The Shasta courier., 1860-08-11
SHASTA COURIER.
Fre.m.n Reply to omce-HoIders.

dress, advising the Democrats of this State to
turn traitor to their party, and destroy us or
ganization, by supporting Breckenridge and
Lane, the nominees of faction numbering less
than third of the members of the National
Conyention-aDd which faction bolted because
the majority would not be governed by the mi
nority. These ofice-holders were ordered TO DO
this thing, by their master, James Buchanan.-
Their refusal to do SO would have been the
signal for their instant decapitation, as we may
ustly infer from the fate of Mr.. Ruehl the edi-
tor of the Democratische Press, who was removed
from position in the Mint because his paper
supported the regular nominees, Douglas and
Johnson They had no choice between obedi-
ence and removal from office. Poor devils, they
are to be pitied. They know thatth axe hangs
suspended over their heads, ready to to fall if
they do not cry. "Hurra for Breckenridge d-n
Douglas ~ Hence they must play the part of
renegade or abandon the Federal pap-trough.-
Accordingly they shout the words which evil
dence their seryility and political treason What
presumption on their part TO expect the Demo-
cratic masses, who never seek Office, to turn
traitor to their party because they, miserable
worshippers at the shrine of Office, have aban-
doned the good old Democratic ranks
Just look at the list There is Frank Wash
ington. Does any one suppose he would have
been permitted to retain his Office of Collector
of Customs for a single week, ii he had not de-
clared for the boilers Or that Frank Tilford
or Calhoun Benham, or Charley Weller or Jim
Vaudeville, or any other of the twenty-nine Of
fce-holders who signed the address, would have
been permitted to feed at the public crib for
even a single day longer, had they not shouted
vioas to the boilers flag?
On the other hand look at the list of names
attached to the reply to this revolutionary ad-
dress of oaice-holding boilers. They number
over one hundred and fifty and from the rame
of the g little Irish Governor" John G. Downey
down to the last name on the list, so far we
know, there is not one Federal offce- holder
Being simply honest Democrats, they are beyond
the reach of Federal patronage. The fear of
losing a fat office does not haunt them, nor in
auence them. They are prompted simply by
love of party and country, and an earnest desire
to promote the interests of the one by sustaining
the regularly nominated candidates of the other.
We quote the concluding paragraphs of their
address:
Tie manifesto OF the sixty-fve advises the
Democracy of California to follow Mr.. Yancey,
to support Breckenridge and Lane, and to desert
the oft repeated platforms of our State Conven-
tions, and arguments of our political leaders.
William L. Yancey is not merely the champion
and leader he is the originator of this move
ment. In order to show the party and the coun
try where Mr.. Yancey's lead would carry US,
we quote his letter to Mr.. Slaughter, in 1852
MONTGOMERY, June Is, 1858.
DEAR SIR: Your kind letter of the 18th is re-
ceived. hardly agree with you that general
movement can be made that will clear out the
Augean stable. If the Democracy were over
thrown it would result in giving place to a
greater and hungrier swarm of flies. The rem
edy of the South is not in such process it is
in diligent organization of her true men for
prompt resistance to the next aggression. 1t
must come in the nature of things. No national
party can save it; no sectional party can ever do
it but if we would do as our fathers did. or
ganize Committees of Safety all over the cotton
States-and it is only through them we can
hope for any effective movement-we shall fire
the Southern heart, instruct the Southern mind
give courage to each other, and at the proper
moment, by one organized concerted action, we
can precipitate the cotton States into reyolu-
tion The idea has been Swallowed fnT}rih
the South by Mr.. Ruffin, and has been ta1 IN up
and recommended in the 4drertiser THE Mont
gomery organ of Mr. Yanceyl, under the name
of /" The League of the United S.ateslSSuthern-
ers." who, keeping up their old partHfeiafions
on all other questions, will hold the'S6uthern
will MI
Legislatures and statesmen. l have no time to
enlarge, but suggest merely.
In haste, yours, &C., VIM L. fANcEY.
JAS. SLAUGHTER, EsQ.
1t nay be suggested that, in the two years
which have transpired since the date of this
letter, he has repented of his treason and been
forgiven; it may also be suggested that the
innocent members of the seeding Convention
were ignorant of his traitorous purposes. Let
no one indulge in these charitable surmises.
Immediately upon the completion of the nom-
ination of Breckenridge and Lane by the seced-
ing Convention at Baltimore, Mr.. Yaneey was
summoned before it, and as the best exponent OF
the feelings, wishes, views and doctrines of the
men composing that Convention, WAS received
upon the platform amid tremendous applause.
In the opening of his remarks he holds the fol-
lowing language:
81 congratulate you, Mr. President, the repre-
sentative of the National State Rights Democ-
raey, and you, venerable gentlemen, who sit
here rs the representatives of your several SOW
ereign States, and gentlemen who are the dele
gates of the Democracy of the various sover-
eighties of this Union-you, who are OF the
stern and true friends of the old-fashioned Ma
tional Democracy-that there is yet in existence
an organization pledged to uphold and revere
our beloved Constitution, and through it to up
hold the Union. Applause. Accept these
congratulations at the hands of one who has,
through the assiduous and willy Influence of our
common enemies, acquired a reputation of be-
ing i"e'ious and disruptionary- being dis
nnlonlst. Accept that congratulalion at the
hanas OF one who, some nine or ten years ago,
desired and endeayored to obtain ) disruption
oi this Union, because he believed then as he
oeheVes now, that there was a then existing
cause why that Union should be dissolved-be-
cause the Constitution had been violated in the
ADMISSION OF California into the Union upon the
Pf'neip!s OF "Squatter Sovereignty" and be-
eanse the internal slave trade between the Dis
uie'' o. Columbia and the States had been de-
siroyed 9y Congressional legslation-by that
&c. Initiating the great policy of abolition"
lhls speech, IN which a purposed treason is
openly avowed, and in which he gives the world
to know that he stands by the magazine chest of
the Union with lighted torch in his hand
ready to give the whole TO ruin the moment he
hnds similar provoeation with that of the ad.
mission OF California into the Union. is lis,enad
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