The Placer herald., 1856-09-06
Col. Fremont in the u. s. Seno+.

during the snort tlme that Col. Fremo,.
was in the United States Senate, by h;s hs'o"' ~,
celent judgment and indomtable persistanos Va
he urged through the Senate, against ~
most formidable opposition law for worl ,l'
ing the gold mines, which settled one Of ,ha
most difficult practical questions in the word II
and settled it for the benefit of free l.ho.'
Congress, urged by powerful Speculate,
both in and out OF California, was much IN
clined to manage the mines on the nnh;.
domain after the old Spanish fashion, farm;n'r
them out so as to derive large revenuo 8
the Government, leaving the laborers 70 h..
come virtual or actual slaves.
COL Fremont's bill prevented all this h..
minute subdivision Of the gold bearing tery;;
tory, and granting permits to work them r.
actual miners on easy conditions. # il
under this law that thousands of Door mon
are digging out fortunes for themselves with
their own hands in California, and thosa
hands will rise for Fremont and DAYTON lno
a forest, when it comes to the voting davn
The above, first published in the Boston
Chronicle, is now going the rounds of ,ba
eastern abolition journals.
1t is true that Col Fremont did introduoo
into the Senate of the United States. a hllto
divide the mineral lands of California into
subdivisions, and to grant permits to miners
to work them: but fortunatel for the peopla
of this State Congress relying upon its own
wisdom, and not having much confidence in
the sagacity and craftsmanship of the Rocky
Mountain hero refused to pass the BILL
There is not spot upon the face of tho
earth where labor is so independent as is tbo
miners of California. And Why? Just be,
cause this miserable Fremont policy was
defeated, and the miners left free to maka
their own rules and regulations. This bill
for the subdivision of the mineral lands into
small parcels and granting permits to York
them, would necessarily bring an
nnumerabe throng of Federal as and
who is to support them? The miners who
get permit to work these minute subdivi.
sions.
Yes, if Fremont should be elected Pres.
dent, and his policy concerning the public
lands carried out, we should have throughout
the length and breadth of California. an
army of Federal officers, lean, hungry and
lank depressing the energies of the people
and robbing labor and industry of their Just
reward.
Such are the beauties of this boosted Fre
mont policy The policy that settled the
question in favor of free labor, not, however,
the free labor Of America, but the free labor
of the serfs of Russia, Of the lower classes
of Sweden and AUSTRIA France and Italy-a
kind of free labor that would drive the Ame.
riran laborer from our mines, and give
total supremacy to the miserable Asiati.,
already far too numerous among us.
If there be ything-"atter the old Span
ish fashon'-more odious than this, it is the
system of dividing the mineral lands into
minute subdivisions Of ELEVEN LEAGUES
each, with pretended Mexican "pennit'
that one may hold a subdivision.
The miners of California are neither blind
to their own interests, nor deaf to the voice
Of reason and justice In November nczt,
they will march to the polls in unblokcn
columns, and hy vote well nigh approach
ing ."oni,nity, VIII give their support to
James Buchanan, and stamp fresh the seal Of
condemnation upon John G. Fremont, tle
Higher Law, MaIiposa Eleven League candi,
date.-.ShaSta Courier.