The Placer herald., 1858-08-28
IAN Administration Defeat 10 Q Republi.
can Victory"

can Victory"
Such are the words Of the resolutions
passed by the Republican Convention Of e.
Dorado county last week, when indorsing
the Boiling Bogus Broderick ticket of that
county. These Republicans found that a
portion Of the Democratic party had bolted
the regular organization, had turned trail
tors to the cause, and the opportunity being
favorable for "corralling the fellows" they
determined to make no nominations of their
own, but unite with the boilers. for they
were fighting against the true Democracy,
and should they, by assisting these boilers,
srcceed in defeating the regular Democratic
ticket it would be Republican victory.
The same policy has been pursued by the
Republican leaders of Placer county, without
the authority Of Convention. They have
indorsed the poorest ticket ever presented
for the suffrages Of the people of Placer
county, in the belief that defeat of the
friends Of the administration will be VIC
tory for the Republican party. And if, by
their fusion, they succeed in electing this
bogus ticket, they will proclaim it as VIC
tory for their party.
Are Democrats who have all along fought
this sectional Republican party, as one, from
its principles, dangerous to the peace and
stability Of the Union, willing to aid them
in trumphing over that party that alone has
national character and organization, and
upon whose broad platform men Of every
State and Territory can stand! We can be-
lieve that there are men who have honestly
but blindly gone into factious opposition
to their party, supposng that it had deserted
the principles Of the Cincinnati platform, but
whose eyes must now be opened to their
false position, when they see Republicans,
the opposers and traducers of that platform
and OF Mr.. Douglas, now claiming to the
ardent support OF the one and an exalted ad
miration Of the other.
How is it that Republicans can so cordi
ally fraternize with men who have acted with
the Democratic partyi The Republicans in
their State and county conventions, re-affirm
their adherence to their national platform
adopted by their Presidential convention at
Philadelphia in 1856, which was then, and
is now, Numerically opposed to the national
Democratic platform, adopted at Cincinnati
Neither Of these cresds OF party have been
changed in their language, nor is different
construction giving to their meaning now
from what there was then. The true Nation
Democracy to day adhere as tenaciously to
the provisions of the Cincinnati platform as
in 1856, when fierce spirit Of secionalsm
threatened to override the patty and dissolve
the Union. Then, if Republicans can unite
with section Of the Democratic party, it is
either because that section has desc rted its
creed, or the Republicans have left their own
The Republicans reafiirm their national plat
form 1t therefore follows that Democrats
with whom Republicans can unite without a
compromise of principle, must have left the
Democratic fold and abandoned their rrin
cipes. This is certainly true-it is plain to
National Democrats it is plain to Republi-
cans, and will lolting Democrats longer bin
themselves to the fact.
Before recording their votes against the
party Of their previous faith, seceders have
We: chance TO draw back, but once having
voted in conjunction with the Republicans,
they must not expect, neither will they he
recognized as members of the Democratic
party. They will be alien to the Demo
cratic cause, and pariahs from the great
Democratic household.