doe the philosophy of the radical for the
black man embrace those other races and
tribs.
But let tu go a stop further. These
people that are so vrild and crazy on the
Bubjcctotthe black man's vote say, in
the Chicago platform, that to deny to the
race the riht of suffrage or the power of
free government, is a sort of sacrilege
against humanity. They say he is a man
and a brother; consequently capable of
sclf-governaient. I am opposed to negro
suffrage because he is not capable of self
government. He is not a safe deposito
ry for tho I allot. In all the annals of
the human race, you remain to-day as
tho last people left between the earth and
the sun upholding a freo government;
but how much longer you will do it, Qod
in His mercy alone knows. One-third of
your sky is darkened one-third of your
land encumbered with chains.
Mr. Voorhccs further discussed the
question of the negro and his ability to
exercise the right ef suffrage, and then
continued:
THE CIIICAOO PLATFORM.
But let u j go a step farther, and for
the purpose of discussing two or three
other questions. "I want to take up this
Chicago platform. They met at Chica
go a short time ago to nominate their can
didates. There was a spot here and there
demonstrating to the great American
people, that, so far as one great political
party is concerned, they have broken
down the barrier that kept the black man
from civil and social, as well as political
-cqua(ity. The first resolution is as -Jowsf
We congratulate the country on
-the assured success of the reconstruction
policy of Congress, as vineed -y the
udoptoti, ia a majority of the Sates late
ly in rebellion, of constitution' securing
equal civil and political right to all ;
and we regard it as the dut of the gov
ernment to sustain those irritations, and
to prevent the people of uch States from
being remitted to a saU of anarchy."
- Now, they congratlate tho country
and State a propositi as totally false as
any proposition coal be made. I need
only call your atteron to the fact that
in every one of tlese Southern State con
stitutions seven-enths of the white peo
ple of those Stites are disfranchised.
Every person a Arkansas that participa
ted in the subtest degree in the rebel
lion, accortfug to one clause of the con
stitution, rendered incapable even of
keeping a ferry, or a mill, I believe, or
any of those necessary pursuits, unless
he cad take the test oath ; and, when
4he say that they have extended equal,
ciril and political rights to all, they mean
amply to all negroes,, not to all white
men. (Cheers.) Of course they don't
mean to all white men, because that L
false. Two-thirds of the people there
are disfranchised two-thirds of them
under those bastard constitutions gotten
up by the agents of the freedmen's bu
reau and the worthless negro population
there. When this party comes before
the country congratulating it that equal
civil and politicahright3 are extended to
all to those States adopting these negro
constitutions, thej state a palpable, will
ful and premeditated falsehood. The on
Jy escape from it in the world is to say
that they didn't mean that the large
body of white people down there wa3
-anybody at all, but that the negroes were
all. Equal civil and political Tights are
extended to the negroes, but when that
is siidallissaid ; for outside the negro
officials gathered up f broken-down, de
generate sous f the North, unable to
earn an honest living anywhere else than
by eating your bread and drinking your
wine at public expense outside of such
worthless vagabonds" as they, the white
people of the South, as a body, are dis
franchised by the State constitutions now
being adopted. Go to Tennessee it is
not so bad as Arkansas. It has been in
operation there some time, and you can
-witness its effects. How many white
people there are stricken from political
existence? When Emerson Ethndge ran
for governor, he got about 20,000 votes.
The other man, Brownlow, got about 70,
O00 or 80,000. It was conceded that
-within a small fraction Ethridge got the
whole of the white vote that was cast, es
pecially outside of East Tennessee. A
still more sweeping proscription prevails
in the constitution of Arkansas.
The constitution of Louisiana is as pro
scriptive as the bloody laws once marked
out by Scylla, by Mariu3 marked by
the great leaders of a victorious party.
It 13 as mischievous as the resolutions of
the jacobin club of France. And yet they
come before the country as if they had
restored a millenium of peace and good
fellowship. By these constitutions they
have simply planted negro supremacy in
these States, given them the power to
elect members of Congress, which they
will speedily do, and senators ; and' I
heard 3Ir. Sumner say, that he hoped
oou to welcome, negro senators upon
that floor, to occupy the seats once occu
pied by Clay, by Silas Wright, by Levi
Woodbury, by Webster and by Benton.
Sirs when you ge to Washington, and
git in the galleries and you hear Pom
pey's name called, and Caesar's, and Cuf
fee's, you will hear the field hand of the
South vote upon the great questions of
taxation, of commerce, of finance, and of
national progress and national glory !
This is the programme marked out by
radicalism, fastened; upon these States by
virtue of theso resolutions that Colonel
Thompson .drafted at Chicago, and came
down here to tell you that they meant all
we could desire. I askofcon versative men
of the second district, outside of the dem
ocratic party, ean you justify these things 1
3Tou can't say that under this negro rule
those Southern States will be your equals
in bright sisterhood. "You don't sanption
it,, and you can't, and the people will rise
in their majesty and their power, like a
whirlwind, and sweep away this wretched
attempt to subvert tho prosperity of the
country. Ap plause Now you will see
plainly what this first resolution meant.
I will just take my time if you will bear
with me several voices, "Go on," and
tear" this Chicago platform to pieces.
Cheers., , r;
Now. let us je what the next plank of
tois plattorm is, : . . . ...
ft2. Tho guarantee by congress of equal
suffrage in all loyal men in the South was
demanded by every consideration of pub
lic safety, of gi attitude and must be main
tained; while the question of suffrage in
all the loyal 'States properly belongs to
the people of those States.
