The Placer herald., 1856-11-15
AUBURN, NOVEMBER Is, 1855.
Cogitations Political.

proverb; and we suppose that most of our read.
ers have had. nearly suficency of the article
of politics, yet there are certain reflections that
arise in the public mind as the scene shifts which
marks the progress of affairs, and which as a
chronicler of the times we shall endeavor to form
into language and ineligible sentences.
We are desirous of doing so at this time, be-
cause it is probable that we may shortly part with
our campaign subscribers; and our communion
be broken Off
The claims of three great parties have in this
campaign, been submitted, to that august tribu-
nal-lhe people, and so far as California is con-
cerned we know the result
The indications are that the Democrats have
pOlled many votes in the State as the Amer
leans and Republicans together.
This result is extraordinary, considering that
the Americans carried the State in 1855, by over
four thousand votes.
This gave them the patronage of the State gov
ernment, and of many of the populous countis;-
powerful lever to work with this year.
In addition to this they were organised in the
best possible manner, to secure secrecy in their
movements; concert of action, and are said to
have each member bound by the most solemn OBJ
legations to obey the behests of the superior council
thus throwing the strength of the body as unit
With all these aids this party has been defeated;
utterly routed and its legions scattered to the
four winds of Heaven.
As a national party, it has proved failure
and many attribute that which has long been ap-
parent; the defeat of Mr.. Fillmore. to the fact of
his having been nominated by them; instead of
by convention of Wings. Thus in the political
world the friendship of this class of politicians,
is considered as fatal, the poison of the sap of
the Upas tree in the physical world.
Their doctrines were denounced as proscriptive
and unnatural, contrary to the genius of Ameri-
can government; and as body it was said they
were composid of incongruous material, impossi-
BILE to harmonze. The result proves. that the
public mind. where opportunity is given to it to
act intelligby, confirms the opinions OF their
opponents; and time exhibits their dismember-
ment, for want of the necessary affinity in senti-
ments.
The novelty of initiation ceremonies has passed
away the Jealous convert. and the mercenary
party hack who joined in the shout for the sake
of spoils; lie in one common grave from which
the people will never resurect them as Know
Nothings.
The contest between the Democracy and Re-
publcans, it is possible is not yet ended, however
the present presidential contest may be decided.
The Republicans form a new party, and throw
into the contest, new ideas upon public policy,
advocate broad impracticable universal liberty
captivating to the unimitaed. at first blush diff
fuse in untred theories and profuse in promises
they can never fulfil
The leaders profess adhesion to higher law than
the Constitution, and teach radcalism that if
carried into practice, would override compacts.
scoff the sacred memories of the past, and over
turn all established order
The cheat has become apparent to the Calfor-
MIA public; the tribunal has decided against them;
they can never succeed here. AS party it
will make it's best fight in the United States this
year, but whether the people of the Atlantic
States, as body, have had the necessary time
for reflection, to decide correctly, will depend up
on the result of the 4th of November. The pub
lie is q great body and must necessarily think
slowly, and when we reflect upon the cloud that
has been thrown over the questions at issue, by
the Kansas difficulties, the assault upon Sumner,
and the killing of Keating, it would not be strange
if craft and demagogueism, should have for
time, the best of it.
We do not predict defeat; far from it, we are
high in hope, but every prudent man must prepare
for the worst Should Fremont succeed, his par
ty may hold an existence through his adminisra-
ton; should he fail, year or two at farthest will
consign the party and its leaders to political in
fanny. We have seen cur ranks in the Eastern
and Western States thinned by deserton, but we
have also seen our squares close up as each de-
serter dropped out and fighting still with solid
'front.' like the Old Guard return for answer to the
victorious shout of the foe, 1.-THE Democracy never
surrender" Here then is great conservative
body to be relied upon in any emergency, and the
South coming to the aid, will thus form support
upon which the Senate of the United States can
stand, and hold the Union steady in the darkest
hour that may be in store for us.
This slavery question has never before been be-
fore the people at large as political issue.
It has been thrown as fre-brand by the enc
mics of the constitution into the contest.
Compromise has not smothered the flames. They
have burst out fresh, and elimination and re-
elimination has aroused the angry passions of
men and arrayed them in a sectional war.
The Democratic party of the Union faithful to
its high mission, has taken a stand, and now
devotes its great energies to the settlement of this
difficult issue. This party cannot unite except
upon great truths; and it is now united upon the
position it has taken in this contest.
It raises this domestic question, above legsla
tive enactments by Congress. above violated COM
promises, and lines of latitude and longitude, and
places it's decision where God and nature have de-
creed it should be decided;-by the people whose
happiness is Immediately Interested, in having 1t
or excluding 1t from among them
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