The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-21
The Important Question Before
the Country and its solution.

the Country and it's Solution.
Shall this great and proud republic be
governed by negro balance Of power
That is the important question now be-
fore the country. Shall thirty five mill
lions Of the Caucasian race~-the highest
type of mankind--be ruled by few mill
lions Of ignorant negroes, who are the low
est in the order Of human beings, and
who are scarcely removed from barbarism?
Such proposition would seem incredible
we're it not supported by facts. Some
may doubt even whether such mon
strous idea would be seriously entertained
by any party or faction, and may think
that we state the case to broadly. There
is, however, no exaggeration lis the
well known purpose of the radicals to
perpetuate their power, If possible,
through the votes Of the Southern ne
groes. This has been their policy all
along. The reconstruction acts of Con.
gress, disfranchising large number of
whites and enfranchising the blacks Of
the South, were passed for this purpose.
The bitter feeling to the President, the
the threats of impeaching bim, the sour
rilous abuse Of him, and all the legisla~
ton to humilate him and his Office and to
take away his power: grew out of his
opposition to this atrocious policy Of the
radicals. The beDighted Africans, just
emancipated from slavery, and not know
ing their right hand from their left, not
knowing what vote meant or what they
vote for, have been given power with
view TO deciding the Presidential election
and the destiny of the republic. The
intelligent whites of our own blood and
race in the South have been placed IN
der these baTbarians, and the fairest and
and richest portion of the country is
turned over to desolation, with the pros
pect of frightful starvation, demoraliza-
ton and war of races. And this is all
done for no other motive or object than
10 keep the radical party in control of
the government.
The spouting Of radical orators and
emissarics about equality, the rights Of
man, the poor negro, and all that, Is
sheer hypocrisy and claptrap. These
radicals have refused to give the
suffrage to the few negroes in those
Northern States where they had the
power to do so, and where the negro
vote would be Of little consequence COM
paratively, while they are doing their ut
most to make the ignorant and degraded
blacks of the South controlling pOlisi-
cal element in the republic. Who ever
heard anything more inconsistent or moR-
strous? Such conduct seems like insan-
ity, and could hardly be credited were
there not examples in history of SINH
lar character. The Jaeobins IN France
shed rivers of blood in the name Of hu-
manity and equality, and the Puritan an
cestors of our Jacobins of the present
time we're not less cruel and proscriptive
in the name of religion and truth. The
radical revolutionists of France set up q
strumpet as representing the Goddess of
Reason and committed the foulest deeds
under the pretention of progress and a
higher philosophy. 1t is the same in all
countries and ages under revolutionary
radicalsm, whatever form it May take
1t is SO now with our niger worshippers
and radical revolutionists. Passion, fan
aticism and political ambition have sub
verted reason Everything must give
way before their intolerant degnas. Let
the glorious institutions handed down to-
us by the fathers, this white mans gov
ernment, SO full of glory and happiness
in the past and the future of our grand
republic, perish for the sake of an IRA
tional and impracticable theory. That is
the policy of the radical republicans,
That is the cause of the trouble between
the President aud Congress. That is the
great issue before the country-the issue
to be decided in the next Presidential
election.-N T. Herald.