The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-09-29

good as Il good wife"
From the Washington Patriot, sept 1st
A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE.
One of the most terrible cyclones of
the satiric fury is that in which Juye-
nal has described the sunmoning Of
his council of Senators by Domitian,
aud their earnest debates as to whcth.
an unusually large fish, which had
been sent 70 the Emperor, should be
cut in pieces or cooked whole. The
abject degradation of the members Of
this once august body, and the zeal,
the eagerness, and the base terrors
with which they accept the vile OF.
fees thrust upon them, are drawn in
imperishable words. We laugh, and
bestow our scorn upon the fallen SEN
ate. We jeer at the philosopher mag
istrate hurrying, with untrussed toga
and garments awry, TO anticipate the
arrival Of his lord and master. We
scott at the dignataries, wearing on
their white faces and quivering lips
shameful testimony TO the appalling
quality Of the Imperial friendship.-
We despise tue servile gathering, in
which the spy, the informer, the para
site, are important aud authoritive,
and the man of talent, virtue, station,
is dumb and acquiescent. As to our
title TO laugh, TO jeer, to mock, or to
despise, that is another matter. It
is called an i'll bird that fowls her own
nest-has not Juvenal drawn some of
our own portraits? Are not the types
of funkeys and parasites eternal and
imperishable
Let US project our national vision
forward single year, and behold the
National" Republican Convention as
sembled together, to nominate can
dida.e for President. What will be
the probable composition OF this
body, once SO dignified and so reso-
lutte in its ends and aims? Where
viii be the friends aud the representa-
tives of Fremont, Seward, Trumbull,
Mclean, Fcssenden and Sumner, who
once gave tone, character and spirit to
its operationsg viii they, or their
class, be present? There will be del.
gates gathered there at the beck of
Boutwell,, and in the pay Of Butler
filthy hirclings ofa vulgar knaye; there
will be hungry agitators, pimps and
panders, spies and false witnesses,
called from the extensive repertoire
and familiar acquaintances of the Sem
ator from Indiana; there will be tried
corruptionists contributed from the
clan of their chief, Cameron; and
dirty dogs sampled by Jim" Nye;--
and a mixed lot of scallawags, carpet
baggers, mossybacks and niggers,
delegated by the brothers-in-law and
the Gatlin guns, who are deputized to
see after the South. There will be
Federal office-holders in large abund-
ance, clustering and patriotic, yet
paid and shaking in their shoes, for
they know that the friendships of their
chieftain are guaged by very strict
measure Of equivalency.
Tom Murphy will have his delegates
there; and so will Fabens, the San
Domingo viceroy, the tape-and-twin-
ist, dreaming of Chorpenings innnum-
erable; and Akerman, with his ready
made laws, and his glasses for the oc-
casion. There, too, wondrous array,
will t
"Come tho Ora nts Of Tullochgorum
With their pipers all before en-;
:. Proud the inithers are that bore 'em,-
Fow, faw, fuddle. fum"
''And the Grants of Rothicrmurcus,
nka one sword or dirk has.
nka one as proud's Turk is
Fec. faw, fuddle, fump'
But, where will be the represena-
tives of the formerly great Republi-
can party, the men, the bone and
sinew, and integrity, and zeal, and
substance of that organization p
Where will be the powerful leaders,
the voices and inspirations of politi-
cal action-where the active, vital, en-
ergetic press, to which that party
owes so much? Not represented i
The offices will be there, but not the
people whose uses these Offices were
created for;, the creatuers of the State
will be there but not the statesmen =
and the only Organs of opinion that
will be allowed to speak and declare
themselves, will be the Grant organs
the Gatlin guns, the very sight oi
| whose black muzkles, mute though
they be, will suffice to outroar all ar
gument, and calm down all opposi.
| tion! s.,