The Placer herald., 1860-10-13
The Infdelity Of Douglas to the Demo
cratic Parfv

las; few wears, it will not he news to him TO
know that this once champion of Democracy
has ceased to be member Of the party
The once proud leader in great party
abandons the principles with the man
illness that should govern even traitor, but
steals or attempts to steal its name to gull
with that, and his former reputation, the
masses of party that trusted him too
much. That he was once a Democrat we
admit-so was Hall, IIam!in and others
that he is Democrat now, we deny, and
from the record we speak.
Has he not for years, been in open rebel
lion to the party and its principles?
Has he not rraigned, upon the floor Of
the United States Senate, almost the entire
list of Democratic Senators!
Has he not been in open and direct con
| hict with those Senators and nine-tenths of
the Democratic members of the House of
Representatives?
Has he not charged seventeen democratic
States of this Union with reasonable senti-
menis and disunion proclivites?
Has he not been in secret and open alli-
ance with the Republicans-the National
enemies of Democracy and the Union?
| That these facts are true no candid man
can deny - the proof of each and ev-
cry fact can be found in the history of the
times and that too without research or close
examination. They have been proved time
and again since this canvass began.
We now propose to call the attention of
Democrats to the fact patent before them of
the secret and open alliance of Douglas and
the Black Republicans. We noticed last
year an open alliance between their parties.
Did not Baker and McKibben run on one
headed "Republican" to suit the taste of the
blacks and "Rcgu!aI Democratic" to suit
the tastidious taste of the Dougs., who
found it unpleasant to swallow the name as
we'll as the principles of the Republicans.
This instance, fresh in the memory of the
people of this State, cannot fail now to be
recalled with all its sickening recoections
when the news from Oregon is read and re-
feced upon. Baker, the Grey Eagle of Re
pubIicanism, the same old McKibben Baker
elected United States Senator, and that 10y
Douglas votes See the vote in another
column. Is it customary for Democrats to
support Republicans? Can they do SO and
expect TO be recognized as such and expect
their principles TO be supported? We AN
swer emphaicaly no; and every candid man
must Go the same Then Democrats can
YOU for a moment doubt as to whom you
should support in this canvass? You cannot
follow Mr.. Douglas and the leaders of bis
party. If ycu do, is it not evident that you
will bring up suddenly in the midst of the
Republicans; can you doubt it from the
evidences before you, or believe yet that
Douglas or his followers are Democrats?
Remember that our party, has lost before
able and talented leaders, who proved trait
ors. Never, however, in our history, has as
HYDRA headed traitor, arose in our midst
and been honored with as great confidence.
No palale! can he found in the history OF
any party, and never in the history of our
country save the lone solitary exception of
Benedict Arnold. He in the darkest hour of
our Revolution abandoned his country, and
Stephen Arnold Douglas, in the irving hours
of his party, abandoned its principles.
BREcKENRIDGE IN NEKMONT.-The Doug
las,es have said that Mr.. breckenridge has
no strength in the North. To show the re-
verse of this to lie true it is only necessary