The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-08-12
THE RoUT OF RADICALIsM.


Ever.since Connecticut last Spring
sounded the rereille for the beginning
of the march of Democracy for 1870,
the Republicans have been fast losing
ground before the victorious hosts Of
white freemen. New York followed
Connecticut with nearly ninety thou
sand Democratic majority; and Ore
gon gave the answering shout of VIC
tory from her mountain-boundv vallies.
On the End ult. Illinois elected ma
jority of the Supreme Judges of that
State, who will hold their offices for
nine years. And now comes the down.
trodden South wheeling into line,
stimulated by the victorious march of
freedoms sons in the Northern States.
Last week North Carolina held her
State election, and, Notwithstanding
the presence of an armed force Of
Federal soldiers sent there to enforce
the election in favor of the Republi-
cans, the Conservatives carried the
day, electing four out of the seven
members of Congress and a majority
of the Legislature, which will insure
a Democratic or Conservative u. s.
Senator in place of the venal and cor
rupt Abbott. Our dispatches also
state that on the 4th inst. a Judicial
election in Tennessee resulted in the
defeat of the Republicans by 1000
majority. All this foretells the utter
decentralization of Radicalism in the
fall campaigns which are to follow,
and almost insures Democratic ma
jority in the Forty-Second Congress.
1t is at least in the power of the DEM
ocratic party in the States yet to hold
elections to secure control of the next
House of Representatives, and having
done so the end of the rotten Radical
dynasty will be near at hand. Let
there be no divisions nor personal
squabbling for place-let united and
determined action for one common
purpose be the aim and purpose of
every Democrat-let Democrats every
where keep Democratic principles in
Iview-let them inscribe their banners
with the burning words of the ancient
Democratic faith, equal rights for
all and special privileges for none :"
let them give the country to under
stand that they battle alone for the
rights and liberties of the masses
which have been so terribly endanger-
ed and well nigh destroyed by the
Radical system of protection and ex-
emption of wealth, and concentration
and consolidation of power; let Dem
ocratic Legislatures elect none but
true and tried Democrats-men oi
known ability and time-tried honesty
to the United States Senate let il
be clearly proclaimed in every Demo
cratic paper and by every Democratic
Convention that all white men who
desire justice and equality are with us,
and all those who favor monopolies,
special privileges and consolidation oi
power are against US, no matter by
what name they may call themselves,
and nothing can hinder the triumph
ant overthrow of that party which,
during the past ten years of war and
blood-shed, desolation and misery,
debt and taxation, usurpation and tyr
amy, unequalled in the history of the
civilized world, has prepared this ma.
ton for condition of abject slavery
and degradation from which such @
triumph of Democratic principles
alone can save it.
The bright star of hope now shines
across the thresholds of the tax-riddeI
masses, and beckons them on to victory
and to freedom.