The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-09-26
WHAT ruE PAPERs sAY.

- E't@Ng -A'eeN o~hSeA
the country, regardless whether it has
: majority or not.
From fraud to usurpation our coun-
try IS rapidly drifting, and if The peO-
pie do not look to it, and that speedily,
they win have no liberties to defend
Grand Rapids Eaq,,irsr.
Tie Democrats of the North are as
much opposed to any invasion of human
rights as are the Republicans. They
have no respect for any political power
but that established by the will of the
mejOrity.-SPrinqGeld Repabticaa,
If the North accuses the South of
barbarism because of the shooting of
Mr. Dixon. the South can reply, you're
another = because of the shooting of
Mr.. Kallsch-a foul and utterly un-
iusti6Able Christian Union.
The Louisville Courisr.Journal para
graphs thus; Won't some Republican
organ tell us what became of the $50
100000 proceeds of the sale of cotton
captured during the warl The Treas
urY books can't account for its disposi-
ton.
Hlden's wise moderation has half
disarmed his foes, and has made the
eventual surrender of Tammany much
more easy than would have been posi-
BILE if his men had retortsd upon Tam
many with insults and defiance. T.
Times.
Whatever, remarks the New York
Herald, may be said of the Glover re-
port, its exposures will probably con-
vince many voters that it is well to
have a change of parties and let a new
broom into the departments at Wash
ingtsn.
According to the Republican view,
every man who declares that the Fed
eral Government must stay where the
Constitution puts it, and perform the
functions prescribed by the Constitu-
tion, Is plotting against the integrity
Of the Govesament," and is "traitor. :"
-COurier-Jour7aal.
There Is no secession spirit in the
South. The Southern States would not
go out of the Union tomorrow, even if
the opportunity to do so were offered
them. There is nothing the people of
the United States have so little to ap-
prehend trouble from as Southern seces-
sion--St. Louis Republican
Ne amount of invectige could lnten-
sify the shame and disgust which every
honorable mind feels when eontempla-
ting she de facto President of the Uni
ted States in the act of paying 81 900
Of hush-money to close the mouth of
one Of the thieves who stole for him the
vote Of Louisiana Washington Post.
The New York Times is very bitter
against Mr.. Sherman because he did
not abuse the "Confederate Brigadiers'
and slander the Southern people gen
orally, in his Maine speeches, as bitter
y as Blaine does. The Times warns
the Secretary that unless he hoists the
bloody-shirt on higher pole he will
make dead failure of his campaign
What the Republican leaders want now
IS hate toward the South, expressed in
the language of the slums.
We have seen no paper yet of either
party that has pretended to Justify the
assassination of Col. Dixon at Yazoo
City. Il was the ending of cruel,
bitter, relentless warfare that hadsprung
up and existed among men who held
the same political views, but who had
been made enemies by their ambition
to become leaders 1t didn't arise from
the prescription of Republicans or
blacks, because they were not pro-
scribed. Dixon was Democrat, as is
Barksdale, the man who shot him.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The eoIored brethren, the Springfield
Republican asserts, claim to hold the
balance Of power in Ohio, commanding,
as they say, 10000 votes. But, al
though they have always voted with
the Republican party, and pay taxes on
sl5,00O,O0o Of property, complaint Is
made that they get none of the offices.
Some Of the colored leaders have i'm
proved the pending campaign to call
the attention Of the negro voters to this
neglect, and they suggest that now is a
good time to make the power of their
ballots secure them their share of stand
ingroom at the public crib.
Our people long for the time when
We can have two respectable parties of
nearly equal strength here, as in good
days Of old, when Whig and Democrat
met and each found a foeman worthy
Of his steel but until the sectional
rartv IL dishandad tbiq oannot oona