving at least $780,
100000 annually, and removing, to
some extent, the iron heel of despot-
ism hat is now grinding the Southern
people into the earth. The ballot
will be restored to the whites who
have been disfranchised, and the igno-
rant, brutal negro, who scarcely
knows his right hand from his left,
will not be permitted longer to vote,
and thus govern white lei He
will remain free, but he will not
be permitted to exercise the right of
franchise, because he is but little bet
ter qualified TO do so than the baboon
which inhabits the jungles of Africa.
White men will rule America when
Democrats again control the Govern
ment. At the close of the war the
Southern States needed but little Re
construction. When the rebellion
collapsed all they needed was to have
their State Governments put in mo-
ton. The States had not ceased TO
exist. Their attempts to secede had
failed and therefore when the war
closed they were still in the Union
Their rights as States were not de-
stroyed, but were simply held in abey-
ance; and the moment rebellion
ceased they should have resumed
their former position in the Govern
ment. When Democrats get into
power again the negro bureau will be
abolished-thus causing negroes to
support themselves, and thus lifting
an enormous burden from the shout
ders of the white laborers of the ma
ton. When Democrats again rule
the country taxation will be equalized.
\ high protective tariff, whose chief
tendency is to enrich the manufactur-
er at the expense of the consumer, will
be abrOgated, and a tariff for revenue
viii take its place. Bondholders, who
now hold property to the amount OF
81, 500, 600, 900 not taxed, will be com
PEELED to pay taxes like other men,
and thus contribute their proportion
to the support of the Government
Let the Democracy again control the
Government, and the Constitution
will be maintained ~inviolate. The
powers which the present Rump Con
gress have usurped will be restored
to the several coordinate branches OF
government from which they have
been wrested. One branch of the
government will not trench upon the
rights and privileges of another. The
Judiciary will be respected, its con
stitutiOnal powers restored, and its ju-
dicial decisions will be regarded as
authoritative and final. The Presi-
dent will again be made what the
Constitution makes him-the comman-
der-in-chief of the army and navy OF
the United States, and all other mill.
tsry men viii be subordinate to him.
In short, the good old Democratic
times this country enjoyed under
Democratic rule will again be inau-
gurated. Every man will sit under
his own vine and fg-tree with none
to modest or make him afraid; and
the Constitution as our fathers made
it will be the supreme law of the
land