The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-05-06
LACHRYMOsE REJOINDER.

Ihe Enterprise OF the Z3d III great
travail seeks to support the pet theory
of James d. Fay with nonsensical
and whining article under the caption
of "Repudiation." We thought that
our former structures upon the con-
struction heretofore given by the
learned, logical and lachrymose editor
of the Oregon City paper, to the sth
Resolution, would have sufficed either
to make that paper admit its stupidity
by silence or confession, or drive it in
to open fellowship with Fay, OMeara,
the Oregonian and the Radical party
in general. Who but the enemies of
the Democratic party have ever sought
to construe the eighth resolution to
mean repudiation? That paper says,
"If IN equitable adjustment of the
demands of the Oregonians who con-
quered the Indians and made this n
safe habitation for white men was
right, is not an equitable adjustment
of the demands of the spectators on
the government equally right?' We
answer no and for the reason, 1st,
TINT two wrongs never made right.
Hence If it is true that the Orcgonians
were wronged, and the cases are par
allel, that is no justification for the
wrong the Enterprise in urging men to
commit on tho government bond-hold-
er. But was the adjustment that was
made in the matter of the Oregon
War debt similar to that proposed by
the Enterprise for the holder Of gov
ernment securities? We say not, and
to illustrate An Oregonian "turns
in" to the Indian War Department 5
cayuse horses and expects to get for
them 5000 per head. The horses are
really worth but $40 per head. The
auditor to whom this claim was refer
red for adjustment, finds that the value
of these horses is only 5000 and not
1000. He says to the patriotic Ore
gonian, ''the government agreed i'm
pliedly to pay you what those horses
were reasonably worth-and you i'm
pliedly agreed 10 take from the gov
ernment therefor their reasonable
value. l find they were worth only
$40 per head here IN your voucher
for 5000" And this the EnterTrise
calls repudiation-an implied contract
between the patriotic Oregonian on
the one hand and the War Department
on the other, with mutual and recip-
rocal obligations-all of which (at
least so far as the government is con-
cerned) are complied with most relig-
iously And this TRANSACTION, than
which nothing could be fairer, il
sought to be made parallel illustra-
ton of. and justification for, open,
shameless robbery. &" Equitable adj
justment, rs clamored for by tho En-
tcTprise, makes one exclaim, "Oh equi-
tyl what crimes are sought to be COM
nitted in thy name r.
The only difference between the
equities of the Indian War scrip-hold-
er and those of the bondholder is this
To the former the government said
beware, before he got his voucher-to to
the other il says beware, after he has
obtained it-a new mode of applying
the legal maxim, 'careat emptor. -
For these reasons We conclude thai
there is no parallelism in the illustra
ton made by the Enterprise, and thai
an equitable adjustment of the bond
ed debt, as understood by that journal
is not right at all.
In answer to the boyish blubbel
about the wronged soldier, VIC say
this: The soldier knew that he wa,
to get only certain stipend for hi
service when he enlisted, and there il
nothing wrong in this-it proves moth
ing. The wall for the widow and or
phan that arises from the sympathetic
editor Of the Enterprise is perhap
creditable to his heart but lily become
the head of man who is the adyocat
of the most stupenduous Robbery tha
ever was attempted to be perpetrate'
in any age or cline. Signs, sobs ant
groans are formidable in the mouth
: of female valetudinares, but simpl
, ridiculous in the mouths of able-bod
led men. We do not " believe tina
6 the honest and sensible portion of th
:. community will show by their vote
: next June that they like such "equita
BILE adjustment" as is advocated b
the Enterprise.
MIR. j. w. JOHNSON spoke at tn
:, Court House last Wednesday night o.