The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-08-30

ana TO the decision OF the Congress
thereon wholly free OF Executive in
tcrterence or dictation."
This gives TO the friends of free
trade All opportunity of satisfying the
people that their doctrine IL the cor.
rect one, and that If Congress s hall so
decide their decision will not be dis
approved of by Mr.. Greeley.
What more do these gentlemen
want in their opposition to Mr. Gree
ley? Did they desire the nomination
Of an avowed Free Trader? With
this view did they wish for the pomi-
nation OF Mr.. Adams! And if they
had succeeded, and Mr.. Adams had
declared his adhesion TO Free
Trade, do they believe they could
have secured his election! We have
had experiments enough Of presenting
to the people for the Presidency u
candidate whose opinions were not in
accordance with those OF the people
generally. And to this, and TO this
alone, was the election Of Mr.. Lincoln
to be referred, andthe subsequent
election of Gen. Grant. Whether Free
/ Trade or Protection is TO receive the
sanction of Congress will not depend
upon thebpinion OF the President, even
it he has one and is disposed to net up.
on il. He can effect nothing except AZ
he may be ahlc to influence Congress
by his patronage, aud this no man lit
for The Office would attempt, because
10 do so would be palpabIc effort TO
corrupt the Department. That Mr..
Greeley would not take snch u step is
certain, because the platform upon
which he agrees TO stand prohibits il.
Before the war, and occasionally
| during its continuance, his treatment
of the South was believed by many to
have been unnecessarily harsh. But
in this no one seriously questioned his
motives. They were in no respect
personal or other than patriotic. The
war over, what has been bis course
From the first moment TO the present
hour be has earnestly desired, aud has
done all in his power TO effect it, 10
restore peace aud prosperity to the
South. 4 constant and ardent friend
of general amnesty and of universal
| suffrage. he cannot but have com.
mcnded himself TO the good opinion
of the white and colored citizens OF
that region. The latter. perhaps. are
more indebted to him aud the Hon.
Charles Sumner for the righis now
secured to them than TO any other
two men in the country.
His generosity and kind regard for
Southern men was strongly illustrated
| by his becoming one OF the bail of
Mr. Jefferson Davis, which terminated
his cruelty protracted imr risonmen,.
For this step he was denounced by
the Radicals of bis party, and particu.
iarly by such OF them ~ belong to the
Union League Club of New York
They proposed bis expulsion, ani who
can forget, who has ever read il, the
proud letter of defiance which he adj.
dressed 10 the League on the 23i of
May, 1867? In that letter be quoted
extracts from the Tribune TO show
how decided his opinion was that
those who had been engaged in the
insurrection should be entranchised
aud their estates exempted from con-
tiscation. lie justified becoming Sc
curity for Mr.. Davis, and in his letter.
smong other things, said: Your at
tempt to base great, enduring party
| on the hate and wrath necessarily Gu
gendered by bloody civil war is as
though you should plant colony on
an iceberg which had somehow drifted
into tropical ocean. tell you here
that out OF a life earnestly devoted TO
the good of human kind your children
will select my going TO Richmond
and signing that bail bond as the
wisest act. aud will feel that it did
more for freedom than all of yon were
competent to do, though you had
lived to the age Of Me,husaich."
You will have thus seen what /
think Of the present political condi-
ton Of the country. Unless ! am
| greatly mistaken, it must give to every
unprejudiced, intelligent and patriotic
man much anxiety and alarm. How
is this anxiety and alarm to bo re-
moved? BY removing the cause Of
it. BY refusing reelection of Gen.
Grant, to whom IN great measure, it
not exclusively. it is owing, and by
| placing in the Presidential Office Mr..
Greeley, whose entire life has exhibit
ed his generous qualities, his great
ability, his pure patriotism and his un-
suspected integrity. To be rich he
will accept no presents, but would
scornfully reject them if offered. He
has not scores of relatives to provide
for out of the public funds, by plac-
ing them IN offices for which they are
grossly incompetent; and, if he had,
he would not so place them. He will
not exert his patronage TO Influence
State elections, or to secure re-
election for himself. He will not
permit the public funds, by means of
tax upon the salaries of his officials,
to be used for party purposes. He
will not suffer his secretaries or
their subordinates to abandon their
posts of duty and their attention TO
the public business to traverse State
after State on electioneering visits, SO
as to bring the influence of Office in
conflict with freedom of elections.-
He will see that our forcing relations
are so managed as to give honor
and not. disgrace the nation. He
will not tolerate the use of the
militry for the control OF the
elective franchise. He will not tram
pie upon the rights of the States or
the people by declaring States to be
in rebellion when they were not