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

| you bit tnmely btlll ana say oil this ~
nothing? Throughout ten American
States no right Of trial by jury exists
But some Of you perhaps will say: "This
is nothing, because it don't come home to
mo-" That is the poorest and mcanest
response that could como from the hu.
man breast. Suppose you yourselves
want TO go there. This is all your coun.
try; you have the samo rights under the
constitution in Georgia that you have in
Indiana, tho same in Virginia thatsyou
have in Indiana. You have the right to
go there, and your children have the
right You yourself, whom there, would
have no more rights than any one elso.-
Do you want to deprive yourself of the
right to 20 and enjoy freedom elsewhere
in your country aS you enjoy it here p
Tho writ of habeas corpus, tho great
writ that unlocks prison doors: that
great writ that all monarchs and kings
aud tyrants havo always denounced; that
great writ, tho friend Of tho people, for
which tho people have always fought in
all ages-it likewise is dead. On the
battlefelds Of Yorktown, Of Eutaw
Springs, the commander Of tho district
may lock up you, or any other American
citizen, and no voice of appeal lies for
that great writ to bo brought, that you
may be confronted by your aecusers, tried
by an impartial jury, and punished II
guilty, or set Mt liberty if innocent
How monstrous these things are. Some
times | feel that We are living in an un.
natural period. The public mind, while
ii is uneasy and wandering, still has sor,
of apathy Tho farmer goes on and
plows his grain, the mechanic plies his
plane or works at his anvil, while but q
few years ago, in the great, and noble,
and undegcneratc days of the republic,
one single outrage, such as those have
painted, would have rushed the people to
arms-it matters not where, anywhere
between ocean and ocean, between sun.
up and sun -down-such outrages, a few
years ago, could not have occurred with
out calling this people 10 arms like the
buglc blast Of great military chieftair
at the head of his troops. Still We g,
on. Our hope is in this coming contes
to rectify these things.
Is it nothing that, in this boastcd
republic, in onc-third of your politica
sky every star has set? The sun has
lgone down; utter darkness has settled
upon the land; a night as complete al
pestilcnce has eclipsed your country
and mine. This is the career of these
dcstroyers. But more than that, wha
does this pretensc Of building repub
Ilican governments rest upon Where
in all history, does a republican form
Iof government rest upon n standing
army for its chief corner stone?
standing army in time Of peace wa
the subject most dreaded by your fore
fathers. 1t was one Of the causes 70
which the revolution was fought. II
was one of the causes that led YOU
fanccstOrs to fly TO arms because King
George proposed TO quarter troops up
, on you and keep n standing army il
your midst in time ofpeace. But now
in time of peace, with taxes noun
tain high, with the shadow of deb
falling on every hearthstone, crossin,
every doorstep, and causing the hear
of the laborcr 10 fail, whilc men &,
|, around the streets like mourners o
old, without the means OF earning :
livlihood, there is a vast standing arm,
eating out your substance like tho 10
Gusts that have appeared this year
The standing army of the United
States to-day eats more than the stand
ing army OF any one of the five grea
powers of Europe. True, we pay ou
soldiers more than they do, and W,
have not so many as they have, bu
neither France, England, Russia 0
Prussia expends as much money t,
support q standing army as the pee
) pie of the United States this hour
One hundred and twenty millions pc
annum will not more than cover it,
The Secretary's own statement wa
$50 900, 900; and / know what def
cheney bills are, especially when tn
estimates are made in the face of al
approaching presidential election
They always cut them down. EST
mates are always fraud, then, upoI
the part of the party in power, VIII,
wish to cover up the burdens they ar,
laying upon the people. The standing
army of the South, held there to dc
stroy your old Union; held there t.
trample out ofexistence the old States
held there to cleave down hd6eds COZ
pms; held there to crush into the cart
! the great right of trial by jury-yor
have to pay for it; and even thougl
there may be some who care not 70
the Union, who care not for thes
States, who care not for the libertie
of the people there, there is mono g
poor, or base, or low, as not to car
for his hard earnings put in his pocke
by his daily toll.
Then the question arises IS grea
and paramount issue in this campaign
: will you have standing army, at you
expense, to govern ten States, or vii
you have them governed according t.
American law and the American con
stitution? / appeal to the conserva
tive people of this country, withou
respect to party. care no moro 70
party names or party lines than an,
one else in this broad land. feel tha
the grand old Democratic party is tht
best conservative organization nov
afoat above the sea ofwaters. [Lout
applause. / would, however, seno
forth from her that inviting spirit o
fraternity and affection to the othel
conservative elements that arc abroad
and invite them all to work in harmo
my together. AS when the old Whis
party was raoked to it's dissolution
many of it's timbers foated to US, 81
i now IN this dau of nnnvnlsinn. thiI