The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-03-20
TTKEENATGERAL.

Grant has ascende1 the throne at The
| White House 70 rule with dcspotic hand
his worshipers aud fellow citizens His
inaugural is about such paper as We an
ticipaicd, breathing nothing but spirit
Of ianaticisn, disuuion and fantieal sla-
very. 1t Is to be the cTecd aud bible Of
! the party in power for the next four years
Il was written by Washburne-who has
VI. C. stamped on his broadest part-a
man who has the great chieftain" at his
command aud works him like plastic clay
/ By the hand Of the potter. The inaugu-
/ raj contains all that the most fanatical
| Radical could desire. Wendell Phillips
admires it as just the thing to continue
| in power aud plumber the Republican
| party. Those who have looked forward
with anxiety to see whether the incoming
Administration would adopt course con-
sistcnt with the institutions of America
and bring union and order out of disunion
and chaos, viii have to turn away with
regret and mourn over the vanity of hu-
man affairs. The panacea for all our ills
and woes is not there.
Grant proposes to pay the huge swim
die upon free people in gold, unless
otherwise expressed in the contract. This,
of itself, is the most iniquitous of all in
iquities and ought to sink any Admins
tration so deep that Gabriel's trump could
not rise it, because this manner of pay
ing the national debt will crush the pros
perity and industry of the country, for in
so doing we pay double, and in some in
stances, treble the amount paid for the
bonds at the time of their purchase =
This is the blessing you enjoy by endors-
ing Radical rule. This plan of paying
the debt will require more gold than there
is in the Continent of America This
debt, this ''national blessing" will contin-
ne to swell its mighty bulk, and unborn
generations will cross tho stage of life
and 90 down to their graves groaning un-
der the load of taxes, before one dollar of
it is ever paid His manner of paying the
debt is more of that searching economy"
we were to have when Grant became
President. But such economy has bank
rupted the proudest nations of the earth,
and whose glory went down amid the din
of clashing interests as ours is now, and
but few short years will roll away be-
fore we will have drifted into the whirl-
pool of financial ruin. What pay the
debt in gold, dollar for dollar, when it was
purchased for greenbacks at 40 and 80
cents on the dollar No, never! The
Americans will not tolerate such swim
die and we care not how soon they assert
their rights and swear with sword in hand
to hew down the Radical party, for no
peace or liberty can exist while the damn
able thing is in the land.
Grant endorses the negro and China
amendment to the Constitution, and hopes
that it will be ratified by all the States.
He is also in favor of elevating the Indi-
an to ali the rights and immunities of free
and independent citizens, and, taking it
all in all, the inaugural is what every loud
moutEed, blatant Radical will endorse,
and what every true and tried patriot
should condemn as disgraceful, insulting
aud wanting that high moral tone SO nee
essary to mark out the true destiny of
our confederacy. Eugene Guard.