The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-06-05
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In the reign of terror, when the
helpless inmates of the Bastile looked
out through their prison bars and saw
their comrades and fellow prisoners
hurried to the guillotine, the fearful
question uppermost in their minds
was, "who next ?" The question is
now repeated by the States lately con-
stituting the great Republic. When
Virginia shall have been completely
destroyed, SO far as her State existence
is concerned, and Mississippi is crush
cd into hopeless enslavement; when
there is--no longer protest from the
South, where q few years ago there
were prosperous and Independent
States, then what other State govern
ments will radical hands find to tear
in pieces, and "who next?" will be
tho victim of reconstruction ? The
Civil Rights Bill, the Chinese Treaty,
the proposed 18th Amendment, are
only so many slow approaches to the
citadel of independent State organiza-
tions in the North. There is no as
sumption of power that the dominant
party will consider too violent with
such an end in view. When some.
thing over year ago, Mr..
Broomall-wc believe it was Mr..
Broomall-proposed the inquiry in
the house of Representatives wheth-
or Pennsylvania had republican form
of government, everybody was start
led except the body of men to whom
it was submitted 1t was received
by that body pretty much the same as
a motion requesting of the head of any
department of State information
pertaining to that department. 1t was
not treated just as it would have beer
a few years ago. The inquiry is no
dead. 1t is sleeping. 1t will be callcC
up when party exigencies ask for il
In Indiana the Democratic member
of the Legislature resigned to prcvcn
the adoption of the 18th amendment
t New elections were ordered for tn
purpose of completing the quorum
+ and ratifying the amendment. Upo
the re-assembling of the Legislator,
1t the attempt to ratify produced precist
IT ly the same result that the first q
!, tempt did. The Constitutional wa
1t OF reaching the matter having thu
failed, the tactics were changed.
|, revolutionary plan was adopted an
% the ratification duly and seriously al
n nounced.
d Look again. The ratifying gam
has been blocked in Rhode Islan'
1t So the dispatches say. The House
h Representatives of that State pos
q poncd the amendment until the Jan
= ary session. And how do Radica
receive the announcement ? As "
are most interested in the men wit
p whom we are brought oftenest in co
:. tact, and with whom we have most
- do, we will let our nearest and biggc
.r radical neighbor answer:
That State must yield and shall yield, wheti
she votes for the amendment or not. She
shown an additional reason why that msasr
re should become the Law Of the land.-OregoHis
OF If the logic is bad, the emphas
oi will do. "That State must yield al
y shall yield" Because she don't yicl
therefore we have an additional re
son why she shall yield, and thereto
D; we shall ascertain that that State
anti-republican in Government al
or consequently must be reconstruct
lie Rhode Island is one of the olde
States. Settled in 1887, she esta
y lished democratic government
=. I64I and has maintained her free
e. stitutions from that time to this.
= Though small in area, she is great
"a the dignity and rights of a free Stat
o. But of what avail are rights, dignit
and hereditary claims and constit
VS. tional guarantees when standing
of the way Of our American Jacobil
ID When the last fe1ter has been riyctt
he upon the States in the South, and th'
n, reconstruction is finished, the procC
y will be begun in the North. T
States that have been edited with I
spectacle of freconstructing their neie
nd bors viii experience the eexperlme
IN upon themselves. Rhode Island W
he probably be first, because weakest.
re- The fate of Rhode Island will be t
=, ~ fate of Oregon, and of every st:
- - that gives the same cause for offer
Ioo that she has.
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