The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-02-15

my stlli urge tue southern people 10 accept
dishonor after the Northern people have pro.
claimed they do not exact it2 Now 10 the
opportunc moment for NIL to get right For
tho past their errors were only Mistakes ---
Persisted In now, these errors will become
crimes. Let US all, in the sincere spirit of
cordial kindness, welcome back TO the good
old ark our brothers who have been vainly
seeking safety in the wild, unbridled passions
outside Of tho Constitution. North and
South, let us all forget and forgive the war
aud Its pnssionB, and return 10 the Constitu.
ton and it's guarantees, the freedom uniyer
sal, and ''the rights, dignity and equality Of
the States unitnpnired."
|. In the first place, think every man at
the South, who has been inclined 20 accept
the Rndcal measures, owes it 10 himself and
tho country TO reconsider bis position. | do
not know single respectable man in the
South who has ever said these measures were
approved by him as either constitutional,
right or just. On the contrary, the reason
urged for adopting them has been that,
though unjust aud unconstitutional they
were the will of the Northcrn people--the
conquercr- therefore We were bound 10
submit to them. But they arc not the will
Of the conquercr. Who, now, can look at
the election in Ohio and Say that negro suf
tFnge Is the will Of the people Of that State
Who will say that tho people Of Ohio would
be so mean ns to aid in forcing on other
States II rule which they repuliaie for thom
selves? They will never do IT, And what il
true of Ohio is true of an overwhelming ma.
Ijority Of tho people Of the Northern States.
Therefore, every man who urged ia to accept
q wrong hecause il was n necessity, must now,
IN order to lie consistent, abandon the wrong
when the necessity il shown not to exist
They urged Us TO accept Radical measures
because they were the will uf the Northern
people. We ask them now - reject Radical
measures because they are wrong. and also
because they are not the will of the Northern
people. They asked IL 10 submit "a tho Rad.
ical party because they were omnipo,ent and
stronger than the Constitution. We now
ask thcp to reject the Radical party because
that party is fse!f being destroyed by the
people.
.. A. tho most effective method ai CON
domn:ng the Radical measures, ! think no
lnau, black or white, 1T the South, ought 10
vote nj the military elections, or have any.
thing To do with organizing governments un-
der the Military bills. Let every man stay
AT home and attend quietly to business, and
to advise every other man to do likewise.
True, the Radicals here most shamciuilY
boast that the reaction ai the North comcs
too late a. rescue the Snuth from their meas.
ures. They pretend 70 be carrying out the
will Of the people; but now they find out
they misrepresented the pcpplc-they boast
that the military are in possession, aud,
right or wrong. will ar $50 will. will carry
nuG the programme Of force on the Southern
people.
This Is not true Even IL the military
commanders are 50 dcspara;e ns TO consent
Ia he used, and should even fprce eonvcn.
ton and 4 constitution under the Military
Bills, healthy public sentiment, now fast
returning, will, through the Courts, and CIV.
cry other department of the Government, dc.
clare such forced governments Ia be illegal
and void, and will cunsign TO infamy every
man engaged in this wicked attempt against
b th the Constitution and the voice Of the
! people.
/ II thc negroes are properly advised they
will abandon this effort tO force themselves
+ into rule over the white race. Let them be
advised 10 improve themselves 10 live in
peace aud good will with the whites. and
wait until they are qualified to be enfranchs
Ell in n legal, natural and proper way, and
then they may expect their elevation To be
permanent and peaceful. To seek 10 force
| themselves on the whites now, in an angry,
/ illegal way, is to defeat them forever, and
perhaps result in n war of races. Let black
aud white. therefore, abandon this illegal at
tempt to organize a civil government by
/ fraudulent and unconstitutional military
! force, and let no man vote on the question.
| But if the negroes will not receive the coun.
sells Of their best friends, and persist in vot.
| ing, let them vote alone, and lot them alone
be responsible for the consequences lie is
IL.
people will long tolerate an unconstitutional
government forced upon the white race solely
/ by negro votes, merely to support party
which the people are pronouncing unworthy
and will soon condemn as hateful. If the
Radicals have been unable TO prevent the
reaction from commencing, they will be the
more unable to arrest it, and the attempt to
defy it will only make their utter overthrow
the more speedy and complete. And when
the monster is dead it's brood NEGRO govern
ments) will be unable to live.
3. In tho meantime, let US still be kind to
the eolored people. We know the Southern
whites who oppose the Radicals are the best
| friends the negroes can have in this world.
\ We know that the worst enemy of the negro
is the miserable white man who advises him
to force himself to an unnatural political
equality, contrary to the Constitution, and
without the concurrence of the whites. But
the whole business of the Radicals here is
to keep up the passions of the Northern peo.
pie by false representations of cruelties to
the negroes, and they keep their papers
flooded with ISLANDERS from real or pretended
correspondents giving details of this kind.
Even Greeley is engaged in this dirty work,
and the miserable Forney lives on it. Let
these wicked efforts to SANDER us only make
US the more cautious, and the people viii ul-
timately see that while we insist on resisting
every effort unconstitutionally to establish
negro governments over us, we are also de-
tenders of the real equal rights of the negro
before the law, and are fixed in our deter.
mination to give him justice and protection.
see Governor John son is out in another
letter to the Tribune. 1t is the ablest he has
yet written, and this is saying much in its
behalf. The efforts of the Tribune to eriti-
else it, are futile, and grossly misrepresent
the Southern people.
! do not know puror and nobler man
than Hcrschel Y. johnson. In heart he is
simple as child in life he is as pure as
virtue itself, and in intellect he is as grand
as an emperor ought to be, Iknow him and
love him. IIe is unfortunately too despon-
don't in his nature, and the only error of his
letter is the revelation Of this defect,
i Writing on the descending scale. | will
! mention that Roger A, Pryor is also out in o
letter,
!, He Processes to be very sorry that he ad
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