The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-09-27
From the Mendocino Dennocrat.l
DEMOCRATIC DUrfY.

Democratic strength from it's legiti-
mate channel to something bastard
and mean. Grants paid tools are
the INSTRUMENTS; honest ID en- may be
deceived. Grants coIlared ours are
doing the active; brave, noble Demo
cratic watchdo9s may be led to follow
the cry. What wa the Louisville
straigbt-out Democratic Convention,
so called, but fraud and cheat to
deceive and lead off true Democrats.
that GRAFT might have an easy victo-
Try? Who paid for it, who fostered
1t into life, Who prayed for its sue
fcess? Grant l. Co., the present
sporting President If the United
States and his puppets and spoils-
men. Can any sane, reading man
doubt this? If SO, his preiudices
and preferences blind his reason.
The facts are patent and public, that
the Louisville Convention was gotten
up under the auspices of the present
National Administration. Was mon
ey wanted, Radical Golfers were un-
locked. Were circulars needed,
Radical Congressman and Senators
were ready to have them scattered
throughout the length and breadth
! Of the country. The Louisville
Convention was the tap that was to
tap the great huge cask of Democra-
ey, so as to lessen its contents and
place it III minority to Grant. It
was stake worth playing for, and
Grant and his fellow gamblers were
bound to 'tsee" it through. IF it
was failure it was no fault OF Grant
& Co, but mark of the good sense
and appreciation Of the great mass
of the Democratic party We're free
to confess our readers know it-if
IRE bad had the Baltimore Congen-
ton in our hand to do with it as ws
pleased, the nominees would have
been emocrats, the old straisht-out
banner would have been faunted to
the breeze, the chances of defect or
/ victory would have been freely taken.
But all that Is past now, and there's
but one course for every man and
woman who have the welfare of
their posterity at heart and desire to
see the American Republic thing
Of reality and greatness, rather than
one Of disjointed isms, food for pee
ulation, a carcass for political vul-
lures 10 bask and batten in That
course is to vote, and talk, and work
fur the election of Greeley and
Brown. There's no intermediate
way; everything else goes 10 the sue
cess of Grant and Wilson, and as q
consequence perpetu:sy of the reign
of evil, uncharitableness, and infa-
my. Democrats should remember
their duty and practice it. Let them
recollect that Greeley aud Brown are
their standard bearers, selected by
tieir Immediate Representatives, their
own selected agents, sent By their
votes and authority to Baltimore.
These gentlemen are rot simply The
endorsed nominees at Baltimore, but
they are the fairly nominated Demo-
, they have accepted the nomination
and vii abide the situation. Their
defeat Is the defeat of the Demo
. cratic party" their success is its sue
cess. They come before the Ameri-
, san people wearing Democratic ar
NOR, carrying the Democratic flag;
what true Democrat can hesitate
J about voting for them or wishing
; them good speed? They're no pi-
rates, no buccaneers coming before
. you in false colors, but legitimate
open nominees of your party, made
so In accordapce with usage and
fruitful of good to you and yours If
elected. Their nominate rs come di-
rect. step by step, from the little in
cipient move under the call of your
Democratic State Central Committee,
. then from your County Committee,
, then from your County and State
Conventions, then up to yoar Nation
al Convention of all the States in the
Union, with members the peers of
any In chrisiendom; @hy, then, may
not the Democratic army, all who
4 are its honest adherents, be as q
unit in the fght2 We appeal to
no passions but to reason; and We
appeal the more strongly because We
feel satisfied that nothing can defeat
: the Democratic party, in the coming
contest, save the disaffection of some
misguided spirits who should be and
were heretofore its staunchest friends.
As for the profiigate and corrupt, let
them go, We can do without them !;
} but let no honest and true man mis-
take his mission aud aid the common
enemy, while laying the 'sfiattering
unction to his soul'' that he is exhib-
iting his consistency and proving his
manhood. The coming contest has
but two sides Democracy and Radi-
calism, Greeley or Grant, good
5 friend, good Democrat. choose We
between them, weighing well the re-
) sponsibility of your action and re-
: meinbering that while the Radical
bark may bring triumph to Cesar
and his fortunes" and his faxorites,
the Democratic ship carries the. olive
branch of peace and good will. sweet
greetings and refreshing gales, sns-
tenance and nope. future honor and
position, to the furnishing hips, cloud
ed hearts. and pleading eyes of many
| noble women and brave men,, who
, are now suffering and fading under
the grinding heel Of malignant po-
I litical despotism. What Democrat
t is there. who cannot sacrifice per-
sohai feeling for SO glorious resultf
3 The topography of VesuSius IS re-
5 ported to be com pletely changed
r since the eruption. A correspond
+. ent. writing from Naples, says, sIt