Ask a radical who jhe loyal m$n of
the Qouth are. He will tell you that the
white men aro tho disloyal, except those
carpetbaggers and freedmen's bureau
agents. Applause. Now, that is true,
according to his construction of disloyalty.
Ho says that overy man t' "t went into
the rebellion is still dislov. Well, tho
truth is that uinety-ninc out of a hundred
of the substantial 'luen of the South wero
in tho rebellion. Wo might ns well meet
this fact. They fought, wero couqucrcd
and surrendered, and they havo quit, Gen.
Leo setting tho example, Gen. Leo is not
meant here, but only thoso whito men
who vote the radical ticket. They only
aro loyal. I am not loyal when it comes to
a radical's construction of the term ; only
thoso that. vote tho radical ticket arc loyal,
and tho negro is prima fact loyal.
They say that a black skin means loyalty
Tho presumption down South is that the
whito man is disloyal and that tho black
mau is loyal. As tho lawyers say, tho
presumption runs against tho whito man.
So that this guarantee likewieo means
tho negro.
But if it is tho right of tho negro" to
vote, it y inalienable ; and why hasn't he
the right to vote in Indiana and Ohio as
well as .in Goorgia? Yet last fall tho
question of negro suffrage was submitted
to the people of Ohio, and they voted it
down by nearly fifty thousand majority.
Iiwas submitted to the peoplo of Michi
gan, and it was voted down by forty
tho'usand majority. Hut they dare not
submit tho question to tho people of Indi
ana, and they dare not it at the South, but
they enforce it South by legislative pro
ceedings in congress, supported by tho
bayonet, for which you pay out of your
hard earned taxes. Negro suffrage there
is a good thing. What is this but a party
trick ? What is thin but a spotted and
piebald platform ? If it is right for a
black man to vote there, it is right for
him to vote here. Why do this party
not stand up like men, and advocate the
doctrine logically ? No meaner, no more
cowardly, uo more pitilul, no more evasive
and mean dodge was ever placed before
the American people iu a political plat
form than that second pitiful plank white
North and black South. Cheers.
Now let us see what comes next. Ah,
gentlemen, there will be a reckoning.
Well they know that this people will not
go into partnership with the black man.
Well they know that they dare not subuiit
the question squarely to the people, but
appeal to your prejudices and your pas
sions. A people that are powerless and
helpless they degrade, because they have
the power. If this were do S3 to the peo
ple of Indiana, so help my Fiiher in
Heaven, I wculd le?c the boundarie of
your State and take up with some other
people, who believe in equal and exact
justice to all men, and exclusive privil
eges to no men. and that act on the nrin-
- I
ciple of the golden rule- "Do unto others
as you would have them do unto you."
Applause. Here is auothcr:
"3. We denounce all forms of repudia
tion as national crimes, and the national
honor requires the payment of the public
indebtedness, in the utmost good J'aith to
all creditors at home and a broad, not
only according to the letter, but the
spirit of the laws under which it was con
tracted." I am not for repudiation, nor are yeu ;
but Governor Morton and other leading
men say that the payment of bonds in
greenbacks is repudiation. 'Wc denounce
all forms," and that includes denouncing
the payment of your five-twenties in
greenbacks. Tbey wanted to signify that
they wanted to pay the bonds in gold, but
they don't dare to say that.. They would
pay the. bond., ;not only according to
the letter, but the spirit of the law."
The bondholder ;laim3 the the spirit of
the law especially. Those fellows that
always want, something wrong will get up
some particular notion about a higher
law than the constitution, and seem to
have got hold of that doctrine.
All forms of repudiation they denounce.
But democrats don't talk in any uncertain-
tone on thU question. We are not
for repudiation, and, therefore, we are in
favor of pyiog every public creditor
alike , for if you make discriminations,
and pay one class in. one kind of money
and another class in another kind not so
valuable, I tell you repudiation will come,
for no people will allow the laboring men
to pay tne dent in a ainu oi curreney
that a rich man has not likewise to pay
in: in other words, this financial ques
tion is one of the greatest of this age.
We have a national debt' amounting to
$3,000,000,000, and that is no more than
one-nan or your lnaebtebness. .Let us
look calmly at this, question of debt. I
will stand on that plank of the platform
long enough to do what Greeley said he
did when Scott was nominated to spit
on it. It is hard" to tell exactly how much
we do owe, they have such a way of cov
ering up things from the eyes of the pco
pie- But when the'national, State, coun
ty and municipal taxes are all summed
up, the American people, as a body, do
uot owe less than six thousand millions of
nollars. You may double the national
debt by adding to it the State and local
taxes. But all has to be paid, and paid
but in one way, and that is by your hard
earned taxes. Now, the wealthy men of
this country are what aro called bond
holders. The poor man that owns forty
or eighty acres of land cannot lay by
money enough to buy . bonds, but when
you hero of a man living on the interest
of his money, you gay that he is well off.
Well, the bondholder is just that; Thiss
congress of the United States exempts by
law. the wealth covered by these govern
ment bonds in other words, the . man
that before the war owned a steamboat had
to pay laxes on all his property. He had
enough, however, when these bonds were
legalized to sell out his property and put
his money in these bonds and then the tax-
gathers passes his door no more. fiow,
my fellow-citizens, not only does the tax-
gatherer not molest the bondholder, but
the government iu required to pay what
it owes him in gold, when it pays its other
creditors in paper.
