The Georgetown news., 1856-05-08
Black RepubIicanisn,.


The Black Republicans seem to be in a
fair way to effect al. organization in this
State. Meagre though that organization
necessarily will be in the mining counties,
and impotent for inAicting any evil on the
American party, drawing as it will the bulk
of its recruits froni the Broderick Democ-
racy, we witness even this fr1itless effort on
their part to assume a respectable position
in the politics Of this State with sincere re-
gret-with feeling Of wonder. Regret
that any portion of American citizens
should become so blinded by fanaticism as
TO attempt to force so suicidal an isoue up
on the people of State which, from char
0cter and position, the blindest devotee can
see has no interest whatever in the struggle.
Regret that they should be so led away by
false philanthropy as to pursue q course
calculated to endanger a Constitution rati-
fed by the blood Of Revolutionary heroes,
and ieopardize the time-honored institutions
of twenty-six millions of freemen to accom-
plish purpose Of doubtful constitutional
ity-that Of extending the Wilmot Proviso
over all the territory belonging to the Uni
ted States, and preventing the admission of
any slave State into the Union.
Wonder, that the experience of the
past has not taught the yeriest simpleton in
the land that reason, not fanati ism, should
govern Us in our political action; that tol-
Grafton and a compromising spirit by each
particular section of the Union toward the
other, is the only safe governing principle
if we would preserve the integrity of that
Union intact; that love of the Union-the
whole Union-is the only bond which can
successfully bind US together in brother
hood of States, the one sentiment which
should control our political action.
We believe that the great mass of those
composing the sO-called Republican party,
are acting in the premises from honest con-
victions Of duty, but think they are wildly
mistaken in the result their action is calcu-
lated to effect A consummation Of The de-
signs which the leaders of the party have in
view, Eight secure the partial restriction of
slavery, possibly the emancipation of few
slaves, more or less; but along their fanati-
cal pathway would be scattered the frag-
ments Of riven Constitution, the tattered
stars and stripes of once venerated ma
tional ensign.
From any participation in such a la
r,entable denouemem the people of this
State, above those of any other, should hold
themselves aloof. The interests of Califor-
MIA, as well as her duty to the balance of
the confederacy, demand that she should
maintain a neutral position Even remote
ly, it cannot be claimed that her prescribed
system Of government would be affected by
the settlement of the negro question either
way; but sac has ends to accomplish, inter
ests at stake, which would be seriously
compromised, if not entirely blasted, by
active interference on her part in the black
warfare. With population composed Of
persons from every State in the Union
from almost every nation on earth; with a
constitution that prohibits forever the insti-
tuition of slavery from entering her borders;
far removed from the causes and associa-
tions calculated to engender sectional an
tipathies- far, that scarcely ripple
from the heaving ocean Of scctionalism
breaks upon her shores-there can be no
earthly reason why California should inter-
meddle in this fratricidal contest. And we
have faith to believe that the movement in
this State, outside the large cities, will
prove powerless and abortiye. At their
recent State Convention, of the one hun
dred and twenty-five persons purporting to
be delegates, siXty-six were from San Fran
cisco and Sacramento, twenty-nine from
the agricultural, and only thirty from the
mining counties 1t cannot be that the
people of California are so blind to their
true interests as to render "aid and COM
fort" to any extentt to the dangerous faction
which is attempting to force sectional is
sues upon them.