The Placer herald., 1856-04-19

AUBURN, APRIL 10. 1856
A Word to the Wise.


in the county of Placer, who do not assume
to be politicians, never ask for office, are too
we'll pleased to improve the opportunities OF
making an honest independent livelihood,
BY manuel labor in the mines or upon their
ranches or by legitimate mercantile transac-
tions, to fret themselves over the schemes of
placeseekers. These men are the hard sense
bone and sinew Of the country. Practical
in everything they do, they carry victory to
whichever party their convictions of right
induces them to support. Slow in arriving
at conclusions, honest and disnterested in
intent, patriotic in impulse and sincerely de-
sirous to be just to all parties and persons
they are seldom wrong in their conclusions.
Such men neither regard the ambitious clam
orings Of leaders, nor the clannish call Of
parties-but sit in sober Judgment over the
best interests of the country.
These are the men we call wise, the men
we are now addressing, It is the presence Of
this class Of men in goodly numbers, in this
country, that gives to it, the solid conserva-
tive quality of which few Others in the State
can boast. Before that unbiased umpire we
now appear, and we crave careful exanina-
ton Of the state Of parties and their Objects
You have seen within the past two years a
combination of men rise in the United States,
become powerful as party, sweeping our
great cities in the East with irresistible force,
carrying many of the States, and last year
planting their victorious banner upon the
capitol of California. 1t claims to be the
American party, declared undying adhesion
to the constitutional compromises OF the ma
tion--promised reform and retrenchnent,
and vaunted its patriotism as being superior
to every sectional test. They were to usher
in new era in politics, or rather they were
to revive the simplicity and honesty Of our
revolutionary sires, and intensity the love of
country until national millennium should
crown their efforts. Many honest men be-
leved them, and as they piled oath upon oath
fannnd the fruits of these promises was at
hand. How have your expectations been
answered. This American party have re-
Gently had a National Convention in the city
of Philadelphia, and instead of finding among
them that brotherly feeling, that oneness Of
purpose, and nationality Of purpose, which
should pervade true Americans, they have
exhibited the worst feelings-discord, jeal
ousv, distrust and sectionasm. When
question was presented for their considera-
ton, in the settlement Of which, is involved
the quiet and perpetuity Of the nation-a
question which is agtating the Union from
East to West and from North TO South-at
crisis when a great party should speak and
make itself felt if ever these Americans took
back all they had before said upon the sub
iect, and resolved to close their eyes and
ears, and neither see, hear or speak upon the
dreaded topic. They have resolved to stand
neutral whilst sectional war RACES around
them. These self-constituted guardians Of
the nation retire quietly to their slumbers as
tHe OdLtle CSlulutHCeo. w HdI I!oldi NelSul
can party have that will content itself by
occupying such negative position: None.
And SO many of its members declared at the
time. The only positive act this incongrous
body attempted has torn them asunder, viz:
the nominating Of candidates.
The American party in the North and
West repudiate Mr.. Fillmore, and how is it
possible for that party in the South and Mid
die States to bring sufficient support to elect
him? The proposition is absurd, and sound
practical men, will not, at this crisis, throw
their votes away by foolish adhesion to the
failing fortunes Of any man, be he ever so est-
mable. No, the cause Of your country for
bids it.
1t is contended by the partizan papers of
that party that, the Order in this State is not
affected by these isms which have distracted
them in the Atlantic States. (Tkis is an adj
mission that it is not nationally Let us ad-
init for the sake of argument that it is true
how does this alter the case? Suppose you
were right in giving support under the state
Of facts to that party in the State of Califor-
mia, in matters purely of local nature, does
it follow that you are to continue with them,
when as party they are no longer Of force
for national purposes Should California
cast her electoral vote for Mr.. Fillmore it
could not elect him. Your local issues are
but few, and are scarce of feathers weight
when placed with the great issues of the ma
ton at large. We ask you if under this
state of facts, you can longer act with the