Letme take these planks up a little ir
reglarly. Here is one which says:'
" 10. Of all who were faithful in the
trials of the late war. there are none en
titled to more especial honor than the
brave soldiers and seamen who endured
the hardships of campaign and cruise
and imperiled their lives in the service o
the country. ' The bounties and pensions
provided by law for these brave defend
ers of the nation are obligations never to
be lorgotten. " The widows and orphans
of the gallant dead are the wards of the
people; a gaerefl legacy bequeathed to
tho nation' protecting care."
This all sounds woll, ia oloquently writ
ten ; but supposo I should ask a lame
soldier to got on the stand here, . such a
ono as stumped New Hampshire with me,
Col. Thompson of New York," I would
say to him : " Colonel, whero did you
lose that leg of yours?" "I lost it at
tho Wilderness, in tho midst of tho thick
est and hottest charge" ''Well, how do
you get along now ?" "It is a hard life
to me. I struggle along."
But I will take a onc-lcggcd farmer
hero, and ask him how ho gets along,
and whether he doos not receive a pen
sion. Yes, but I am 'paid in greenbacks,
while Mr. Smith, tho banker is paid in
gold." But aro you radicals in favor of
paying tho bondholders in greenbacks?
Some of them will say they arc. Why
dou't Congress do it, then? Congress
has had the power to do it within tho
lust six vcars, and they havo the power
now. Suppose I tell these soldiers to
stand aside, and ask tho purso-proud ar
istocrat for whom these laws weio made.
Tho hdhest bondholder will ak no fax
gatherer (0 go to another man's houo
and collect money for the government,
when he himself is protected by the gov
ernment from paying any taxo. But I
will ask, Mr. Bondholder, who are you
for? 14 Oh, I am for Congrens, tho loyal
and patriotic Congress, heuded by Bcu.
Butler, and that cIjum of eminent patri
ots aud heroes." Why are you so loudly
for Congresa, my friend? "Why," nays
he, " 1 am for Congress because Congress
is for me f.r me and my wife, my hon
John and hid wife, us four and no more."
Applause and laughter. " God bless
the patriotic Congress," nays the bond
holder. Why, says I, do you broak out,
in such an cfl'usbn, my friend ? Why,"
says he, " I'll tell you how it if. When
this war broke out, I owued a great deal
of property. My friends iu Congress said
that if I would invent my money in gov
ernment bond, 1 should not pay any
taxes; so I sold my property aud bought
these bonds, aud now I wear purple and
fine linen, fare sumptuously every day,
sit at church in a velvet-lined pew, aud
read my answers out of a golden-clasped
prayer-book. I don't pay any taxes., but
my neighbors do." I become indignant,
and I say, hold en ; do you mean to hiv
that no tax-gatherer vising you, b
visit your neighbor ? " Well,
T. .
but does
yes, I
reckon he goes Inero.
t But in that book which illustrates all
moral truth, we Cud Lazaru a soldier
possibly returned from the wars, at the
bondholder Dives' gate, for Dives was ev
idently in favor with the government,
and of course a bondholder. When Jaz-
aru; came back he laid down at this rich
mau's gate, and prayed for a crust of
bread, but Dives turned a deaf ear to hi
appeal. The dogs came and licked laza-
ru-V wounds, and at last he died, and if
the account had stopped there we would
nve thought that the justice of uod
was imperiect. jui we are briugea
acroes the gulf that divides time from
eternity, and we are enabled by tho lift
ing of the curtain to see what took puce
there. You ee tho maimed tidier at
rc.it in Abraham's bosom, aud the bond
holder, DivtH, lifted up his voice, accord-
a
mg to inspiration, in bell, and. 1 always
thought he ought to bo there. (Loud
aughter and applause.) I nay it not ir
reverently, but vhen the Bible puts him
there I say it ia ribt that he should be
there.
But the burden of indebtedness upon
this country u too vast to be trifled with.
The taxable property of Great Britain
amJunU to about 0,U00,00).000.
Ours amounts to 812.000.000.000. vet
our debt is $0,000,000,000, taken alto-
ether, while Kngland's is about 83,800,-
000, but little more than half our bur
den. But I would pay every debt in the
common currency of the people. I know
no castes in my view of American citi
zenship. A bondholder told me this
spring: "I. want the bond paid off in
greenbacks because the gold interest I
have collected has paid me back all . tbey
cost me, and I don t care to make a spec
ulation off an impoverished people."
They say again :
' 4. It is due to the labor of the na
tion that taxation should be equalized
and reduced as rapidly as our national
faith will permit.
Now say to them, why don't Congress
do it? You have a twojhird majority
there : why don't you do it ? But the
national faith with a bondholders' conven
tion means just what personal faith meant
with Shylock when he attempted to get a
pound of flesh out of or near Antonio's
heart.
Again :
" 5. The national debt, contracted, as
it has been, for the preservation of the
union for all time to come, should be ex
tended over a fair period for redemption j
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce
the rate of interest thereon, whenever it
can honestly be done."
They don't say it shall be done, but it
shall be done whenever it can honestly be
done. That means never with them. !
would read it thus: "The national debt
should be extended over a fair period for
redemption, and it is the duty of Con
gress to reduce the rate of interest there
on."
" 7. The government of the United
States should be administered with the
strictest economy, and tho corruptions
which hat cm shamefully nursed and
fostered by i.odrew Johnson call loudly
for radical reform."
(Mr. Cravens here said, " They need
ed that.")
