Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-09
LETTER FROM" avid FRESHMAN"
IDLEvILLs, July I, 1889

great Diack hepubiican Iunnlnary, MADE speech IN
Faneuil Hall. Boston, April ls, 1859. read it du-
ring the intensity Of last weeks heat. It's good cf
feet on me is manifest and evident. ! have been
torpid and sumberng up here in the mountains for
many weeks, without wish or q feeling, submitting
with the imaginable grace to the languisbng
and am0rOus embraces Of this warm summer wealth.
err The Iightest breath Of ambtOn scarcely nGanled
my soul.
Even while the struggle was going on all around
me, Us To who would be legislators, GOvern0r or
COngressmen, it scarcely ruiled the surface Of my
mind it seemed NJ If | we're proof to political ex.
element, except that had just enough Of vitality,
between my nnps, to dolly dream that too could
serve the people with q most accomplished incom.
potency.
Thus lay, waiting for the advent Of genuine
excitement or spell Of cool weather, when along
comes Carl'S speech, combining the influences Of
both-excitcmcnt borne breeze frUm the North.
The ostensible object Of Cars speech was to expound
Western RepublicanisD its real object was to per-
suade the Black Republicans against voting for the
late constitutional amendmeDt-passed by the Re-
publican Legislature Of MasSachusetts-by showing
how It might. 10 q serious manner, compromise the
success Of their party in $780, a. there was danger
II this policy persisted in. II might cause the
great GermGH mind, exasperated by such little tr-
fling strokes Of policy, to turn again from the pecu
liar freedom u Black Repubieanism 10 the pure
and refreshing trtiheit Of Democracy.
But Carfs mission was unsuccessful and his
Spcoch-th"ugh clever in Its way-in its object
failure. Massachusetts has voted fur the insldiOus
aud uncalled.fOr amendment. You may now, o
Carl smoke your pipe ~ peace aud drink your
lager, and gazing over the iowcry praires of Wis
consn, dream m the peculiar Rcpublicanism Of
Massachusetts-O that Republicanism which would
probing your residence, were YOU emgrant seven
years before you could even vote for constable In
that, Us you style it yourself commonwealth Of free
humanity. u congratulate you such Republican
company! fyOu still associate with them, must
needs think your devotion tofrccdom very great or
your SusceptIbiliiies to insult very little
But come To Carl's speech. After u somewhat
pretty though hazy exordium, he reviews the carly
history Of the Republic, and by whom settled. In
his progress he Straddlcs high the Ango-Saxon and
German hobbies The Anglo.SaxOn, the great lead.
or 10 practical mOvements-the German, the origin.
al leader in the movemcn. of mind the man Of ideas
and investigation. Shade Of Greece, immortal
heaven. gifted Greece. Can men sit iamely under
I such assertiOnSI They talk Of Art while vet the
ruins Of the Iurthenon remain! They talk Of mind,
which ii their inspired hope to rival Soc.
rates or Plato Git cout. oil ye Insignificant peoples
SAxc'G0lhe alone il great. Down, down IN the dust
before Wooden. KTaut 10 still the sublimest Of food
, Carl is eminently New Englandish 10 his views
and feelings. lie says the Southern colonies were
settled under the auspices Of lOrdly merchants and
Propretnries, but original Democracy planted its
"tTI BAT r On Plymouth Rock. From this sup.
lose he deduce" the prrSent phases of our political
s'cley; but NIil have yet to leurn merchant may
not lie stern Democrat, and pOor colOnst quite
the contrary.
Carl phIlOsOphses somewhat vaguely In cOmpa.
ring tue Roman aud American Republics. The
former he says recognized and protected the rights
ofcIizcns, ~hile the latter extends both to man.
do not think this Republic has adopted any such
system. Her Ia only for her citizens. or those
made II her system who may naturally claim IT,
Tis Is not quite yet republic for oil the races
Those WIN are admitted to the honor Of American
Citi ehhip, ought TO strive TO sustain that honor,
instead II cndcAvoring To drbase by advocating the
admission to its privileges Of those who cannot share
in its glory aid IN it's advancement
This orator wishes the worda NJ the Declaration Of
Independence. THAT all men are created equal, -"
were inscribed On every gate.post in the Republic
What needless wish. They are framed in the
hearts and vivid in the minds VI the American PEG.
pie. MUre than this, they know to whom and to
What those holy und almost inspired words refer
to whom and how far applicable None knew bet
ter than the great author aud sgners Of that immor-
tai document that they not making platform
the natives Of Grim Tarlay aud the negroes Of
Congo on level with the Anglo-Saxons (if you
pleaHe) Of America But they stated proposition
which may BE- deemed general for the race to which
they belonGcd--I mean the Caucasian. ANY other
Interpretation u that much quoted aphorsm Is sim
ply ridiculous.
Those Black Republican philosoI hers oil begin
wrong They hrst ridiculOusly assume the equality
Of mAnk ind therefore, whatever supersiructure
they raise on this foundation must inevitably con.
tain all the weakness, all the imperfect0n all the
drfnmty Of IL. II is impossible to draw u correct
Conclusion from erroneous proposition. How
then can il be logical to claim for the Mongrcls Or
Negroes equality Of rights with the white Sllan,
hen there IN 10 moral, mental, physical, or one
iota II natural equality between them. l unhesita.
tngly agree with Carl in believing that there is
wonderful vitality iu true Democracy founded upon
the equality of rights. This cannot, however, in.
clndc Negro Democracy indeed would be one
Of peculiarly unequal rights. The American De.
nocracy admit II no sLarerS In their rights aud
privileges, but ihcir l'ecrs and equals. 1t u this
Kind Of Democracy that has made this Republic Que u
eminent success. II vas considered un experiment
ut best even while limiting its destiny to WhSc men,
II would indeed have been an apartment to conlde
II To the care Of aO a~al vOtng De.
mOcracy to begin with. Had such been the case il
would now DO like Mexico, or worse, swHmpcd in a
tempest Of imbeci,y and anarchy. To this end all
Black Republican teachings point. Greedy or Gid.
dings is scarcely whit more fanatic than this ex
ponent Of Republicanism. lie is deXtrous in all
the datrbes Of his masters. eis full Of the Slave
Power, the DespOtic interest, the Oligurchy." What
nice distinction these Black Republicans draw be-
tween these States. Their metaphysical their theol.
ogy their politics nark them out as free and slave.
But tell them they all frse-frce every one Of
them all their fine drawn distinctions to the contra
ry notwithstanding.
Let US be rational, and as Carl would sAy, let us
look ut tho "lOgic Of fittings" Now UNI not con-
WINGED. can scarcely call that sLdUery where
population Of Africans are attached to household
and farms, and for their service receive BY law and
! by CUSTOM all and more than oil they could ever
get with the most unbOunded and uncomfortable
liberty. Carl evidently views things through very
bieOted SpectacleS. know it would tickle an Abo.
ition audience IN hear South Carolina denounced for
her intolerance! He says they mob men there for
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