The Placer herald., 1860-09-01
Dutch Flat Correspondence.
DUTcH FLAT, Aug. 3Oth


The Republicans coming down to the
niceity Of the thing-the dark doctrine OF
Abolitionism is spreading its blight over
the country, and before we are prepared to
counteract it, this glorious confederacy will
be rent asunder by this. hellsh fanaticism.
They have already threatened to engulpt our
country in civil war, and make Northern
asy lum for race of beings, who are incapa
Bile of self government and whose only tit
condition is that of bondage.
The Republicans are heart and soul in ia
vor of the honors Of amalgamatiug with
this infe ior race of beings They proclaim
upon the stump that ''the negro is heaven
" institution and it is God like in man to
elevate him to an equality with the whites"
This damnable and most wiley corrupt in
stitution of sectionaism should be frowned
down, by all men, and peace once more re
stored Equal rights to .all-the South, as
we'll as the North-should be maintained at
all hazards.
The powerful influence exerted by this
band of political renegades, has destroyed
the peace and happiness of our glorious
Union. They have through their secre,
agents, and underground railroads, man
aged to run into Canada, as the Genius
shows, nearly fifty thousand negroes-and
they are still stealing them at the rate of
ten thousand per year. 1t is down right rob-
berry, and an offence that should be made
punishable by DEATH
The inhabitants of that British colony
where they secret the stolen property, are
daily pleading for the abatement of this nui
sanre. The negroes are represented as being
idle, vicious and degraded-a set of thiev-
ing. lying, drunken vagabonds They loaf
around villages and refuse to work, aud ar
rogate to themselves more privileges than
the whites Their insolence is intoeracle."
And such fellows the Black Republicans wish
to place on an equality with the white peo
pie Of the United States.
And this party attempt to argue that they
have great interest in the welfare and pros
perity of the Union as it now stands. They
claim to be laboring for more than one prin-
ciple, but the facts are against them. They
J are opposed to submitting to the decision of
our Supreme Court. They ever oppose the
laws of Congress-thal have been decided
to be in keeping with our Constitution, by
the highest constituted authorities, and Sc;
up AS bar, the ''higher law" doctrine.
In the year 1850, Congress passed the
Fugitive Slave Law-which prot scted in a
measure the rights of the South, but still
did no; save their property from being run
off and out of the country, beyond the reach
of our laws. 1t was pronounced a righteous
and good law by all national men through.
out the Union, but the Republicans have de
fed IFS execution, and in the legislatures of
the following States they have passed laws
to mullify its operation, to witt
Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont Mass
arhusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut Mich;
gan, Wisconsin, Iowa. Ohio and New Y rk.
And yet they ask honest men to support
their lrader-Lncon- his principles,
which are calculated to destroy the very Gov
ernment under which we live. AS they have
already done the peace and happiness of the
people.
They claim that the rail splitter is ma
| tiona and conservative man, and that he is
not tinctured with the doctrine of Abolition
ism. This we all know to be false, for he
said in his Chicago speech of 1858:
"Let as discard all guiJbling about this
man or the other man, this race, that race,
and the other race being inferior, and there.
| fore must be placed in an inferior position,
discarding onr standard. which we have left
us-e US discard all these things, and unite
as one people throughout the lard, until we
shall once more stand up declaring that all
men are created equol."
A man entertaining ideas of this sort. is
Of course favorable to the maintenance Of
the Union as it now stands? In horn-
That is not all by a long way. he proceeds
to make it stronger and more disgusting
by wing:
IL leave you, hoping that the lamp of
liberty will burn in your bosoms, until there
shall be no longer doubt that all men are
created FREE and EQUAL"
He afterwards, in making speech at
Galesburgh, said:
II believe that the entire record of the
world. from the date of .he Declaration of
Independence up to within three years ago,
may be searched in vain for single affirma
lion, from one single man, that the negro avas
not included IN the Declaration of indepen.
dence"
That is, as much as to say, that when our
forefathers, of whom five eighlhs were slave.
holders, were declaring themselves free and
independent, were also declaring their ne
groes free and equal with themselves. If
the foregoing assertions of Lincoln, do not
embody the doctrine of Abolitonsm, then
| am incapable of understanding the English
language.
The Republicans here make no bones in
avow'ng their true sentiments. They argue
tina: negro is Heavenly institution" and
should be allowed the same privilege as any
other good citizen. They are constantly