Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1860-06-09

you are not feIlow-cttlEsns yet in the past, your
and those Of your foreiathers have
been such e 10 declare that you children Of The
same soil, and nstigated BY the same patriotic sen
timents. The blood Of those dear TO you has been
poured like water upon the altar Of sacrifice, when
the cause Of our country, our common country, was
at stake Let the recollection Of their devotion TO
the cause Of that common country have controlling
influence upon your future action. Consider that
the exctements Of the moment originated by selfish
politicians are designed only to affect the political
destinies Of the day. The results Of those excite
ments may have much to do with the far future Of
this COnfederacy, and inseparably connect them.
with the grand interests which are finally depend.
ent upon this experiment Of American liberty. But
IL properly considered, there can bo no important
results. The whole question at issue between the
party Of the Constitution aud the Union, on the one
hand-the Democratic party-and the party derelict
70 the rights Of the aud the solemn obligations
Of the other is reducbc TO the simplest proposition
which can be submitted tn the integrity Of humsn
judgment. What is il? Shall the men Of the South,
who have become the owners OF peculiar species
Of property by virtue Of the conduct Of their anccs-
tors, and by the of the founders Of the Re-
public, be protected in their rights Of property; or
shall they, without quill pro quo, be compelled to
beggar themselves, to CRAFTY the idiOsyncruSies Of
those Of their fellow countrymen who, having nope
cunaTy responsibility in the premises are willing 70
bankrupt others to satiate morbid sentimentalityi
These experinentalists profess a superior Sanctity
to those of their own who tolerate the exstencs
Of slavery in their midst But while they apparent
" bend the hinges of the knee, with more exbity
than Others to the njunctions Of q sacred dispense
ton, they forget the most pertinent forcible and
practical of oil the inculcations Of Holy Writ-"Do
unto others as yc would that others should do unto
YOU Reckless Of the rights Of property, proper
respect for which lies at the basis Of all civilized So.
ciety. they would ruthlcSsy appropriate the chatels
OF their neighbors. and while stealing a brothers
heritage, cxclaini, ~ thank God I'm not as other
men"
1t is one Of the most mysterious anomalies which
has been presented to the consideration of mankind
in the nineteenth century, that men. otherwise re-
spectacle, apparently law-abiding, God.fearing up.
right men should, on the one point of slavery, Avow
themselves thieves, cut-throats and traitors What
else can they be deemed in the clear light Of truth
They proclaim disposition to steal the negro prop
erty Of their fellow citizens of the South-they aver
their willingness 10 CRAFTY their furtive propensites
IN that direction at the cost Of human lie and
ut the peril, the deadly peril Of the Constitution oil
their country. Men aud brethren, 10 not this the
positive position which you occupy before The world
Has any Black Republican yet proposed, does any
one ct them now propose, to abrOgate the evils Of
slavery, in tho only manner in which Il can be &C.
complshed with proper and decent regard for the
rights Of the stakeholder? The great mass Of those
now warning against the institution Of slavery, would
laugh to Scorn the proposition to pay for the negroes
they wish to make trcemen. With slogan stolen
from the Declaration Of Independence, and pervert
cd from the meaning which it held in the estimation
Of the trainers Of that glorious instrument all mer
are created equal" these valiant champions of hu
man liberty, rush to the violation Of all the right.
OF property Of the Shareholder and to the nullihca
ton Of all the benefits which have been secured I,
US in the past, by that Declaration.
Upwards Of twenty years ago, the immortal Cla,
fifty described the Black Republicans of to-day
In words that burn, he portrayed the recklessnes
OF their unholy character lie said, with them III,
rights Of property are nothing the deficiency Of th,
powers of the general government is nothing; tn,
acknowledged and Ontestible powers Of the State
are nothing; civil war, dissolution of the Union
and the overthrow of government in which ar
concentrated the fondest hopes OF the civilized world
are nothing. single idea has taken possession o
their minds. aud onward they pursue II, overlooking
ell barriers. reckless and regardless Of all conse
qucuces. Their purpose is sbolition, universal abO
lition pe"ceably If it can, forciby If il must The
object is no longer concealed by the thiDuest veil
1t is avowed and proclaimed. Utterly destitute o
constitutional or other rghtful power, living in TO
tally distinct communities, as alien to the commuui
ties in which the subject on which they would oper
ate resides, so far as concerns political power ove
that subject US If they lived in Africa or Asia they
nevertheless prOmulgate 10 the world their purpos,
to be to manumit forthwith, and without conipensa
ton, and without moral preparation, millions Of ne
gro slaves, under Jurisdictions altogether separated
from those under which they live"
Looking upon this truthful picture, we appeal Il
Black Republicans everywhere, and ask them, wher.
the slightest outlines Of right in any Of its detais
We implore them to pause before they further 70 or
their mad career Of wrong and outrage. We tel
them, that the good they seek to accomplish car
only be contaminated by the preparation Of evil.
infinitely more monStrous than the magnitude of th,
benefits they aspire to confer upon the negro.
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