The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-01-16
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VII Tue nlsHt OF november @Utn thcle
was a grand Democratic rally ut New
Orleans. at which Governor Vance
OF North Carolina, spoke in substance
as follows.
lle began by saying that he was
aware il was ia bad taste for public
speaker 10 apologize for want Of picpar-
alton, but ho WIS compelled to do 10, M
bis time was occupied in fulfilling his
contract--investigating tho Custom
House--hut, like another man who
never hbrank from any responsibilities,
or the refreshmenis, hc wea present 10
81 eak.
! have been 10 long in the North and
West, looking upon tho faees there, that
| have hungered 10 Aeo the faces Of
those bonn under the a,ne sun ~ my.
self.
nm satisfied that tho bitterness re-
gpr'ling this country is stronger nov in
the North than IL was tcn years ago.
Tho feeling engendrred by il,e war hns
intensified till solid North Ind been
formed against solid SmiI; ill il
threatened in the future 10 reduce us TO
hopeless minority or II conquered
people. a soiid South does 40 mean
tho same as holid North. The solid
South wa formed 10 protect itg citizens
from the most olious expressions ever
healcd upon IL people, while folid
North had fur its object the idea or rnl
ing. The Northern man docs not live
that can say he was ever oppressed i'y
the South or any Part of il. while
solid North wonll eNteni it's ip~cr
over oil Of us.
States rights have on,e again i.ea
established IN the uGitrd !S.at.1s. lint
when wo speak 81 state righis, $. hat .ip
Republicans aasnme that we mean !
Secession. Northern speakers auL eli
tors call this n nation, and ltato that
the Federal government should fSiend
protection over all; Ia other words. that
tho Governors and all others should he
appointed at Washington, and cY,rv
question from n breach of The ls.ac up
ahonld he Notlle,l by Federal authority.
The original thittacn States were ,lt.
clared to l'o and were Acknowledged by
Great Britain ns free and independent
States, and ia the first Federal conAti-
tuition framed the f,,lclh government
ia by ia terms aud in spirit the creature
Of the States. Bat preach this doctrine
to tho Republicans. aud ''irIr Davis I"
is the cry. l.nt tlry ranirit 'irny the
plain and obvious n,nr,tt.s ii ii,,- con
Htitution, nor fhc d,ei,irng a tbs Sa.
I.rninc Court. s,l tltuu.l i,s,,e it,,rmed
| fpr Iunny sss-,tY months tu the a,i.i,-.L
| Republicans ~ tha Scua.., haY,, never
heard them pplrach this qnea,lion.
if the systcnt of corruption. y.hich ihc
Republicans haze carried on in the
South continues, il will oh.. dry .,
hack hoiue 10 tho North, and they will
ls-,in to opptesa each other. IL i like
I tlIc black lass which they cndeavorcd
70 plant in the rivers of North Carolina,
which cleaned out every other fish and
frog in the river, and finally, having ia
creased it's own species, commenced to
devour themselves.
1. is just at this time, when Il APP
pears that the Democratic party Is going
To gain complete aseendepcy, that the
Republican rerty finds out j. wants "a
strong government. What greater CON
iesdon ur inability to rula could they
maker
Small countries have always been the
most free, because the people and Sow
creigns ARE nearer each other; hut,
greater or less, the power in the govern
meut is derived from the people, and
the cry for n strong government is the
coi.fsssio.s Of weak one. The Union
with us is the constitution, aud the con-
stitution is. the Union; they are one aud
inseparable, and | say ROW that the
Southern men, who have always main.
tanned the constitution, are tha true
Union men, ] believe our liberties can
only be preserved 10y adbering to the
constitution, and il its bulwarks are
once torn down our liberties are gone
and say now that the true Union
party in this country is the Democratic
party.
A few years ago it would have been
unnecessary TO You to make a speech
concerning the Democratic party. Every
Radical that walked the streets was Q
living speech, and you needed no further
incentive. need not tell you that
when Louisiana was about to be admit
ted into the Union, how New EugldnC
threatened to secede. New EnGlant
introduced the slave trade, sang "Olt
Hundred through their noses, ant
thanked God they were not like othe
men. When she found out that slavery
didn't pay they sold the slaves to til,
South and then came down aud SGT then
free. Applause.
In 1865, in the depths of our mourn
ing and sorrow, amid the desolations Q
war, the mean and the despicable fron
the North came down to prey like vuli
ures on the South. Then Congress wa
: preparing its bills, which even Tha
Stevens admitted to he unconstitutiona
: for tie greater modification of cor
qucred people. Then spot sppeare
! upon tho horizon, und II few brave met
like Thurman and Bayard, who ar
giants in their day, were behind it, an
it was the Democratic party; and
grew and grew until it finally capture
both houses Of Congress. We had on
: reptilian age of politics in the Soutl
!, we have had our Ohio and Illinois an
Michigan Ichthyosauri rising from th
1 mud, but thank God, that day is passed
and the party who accomplished it wa
n the Democratic constitutional part,
. Could any decent man ever sigh for
return to the iniquities of carpet ba