My friend, Mr Cravens, cays they
needed more soap than they got. (Laugh
ter,) But the Radical Congress preach
es economy. Satan might as well preach
the gospel. Zxo more profligate and lm
provident speculators upon the people's
money ever assembled than these men
are. -
They speak of Andrew Johnson's dis
honesty. Whatever may havo been his
faults as an executive omcer slow, inert
in action, not prompt as I would have
h'im, not wise in calling around him his
cabinet and his officers, not the best
judge of men ; and when that ia said all
his faults are told, and then rises up a
man as pure and honest and freo from
corruption as ever lived in the : Whit3
House.: Tho charge of corruption will
neer lie at his door : stubbornness may.
bad temper,injudicious appointments may,
but. dishonesty never. An idea of this
band of scoundrels may be seen in their
attempt to get hold of Alta Vela, and
they bring the charge of corruption
against Andrew Johnson. Thoy have
tho power to retrench and economize; let
thorn do it.
They thank tho thirty-five senators that
voted to impeach Andrew Johnson. For
what was ho impeached ? Ever siuco
tho foundation of our government the
President has had tho right to remove
his cabi.net olliccrs. No man with a soul
iu him, no man but a corrupt politician
would havo remainod in a cabinet where
ho was not wanted.
(Mr. Voorhces here briefly referred -to
tho case of the removal of Secretary
Stanton and the tenure of office bill, and
continued.,)
Then they have a plank about foreign
immigration, aud a plank iu regard to tho
rights of naturalized citizens abroad.
Now, there have beeu eomo of our citi
zens very unjustly imprisoned in Eng
land n nd Ireland. I believe, however,
that Congrcns is tho war making power in
in this country. Congress and Congress
alone has the power to declare war for any
violation of the rights of a citizen any
where. Tho Radicals havo Congress, and
yet they come with their 'lying cant bo
t'orc tho foreign people of this country as
though they were friends of prisoners in
foreign countries.
Gentlemen, if you mean business, have
business. If you think Kngluud ha tram
pled, and I think ha, un the right of
naturalized citizen, the rndicul have Con
grM nud it i the law-making powtr.
your resolution demanding rlrrn, and, if
r.ngluiid don't act, then you have a remedy
in your hands ; but dou't crnuo Uforo tho
puople pretending that you are for a thing,
when you have the power to do tliit thing,
nnd don't dei it. You rowilve tit favor of for
eign citizen and dou't act; and from fitt
to last that platform i a mockery. There
not an unqualified, ktrutght-out-and-out cum
mittul from beginuisig to end ; all i condi
tional, all diplomatic, all deception. There
in the platfurm ou which they t.ind.
CONCLUHIOST
It is not necessary to talk about men
iu thi connection. The American people
intend to grapple with mighty principles.
Our pathyway lies before m, You, and.
I o the kiug'n highway of glory, and
Walk in tho path of our fathers. Their
footstep are pl iin, thoy arc marked by
the tear and blood of the sou of the
revolution. The constitution bangs up
like a great lamp in our dome, to guide u
on our way. What were Htute unco are
States still ; what wa a whitetnau's gov
ernment once is a white man' govern
ment still (applause); what wt a laboring
man' government ouco is a laboring man'
government fctill ; what wai once a gov
ernment of erjuul taxation hhall again be
a governmeotof cjual taxation. Cheers
Ail the great landmarks are plain to u.
We will invoko from thi chat the
lovely apirit of trial by jury, and there
he shall fit forever. We will call forth
again the halm rorpu$, and enthrone it
in all iu majeaty once more until the sun
of our prosperity ahall know no eclipso
upon our Southern dic, and all the ob
scured and benighted stars hall appear
there again. Every itar kball be un
furled to the brctxe eery atar ahall
again radiate iu b(e&cd light. All is
pbin and eay for ti. Oui hotue i built
upon a rock ; tho rains may descend, the
wind may blow upon it, but it will not
fall. It will stand eternally, based upon
truth aud principle. Uon the other
hand, there hiha'ynis fttuu to delude the
people still further and further into the
quagmire ct destruction. Y here i your
old bleed union, rising rim-uix-ltke
from it. ashes, putting on ita original glo
ry ? Is it in the negro te rear again
the-c prostrate columns? The Radical
aay yes : I ay no. Where is the pledge
given to the laboring man for security
aud protection in the sweat ot hi brow :
v ncre is augm inai inc puouo guvu ue
Laud there ? Where are the plain, out
spoken facts that become a party when it
comes beforo the American people for
their snfirages ?
I have thus traced the position of the
two parties. 1 have done it without that
deliberation and care beforehand whicl
always is demanded by as respectable and
intelligent an audience as thi.t. I have
been buy however. I havo traveled day
aud night a long distance to como here.
But these truths, however iropenectly
laid before you, are nevertheless, accord
ing to my deep-rooted convictions, ever
lasting truths, without which this people
cannot prosper ; without which there can
be no union or fraternity or future glory.
lo the young men that are rising up
let me say a word. No better time than
now was ever known to cast your fortunes
with the Democratic party. It has seized
upon the great forward progrcssivo issue.
Its history is full of glory in tho past.
Faults it has had : who has not Bar
ties are not infallable, any more than men,
but its banner is one of proud renown.
