The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-08
The Democrat.
0EEIDlAi PAPER FOR OREGON
sFas hAsFI AND woRsT OUTRAag.

sSoy EeIerelce 10 our dispatches else
iwhe5eitCwiHlbe seen that Grant ha
8Pe&pbSSated d tthe crowhing outEage Q
his most outrageous administration
sRpAnstamped his official career will
such ipfamy as never before marked
.tligsconduct OF q civil Executive %
This high-handed Outrage upon tn,
ffespeopie Of the State Of Louisiana
has no precedent, and no excuse o.
apology can be offered for it, i Ever
none Of the great Republican papers
Of the East offer d single word III til
defense, and the Democratic and In
dependent papers join IN proclaimipe
it the most infamous act Of bruta
President 7nel7qy eoJt iH0ar
l,llhe New York Tribune denounces
it as tthe greatest, outrage that hai
ever been practiced upon the citizens
Of State. A minority Of the Legis
laSare, never elected by the people
but foisted upon sthem by barefaced
fraud, without regard to anything
but the necessity of a wrecked and
corrupt ring Of politicians, sits in
New Orleans under the protection OF
Federal bayonets, and undertakes to
legislate for the State. Nothing in
history, not even the great conspira-
cy bywhich border rufians UNDER
tookto seize the Territory and State
of Kansas, can furnish any parallel
to this crowning indignity Of Federal
Administration" hAnn anofIe
That great light Of New York Rad
icalism, the Times, even avoids en-
dorsiHg or approving the proceed
ings.i 1t has not the brazen ehront-
cry to applaud such unprecedented
tyranny and oppression.
The New York Sua very properly
deneunoes it as the "crowning out
rage" but the telegraph dare not
tellonswhat else that able paper has
to say on the subject.
That best and ablest Of the Demo-
cratic papers Of the country, the N. Y.
Wdrld, has nothing but praise fort
spirit in which the representatives
Of Louisiana yielded to the tyranny
which they could not resist. There
was no reason why they should not
have, resisted to death, except the
hopelessness of resisting A rising
wouldfhaye had consequences pitt
full, terrible, even to think of. The
Legislators Of Louisiana yielded with
decency when they could not resist
with hope; but terrible as would
have been the consequences for resis.
tance, sthey are less. terrible than
willbe the consequences of submis-
sion on the part Of the people of the
United States to IN outrage which
has been perpotrated npon them all
through the people O, L9usiana; for
thatesubmission, or miy tolerance of
this-ilast and worst outrage of the
traitor Who Sits in the Presidents
chair which stops short OF driving
him from it into darkness and dis
grace will be aooonfession that the
American people nolonger are fit to
have liberty, which in that case it
will not take them long to lose"
The Herald declares the scene "a
spectacle which should cause every
true American to blush with shame
and indignation. Forcible resistance
would have been justifable, if it be
ever justtifissble in any case, Agreat-
er outrage on every principle of free
government wasuneyer perpetratedP +
The New Orleans papers, SO far as I
heard from, are d unit in denuncia- {
tiona of the act. The Times says {
"the farce Of State Government in {
Louisiana received another illustra-
ton yesterday Practically wo have d
no government, legal or Illegal, md q
have not had for the past two years
What is tie use Of this show of ro- Z
spect Of State Eights2 The rulo is
that of musket, sword and central :
authority. Everybody knows il. ~ {
Proclaihations by tho President and :
appeals for assistance by Coy, Kel- :
logg are formalities which do not '
cloak the real nature Of the business. 9
There is DO pretenco in this case Of c
riot or insurrection; it is seizure Of 4
the State House by U. S. troops in a u
time Of peace; a dissolution Of the q
Assembly and foreible expulsion Of u
its members. c
The Pieag,ae says; "For the first i
time in the history Of the United
States armed soldiers have invaded !
Legislative hall and bayonets used y
to oxpel the Representatives Of tho .
people fcom their seats, No one i
ever dreamed the President had the '
right TO employ an army for the pur- "
pose Of shaping the organization of d
a State Legislature. In this case u
there was no emergency such as the =
law contemplatesi there was no call =
made upon him through the channel v
which the law n0inta ont. there WINS u