The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-06-12

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Among the unpublished letters of
representative Democrats sent to the
Manhattan Club reunion, on Thurs
day last, were the following, from
which we make extracts:
FROM THE HON. MONTGOMERY BLAIR.
I thank you for your invitation to
the Democratic reunion at the Man
haitian Club House, on the 7th inst.
and regret that I cannot be with you.
/ rejoice with you in the uprising Of
the people, manifested in the recent
elections, against the gross abuse of
their confidence of the present Adj
ministration, and earnestly hope that
such councils may prevail among its
opponents as that the centennial year
NAV witness o vindication of the
principles of 1776, in the restoration
of responsible government. This is
really the true issue; and the motto
of ali friends of popular government
should be that of Benton, ."Union,
harmony, compromise, concession,
everything for the cause, nothing for
men," The issue is not and will not
be between resumption and imitation,
protection and free trade, civil SER
vice reform, free Cuba, etc, and our
friends must not be deceived by the
present divisions and controversies
among our opponents on these and
other questions. The money power
which holda the party organization,
and whose supremacy alcne is in
question, will quickly silence all such
divisions, when the time comes, and
as it has done heretofore.
Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley,
Senator Fenton, Carl Schurs, The
Ne,o York and Chicago Tribune, the
CINCINNATI Commercial and the
Springfield Republican and other
presses and leaders failed to get
single delegate to the Philadelphia
Convention in 1872. Would the de-
lection of any of the lesser lights
which remain be more effective? Who
of Summers mourners stood by him
when he was stricken down by the
iron hand of monopolists? Nor are
Messrs. Morton and other Republi-
can infationists now more pronounc-
ed for initiation than they were for
greenbacks in 1868. But what was q
crime in Pendleton then did not at
all impair the cofdence of the money
power in Morton or deduct dollar
from the subscription for his re-elec-
ton. Nor did Seymour, who paid
the New York interest in gold during
the war, recommend himself thereby,
while Greeley, the most decided to
be ''unsafe" by Jay Cooke & Co., for
and on behalf OF the money organi-
zation. It is manifest, indeed, that
Governor Morton's attitude on infa-
ton NOW, like that on greenbacks in
1868, is taken to protect the organi-
zation, just as the old hunter on the
plains fires the prairie about him-to
protect himself from the fame which
is sweeping toward him. Nor will
Simmons or Sanborn or Jayne affect
the solidity of the organization any
more than Leet and Stocking and
the Credit Mobelier and the wide
spread corruption which everybody
knew pervaded the Government in
1872. corruption is the strength
of oligarchy," said old Bullion; "but
the Democracy to be strong must be
clean" MessrsA Forbes and Gray
and their associate victims in New
York, will never raise a finger to
eject their class from power and res
tore the Government TO the people,
although they say with truth that the
Administration which they put in
power is oppressive, and that its
jobbery and spy system is ruinous to
the business of merchants. The
shareholders were equally conscious
that Col. Benton only told them the
truth when he predicted the abolition |
of slavery as the consequence of the
repeal Of the Missouri compromise,
and yet they persisted. They were
committed to a contest by their lead
ers, for political power, their prop
erty was staked upon it against their
wishes, and they have paid the for
felt; and now the banks, railroads
and manufacturing. corporations and
other great moneyed interests have
been drawn into political combina-
ton by artful leaders, and their prop |
erty staked on holding the Govern
ment by the use Of money obtained |
by appropriatiug to this class public
and private property by bank char
ters, land grants, protective tariffs,
reconstructed State bonds, and in a
thousand other forms. This was
openly done in the late Presidential |
election. 1t was universally conced-
ed till August 1872, that Mr.. Greeley
would be elected; but by the unstint-
ed use of money in the elections in
North Carolina and Maine, those
States were carried, and the enthusi-
asm of his unorganized supporters
was checked, and they were utterly |
routed by the loss Of the October
elections, which were also carried by |
the same means. But the Govern
ment brokers, Jay Cooke q Co., who
openly led off in organizing and mar
shaling the money interests in the
contest, were, 1 have never doubted,
bankrupted by their expenditures in
it, and not getting the Government
Endorsement on their North Pacific
Railroad Bonds were obliged to sus-
pend payment.
This resulted from making Mr..
Greeley our candidate. BY that
movement we we're able in some de-
gree to force an issue on the Credit
Mobilier and other frauds, and Gre
ated n public sentiment which pre-
vented Congress- from voting indem-