The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-09-12
THURSDAY, JULY 10TH, 1865.
[By special telegraph to the EHquirsr.l
INTRODUCTORY

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INTRODUCTORY.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentienen:-It
will be impossible for me to make my
self heard in this immense audience un-
less you keep quiet; and | shall ask that
while am speaking you will allow me
to proceed without interruption. thank
you, gentlemen, for the very cordial re.
ception you have given me. I he Chair
man of your State Executive Committee,
who invited me to attend your meeting
to-day, told me that had no tr Ter friends
in the Union than | would Inc IT here in
West Virginia. You have proven his
statement true. | came obcdi6nt to your
bidding. | desired to see you; to make
your personal acquaintance; and TO return
to you my thanks for the warm aud con.
stant support of your delegates to the
National Convention. / came TO show
you that no personal disappointment lin
gers in my breast or dampens for an in
staut the ardor Of nay efforts for the sue
cess of our party; that far above all per.
sonal considerations rate the success Of
the principles in which | believe, and
that whoever shall bear the flag on which
those principles are inscribed, | shall bo
found close oy his side, in the thickcst of
the fight, To cheer him with my voice aud
to aid him with my arm. | came to urge
upon you. Democrats and Republicans
alike, to trample under foot every pre-.
possession, and prejudice, aud passion, if
it wers as dear as lie itself, aud rising TO
the height Of this great struggle, to re.
member that VIC have only 4 little life 10
Nivc. aud noble, enduring government
10 save.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE PARTY Oh
LIBERTY AND PROGRESS.
Iam a party man. / avow it. but not,
| trust, in any narrow or scctarian sense.
| am attached from conviction TO the
principles Of the Democratic party.
have studied It's history frotn the fouuda.
ton Of the Government. In the States /
have found it to be the party Of liberty
and progress. In the Federal Govern
mcnt have found it to be the exponent
Of that fundamental principle Of the Con-
stilut!on that " all powers which arc not
granted are reserved" IL has been the
consistent opponent Of consolidation 10
the one system, and Of excessive admins.
tration in the other. II has been at
once the firm supporter of the rights Of
the States aud Of the just powers Of the
Federal Government. Ia every yicissi-
tude Of our history il has appeared to d.
rect Us with It's wisdom, and to ex,ricatc
Us BY its courage, and today it stands as
it did in l793 and 1899, under the guild
ance Of Mr. Jefferson. pointing us the to
path of safety, which il now, as il was
then-the Constitution-the path Of ira.
;ernat harmony and peace.
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION THE SYM
Boil or 4 RESTORED UNION.
The Conysntion which cat in New
York was al august assembly. 1t was
the true council Of our party. 1t en-
braced our best. aud purest, and wisest
men The roll Of the States was called
and not one was without representative
The roll Of the districts was called, aud
not one was missing. The doctrine of
State suicide was not recognized. The
dissolution Of the Union was not &C.
knowlcdged. Every State was invited to
be present, aud every State accepted the
invitation. Every State selected such
citizens as she chose; and thus it happen
ed North Carolina, and South Carolina,
and Georgia, and Virginia, sat as in the
days Of the Revolution, in fraternal coun-
Gil with Massachusetts,, and New York,
and Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; and
that Hampton, aud Preston, and Forest,
sat side by side with Steedman and Nor
gan. The Convention was the sign and
the symbol, and the prophecy Of a restor-
ed Union and harmonious people. 1t
rose to the dignity of its high duty. The
eyes of the world were upon its proceed
ings-greater than the Holy Alliance,
which Subujated peoples and divided en-
pires, its mission was to enfranchise the
people Of our own race; to restore the
union of our States; and to maintain the
institutions of civil liberty. For the first
time in their history, the American peo-
pie realized that free government was in
danger, and that the fate Of the Republic
trembled in the balance. They had been
taught to believe that freedom was indi.
genous to our soil, and, shutting their
eyes to the teachings of all history, shut
ting their eyes to the facts con-
nected with our Revolution, they had
hugged to themselves the delusion that
whatever the storm of faction, of passion,
of revolutionary fervor. liberty at least
was safe. They had awakened from the
dream. AS they sent represent tltives to
the Convention, they charged them, as
the Dictator of old was charged: "Sec to
it that no detriment happens to the Re-
public"
THE PLATFORM.
BY unanimous vote they adopted
declaration of principles" fidelity to the
Constitutions" " fidelity to the Union;"
+" fidelity to the rights of the States;"
+" fidelity to the principles of civil liber-
ty;" fidelity to that policy in matters of
finance and taxation which, by paying the
public debt in legal tender notes, will lift
from the shoulders of labor the burthens
which oppress it, and by Tightening the
measure of taxation will secure it the just
rewards of cheerful and contented in
dustry" [Applause.l
THE NOMINEES
And the assertion of these principles