The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-09-25
A VAIL FROM HORACE.

over the prospective defeat of the Fif-
teenth Amendment, and the pig-head-
edness of its Radical associates. Gree
ley's contempt for the ''lttle men,
whom God for somo inserutable pur-
pose permits to edit Radical newspa-
pers, (see his reply to the League),
comes out occasionly with an uncon-
trollabie gush. just now he has lost
all patience for the Republicans who
assume that the Amendment is virtu-
ally adopted. The philosopher knows
better. He understands that it is to
be fought to the bitter end, with, to
him, strong probabilities of defeat.
Hear this from the Tribune:
! .wiil you take warming. Republicans Of every
! State. that Ae ratification cf the MA Amend-
,nsRf fs yet desperately contested aud ia doubt? You
/ have too long slnmberea in fools paradise in
/ spite of our repeated warnings, assuming with
out reason that the ratification was virtually con
| eeded. IL Is not eoneedca-it eiH not bc eonce-
| ded--it Is to fought to the biter end. The gab-
| bio about leaving tho matter 10 State action dc.
| ccivcs no single soul. You know that they
oppose this Amendment because II strikes deata-
blow at government by caste, aud for no other
reason on carth."
Mr.. Greeley warning is justin time.
California has taken warning. The
white people of the United States have
taken warning. The Amendment has
been kept standing just alittle too long.
Twenty-eight States must ratify The
records of the Department show so far
but twelve. Several States were re-
ported to have ratified whose official
notification of the fact has not yet
reached Washington; of these, are
Alabama, New York, Rhode Island,
| Illinois, Nevada and New Hampshire.
t these be counted, there are still ten
States lacking. But New York will
not be counted. The Republican Leg
islature which pretended to ratify. neg
lected to certify the net, and if the
| Democrats carry the next Legislature,
it will never be certified. The Tribune
says that this failure OF the legislature
''was of a piece with It's general inca
pacity and recreancy." The ratitica-
lions of Kansas and Missouri are defect
i've, and the recor6lsof the Department
az Washington show that fact. The
attempt to ratify in Indiana without a
quorum seems to have been abandon
ed. Delaware, Kentucky and Georgia
have rejected the Amendment outright
California has just signified her deter
mine 70 do the same thing. The prob
abilities are that Tennessee viii repu-
date the Amendment. II Oregon, Ohio
and New York elect Democratic Leg
islatures, and the Conservatives Gritty
either or both Mississippi and Texas,
there Is hardly a possibility, ever SC
} remote, thai the attempt to mongrel-
ize this government by the adoption oi
the Amendment Will succeed.
There is one other view of the mat.
. ter. II has already been intimated
that the Radicals themselves are losing
} their zeal for the Amendment. Tn.
: elections N the South have developed
; TO them o new and fearful contin
gency-that the negro vote VIII b,
controlled by the Democracy. There
is no mistakins the lesson of Virgins
and Tennessee. Mississippi and Tex
as stand justready to repeatit. Thes'
: amenders see on the field of thes'
fierce political conflicts q danger tha
is daily becoming more palpable
There is unquestionably large mum
Der Of Republicans whose apathy doe
not arise from IN oyerweening con
7 fdence that the Amendment Will b.
adopted, but because they hesitate a
: It's adoption. These viii pay to Mr
t Greeley's railing the least possibl
I heed. They are not tho fools the,
: pretend to be. They only wait a de
9 cent pretext to get this elephant Of
!, their hands.
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