The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-08-19
A voLUNrEER COUNSELLOR.

daily lectures to the members OF the
Legislature upon the expediency and
necessity of re-electing George H.
Williams to the United States Senate.
In attempting to show the people the
superior advantages to be derived from
the reelection of that notorious DEM
agogue, and the plausibility of q Dem
ocratic Legislature performing that
acrobatic political feat, the Bulletin
gives South Carolina as an instance
where the Democrats are throwing
down party barriers and working with
the Conservative element of the Re-
publican party to redeem their State
from carpet-bag rule. Notwithstand-
ing the profound erudition of this
learned volunteer counselor, it is
hardly probable that the Democratic
members of our next Legislature will
be able to see the parallel between
South Carolina and Oregon. In the
former State, since its government has
been put through the process of re-
construction, party of profiigate
spendthrifts and Radical swindlers
have had supreme control of her Off
ces, and her inhabitants have suffered
almost every i'll that could be heaped
upon q horde of defepceless prisoners
by their merciless captors, until now
they are in self-protection forced to
concentrate every element to OBJ.
tain immunity from their crushing
wrongs. Here in Oregon we have
already attained the power to crush
out Radicalism, and the greatest pleas
ure and the highest duty cf our Dem
ocratic majority in the Legislature
will be to put quietus upon the man
who has been most instrumental in
heaping those wrongs upon the people
of South Carolina and other Southern
States. No Democratic member will
SO foully betray his constituency and
so utterly disgrace his party as to vote
for one whom the people of Oregon
have so si5aally rabukAd- as Gee. II.
Williams and our very able friend of
the Bulletin is wasting his sweetness
on the desert air" in asking such n
thing of them. While it is possible
that Williams might benefit either
Southern, Middle or Eastern Oregon
in Congress, yet his former course has
been so erratic and dubious that very
little reliance can be placed upon his
promises and the statement of his
friends that Democrat can have no
influence in that body even if true,
will very little longer be an argument
if every Democratic voter and Legis-
lator does his duty and assists in fast
displacing those who thus show their
animus to Democratic members, and
would ignore the interests of q con-
stituency who did not see fit to en-
dorse their political sentiments. 1t is
certainly high time such body was
reconstructed, and the greatest
privilege our Democratic Legislature
can enjoy will be to assist that recess
OF reconstruction by kicking out Geo.
Fl. Williams and putting an honest,
conscientious and able Democrat in
his place. We know of no amount of
available argument to induce any SEN
sible person to believe that Williams
reelection is necessary to the welfare
and prosperity of our State. while his
former actions have furnished suffi-
cient provocation for his summary dis
missal from the position which he has
so long used as an engine for the ac-
QUESTION and perpetuation of party
power.