The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-08-30
New York Weekly HsraId. August 4, fs72.l ]
SUMMER ON SPEAKER DLAISE.-A
VIGOROUS REPLY.
WAsHrScros, August S, 1872.

"NeIS""Su W LIE us you LuIOupu Tue
public prints, and I notice especially
that, while animadverting upon my
support OF Horace Greeley, y u say
not one word in yindication OF that
compound Of pretentions known as
Granfism, in contradistinction to
Republicanism, which you would in
stall anew in the Government. You
are greatly concerned about the COM
pany l keep. To quiet your solici-
tude, / beg TO say that, in joining the
Republicans who brought forward
an original Abolitionist, I find my
self with 80 many others devoted to
the cause ! have served always, that
l had not missed you until you has
tened TO report absence; nor had I
taken account Of the Southern Sc
cessionists" who, as you aver, are
now cooperating with me in support
OF this original Abolitionist, except
to rejoice that, il among my former
associates some like yourself, hest
tate, their places are supplied in an
quarter.
PEACE AND RECONCILIATION EATuER THAN
OLD ESMrTIEs.
You entirely nisapprehend me
when you introduce an incident OF
the past and build on it an argument
why should not support Horace
Greeley. What has Preston Brooks
to do with the Presidential election!
Never while sufferer DID anybody
hear me speak of him in unkindness,
and now, after lapse of more than
half a generation, will not unite
with you in dragging him from tue
grave where he sleeps to aggravate
the passions of a political conflict,
and arrest the longing for concord.
And here is the essential difference
between you and rae at this juncture.
l seized the opportunity to make the
equal rights Of all secure through
peace and reconciliation. But this
infinite boon you would postpone.
Seven years have passed since We
laid aside our arms; but unhappiiy
during all this period there has been
u hostile spirit toward each other.
while the rights OF colored fellow
citizens have been in perpetual ques-
ton. Seven years mark q natural
period of human life. Should NO,
the spirit be changed with the body.
Can We not. after seven years, CON-
me ce q new life, espec ally when
those once our foes repeat the saying.
THY people shall be my people, and
Thy God my God?" l declare my
preference for IN original Abolition
ist as President, and you seek to Gre
ate diversion by crying out that
Democrats will support him. To
which l reply. SO much the better.
Their support is the assurance that
the cause he has so constantly guard
ed, whether of equal rights or recon-
ciliatiou, Is accepted by Democrats,
and this is the pledge OF true un-
ION beyond anything in our history.
It is victory of ideas, without which
all other victories must fall. To in
tensify your allegation, you insist
that am ranged with Jefferson Da-
Wis and Robert Toombs; but pardon
me, nobody knows how the former
will vote, while Robert Toombs is
boistefous against Horace Greeley,
aud with him are Stephens, Wise
and MosebF. This is all very poor.
and mention it only to exhibit the
character Of your attempt.
TEE BUGBEAR OF DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS.
In the same spirit you seek to avoid
the real issue by holding up the
of what you cali a Demo
cratic Administration, and you have
the courage to assert. as within my
knowledge, that by the election of
Greeley Congress is handed over to
the control of the party who have
denied the right of the
Black men. You say that I know
this. Mr.. Speak>r l know no such
thing. and you should be sufficiently
truthful not to assert it. I am en-
tirely satisfied that canvass like the
present, where the principles declar-
cd at Cincinnati are openly accepted
on one side and not contested on the
other, must result in a larger number
of Congress representatives sincere
ly devoted to the rights of the color
ed citizens than ever before. The
Democrats will be pledged, as never
before, to the law, and also to the
three Constitu ional Amendments
with the clause in each empowering
Con gress to enforce the same by ap-
propriate legislation. But, beside
Democrats, there will be Liberal Re-
publicans pledged likewise, and also
your peculiar associates, who, TRUST.
will not betray the cause. Senators
and Representatives calling them
selves Republicans have been latterly
in large majority in both Houses; but
the final measure of Civil Rights to
which you refer, though urged by
me almost daily, has failed to become
a law. less, I fear, from Democratic
opposition than from Republican
lnke-warmness, and the want of sup
port in the President.
THE FIRST PRESIDENT REPRESENTING
EQUAL RIGHTS.
The great issue which the people
are called to decide in November is
on the President and nobody knows
better than yourself that the House
Of Representatives chosen at the
with Horace Greeley involves what ]
same time will naturally harmonize
most desire. With such a President.
Congress will be changed. For the
first time since the war the equal
rights of all will have a declared rep
resentative at the head of the Gov
ernment, whose presence there will