The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-08

To enc ignorant ot the toftuQHS
windings and inconsistent tnrniugs
which have characterized the course of
the Radical panty during the past
twenty years, Republican ideas Of gov
eminent might seem badly mixed. Only
list week we called the attention Of the
readers Of the DEMocRAr to their IN
consistency on the doctrine of State
Rights-having made the strongest
PRONUNCIATION Of that doctrine ever is
sued, and then in less than years ex-
piration utterly repud'ated it, and in
augurated bloody civil war to destroy
it utterly and to build upa consoli.
dated federal monarchy which neither
the intent or the result Of Americas
accomplished Independence ever con.
templated,
We now desire to call the attention
Of the reading public to another count
in their long line of Inconsistencies
According to them, it is eminently
proper that federal troops should enter
any State, should surround the ballot
box with bayonets to maintain it's
purity and then, when this free cleo
ton is over, should enter State capitols
and sort our State Legislatures at the
pleasure. Of the party in power, expell-
ing members at the point of tho bayo-
net and seating others in their places,
without regard to the will of the peo-
pie; but when an impending calamity
hangs like threatening cloud over one
of the failest portions of our common
country, and pestilence which last
year rendered desolate the cities of the
great Southwest seems about to repeat
It's terrible visitation it is no concern of
the government. So, when Congress
appoints commission to collect facts
in regard to the disease, and, if posi-
BILE, find some means by which its raw
ages may be restrained, Republican
journals complain that it is . guarding
Southern towns at the expense Of the
North ~ In the palmy days Of Repub-
lican supremacy the people were robbed
of millions of dollars the public lands
were squandsred in building railroads
which were never needed, and are now
utterly worthless large army was
maintained to protect the Indian agents
who were robbing the government and
at the same time cheating the Indians /;
the country was taxed that government
officials might enjoy junketings and
yachting excursions along the coast,
and the loyal Republican party bore it
all with complacency. But when the
Democratic Congress removes the tariff
on quinine, thereby bringing this i'm
portant remedy within the reach Of the
ague-stricben negroes of the South, and
appoints yellow fever commission for
the protection of well-nigh half the
country, the vail goes up that the
rebels have taken Washington"
Our very dispatches to-day tell the
storyof tbegreatscourge It is not alone
''8Iemphis's Woe" as the Ore3oniaa
some time past 50 pathetically headed
its yellow fever dispatches, but it is
pelmeating and terrifying other com
munities, even reaching 50 far North as
New York City. It is almost needless
to add that yellow fever is not a local
calamity. That which weakens a part
weakens the whole. When one section
suffers, the entire country suffers. The
change of nine per cent. in the Chicago
markets last month on receipt Of the
news that yellow fever had appeared in
Memphis Is proof of this. The bill in
question looks to the prevention Of such
widespread desolation as swept over the
Mississippi Valley last year. A party
must be well-nigh bankrupt, its case
desperate, and its hope sinking fast,
when its journals pretend to quarrel
with such legislation as this.
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