Sixty odd years ago it took your country
on the inauguration of Jefferson. Under
its lead of progress, the map of empire has
been unrolled, btato alter fatato has been
embraced in its loving arms, star after star
has blazed out upon its flag, and the 31 is
sissippi valley has been crossed, the Rocky
Mountains havo been scaled and tho col
ors of the Democratic party planted on the
coast of the Pacific. But let us not sek
the vengeance of hato. Tho worst names
recorded by history as illustrations of hu
man depravity, are those that, in the hour
01 victory, inuuigo in a &pim vi uuoiruu
tion. Whose names so hateful as tho
Mariuscs, the Neros, the Scyllas, the Ti
bcrisuses and the Robcspierres ? And
hereafter, when the calm historian records
the deeds ofBuler, tho malignant, Ring-
ham, the persecutor of women, he wil
record them simply to instruct the rising
youth what examples to avoid j and thoso
that havo taught forgiveness and recon
ciliation in this hour, in the spirit of the
Great Master of the skies, will be spoken
of as statesmen and benefactors of man
kind.
Those of us that have obloquy now wil
then stand on a clear page. What cares
one how soon ho mav depart, if his name
can be hailed as a doer of good to his tel
low men after he is cone ? Why, the
world to-day is full of appeals to you.
you will listen to them, in behalf of the
doctrines that I inculcate, in behalf of ob
k a n . . i
livion tor the past. Those who died in
the civil war now sleep in peace. All tho
moral influences aro at work.
Every well regulated christian knows
that what I ask of the conservative peo
pie of the country is just, and that legis
lation in a spirit of hate is accursed folly
Tho spirits of the dead send back their
eternal plea to your hearts, inasmuch as
they war no more, and have now met
IU
peace, that the discordant sections of this
country should likewise war no more, bu
also rest in peace Loud applause.
Cditor.
SATURDAY AUGUST 15, 18G8.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOll PlilSSIDENT !
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YOIIK.
vott vkmm'iikhidknt:
Fit A NIC P. B LA 1 11.
or Missoula.
FOR WEStnEN'TlAI. ELKCTOJtS,
8. Y. CI!AIVrOK, at ItoufclM county.
JOHN BUKNKTT, of Itonton countr.
JAS. Jt. SLAT Kit, of Union county.
Words with the Bark On,
If the PreiMcnt elected br the Democracy en
force or permit other to enforce the Kecon-
trucliou Ao', tho Ila-lirttU, by toe oeMWn of
wenty iwurloui fa baton end fifty lie prex-nU-
liven, will control both hrenchee oi Congrenn, end
bi aumiitiilrtttion will le ei Towcrlei m the
recnt one of Mr. Johtmoo'i.
There in hot one way to retore (he Government
end the Comtitutiou, end that U fr tho l'rcni lcrit
elect to declare the acU null end void, eotnnd
the army to undo Ita unoroationa at the Houth,
dier tho carpet-bag Ktato Government and
elct KanMor and Itepreiiebtatlvef. Tho Uu
of r.i'i-rujMjutoUvc will contain the majority of
Pcuioerat from the North, and they wilt admit
the KMr!Mntative cloctcd ty the white retila of
the Houth, and with the r.ierat'on of the i'res-
lent it will not be tliuiruU to compel the BeneUs
to auhmit out more to the obligation of the
Constitution, It will not he aMe to withstand the
ublio judgment, if ilictinHly invoked and clearly
eipmacd on thia fundamental lue, and it i the
ure way to aroj.l all future strife to put the tue
ilainl to the country . Vanfc . Ulair.
CLONE Of VOLlMi:iII.
Thin number close, h the Third Vol
ume of thu Statu Rigiitk Dkuocuat;
and it ia customary on such an occa-
ion to write a lontr editorial. Jiut
we hall be brief.
When we became connected with
the establishment of the Democrat
ts affairs were in a very depressed
condition. For ome weeks, or month.,
the paper had been luixpended ; confi
lenee, as to it utability, was utterly
leatroyed; many men who had paid
in advance, had not received a half,
aud in Home instances not one-fourth
of the numbers to which they were
justly entitled; and nine-tenths of the
community, judging us by our prede
cessor, looked upon tis with distrust
and suspicion, aud refused totiufescribe,
or in Any other way lend us a helping
hand. Although under no
legal
or
moral obligation .to fill out tho unex
pired contracts of our predecessor, wc
we nevertheless did so in so far as sub
scriptions were concerned ; and wc
thus paid out some hundreds of dol
lars simply to convince the people of
this and adjoining counties that we
should "deal on the square " with
them. Months, however, elapsed ere
public confidence had been restored.
We sometimes had doubts whether
we ever would succeed in re-establish-
mi; that laitli in the establishment
necessary to render our undertaking a
success. JJut wc are happy to an
nounce that we arc at last victorious.
The I)em(h;kat is now as firmly estab
lished as any journal in Oregon. It
rests on as sure a basis.
Thus much for its financial condition.
