The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-06-16
sau-Republicap.l
LEsH EXPERT.
ENTs.

tide of opinion in the
was setting strongly
mination. of Grant, his.
tried to resist this cur
ng certain measures with
closely Unidentified. and
ought would bo popular
BE. -
bd the San Domingo scheme,
bn,enced in the interest of
IA spectators alone. was sup
" Senator Morton and other
lean politicians. and Grant was
p as the chief actor IN the play.
who favored his denomination
we'll aware that the acquisition oi
ign territory was always favorte
erican idea, and they thought that
bic sentiment might be made to COW
one or more Of the West Iudia Is.
Ends. For time the San Domingo
pros>h went on swimmingly; but ii
was soon sespscted of, heing = corrupt
Job, 10 which the President aud his per.
sonai retaihers wero mixed up to a dis.
creditable extent; and it was known
that wifheut warrant of law Grant had
employed the navy in the civil war be-
tween rival Dominican factions. When
these allegations ripened into facts, aud
and when, in order TO eousummate the
measure, Grant demanded. the degrade
ton OF Sumner, the seheme received u
blow which sent it reelins to the ground
9 Thence onward, so far from being u
help to Grant or to the Republican par
ty, everybody saw it was sure to be the
death of both if persisted in; and
therefore, in spite Of the whitewashing
report of Wade aud his brother Com
missioners, the ill-starred aud i'll favored
Executive bantlins was quietly consisn-
ed to lingering death.
But the pariisans of Grant were not
disposed to give it up so. Almost
blinded BY despair, they caught glimp-
ses of here and there an outrage in the
South, In which whites and negroes
were confusedly mixed up, and they
raised the cry that the Republic was in
danger, aud that the country was on
the eve of another rebellion in which
the ku klux maraudsrs were to play
the part sf Lees army. There being
just basis enough in these ku Klux
stories for a drowning man to catch at,
Grant sent message to Congress, and
that body, seeing that his San Domingo
job had well nigh ruined the party,
thought to save 1t BY reviving the worn
out issues of the war So, being in a
tight place, the majority ia Congress
passed law, one-half of which is Gle r
ly unconstitutional, while the other
half is sounding brass and q tinkling
cymbal.
Grant and his hackers intended to
use this law as an excuse for sending q
large army into the South, with which,
under the pretext of putting down re-
belion, he could secure packed delegi-
tions IN his favor from those States to
the Republican National Convention
But the main screw in the machine has
dropped out. So far from there being
a rebellion In the South, not eTen a first
class riot is anywhere to be found Two
or three disreputable young scamps have
recently assaulted some negroes in one
State; some cowardly villains have COM
mitted murder and arson in another =
and some whisky distilIers refuse to pay
their taxes In third-all of which hap
pens every week in New England and
New York The travelling correspond
ents of Northern journals tell US that
society in the South is about as quiet as
it is here; Gen. Sherman, who is down
there, scouts the idea of any necessity
for the Ku Klux legislation of Congress !:
while the Hon. Horace Greeley, whose
journal has foamed at the mouth over
these alleged outrages, Is welcomed with
open arms from Kentucky to Texas, and
seems to be in danger Of being killed
with kindness
Ere three months pass away this Ku
Klux bugaboo will turn out to be as
proftless an investment for securing
Grants denomination as was the San
Domingo sKindle. The chief danger
is that these successive experiments of
Grant aud his baekers will SO demoral.
ize the Republican party that it will
soon become too weak to elect anybody
in 1872 IF it would save itself from
founderiDg then, it must hasten to throw
Grant overheard a candidate now in
manner so decisive that there can be no
question on the subject.