The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-12-25
TRn PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

grin. In reading 1t, It's pettlto99lnS
is so potent that we lose sight OF
the dignity that should attach to the
annual communication Of the chief
executive of the great Republic to
the Legislative department. OF the
Government. His remarks upon
the currency and labor questions,
(and there is but one question in the
two, and that is the currency are
simply platitudes- expressing a de-
sire in which all in the land will
heartily join, but singularly absent
of a single thought or suggestion
by which the great dissideratum can
be consummated orwhen. Such was
not the habit of Jefferson, Jack
son or Buchanan, they had ideas
to give as well as facts.
The Weekly (Portland) Neacs
makes some apt comments upon the
Message in reference to Southern af-
fairs which we here reproduce;
Considering that the present State
administration of Louisiana has been
the only government in that State
for nearly two years, that it has been
tacitly acknowledged and acquiesced
in as such by Congress, and more
than once expressly recognized by
me, / regarded it as my clear duty,
when legally called upon for that
purpose, to prevent its overthrow by
an armed mob, under the pretense OF
fraud and irregularity in the election
of 1879.
The President very wisely fails to
mention the facts connected with the
election referred to, They are The
most important, and without them
the truth is not told, and hence they
are omitted. Had not the Presi-
dents brother-in-law, Mr.. Casey, and
ex-Gen. Longstreet, and Attorney
General Williams, aud Durell, and
Matt Carpenter, and Kellogg and
his check-book, and the President
himself figured as leading characters
in the tragedy, Mr.. Grant would not
have found the whole truth such an
ugly thing to handleJ nor have dealt
so sparingly with it as he has. But
the majority of these men have held
Office by and through the appoint
ments of the President II we ex.
anime into the characters of these
appointees we find that the first is q
Federal office-holder because he is d
brother-in-law; the second for the
reason that he is related to the fam.
! ily. Through these two men the
President received the most Of his
information, and their words wen
farther than did all that was said by
majority Of the people of Louisi
ana. Then Durell is q drunkard
and o fit man to play the heavy ras
cal. His notorious decision was en-
inently proper coming from tht
source it did, and was, as succeeding
events have since proved, not a mat
ter of surprise to the Administration
at Washington. Kellogg was and i
thief; and some one had to suppl,
the money needed over and aboy,
the amount pilfered from the Nation
al Treasury by official thieves q
Washington; hence Kollogg's check
book, and hence Matt Carpenter
completely as Chairman Of the Re
publican General Committee, Th
other is Attorney General Williams
, the modern Caligua. He assisteo
, because his future depended upon
continuance Of the Presidents favor
and because it is now his nature t
, put the entire people OF the Sout
!. to death with the sword if it wa
necessary to further the interests q
q the Republican party to do so. II
it was who invented the stories con
!, cerning the White League which MI
! Grant now speaks Of as an "arme
= mob" and he it was who dictated t
] o drunken Judge in Louisiana and
drunken President (between whic
= two there is natural cause for mt
! tual sympathy at the White Hous
in such manner, that the people {
= Louisiana, in self-defense, did tht
which has gained for them tho nam
OF "an armed mob" These men
actions were tacitly acquiesced in b
y Congress, we are informed by tn
:, President, and this is his justifci
- ,tion. But is not Congress compose
] mainly Of RepublicansT Ii u
! President has proceeded unlawful
- in the premises as it is charged, Coz
. gress would have been compelled
= have impeached him for high crime
: , and misdemeanors, il itj had take
Y any action at all commensurate vii
= the Presidents offending. To ha'
I reprimanded him would have injurt
- - the party, and TO have impeachc
- - him would have brought about six
thousand ofiice-holders to griei
y y But Congress that is the author
at O Credit Mobilier robbery and a bac
Z Z pay steal is not to be suspected Of
y desire for impeachment, no matt
what the President does, SO long
= il is designed to work good to u
y y party. President Grant wanted
y keep Louisiana in the Republics
I. fold; he chose his instruments 1
: the purpose; a Congress steps in al
=, lends it's aid in the furtherance
the outrage that some Of it's indiyi
ual members might retain the plac
i, which they illegally filed. "
u President does not say this much (
L. he evidently believes there arc tim
y when the truth should not be told.
~ OF the Arkansas troubles the Pr'
- ident has this TO say, after statl
10 that he declined 10 interfere:
The whole subject Of Executive
reference with the affairs OF Sta
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