As to its future course wc have but
little to say. We have learned that
the people naturally distrust a man
who is profuse of promises. They pre
fer acts. Wc simply refer to the past
as an indication of what we will do
in the future. We have advocated
Democratic measures -and principles
in the past; wc intend to travel in
this good old path in the future. We
are more firmly convinced now than
ever that they are right; and wo be
lieve that wc shall soon see theitf put
into full operation again by Seymour
and Hlair. Kentucky has just gone
Democratic by over seventy thousand
majority, and all the signs aro that a
great political revolution is going on
all over the land ; and tho Democratic
party will achieve a decisive and glo
rious victory over the combined forces
of Mongrelism next November. It
is needless for us to say that whatever
influence and energy wo possess shall
bo directed to the accomplishment of
so desirable an end; and wc shall im-
provo every other department of the
State Rights .Democrat as much
and as well as tho means at our com
mand will permit. '
Wo arc not aware that we can moro
appropriately closo this article than
by publishing the following extraot
from that sterling Democratic journal,
tho JTolk County Signal, which we
find in the last number:
"Takinc uptbe State light Democrat, and scan
nintr tho lirSt pace,, we aro struok with amazement,
as it were, upon reading, "Vol. III. No. 50." Are
wo dreaming ? Has it been three years Binco we
assisted to start the Albany Democrat on the first
half of its first Volume ? It must be so, yet it al
most seems as if it were but yesterday that wo
waited with anxious impatience for the initial
number of tho State JCiyhU Uemoerat. now wo
crizod it. and bow tho lJemocracy of Linn county
were nerved on to deeds of patriotio duty by it.
Three Years aco I It seoms a marvel 1 And what
chances have been wrought in Linn county in
Oregon in every State in the once United htates
since the Democrat entered the busy and chequer
ed arena 1 . Then, Linn county was under the dom
ination of a party whose text was "loilty, and
whose watchword was oppression ; wnose career
was marked by violence and intolerance and whose
leaders were imbeoilea, fanatics ana Knaves, wow,
tho cause of right, justioe, humanity, oirilization
and Liberty I ia fostered, encouraged and sustain
ed by a majority or thbeb hundred in tne coun
ty, Then, "loil" mobs were only restrained from
wreaking summary vengoanee upon Democrats by
the cowardice inseparable from the make up of
men prone to wfong-doing. ; Now, all is peace
a uietude and civil amenity. Then, foulest asper
Bions. black denunciations and midnight plottines
constituted the favorite past-time of the dominant
party. Now, the dominant party devotes itself to
suppressing evil and cultivating the arts of peace
M. XX. ABBOTT,
nud art tnllghteiied social intercourse with man
kind. Then, a paper Called tho Albany Journal
flourished in Linn county and was the organ of the
bar baron i nentimcnt of the times. Now, it la no
more, and in only remembered a the panderer in
ita day to the lowest and vilest prejudices that ever
disgraced or lowered and degraded the standard of
manhood among men. Then, the subject of these
thoughts, the democrat, was sailing against ad
verso winds, its friends ready at any hour to hear
of its exclnsion from the mails or its unqualified
suppression by order of some bigoted, semi-barbarian
of a satrap in rexponse to the clamor of its
local enemies whoe deeds were dark and damna
hie and would not hear the light shed upon them
by an outspoken and honestly-conducted journal.
Now, that paper's course seems onward and up
ward its every "lineament" betokening vigor and
along, prosperous and htaltby career. It has
weat hered the storm for throe years j nay itreoeh
Its three itom and never falter ia its adhesion to
principle and its defense and maintenance of the
rights of the people."
We can unsure our friend that while
wc have the honor to control the Djssi
ockat it will never falter in, its adhe
sion to principle, nor in its defence
and maintenance of the rights of the
people. Wo a firmly believe that
our political principles are right we
arc as firmly wedded to them as wc
arc to our religious principles. We
adhered to our political principles du
ring the war; we adhered to them
-..,1-1 4l.,. l.:. ... , e .11
and reproach; wc adhered to them
when threatened with death hy the
assassin and Union Leaguers ; we ad
hered to them when an assault was
made upon us and our office by a mob
of thirty or forty drunken soldiers ;
and it is not at all probable, that wc
shall now desert themp!irtioularly
when we aro on tho very eve of a
most glorious victory.
We hope to retain all our old sub
scribers that is, those who have paid
us and to place on our subscription
books the names of many new ones.
Let our friends take hold in earnest.
Ilatte C'alurunleM Ileftited.
IJrohwsville, August 4, 18C8.
Editor Htate lii'jhts Democrat:
The Republican heroes, viz : W. It. Kirk,
A. C. lluuftoiati and James A. Smith, just
before the latter left this place, went before
a Notary Public and made oath a follows,
which they had published in the Unionist:
"To inn UsiojtfJiT ; As there ba been consid
erahle talk in rrgirrd to the political eoune t&ken by
the Htr. Mr. h. Ktlej, living in this place, 1 wbb
to tat, through your colataut, jtne conversatioa
that pa 1 between bito and tnytclf, as I nnder
tnd thst he bs denied it (or at lcat th greater
portion of it); and I will at the ouit sajtbat he
wa the fmt to introduce the subject at the first
conversation that I had with htm. He touk me to
ukt Kl and '! rae if the Union party cf this
f.utdr had git out iu ticket, and t told him no.
He aid. 'Can t you g t Janes Llkin to ran for
County Clerk V 1 told him that 1 thought not;
that Elkiee had told tne that be did not w'uh to
run. Whereupon Mr. Hilcy aid : JIe ean Wat
lie!tn, and he U a U-tter man for the plaee, and
he bupfd that he would run ;' and then remarked
that he bad never'vplit his ticket, and did nut know
that he ever buld bat he would scratch whom
he plcaeJ, and he wouU not vote fur Helm. Some
days after that I had another talk with him, and
tola bun that fc.ik.in did not wutt to run, and that
the I'oiun men. o far as I knew, thought that if
ManSe!d would cwt out iudrpcodrnt, he would
he the trongeat man. He then aaid that he pre
ferred KSVtft. and gave as his reason that Elklns
ww very literal, and bad done him farori vhen
he was CVunty Clerk before; hut sail that he liked
M - l.tWMjM urns WW
a food Clerk : and then add'-d that Helm was a
bad roan, aclf import act and bigoted, and he ba-
li ved a rebel at heart, and that be would vote for
Mauifuld, and he would rote for S. (J. Irvine for
Fcbxd Superintendent, and for any good mca for
Sbtrtll and Treaurvr againct the Democratic nom-
io-t ; and further, that he had a talk with bis
brother and Dr. Hill, when he was over in the Forks
of fantiam. and tUat they all agreed to laSor to
defeat Hi-lm and the others mentioned. Xo, I
hear he claims that what be said to me waa coofi-
tial. He said to me, I don't with this to get out:'
aud I told him tbat I did not wish it to get out ei
ther. I meant to the Democracy, and so under
stood him for he had told other Union men about
theaame. W. K. K1UK.
