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

Before another seven days will have
rolled around, and the DEMOCRAT
shall have another opportunity of
greeting its many patrons, great and
momentous issues will have been de-
cided-a grand stroke for the veal or
woe of the country will have been
made. Freedom from enormous and
crushing burdens will be dawning
upon the people, sending a halo Of
hope and JOY across the threshold of
the poor laborer and mechanic of the
nation, or the gloom of another four
years of oppression, tyranny and usur-
pations of those sacrad political privi.
leges which are alone vested in the |
States and the people thereof by our
Constitution, will be settling down
upon our country with tcnfold black.
ness and intensity. The question will
have been decided whether that iinan-
cial system which makes one class of
our citizens millionaires and purse |
proud aristocrats at the expense of
another and poorer class of the people,
is to become fundamental and last
ing measure; or whether the just and
equitable principle of one class of
taxes and one kind of money for all
classes shall become fixed policy in
the financial economy of our nation.
1t will be decided whether we are to
have Mongrcl Government Gov
ernment where the scmi-civilizcd
Asiatic, the savage Indian and the
barbarous African are to share alike
with the Anglo.Saxon those incstima-
bic privileges for which our Revolu-
tionary sires once pledged their ''lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred hon
ors," and for which they endured un-
told hardships for eight long and
bloody years or whether, in accord
anee with their wishes and instruc-
tions, VIC are to preserve this as 4
"White Mans Government, made by
White Men for White Men and their
posterity forever" The people will
next Tuesday decide by their ballots
whether we arc TO have debt of bill
lions of money saddlcd upon us for
years to come, running our prospects
At home and impairing our credit
abroad or whether a policy will be
accepted and inauguratcd by which
VIC can honorably and fairly liquidatc
that public debt which is now resting
upon our pceple as an incubus, para
lizing our industry at home and pros
trating our commercial relations with
other countries. The matter will be
determined whether the people desire
to elevate to the Executive Office
man whose prestige and fame have
only been acquired in the last eight
years of wild passion, and bitter
strife, and deadly fueds between two
sections Of our common country, aud
whose only virtuc(?) il tI.at he has cx-
pressed no policy or forcShadowing of
how he will discharge the duties of
his important Office "a man of no
statesman like abilities, no admins
trative capacity, and no known nat
ural endowments sufficient to fit him
for so high trust or whether the
people will elevate man to the Pres
idency whose public history and rec
ord are in keeping with those of
Americas most gifted sons, and whose
claim to craftsmanship is not contro-
verted even by his bittercst partizan
enemies one whose private life is as
pure and stainless as his. public acts
are consistant and brilliant, and who
has given us sufficient guarantee of
his conduct in the future by his whole
past career in the public services
rendered to the people of the great
Empire State-almost a nation IN
itself
In view Of the issues inyolved-in
view Of the dangers and disasters
which threaten our country in the
event of the success of Radicalism in
the pending conflict, we trust every
voter Will resolve the matter fully in
his mind before voting, and that he
will go to the polls on next Tuesday
determined to strike one more blow
for liberty, his family and the pros
perity of his country, and cast his suf-
frage for those men who have been
put forward by the White Men of the
Country-SEYMoUR AID BLAIR.
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"OREGON is SAFE"