The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-04-28
THE-rssUE-roR 1879.
The Oregonian of last Saturda,

says:
The Albany Democrat Insists that
its party shall make the fight in 1872
against the Constitutional amend
ments, against the reconstruction acts
and against negro suffrage. 1t declares
that the men VINO constitute the back
bone of the party will be content with
nothing less. It wants nothing to
stand which has been accomplished
since the Republican party came into
power. and proclaims Ii to be the mis-
nion or the Democracy to overturn all
innovations upon the old Constitution.
In short 1t stands squarely with Frank
Blair and JEFF. Davis, both of whom
have recently been making speeches.
We are very desfrous OF meeting the
issue which the Democrat presents. And
the fact Is that such an issue would be
the only fair one that could be present.
ed between the two parties.n
We thank the Oreyoaiaa for its
fair statement Of our position upon
the questions of which it speaks. =
The Democratic party viii make its
fight upon the issues presented by
the 10Th Amendment and the recon
struction acts. But there will be
other questions upon which that
party will make utterance in the ap-
preaching campaign. When the odi-
ous and illegitimate so-called consti-
tutional amendments and the iniqui-
tous reconstruction acts of Congress
are spoken of. all will not then have
been presented. fos the adjudication
Of the people. So long as there is a
disposition upon the part of the Rad
ical majority in Congress to appoint
smelling committees to rove around
through the South at the expense OF
the nation and TO hatch out base lies
of Southern outrages for political
capital; so long as the Radical ma
iority in Congress. urged on by q
selfish and despotic President. grant
him the power to suspend the God
given right of the habeas corpus and
flood the Southern States with sol
diers and bayonets to re-eIect' their
Turkish dictator to the Presidency;
50 long as the present debauchee OF
the White House is given more abso-
lutte power over the people of half a
score of independent Sovereign States
than has the Gar of Russia over his
abject subjects, and is permitted
to appoint his own vile tools
and satraps as marshals to guard
with bullet and bayonet the ballot
box. and to arrest, imprison and
punish without lawful process any
who may happen to come under the
ban OF his royal displeasure, with
even the. power to order any citizen
to assist ia, the fendish work under
penalty of one thousand dollars fine
or Incarceration in the Penitentiary
for three years; SO long as the bright
gleam of FURNISHED steel is permit
ted to surround the place where
q free and untrammeled ballot should
be spread; so long as taxes are be-
ing piled higher and higher upon
tbs. poor men and .women of the
country while wealthy nabols arc
luxuriously reveling in the ease of g
non-ta1able excheqrer; SO long as
wealth is pampered and protected
at the expense of the mechanic, ar
tisan and laborer who toll for theil
daily bread; so long as manufactur-
ing monopolies are enjoying protect.
ed and enormous incomes at the ex.
pense of the consuming public; SC
long as the taxgatherer appears daily
at our doors, licking up our meagre
earnings to pay for ruinous legisla-
ton and to pamper official corruption
and robbery at the National Capital
and throughout the various avenues Of
Federal power; SO long as there is q
ponderous National debt hanging
like an incubus over orr heads and
which can never be paid even through
the embezziing naanipulations and
fraudulent reports of unprincipled
Treasury oficials.-and. in fact, Sc
long as Radicals are perpetrating ths
iniquitious and base legislation which
has characterized their career from
their advent into power, just 81
long will there be living issues will
which the Democracy are eager t.
battle and vital questions for then
to discuss.
All Of the burdensone, illegal ana
unwarranted enactments of the pas
ten years must be wiped from tn
staute books and our, constitution
brought back to its pristine purity
before the mission of the Democrat
party is ended and the memories an
intentions of the founders of on
government vindicated. g42
Whether the Oregoaia,, and th
Radical party are eager to meet thes
issues or not, they must do SO on
must face tho consequences of thei
official crimes and bear the penalt
of their speedy condemnatioa. LIZ
them stand from under, for in 1S7
the Radical fabric will be hurle
from its already reeliag foandatio