Georgetown weekly news., 1854-12-14


wherein we had been untrue to our party,
he sets off with this lame hypothesis: do
they expect to sectionalize themselves by
uniting with all the isms of the day, and
then battle the Democracy, as in the At
lantic States, under a false cry of no party
ism?" We answer unhesitatingly, mol So
far as we are concerned, we should fight
against such fusion to the last, and if we
have correct opinion of the minds and
wishes of the Whig party in this State, and
in Ell Dorado county particularly, they are
as far distant from joining in fusion with
any ism or section, either democratic, abo-
lition or southern, as is the present social
ed Democratic party from a reduction of
salaries among State and County officers !;
and consequently if we know anything at
all about the the beauties of Democracy in
that respect, they need never fear the fusion
of the Wing party in this State with "isms."
1t is against our policy and principles be-
sides we expect to be able to beat your par
ty, Mr.. Editor, without any other help, save
that which the Wings possess within them
selves-a knowledge that they are right.
For the Democracy, we are proud to
say and to know that they wM vote for
a Democrat because that is their political
faith" They are always true to their faith
and are never found wandering after strange
gods
True enough, Mr.. Editor, your party pol
iticians are always found loyal to their
favorite divinity, which is gold and the
spOlls and ptunder Of office! In humble
submission to this, their most sacred deity,
right loyalty they are ever found ready
to subvert every principle Of manly honor
upon its sacreligi0us altars So devout do
they become in their devotions, that the
interests of the people, whom they are ap-
pointed to represent, are entirely forgotten.
Conscience is forgotten the eternal laws of
justice and right are forgotten the feelings
of constituents are abused, while their lib
critics are insulted by oppressive laws and
exorbitant taxation. These are the princi-
pies of which you are so proud and the
demagogues who stand at their head, are
the men of principles, in whose support you
make such boastful pretensons of loyalty.
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to prove his~hoastful assertions of our tickle
ness and Instability, goes on to make the fol-
lowing assertions, to which is attached an
extract from the News, and upon this ex-
tract he lays the foundations of his abuse.
Says the Advocate
" Notwithstanding the protestations of
the editor, in his salutatory, that he would
support the whig party, we find in the sey-
enth number of the News, published on the
Both ult., a leading article denunciatory of
party organization. The following Ian
guage, for instance, occurs
"' Voters are Seduced into the belief that
they are voting for this party or for that,
that they are adhering to ancient and time
honored usages and landmarks when, if the
truth was known, their particular fayOrites
would be as far from those principles which
they have learned to cherish, as is the north
from the south pole. To sum it all up, they
will vote for Democrat because that is
their political faith. Poor, deluded beings,
look little deeper into that mans charac-
ter, and you will find that he IS not Demo-
crat, bat an imposter, selfish and unprin-
cipled demagOgue. So it is also in many
instances with the Whig party, and it will
be so with all parties so long as the people
will vote for men merely because he is a
Whig or because be is Democrat
Now while we deny the statement that
we ever said anything against party organ
ization, we are at the same time much oblig-
ed to the editor for giving the above extract,
and for the proof of our position. we simply
point at the present disorganized condition
of parties, and to the sectional differences
that exist between the North and the South.
Had we persisted in electing men, as well
as principle, we might at the present time
be enjoying the fruits ola peaceful IegisIa-
ton.
The editor has been pleased to represent
the News as the special organ of the Wing
party in this county. Now, while we have
never made any such boastful pretensions,
we at the same time claim for it the support
and respect of that party, so far as our edi-
torials from time to time may coincide with
their views of policy and their principles as
Wings. We do not, as does the gas-inhated
and vainglorious editor of the Advocate,
set ourselves up as the special organ of
whatever party Or faction will furnish US
with the most "ready cash." But we do
unreservedly profess ourself to be Whig
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