The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-12-19

BaOwssvIlLs, oa. Nov. 90. lss4.

EDrroR STANDARD The Republican
press Of tho country and their lats
standaEd-bearer, Doodle Blaine, are
taking their defeat very much 10 heart.
Was the Ike ever known before, that q
defeated candidate for tbs Presidency
made such an ass Of himself as Blaine
has done since bis defeat, as evidenced
~ his late telegram 10 the Republican
National Committee, and still later bis
address 70 bis Republicans mournsrs, At
Augusta, Maine h
And they must vent al their spleen,
and pour out their vials Of wrath upon
the poor, dsfsnssiess heads Of the poo
ple Of the "solid South"--and that be-
cause they, a. the people Of Pennsyl-
vania and other Eorthern States did,
went up 10 the polla aud voted their
sentiments on the 4th Of November.
In Blains's letter Of sccsptspss he could
not End words sweet and honsyed
enough with which 70 WOO the voters
OF the "uolid South, nor did Le in any
Of bis harrangues previous 10 the Oc-
tober election In West Virgins, ever re-
fer 10 them 10 any but kind terms /; bu,
~ soon As that was over, aud he saw he
could not hops for anything from that
source, be then commenced 10 Aaunt
hn 'eusAnguined garment" and still
keeps IL vp. And even the grsat news
paper, the "infAllibIe 0rsgoaian." has,
since tie election, drawn It's weapons Of
war, donned its most cafmine var paint
and Ia eating and slashing right and
left, hithsr and thither, here and yon-
der, like blind snake In dog days
Now, gentlemen. you had just ~
well contain yourselves, "the child Is
born, aud his name is Anthony" You
sro defeated. aud you had just as well
como down like little men and aeknowl-
edge Il, and accspt the resnls graceful
", a. the Democrats h.se done for
years, and even onee N.,e., her bad 20
submit 70 fraud.
The leading napuhlic4ns no~ see
that they made mistsks IN enfrAaehia.
ing the neSn,as Of The 5Istb. F',gir
object in granting chem the franchise
vas . selfish one. l. sss not for any
lore they had for the aeGro. bu. they
s4hoogh. tAs, would b. . sneans Cf Ia
creaEisg tho Rspuoliean vote ard thcre-
by lengthening out their lease Of pos
or bat instead Of lha. II has acted as
q boomerang, and instead Of giving
them langer Lease Of power has bssn
the means sf shortening il. The Drmo-
cratic patty, at the time, thought IL
ives q mistake 70 enfrAnchise the color
cd people, for thsreAson that they werc
ignorant and not qualifsd TO vote uu-
derstanding.Y.
Now in regard 70 al this baldsrdash
lately sPoulsd 80 much by the Oregon
ian, in regard to the South being kept
solid by fraud aud the shotgun policy,
take Is upon myself 70 say Il is oil falss
The elections in the Southern States ar
as free and fair as they are in an,
Northern State, and the forms Of Law
are more rigidIy enforced there than Il
the Northern States. / do not speal
this from mere hearsay, as does th,
editor of the 0reyonian, for / have n
idea he ever set his foot within th
boundary Of one Of the Southern State
in his life, and particularly during th
period between 1851 and 1865. ] va
born in Southern State in 1870, an
lived there continuously up to tho yea
1875, when I came to Oregon, With th
exception II short time during III
war. Nor was ! rebel. / was one (
. large number in the State l hale
from-Tennessee---thAt believed th
Southern people had no cause Tor VI
at the time they seeded that the
. were entitled to their rights in ih
Union that this was as much the
Government as IL was that Of u
Northern people, and that The people
the South saould wait unth Mr.. Lii
coin was inaugurated. and see wheths
I he intended TO interfere with any
the rights Of the South and l Shove
! the honesty of my convictions ia that
= entered the Union army in 1861 NJ
served thrse ysaIs, AS faithfully ~ Al
man that entered il an'l ali this %
> ing true, think my word Is entitled
= 40 much credit az that Of auy eiit
a who never Was in the South, and kno'
. nothing Of the Southern people exec
!, what he has heard.
C The Southern people were honest
e their effort to secsis. They had be
Q taught that they had constitution
right to do SO, when they thought tn
,e could not get their right in the Unic
Ut and after they made their effort q
). were defeated, they as honestly acceF
re- cd the result, and to-day as sectit
se are a. loyal to the Government Of
Iy United States, as Mr.. Blaine or
1T other ci.izen Of the North. So far