The Placer herald., 1858-07-24
For the Placer Herald.
TOT tnt FIaCtr HerNIu.
To the Democracy of Placer County.

40 Cne democracy OF RACER COunCy.
Fellov Democrats:-The general election
is approaching, the time for action is at hand;
our Primary Meetings are about being held
to choose the representatives of the Party
in our County Convention, which is to nomi-
nate candidates to be supported at the elec-
ton. Are you prepared to do your duty as
honest and responsible Democrats? Are you
prepared to discriminate among your fellow
partisans who shall truly reflect the will and
wishes of the Democracy in the County
Convention, and through that the represen-
tatives of the party at the ballot-box? If
you are, now is the time to be stirring. Go
forth, attend your primary meetings, talk
and deliberate among yourselves, examine
and scrutinize we'll the men whom you ap-
point to represent your wishes, and see to
it that none but honest, intelligent, and sterl-
ing Democrats, who have an abiding and
true interest in the county, who have the i'm
portance of honest and true Democracy fully
impressed upon them, are selected to make
the initial step towards the campaign this
fall. Let the old men and taxpayers of our
county come outlet them enter with a
hearty good will and determination upon
the work of regenerating and purifying the
body polite of many of its excrescences that
have hung like an incubus upon its welfare
and prosperity. If every good Democrat
will but consider we'll bis duty, to his princi-
pies, his county and his adopted State, and
knowing his obligations, be determined to
perform them, the County Convention which
is to assemble on the 30th inst, will indeed
be bright prestige of the results of the next
election. We want, and must have, candi-
dates for the various offices who are men of
good standing and character in community
men whose interests are identical with the
future welfare of this county and State, men
Of undoubted character for honesty, capabi-
lity, and true NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.
The day is past for "carpet-bag candi-
dates"-young gentlemen whose ambition
has ever leaped their better judgment, and
whose incapacty has been discovered only
when too late to be remeded by an honest
but too confding Democracy. We have
plenty of capable men among us, plenty of
men who have settled among us and taken
up homes for the future, and who have faith
fully served in the ranks of the party for
years, freely spending their time, money, and
talents for the good Of the cause.
An important crisis is at hand. Wolves
in sleeps clothing are stalking forth, scat
terng the seeds Of discord in our party ranks
in hopes of creating a schsm or rupture
which will dismcmber the forces Of the De-
mocracy and tend to the elevation to power
Of men whose political characters are almos,
certain to undergo an annual change, OF Il;
least, as often as the spoils Of office are held
out as an indacemcnt to become hanee!nos
This discordant element has been at work
for several months past. The hue and cry
is Popular Sovereignty. All, thou much
abused principle! offspring Of the i'm
mortal jefferson, if it had nol OF had the
fostering care and Kindness of the Demo
cracv. il would indeed long since have been
banished and thrust from The charter of the
American Contederacy. Let us 90 back but
few years in the political history of our
country, and see if it has not been those
loud moulhed political brawiers about Popu-
lar Sovereignty now who have been striving
might and main to torestall free exercise
of it in the new States and Territories by
continually petitioning Congress to prohibit
slavery in the District of Columbia, opposing
the admission of all new States and Terri
tories where there was the least likelihood
of the people exercising Popular Sovereignty,
by adopting the peculiar institution. No
matter what name these brawlers Lave sailed
under-whether it was Aboli;ionsts, Free
Sellers, Wilmot Provso men, Wings Know
Nothings Americans, or Pseudo-Democrats
the material is all the same and has now
adopted the name of Republican, or as the
Placer Press styles it the Democratic Re
publiconism. (Query-which wing of this
new born curiosity does the Press belong to?
The one with the kinky hair, or the non
descript with the yellow streak down the
back?)
Who were the Popular Sovereignty party
at the Presidential election in '4s! Was it
Cass, Taylor, or Van Buren! Most empha-
tically it was the Democracy-for the Wings
and Free Soilers condemned IN toto the SEN
o-wit: "that the people af new State had
sovereign right to adopt or reject slavery,
and that Congress had no right whatever to
legislate upon the subject for them" Did
not the Wings, Free Soilers and Abolitionists
oppose General Cass, and was he not defeat
ed mainly for writing that letter? Most as
suredly he was. Ten years have almost
elapsed, and we now find conglomerate
mass of the politicians who opposed Cass
very 2'atriotically and Discriminatory getting
up one sided party-the par excellence pop
ular sovereignty party-founded solely upon
the politics of distant Territory.
Let the honest Democracy of Placer coun.
ty but come out and do its duty. Let us
have good and competent Democrats to be
voted for, men who are able and willing to
thoroughly canvass the county, and who can