The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-09-27
OLD PARTIES AND NEW.

allows herself TO think OF the time
when she was her husbands servant.
OLD PARTIES AND NEW.
"Thc time will come, and trust in
God the opportunity, too, when the
world will SEQ that you arc no less
Democratic in pursuing the course
you have. and that am no less Re
publican because accept your nomi-
nation. .'-Uornce Greetey.
The time has come already, when
thoughtful people see that the old-lIne
distinctions which marked the Repub-
licnn and Democratic parties exists no
longer. The, Republican party of
1860 is dead The Radicalism which
proposes, through executive usurpa.
lions and corrupt leaguc with Con.
grcss, TO alter the whole character of
our Government, resembles the Re.
publicanism of Mr.. Lincoln as little rs
the Bourbonism which would nnllify
the constitutional amendments rescm
blcs the Democracy of Andrew Jack
son. The liberalism of to-day,
grounding itself IN the principles of
Thomas Jefferson, aud led by Horace
Greeley, who, in every way, repre-
scnts the peaccfulness and nationality
of our time, proposes nothing which
does not correspond 10 the lifelong
professions of honest, patriotic Re.
pablicans, aud honest patriotic Demo
Gratis.
Two flaming errors, which some.
times produce very great evils, are
igni,ed in the public mind by the at
triton OF party conflict. One OF those
is the excessive and irrational account
which is set on mere party names, and
the other is the coniounding party
measures with political principles.
The names OF parties in this coun-
try have repeatedly changed. Mr..
Jefferson was not known as Demo
crai, but rs n National Republican,
Mr. Greeley spent one-halt OF his Ca
recr as whig. Measures, likewise.
change from time 10 slime. according
to circumstances, being but the crea-
lures OF condition. The fugitive slave
law WAS undoubtedly as fragrant
an invasion OF the local selfgovern-
ing principles rs the Kuklux act
| Yet il was supported by the Demo
cratic party in 1850, and opposed by
Horace Greeley. whose argument
against it il rs strong protest against
federal usurpation IS may be found.
In 1860, the Democratic Tarty, by
its own act, disorgan,zed itself. going,
in 1861, into the war on opposing
sides. The Southern wing dad what
il could for the Confedcracy. BY
what principle of cohesion did it come
together after the war? BY none:-
and consequently its career ever since
has been series oil blunders and dis
asters. II has fought everything and
has accepted everything. OF all con-
troversies of quarter of century,
nothing remains TO il but its name
Slavery has dropped out OF the ac-
cont. The genius of Calhounism
sleeps in bloody grave. The prin-
ciple of local seIf.government, to
which the great body OF the Ameri-
can people are devoted, without dis
tinction OF party, remains as a popular
rallying point, out Of the many meas
ures and issues over which the wings
and Democrats, the North and the
South, quarrelled and fought SO long
and SO well.
On the other hand, the Republican
party, which was organized against
the extension of slavery, and went to
war as the peculiar friend Of the
Union, succeeded in quite destroying
what it was at first willing to restrict
to the South. 1t also won its fight
for the Union. Then what did it do:
1t violated every pledge it had given
the people. In place of peace, it has
given the South chaos. In place OF
honest administration, it has given
the North corruption, boundless and
ditfusivo. Under the leadership OF
an old-line Democrat, it has set up at
Washington an attempt at the per-
sonal government of Louis Napoleon,
disbanding the Republican party by
dissolving its purposes, and going in-
to a Radlcalism which represents the
prosecuting spirit of old John Adams.
History repeats itself. The issues
of 1900 come back to us. Horace
Greeley stands to-day in the place
which was occupied by Thomas JET;
terson, and Ulysses Grant disgraces
the chair which the grim old chlettain
made merely an object OF dread and
odium. The organization which has
been known in our time as the De
mocracy, has often changed its titles
and it's measures. In supporting
Horace Greeley it merely returns to
its better self, TO the free principles Of
local government against the despotie
principles of Capitalization; and
whether the label drops off the bottle
or not. and sure we do not propose
to scratch it Oft sacrifices nothing
but ennobles itself by grouping
around the broad old oak OF Chappa
qua new set Of liberal measures
suited to our needs and our era
In this way, time will show the dis
interestedness and patriotism OF Mr.
Greeley, who throws party to the
dogs in this emergency. 1t will also
show the disintel'estednessI OF tht