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


the foundation Of our government the
President has had the right to remove
his cabinet officers. No man with soul
in him, no man but q corrupt politician
would have remained in cabinet where
he was not wanted.
(Mr. Voorhees, here briefly referred TO
tho case of the removal of Secretary
Stanton and the tenure of Office bill, and
continued
Then they have a plank about foreign
Immigration, and plank in regard to the
rights of naturalized citizens abroad
Now, there have been somc Of our citi-
zens very unjustly imprisoned in Eng
land and Ireland. / believe, however,
that Congress is the war making power in
in this country. Congress and Congress
alone has the power to declare war for any
violation Of the rights of n citizen any.
where. The Radicals have Congress, and
yet they come with their lying cant bo-
fore tho foreign people Of this country as
though they were friends Of prisoners in
foreign countries.
Gentlemen, if you mean business, have
business. If you think England has tram.
Piled, and think she has, on the rights Of
natnrallzed citizens, the radicals have Con.
grcss aud II IL the law making power. Pass
your resolutions demanding redress, and, If
England don't act, then you have q remedy
IN your hands; but don't como before the
people pretending that you are for thing
when you have tho power 10 do that thing,
and don't do il. You resolve in favor Of for
eign citizens and don't act; and from first
to last that platform is moekery. There il
not an unqualified. straight out aud out com.
initial from beginning TO end 4; all ID condi-
tional, all diplomatic, all deception. There
is the platform on which they stand.
CONCLUSION
II Is not necessary to talk about men
i'll this connection. The American people
intend 10 grspple with mighty principles.
Our pathway lies before as. You, aud
| see the kings highway of glory, and
walk in tho path Of our fathers. Their
footsteps are plain. they are marked BY
the tears aud blood of the sous of the
revolution. The constitution hangs up
like great lamp in our dome, to guide US
on our way. What were States once are
States still what was u white mans gov
ernment once is a white mans govern.
ment still (applause); what was laboring
man government once is laboFlng man =
government still what was once gov
ernment OF equal taxation shall again be
government of equal taxation. Cheers
All the great landmarks are plain TO us.
We will invoke from this chaos the
lovely spirit of trial by jury, and there
she shall sit forever. Ne will call forth
again the habeas corpus, aud enthrone il
in all It's majesty once more until the sun
Of our prosperity shall know no eclipse
upon our Southern disc, and all the OBJ.
scured and benigh.ed stars shall appear
there again. Every star shall be un,
turled TO the breeze-every star shall
again radia.e its blessed light. All is
plain and easy for US. Oui house is built
upon a rock the rains may descend, the
winds may blow upon it, but il will not
fall. 1t will stand eternaily, based upon
truth aud principle. Upon the other
hand, there is the igniJ Jasnus to delude the
people still further and further into the
quagmire of destruction. Where is your
old blessed union, rising Phmnix.lIke
from its ashes. putting on its original glo
ry? Is il 10 the negro to rear again
these prostraie columns! The Radica
says yes say no. Where is the pledge
given to the laboring man for security
and protection in the sweat of his brow
Where is aught that the public good de
hands therez Where are the plain, out
spoken facts that become party when i
comes before the American people fol
their snffrages?
| have thus traced the position of the
two parties | have done it without tha
delberatjon and care beforehand which
always is demanded by as respectable anC
intelligent an audience as this. / have
been busy however / have travelled daI
aud night long distance to como here
| But these truths, however imperfectll
laid before you, are nevertheless, accord
ing to my deep.rooted convictions, ever
lasting truths, without which this peopl
cannot prosper without which there cal
be no union or fraternity or future glory
To the young men that are rising "a
let me say word No better time thai
now was ever known to cast your fortune
with the Democratic party. Ii has seize'
upon the great forward progressive issue
It's history is full of glory in the past
| Faults it has had who has not Par
ties are not iniallable, any more than men
but its banner is one of proud renown.-
Sixty odd years ago it took your countr
on the Inauguration of Jefferson. Unde
its lead of progress, the map of empire ha
been unroled. State after State has bee
embraced in its loving arms, star after sta
has blazed out upon its flag, and the Mis-
sissippi valley has been crossed, the Rock
Mountains have been scaled and the col
ors of the Democratic party planted on tn
coast of the Pacific. But let us not see
the vengeance of hate. The worst name
recorded by history as illustrations of hu
man depravity, are those that, in the hou
of victory, indulge in spirit of destruC
ton. Whose names so hateful as tn
Mariuses, the Neros, the Scyllas, the Ii
berisuses and the Robespierres? An
hereafter, when the calm historian record
the deeds of Buler, the malignant; Bine
ham, the prosecutor of women, he wi
record them simply to instruct the risin
youth what examples to avoid and thos
that have taught forgiveness and recon
ciliation in this hour, in the spirit of tn
Great Master of the skies, will be spoke
of as statesmen and benefactors OF mar
kind.
Those of us that have obloquy now wi
then stand on clear page. What care
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