ubecribcd and sworn to before me this 20lb day
of June, ISO.
Almox Vt BEtLta, notary rublic
The substance ol tbe conversation tbat took
place between Mr. Riley and Mr. Kirk also occur
red between Mr. Riley and myself particularly
that portion relating to Mesrs. Helm and Mans
field ; and I would further add tbat Mr. Riley's
expression of his vews on tbe matter was entirely
voluntary, I not having asked his opinion c n the
subject at all. JAMES A. SMITH.
Hubscribctl and sworn tobeforu me this 20th day
of June, 1SG8. ,
Almox Wueeler, 'Notary Public.
. This is to certify that Rev. Stephen Riley, of
this place, about tbe 6th or 7th of May last, in a
conversation with me in regard to trie election teen
pend'ne. asked me if Etkius would run for County
Clerk ; be stated that Elkins was his man and that
he would support him ; tbat he bad seen his broth
er in the Forks of Santiam, and that he also would
support Elkins. I stated that I did not believe
that Elkins would run, but tbat I believed Mans
field would be an independent candidate, and that
I believed that the Republicans would support
him. Mr. Riley rtated that Mr. Elkins had never
charred bim a cent for work, and that be had done
as much as $22 in one day. Mr. Riley stated tbat
Mr. Mansfield was a good man, and tbat be would
vote for bim provided he wa a candidate for Coun
ty Clerk ; and furthermore, that he had a great
influence over Sam Gray, and, that he would get
bim to vote for Mansfield also. Mr. Riley also
stated that he did not care to elect either of the
Democratic nominees, save lJassett and Johns.
Mr. Riley further stated that he would not vote
fur Geonre R. Helm, that he was an out and out
secessionist, and that he was bizoted and stuck
up, drank hard and gambled.
A. C. HAUSMAN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day
of June, 1863.
A lmos Wheeler, Notary Public.
BnowxsviLLE, June 19. '
Will vou permit me. through your columns.
b Btato facts as thev transpired t In the
first place, I am a Democrat of the Jefferson
ian and Jackson school, have voted that tick
et for 10 years, was never known to flinch
under anv circumstances, occona, 1 am a
Bantist nrencher. have never preached poli
tics nnd was never known to discuss politics
in a public capacity j havo lived an humble
and peaceable citizen, with as few personal
difliculties, perhaps, as any man ot my age.
Now for the facta in the present cose. Last
winter two of the above named heroes, Smith
and Kirk, accused me of training my son to
sine a "sescph song I went to ttiem, we
had some harsh words, and they backed
down ; but afterwards published, or favored
the publication of an article in the Unionist,
under the assumed name ot "iagie," slan
deringmy ministerial character; consequent
ly there did not exist' any good feeling be
tween us, neither did I associate with those
men. Just atter the nomination of our can
didates, I met Kirk and ho spoke something
a a a w "
about them ana cauea ueim pard pannes,
saying that they intended to beat him if pos
Bible, llo spoke ot Jbikins as a good man
but 6aid that SJim couldn't be elected ; then
he said, "Liet ub unite on some good Demo
crat and beat Helm. He spoke of Mansfield
and said they were going to get htm to run
for Clerk on an independent tickt, and Dr.
Hill for Kepresentative. Said he : "It we
can cet those two men, with your influence,
thev can be elected." I then told him that
I never took any part in politics, except to
vote. Said I ; ''My business is to preach,
and thereby nrofit both parties." I said.
further, that! never split my ticket, but
would scratch if I felt like it, aud if thev
could beat Helm with a good Democrat Xoga '
The reaaon that Kirk approached me. wt -that
he had learned that I did not foror
lldfn'j nomination. In justice to Mr,; Helta
Iwill here state that my main reason for op
posirje h;a nomination wm a personal mat
ter. I did say hastily that I would not tote
for him, tut when we talked the matter over
1 was convinced that he bad done hit duty
toward me, and was satisfied.
