The Placer herald., 1859-05-07
Democracy.

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Piles to be advocated in the next campaign.
We take from Mr.. Stevens of Georgia.
speech on the admission of Oregon, into the
Union, an extract which lays down the
! Democratic doctrine in its broadest sense
and to which every patriot can subscribe,
and for which the Democratic party in
California will do battle honestly and fearless
ly in the coming campaign:
"What is to be our future, do not know.
| have no taste for indulgng in speculations
about it. would not, if could, raise the
vail that wisely conceals it from u.s. 'Suffi-
cient unto the day is the evil thereof is a
good precept in everything pertaining to
human action. The evil | would not antici-
pate; | should rather strive to prevent its
coming; and one way, in my Judgment to
prevent it, is, while here, in all things to do
what is right and proper to be done under
the Constitution Of the United States, no.
thing more, and nothing less. Our safety,
as well as the prosperity of all parts of the
country, so long as this Government lasts,
lies mainly in strict conformity to the laws
of its existence Growth is one of these.
The admission of new States, is one Of the
objects expressly provided for. How are
they to come in? With such constitutions
as the people in each may please to make
for themselves, so it is republican in form.
This is the ground the South has ever stood
upon. Let us not abandon it now. 1t is
founded upon principle planted in the
compact of Union itself; and more essential
to US than all others besides; that is, the
equality Of the States, and the reserved
rights Of the people of the respective States.
BY our system, each State, however great
the number, has the absolute right to regu-
late all its internal affairs as she pleases,
subject only to her Obligations under the
Constitution of the United States. With
this limitation, the people Of Massachusetts
have a perfect right to do as they please
upon all matters relating to their internal
policy; the people Of Ohio have the right to
do the same; the people Of Georgia the same;
of California the same; and SO with all the
rest.
Such is the machinery of our theory of
self government by the people. This is the
great novelty of our peculiar system, involv-
ing principle unknown to the ancients, an
idea never dreamed of by Aristotle or Plato.
The union of several distinct, independent
communities u on this basis, is new prin-
ciple in human governments 1t is now a
problem in experiment for the people in the
nineteenth century, upon this continent, to
solve. AS behold its workings in the past
and at the present, while am not sanguine,
yet am Hopeful of its successful solution.
The most joyous feeling Of my heart is the
earnest hope that it will, for the future, move
on as peacefully, prosperously and brilliantly,
as it has in the past. If so, then we shall
exhibit moral and political spectacle to the
world something like the prophetic vision
of Ezekiel, when he saw number of dis
tirct beings or living creatures each with
a separate and distinct organism, having the
functions of life within itself, all Of one ex-
ternal likeness, and all at the same time,
mysterously connected with one common
animatng spirit pervading the whole, so that
when the common spirit moved they all
moved; their appearance and their work
being, as it were, wheel in the middle of a
wheel, and whthersoever the common spirit
went, thitber the others went, all going to-
Gether and when they went, he heard the
noise of their motion like the noise of great
waters, as the voice of the Almighty
Should our experiment succeed, such will be
our exhibition-a machinery of Government
so intricate, so complicated, with so many
separate and distinct parts, so many inde
pendent States, each perfect in the attributes
and functions of sovereignty, within its own
jurisdiction, all, nevertheless, united under
the control of common directing power
for external objects and purposes, may natu-
raj enough seem novel, strange, and ineXpli
cable to the philosophers and crowned heads
of the world.
1t is for us, and those who shall come
after us, to determine whether this grand
experimental problem shall be worked out;
not by quarreling amongst ourselves; not by
doing injustice to any; not by keeping out
any class of States; but by each State remain
ing separate and distinct political organism
within itself-al bound together for general
objects, under common Federal head; as it
were, wheel within a wheel. Then the
number may be multiplied without limit;
and then indeed, may the nations of the
earth look on in wonder at our career; and
when they hear the noise of the wheels Of
our progress in achievement, in development,
in expansion, in glory and renown, it may
well appear to them not unlike the noise of
great waters the very voice of the Almigh
ty- Vor PopuW Vor Dell
SERVED THE PREACHER RIGHT.-One of
the coolest items for warm subject that we
have lately seen, and which is altogether too
good to be lost, is from the San Jose Tribune
as follows:
Rev. Moses Clampit, an eccentric preach
er of the Methodist church, south, was preach
ing in Santa Clara valley; young man rose
to 90 out, when the preacher said-
young man, if you'd rather 60 to hell