Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-11-06
Our Opinion.


they are anxious for first service. Their sleek,
shining feathers show that they have been hitherto
well and often fed and it cannot be wondered at
that they should begin to plume themselves in
iicipaton of the reycl. But, gentlemen Luzzards,
We have word to say to you, in making your toilet,
and we speak in the name Of tue Democracy the
name of those You 50 zcat0usy, cGIsricssly, ~
g,U'ctu2g laborcd to defeat.
Before you apply to Democratic Legislature for
favors and office, look well to your Record. Our
party will NO longer allow the lions skim IN
ceal yonr jacka<s form. The members Of that body
having passed through the fiery ordeal Of public
opinion, intend that you shall, as they have done,
speak, so that they may know whether it has the
pure metallic ring of genuine Democracy.
There will b. caucus prior TO tile election Of
officers, in accordance with old established usage.
From that caucus NC feel, and sincerely pray and
almost know. will BE- excluded Ill who have not
been elected as pure Administration Democrats
II wns open, fair, haid ~ hand cnntost between
the Administration National Democracy and the
combined isws of the Black Republicans and Brod-
erickitcS. The latter routed "LOrsc, foot Gnd
dragoon," utter most fierce, bitter and unrclen,ng
contest MOL II Epec0uS argument WAS unused.-
not a low passion was unappea!cd to,-not hope
ever deSpicabic was left untricd, grind down and
crush in the dust, if possible, the loyal National
Democrats who chung calamity to aud fought man
fully for their old and time honorcd standard. And
if the Brodcrick- Republican alliance had stormcd
our Sebastopol, they would have been As nnsparing
MS WAS the sword If Omar in its command Of - be.
lief or DEATH So true is this, that had the alliance
carried the coming Legislature and gained the poli:i-
! a al. al.
with an iron hand. Woe to the man who dared to
, seek favor, unless his name had been written in
Il their books
We 60 in for the Ter kfi;oh,S De Guloiinc ill-
vented the instrument bearing his and proved
its capacity by his sacrifice. The Brodcrickitcs
would have laid new plnnks for old line Democrats
- to walk,-lct old line Democrats see how efficient
y they would have been by making these gentlemen
experiment.
, There is no installing our views. We shall write
. down in letters Of intalny any man who was elected
- as an Administration Democrat, who now gives
- over the power to any man of the ignobc alliance.
We are cmphaticaly opposed to rcwardng treason.
> We want no premium given for base. unworthy de-
seIton of the true Democracy in their hour Of need
1t is an old trick of Drodcrickisn, too much worn
out too thrcadbarc to dcccivc,-to now talk Of RE-
- meditation. When We begged Of you TO remember
= the triumphS of the past history Of our good and
great party, its long list of its brilliant achieve
mcnts, its prideS, its memories; when We held up
our escutcheon unturnShcd after the use Of halt
- century, and almost hunbly implorcd you 10 be
rcconccd to us and let us dwell "n peace and uni
y, son as we had DONE You Scoicd at and rcvcd MS
" And now, when have dsarmed you,-torn oil
:, Your shccpSkin shield and could clcavc you to the
. waist, you whinngly ask for reconciliation. Were
j. yOu men Of true principle were you anything but
miserable, shifting political parasites, you would
slecpon the bed you have made. Had you any other
r quality besides that which marks the political trim
e mcr, You would stnnd ny the Black Republicans
D. whom you have lovingly embraced. In 1854,
&c when your leader could attain his ends he en-
L. dCavorcd to break down the Democratic party BY
N seeding frUIa its regular convention, and running
s. Latham and McDougall for Congress. With the un-
licensed use Of ;lcir names and your usual appan-
u ccS in an election campaG you were still complete
- " overwhelmed You then came with the whini-
pciing Simperng cry Of reconciliation, and orr par
> ty dupcd by your nrrant Hypocrisy. Nosoon-
Is you restored TO party confidence than your
leader, Frederick, commenced those tricks and leg
j. crdemuin known only to the baOt-bOx stutFcr and
r the offspring of the percus Of the Bowery, which
IT finally elected him against the wishes of fourhhs
II Of the Democracy, to the u. s. Senate. Once en-
sconsed in his seat, the mask was taken off, and the
~ heart which had long been playing its false part
\, from its nmost spoke out its Republican
~ sentiments. Does any one deny this? Read the
speech Of Geo. Wilkes ,~dd by Senator Brodcrick on
- the 23d March, 1858 in the Senate Chamber where
in Wilkes makes IIroderick denOuncc the repeal Of
y the Missouri Compromise, a measure triumph
i any sustained by the Democracy in the contest Of
IS SO. Not content with this, he commences system
n Of abuse Of our venerable Democratic President
which would have formed q second volume Of bill
-, lngsgatc aud put even Jack Shepherd to the blush
i lie returns to California in the spring of 81 calling
u on tie people to rebukc the President for rot giving
VI the "young and brave Senator oil the Offices. The
3 DemOcracy-thc people, did respond to the call
and rcbuked the President by electing, by over
4 whcIning majority to the Govcrnorship, the very
man who had been supplanted by this same "young
and brave Senator" Then followed the said Wilkes
speech, in which he rcvongcd himSclf on the naugh
ty people, in not listening TO his CALL by telling s
q associates i'll the Senate, (nOt Wilkes) II have not
the admiration for the of the class from whence
sprung tint might be expected; they submit too
tamely to oppression" AMI IRE too prone to neglect MeH
riyhts md duties as citizens"
Having thus opened Wilkes safety valve, Brod
cricks heart received bOldness and he steamed
away TO the Pacific coast, to do what? To try once
more to destroy that party whose trust be had dis
honored, whose confidence he had misplaced, aud
whose sentiments were faSehood 10 his mouth und
every action. He forms an open alliance with the
arch enemy Of the Democracy, the Republicans
stands on the same platforln,-has the same nomi-
nees hoping thus, by master stroke to crush
the breast that had warmed his viper heart into po-
tcal life. But thanks to the true hearted Dcmoc-
racy, he failed, nScrably, disgracefuly failed and
fallen covered all with the turpitudc and
shame of his acts, he has stunk of to that sou,
in the Senate, which alas will never be forsaken,
however false to it he may feel. while he can draw
the monthly stipend attached thereto. After all this
fresh in the minds of every man, woman and child
in the State. his immediate tools and plant ennis
sAres are beginning to cry again Decentralization"
Be not deceived, gentlemen buzzards-but look
well to your pIumagc. You may need your pinons
u carry you back from the State Capitol to your
Thn H.. A