Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-16

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the same policy (which was the only
true one), the party TO day would have
been in full and complete power in Or
egon, and this is the opinion of all we'll
posted politicians; it is the course pur-
sued by that man, who proclaimed in
the Senate Of the United States, that
the Southern States were in the Union
Cor one purpose, and out for another
aud the Oregoniaa, that has beaten US
in Oregon, the viIlainy of whose pur-
pose shall be made known in due time,
ifsyou desire 20 continue this unwar-
rantable attack and controversy.
The article further says there is o pa
per published in Polk, which has be-
come the echo Of the gentleman in
Polk county, whose policy has led the
party to defeat Let the people Judge
whose policy has led the party TO de-
feat, and we assure the editor of the
Oregoaian that that echo shall ring in
his ears to his hearts coatent; that is,
unless he concludes TO abandon the
sanctum and take refuge behind the
Custom House. We have been beaten
on account Of your vacillations. Good
men of our party knew not what to do,
nor where TO 60. Four years ago,
Union men might honestly differ; but
now there are no Union mcn to differ
The editor thinks the name Union is
not the proper one, and could only
serve during the war. We differ, and
repeat it is the only name which could
have n charm for those who organized
under It, the loss of which has taken
! hundreds Of thousands from our ranks
and justly, too.
He then undertakes, in sickly man
ner, to apologize for Horace Greeley
by admitting he is partially politically
insane. but thinks he ought not TO have
been hung, or JEFF. Davis, either.
..When ii is said that the only correc
policy in relation to opposite races
| should have been maintained, we sup
pose it is meant that the colored rae,
never should have received the elective
franchise" -
/ That is precisely what is meant, Mr.
editor. We say there must be som'
line established to which the electiv,
franchise should be extended. Tha
lioe ought to have been the line o
race. That line fixed by that suprem
power who alone can make it thus
And If this be not be the line, will tn
Oregonian, after it has consulted MI
Williams, tell us what is the prope
and equitable line? Then we cha
know how to meet him, and then tn
people can, as they finally will, decide
But he says 'sthe people of the Unite
States have pronounced their verdic
upyn the question of negro suffrage.
We deny it, and demand the proo
"But the immortal Lincoln did not ad
yocate tho exclusion of the colore
race from the elective franchise"
We reply that Lincoln did take tn
ground, In his celebrated debate wit
Douglas, that the only true priucipl
was, to give the black race their free
dom but exclude them from the ballo
"Would anybody have believed ta
Republican who had said, in tho LAT
campaign, that his party was not in fl
|, vor Of suffrage for the blacks and th
Fifteenth Amendment. The suppo
sition il ridiculous"
Most ridiculous, we answer, and VIII
believed the Republicans whom, in th
canvass of two and four years ago, the
publicly declared themselves utterl
opposed TO negro suffrage and tn
principles of the Fifteenth Amend
ment; ard did not our State platforl
: two years ago declare that the questio
: Of suffrage belonged to the State re
: spectively, and does not the nationa
!, platform, on which the party stands to
day, declare the same thing? Who
j it then, that has the best foundation o
| which to stand, and who is il that ha
) changed front? But men like Sull
, van, unless they will change their cou
yictions of right and move 10 the cul
] rent with the unsteady course of th
: Oregonian, ought to 80 to the Demo
] orats. Well, that may be SO; but "
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