The Placer herald., 1857-05-23
For the Placer Herald.

Iowa HILL, May Goth, 1857.
Editor Placer Herald:-Your paper, long
and favorably recognized, as the permanently
established and reliable organ of the Demo
cratic party in this county, suggests itself as
the proper medium through which may in
dulge in little gossip in relation to those
matters political that are already beginning
to bring forth conjectures and cause pratngs
among the yet unchristened opposition, and
which will indeed soon absorb the general
attention of the people Of the State. The
present is an suspicious period in our gov
ernment's history; the Inauguration of a new
administration based upon the successful
policy of the one preceding it, regarding
the long agitated and hitherto dangerous
question of slavery-a policy approved by
the people of the Union, and sanctioned by
the highest judicial authority in the land,
together with the conservative yet determin-
ed policy evinced concerning our domestic
and foreign affairs, promises much for sea-
son of peace and honorable progression to.
wards the manifest destiny" Of our nation
commanding also, the respect confidence
and support Of all save those whose selfish
schemes have been righeously thwared
Although our approaching State election will
not present issues connected directly with
national policy, yet it is none the less the
duty Of the Democracy Of California, to ex
press at the ballot-box, that confidence in
the present administration, and appreciation
Of its course thus far, which now so univer-
sally pervades its ranks. This should he
manifested by the election Of men for official
stations, whose friendly feelings and sediments
towards President Buchanan and his Cabinet
are "above suspicion" and not those, or the
friends of those, whose private malice has
been kindled by disappointmens and chagrin
in regard to the distribution Of federal patro-
mage; a malice which is concealed here IN
California to avoid the universal condemna.
ton it would receive at the hands of the
Democracy in this State
The sudden return Of one Of our Senator'S
Mr.. Broderick-from Washington, where
unwittingly he did not, like his organs here
attempt to conceal his hostility towards
President Buchanan and his Cabinet-before
any considerable number of the federal ap-
pointments were made, taken in connection
with his exaction of a pledge from Dr. Gwin,
that the latter should yield to lis colleague
the entire control of the distribution of
federal patronage in this State; together with
the assertion Of Mr.. Broderick's organ, that
the deception successfully practised upon the
President in regard to the California appoint
ments, would be rebuked by the Democracy
in the coming election, prove concusivey
that an attempt wiN be made by the disap-
pointed, stealthily to secure control of the
approaching State Convention, and thereby
thrust candidates upon the Democracy, who
are like whitened sepulchers without, but
within garnished with treason, with hearts
ranking for revenge upon the administra-
ton Of the national Democracy.
In view of this guerilla warfare, now wag-
ed by those ''who went for wool but returned
shorn," does it not behoove every National
Democrat and friend Of the Administration,
to be vigiant, to expose the "gopherlike
policy" of the disappointed spoils-seekers, to
look to their primary elections that they may
not be betrayed. Especially should the ster-
ling Democrats of Placer county, who have
ever shown hands against gangrened polti-
clans, be on the alert; the shouts of exut-
ant triumph for our victory achieved last No
vember, still reverberate among our hills and
canors, let the bugle notes of preparation for
the coming contest blend harnoniously.
A MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT.