The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-08-01

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with a school marin, = change Of
uame-bigamy, aud, oulminate finally
in his election TO a seat in the United
States Senate, or a cell in the Insane
Asylum, remains to be seen-certain
Il is, something is ''about to be did"
or has already been done by this grave
"political editor" of the Register.
The foregoing is sufficient for those
who read last weeks Register to an
ticipate us in the article in that paper
to which we refer. Under the cap,
tion of aWhat Assumption" ," the ''po-
litical editor of the Register makes a
bold and dashing charge upon "lhe
defenders Of the Democratic party; =
directing the whole force of his assault
upon the devoted heads of the Her
e,rV and DENocRAT. Like tho mad
bull, ho shuts his eyes; Don Quixotic
ike, be cuts and lashes The air with
his sword, he strikes out right and
left, front and rear, with degree of
reckless fury and desperation truly
alarming-not to his foes, but 70 his
friends. The article to which We re.
fer should be read to be mot under
stood, butt appreciated. Ia the first
forty lines Of the editorial referred
TO there is not full stop. How this
political editor (9 could hold his
breath SO long We cannot understand.
Nor is there in ihe first forty lines,
after the first two, a sentence or word
not chilled from the fish monger or
he classic precincts of the Five Points,
that once upon a time was regarded =
scab even upon the New York body
polite.
For the benefit of such Of our read
ers as do not see the Register, we will
quote few lines from this model ed
itorial of our contemporary, and then
perhaps indulge ourselves in some
comments, treating it at the same
time as though his meaning-not his
words--were lucid and his language
chas,e. Here it is: "a party whose
history is identified with the darkest
treachery and most revolving acts OF
blood: whose love of human slavery
led. it to seek the nations life in its
defense; whose long catalogue of
crimes against God and humanity, ex-
tending over a period of more that 40
years, rendered It's existence mildew
and a curse to itself, as well as those
whom by misrepresentation and de-
ception and fraud il sought to serve.
We will not do the political editor
of the Register the injustice to sup
pose him capable of knowing anything,
or responsible for what he writes, ex-
cept that be must implicitly obey the
mandates Of his political masters; bat
the reader viii readily understand
that It is much easier to make naked
declaration. If the conscience is sufi.
GENTLY flexible, than It's to state facts
and to prove them. The first of these
naked declarations quoted above is
"a party whose history is identified
with the darkest treachery and most
EeYoIting acts of blood" No facts
are here stated as to time, place,
or circumstances. It was certainly
not a Democratic administration in
power after the 4th of March, 1861,
that gave from day to day the South
Carolina commissioners assurance that
Fort Sumpter would not be reinforced
without FIRST giving them notice Of
the fact-and gave this friendly as.
surance after the feet aoas dispatched
This was treachery. It was MT a
Democratic administration, who in
August, 1861, informed the Govern.
ments of England and France that
awhether or not the United State.
Government succeeded IN overcom.
ing the opposition to It's authority il
the South the institutions of those
States wouId not be changed. If this
opposition was overcome those States
wonld still be States of the
Union, with their local governments
and institutions unchanged. if not they
tonld be members of another confed.
Z eracy." But the sequel shows thil
was treachery. It was not a Demo.
cratic cabinet officer who enter.
tanned at his home IN Washington. in
the early part of 1862. an ex-senator
with whom be had formerly served,
Nd when he left for his home in the
4 srth cordially shook him by the
sand and bid him God speed, and in
less than an hour signed warrant tor
his arrest and incarceration in a mill
tary bastiIe. This too was treacbery
It was not Democratic President
who declared be had no right to in
terfere with the institution Of slavery
IN the South and then issued procla
nation declaring the sIayes all free
8 This, too, was tresehery. All these
acts of freaeherv-and we haze no,