The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-06-03

THE HONOR OF OREGON AT
STAKE.


Our readers will remember how Of
ten the above caption has graeed lead
ing editorial articles in the principal
Radical newspapers in Oregon during
this campaign. We beg the pardon cf
a generous public for intruding it up
on the people once more. The nomi-
nation of Joel Palmer, upon the Re-
publican ticket for Governor has Civ
en- it the greatest significance, That
nomination has proclaimed in the ears
of all our people and has written all
over the political sky in this State that
]" the honor of Oregon is 'at stake. -
The election of Palmer will dishonor
Oregon. The fonlest libel ever utter
ed against any people, was pro-
nounced against this State and her
suffering population over his official
signature by Joel Palmer. He de-
clared to Gen. Wool, in letter writ
ten while Superintendent of Indian
affairs that the Indian war in South
ern Oregon was inaugurated by per-
sons who regarded the public Treas
ury as a legitimate subject of public
plumber and that it was sanctioned by
n numerous population. He .,rraigned
the people of Southern Oregon. whose
votes he now asks, before the enlight-
ened world as plunderers OF the pub
lie Treasury and as the purderers of
innocent Indians. From this small
source-which received credit because
of tho official character hat Palmer
enjoyed-the infamous libel grew to
monstrous proportions. It found n
place in the official history OF the
times. 1t found publicity in the col
umns of eastern newspapers. It
found credence in those communities
upon the Atlantic slope. whose ex-
per.ence of the iendish character OF the
Indians is only preserved in the pages
of dim history. 1t found sympathy in
the hearts of misguided humanitari-
ans whose ideal specimen of the
genus homo is the "noble red man of
the forest
'1Whosc untutoretl mini
Sees God in the clouI-.
And helrs him In the wind
And not only was the good name
and fame-the honor of Oregon thus
tarnished, but caiumny went into the
auditors Office and upon the floors oi
Congress and confronted the claims oi
our ci izens, for supplies and services
furnished during the war, with its un-
blushing presence. We SUN up; Pal
mer's letter was the source of all this
injury the instrument of all this
wrong; the means by which was Jus.
titled the robberies and the libels per.
petrated upon our people.
So far from excusing or apologize
| ing for what he did, he justifies and
reiterates the same old calumnies.-
He asserts in the face OF truth and oi
its living witnesses that the white peo.
pie were the aggressors; that the In
dians had endured wrongs, before they
resorted 10 war, that were enou gh to
make the heart sick. b. truth in
suited, and Justice outraged; by the
revolving barbarities of that horrible
massacre, the white men of Southern
Oregon and OF all Oregon will spurr
Palmer with imprecations loud and
deep from the place TO which he asI Tres
What feelings must that man have re
allied as he rode from the Canyon tc
jacksonville ? as he saw the never-to
be-forgotten scenes of the massacre a
| Grave Greek, at Wagners and al
along the Rogue River, where tbs
earth had drunk up the blood of tod
I ding babes and helpless mothers and
where the unavilin9 cries of these are
still ascending to Heaven? And Joe
Palmer, the excuser of these massacres
the champion Of these red murderers
did he feel single twinSe OF remorse
did single humane impulse move hi
unnatural nature in the presence 0
these horrible places?
The honor Of the State can never b.
more wholly at stake. To elect thi
man, Palmer, the worst enemy of Or
egon in it's most helpless days, Cover
nor, is to infict upon. the State insuf
ferable disgrace and dishonor.
-
PALMER's proxy stated in his speecl
in Albany, that the Democratic mem
bers of the House sc voted five time
directly against the general appropri