Now I have stated the facts in the case,
and any and ererythinitsct forth in theater
oaths of W. It. Kirk, A. C. Hausman and
James A. Smith, that differs from the sub
stance of what 1 have here stated, I unhesi
tatingly pronounce false, malicious, libelous
slanders ef th deepest dye. 1 new appeal
to every man that knows anything about me
if the above are not the most utireaa&naLlo
ontha ever heard of. A man with a sane -,
mind, who hud battled for sixteen years,
against that dominant party, at all hazards,
and then when the hoar of victory was jusr;
at hand, turn and commit suicide on the al
tar of liberty, sacrifice principles dearer
than life, and crouch down to an inferior
fie? Is it renson? Yoo cannot' credit it
This time-serving, nijrger-Jotins; party pick
ed mo out for their victim five years ago, in
Polk county, and held the flag over me du
ring a i rotracted meeting of several davs.
forth like Judas Iacariot, Benedict Arnold
ana Cain, with all the horrors of a .guilty;
lueno mrce mortal neroes mar now aro
""i? ,WM.""S '
These three above named men. two weeks
before the election told the same that ther
swore t, and I denied it on all occasions. I
saw them almost every day, and tbey never
hinted to me our difference. On the day rfV
the election I eaid that I dared t'.em to talk;
hinted a word to me on the subject. Threo-.
weeks after the election they held a council,.
when I wan from home attending a ereat re
vival of religion and trying to do. my Mas
ter' will, and published their libelous slan:
dcr and reported that I would never com-
home. And the next morning after my re
turn home, Hausman came near to my house
and called me out and told tne that they in
tended to make me leave the- country that
tncy naa been tent to ten tue to leave. Since
that they have been busy in circulating false
reports with a Hpirit of persecution bitter as
death, and they have cursed; the Baptists of,
Brownsville and are doing everything tbey
can to destroy the BaptiMinSucnce. -
Now I mofct gladly stake ay reputation for
truth and veracity acainst mv sworn ene
mies, without fear of the eonsequeuces, and
can say from the depths cX my heart, God
ueip tue rigm. - a. iulit.
Council Proceeding.
TirrasDAr Eveviwc, Aug. 13, 1863.
Regular meeting of Council : roll called :
present : Mayor Norcross, Ccuncilmen Car
teai Y'minz.
TbcTTe not Leins a Quorum resent. Coun
cil adjourned to meet to-morrow (Friday) at
Toeiock. L. W. Doomttlb.
City Recorder. .
Bio fn iNcTbe cditor of the Corral! is
Gazette announces that he is the father of a,
bran new boy baby, with dark hair, eves!
and quiet temper." He sara he (tho fkthr
. j 1
U doing as well aa could be expected. We
havo been in this editorfs fix several times j
but we never felt that it was of so Sclent Im.
portance to brag of, nor did it make us sick
abed, as it would seem it did bim. lie has
our earnest wish that be may speedily recov
er, and yet live to spank the "boy baby" of
which he says he is the daddy as often as be
(the bov) may neod fatherly correction.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
I , h
I
I
DISSOLUTION. ,
fflHE
1 de
liller."
HE FIRM HERETOFORE EXISTING UNV
er tbe name and style of Moore, Garst A
, has this day ben dissolved by mutual
concent, Mr. W. U. Baber drawinz out of thebasi.
ncss.
All accounts due tbe late firm. "Moore. Garst A
Rater," will be collected, and all liabilities aid-
by Moore k Gerst, who will continue business at
the old stand. E. B. MOORE.
G. GARST.
W. II. BABER.
Ilarrisburg, Joly 25th, 1S63 n53w4.
ALBANY COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.
THE NEXT SESSION COMMENCES
31 OX DAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 1868
For Partiealars address
REV. IL BUSHNELL,
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Albany, Oregon.
WHEAT AND OATS WANTED!
HIE SUBSCRIBERS WILL PAY TFIE
highef t cash price for whpat and oats deliv
ered at thair Warehouse la Albaay. Alao wheal
ana oats
Stored and Shipped at the Lowest Batei
Goo js ef all kinds received and rhipned from
the Wharf. MARKHAM A SON.
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THE BEST VELl. NOW IN USE
SUGGET'S PATENT DIUVZ3 T7ELL !
A N INVENTION BROUGHT INTO PRAC-
1. tieable use within the last few years, and is
taking tbe lead or all other Wells. These Wells
are made by driving, or otherwise sinking into tha
earth, an Iron or Lead Pipe suitably perforated
and pointed to tho required depth, and attaching
thereto any good common Pump ; and after pump,
ing a short time a cavity will be formed about the
lower end of tne pipe which will supply unfailing
pure water. These Wells may be seen ia success
ful operation in Albany, Boio, Eugene, Uarrisburr,
c-l 1 V : n i ,
cucui tuu uuiti puiuia vr?guu, igu umy require
to be seen in order to be highly appreciated.
Tne. undersigned nas purenused tbe Patent Kieht
of this Well for all the territory in Linn eounty,
Oreffop. lying south of the Santiam river, except
the Precincts p.f Ilarrfehnrg, Brownsville and Peo
ria, and is prepared to furnish any number of said
wells, ready lot use, at very short notice, cheaper
than a good well can be made in any other way.
I havo paid a large amount for this right, and
notify all persons not to infringe on the same.
Let a word to the wise be sufficient. ' -
Persons wanting Wells will please band in their.
orders as early as possible, giving location aad
probable depth of well. This will enable as to
procure Stock, Pumps, Ae., to suit the demands e(
tne traao. All orders promptly etiended to.
Address, at Albaay, Oregon, ELI CARTER.
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NOW IS YOUR TIME - ' 3
TO :..
Above High-Water Mark !
4Q.OOO BUSHE LS!
XEW WAREHOUSE READV
STORE "yYOTAT, AND OATS 1 '
With all sorts of Improvements for receiving
Wheat byjjlevatori from wagons on the street. ?
YVheatBo agbt at all times, and the
IJIGIIEST CASH J?RJCE PAID ON DELIVERY.
Sacks furnished for those that wish to eelL
Oats Wanted, and Cash paid oa delivery, at
R. CHEADLFS NEW WAREHOUSE,