The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-11-01
CHOOSE YE THIS DAY.

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The time for discussion has passe,
and the time for action is at hand
The enemies and the friends of fire.
government are again in hostile ARA,
and viii soon join in a contest il
which is involved interests more vi
tai than any ever before presented in
Presidential canvass. The country
though IN apparent profound peace
siumoers over volcano. 1t is mo-
when armies are marshaled and pano
Piled for trenchant. bloody war thai
the liberties of a free people are il
danger, but when cold apathy per
rades the masses and venal rulers
lure them on to vote away their birth
rights then. indeed are they hasten
ingdownthe deciivity ofgovornmental
ruin. Liberty once aroused to dan
ger Is unconquerable, and is only lost
by the supineness of its friends. The
great governments of antiquity ex-
pired reclining in the lap of luxury
and ease and drifted away into an.
archy and final chaos on the tide of
echoing plaudits, for venal rulers,
from deluded people. Is the fate of
this great nation to be bnt repetition
of the history of those that have gone
before? Have the people learned
nothing from the sad lessons found on
the record of the past. and attes,ed by
the decaying monuments which mark
the places where States and Empires
fell? Great Heaven! We can but ad.
dress our countrymen in the Languages
of Milton:
Awake. arise, or be forever faiirn.-
Look around and witness the social
and political corruption in the halls
OF legislation; in the courts of Justice;
IN Cabinet and in Senate and still
higher in the Presidential mansion
where sits an inebriate and corrupt
Chief Magistrate barterinc the Offices
OF the government for gold. Then 20
to the down-trodden, grave bestrewn
South and view states in ruins; laws
perverted or wholly set at naueht br
men appointed by the President and
sworn to administer them with lust
and impartial hand. View the people
OF our own race and blood under
the dominion of ignorant, degraded
and mIsled negroes. Hear their ap-
Peals to their brethren for aid. and
then determine what is your duty I'M
the present crisis.
Ihe picture We have presented is
not oFerdrawn. Fraud, bribery and
corruption rule the hour and. public
p'underers are boldly aud defian.lv
retained in positions of honor and
trust after having been;convicted off
embezzlemcnt and theft.
The. Democratic party posses tie |
power to redeem the nation. and puri-
y the channels of administration
Who can doubt that it will rise in its
majesty and strength and stand as it
has ever stood, the buIwark of the
peoples rights and the friend of liber-
ty and truth. The issues presented
in the present contest are too easily /
iy defined to afford any voter a pre-
text for staying away from the polls.
There are but two sides to the aues-
tion. Greeley with peace and. good
government, or Grant with one-tbird
OF the Union in bondage and the Off
ces In the hands of thieves and out.
laws.
Democrats, Liberals, patriots of
every name and creed, the choice is
before you. Can you falter? When
interests SO dear to yourselves and to
posterity are at stake? Shall it be
said that Democrats, actuated by
party pride and prejudice failed to
stand by their country in its hour of
peril? Every obligation held sacred
by treemen calls upon Democrats to
cet-in the present crisis. Look at the I
South; see justice outraged; libertyI
banlshedi your kindred impoverished.
prosecuted, dewn-trodden
and appealing to you for suscor. A II
Fote withheld from. Greeley is a prae, Z
ical endorsement of the wrongs they !
'aass.
Democrats, be active, be vigilant.-1
Let no man who will cast a vote for
ireeley and Brown be. left at home {
IN election day If fuN Democratic '
iote is polled on next Tuesday our
state and nation will again stand forth g
'edeemed, respondent, purified, glo-l Q
.ious a
Jaeaes Gordon Bennett, late editor
It Tbs New York Herald, left a
arge beqaest to his wife, but onlyl
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