The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-09-14

winch ne. received rom tpe East Snort
time since:
COLUMBUS, Ono, Aug. 10, 1851.
Friend B.-1 received your letter this
morning and was truly gratihed at its peru.
sal. have written one oy two letters TO-
- containing my views in brisf on the ten.
dency of the startling events that are now
transpiring in every quarter of our once hap
py and prosperous country ann
more than ever convinced that had the doc.
trines we fought 'or in the last campaign
prevailed, the whole country would still have
been united, and that peace, prosperity and
good fellowship would to-day have existed
throu. hout the whole land. Or, had the
President elect, and those in league with
him, permitted The Crittenden amendments
TO have gone to the people, the dire caiami.
ties we are now enduring would have been
averted When the people Of the North
wake up. for they are now sleeping while the
fangs of destruction are piercing deeply the
very ytals of their liberty, their wealth and
their nationality, to the terrible reality Of a
government destroyed, county devastated,
with nothing in sight but iusolent tax'gath
erS aud press gangs, then, and not till then.
viii come the tinal struggle between Liberty
aud tyranny, freedom and despotism. God
send that Wahing before our energies and
manhood are gong, and our substance is
exhausted. Let the people OF California he
warned in time, il it is not now too late,
that the leaders of the too sections of the
Republican party are working conformity to
realize, each for itself, lis great centra! idea;
one sec on aboliliouism and its consequent
ces-he degradation of white labor; and tho
other the Inauguration of n strong govern.
Ment, by the cseaton OF vast national debt,
viii, gigantic am, searching system Of na
lional taxation, with Federal appointees for
Assessors aud Collectors, and the gradual
diminution of State sovereignty by the prac
teal obiteration of State boundaries. Sec
how tremendously they work together, and
how much they have already accomplished.
Congress has passed IN act conhscating all
the property of those in rebellion, including
negroes, aud al the layes found aiding tho
rebellion must be declared free by procla.
ination Of the President. And now, say the
aboltionists, all the slayes are free because
to raise corn, dig potatoes, or to do anything
in the South is assisting the rebels. To car
ry out this law it is necessary to have tive
hundred thousand soldiers, and five hundred
millions of dollars and this secures the pas.
sage of other acts fixing upon us the national
debt. the standing army, the hoarI Of Eede
raj tax gathereys. the destruction of State
lines and State rights. The democracy in
the Norlh are beginning to rally at the sight
OF all these things, aud upon their action de'
pends much in these trying times. The
Democratic State Convention Of Ohio, re.
| lx, ,,at hav o.lf> nd al OIL md
nominated complete ticket The resolu.
tions, WHICH were passed unanimously, by
the largest and most intelligent Convention
eyer held in the State. set forth, that the
war was caused by the AboIitonsts Of the
North and the fire eaters Of the South, that
the Democracy will support the Government
in all proper and Constitutional remedies,
that the only proper mode of settling our
difficulties is by u National Conyention.-
Denounces the President for his suspension
of the writ of habeas corpus and arraigns
both the State and Federal authorities for
their gross corruption, mlsmanagement and
stealing. The Iowa State Convention pas:
sed resolutions stronger than those; and in
New York, the State Committee have refu-
sed to fuse with the PUBS In all the North
ern States conventions will be held and clean
democratic tickets will bc nominated. The
Conness Platform would not be tolerated by
Democrats even in 0hio.
| The late disaster at Bulbs EuU." fit is
proposed to change the name to ''Repub's
Run y together with the mastering out Of
the seventy five Thousand volunteers, has
eft the U. s. in u condition where itrequires
all her strength to save the capital and hold
her position in Mary land and Missouri
From Southern papers learn that the
Confederate Government is mastering into
service three hundred and fifty new regi.
ments, which will increase their army to five
hundred and SIXTY thousand pen. This is
not improbable as they have the material and
inclination; and every act passed by our late
Congress is calculated 10 strengthen the
Confederate authorities with their people at
home, and bind the whole South in one con-
solidated mass of resistance.
There are many funny things told of the
"Pubs" who vent out from Washington TO
see the army .Eorward to Richmond."-
Congressman Ely, who is now prisoner in
Richmond, took little too much 'red eye"
in the endeavor to get his courage up to the
fighting point, and got so drunk that Col.
McCook, of Ohio, had to lay him behind
log, but his fear so great that he would
keep sticking up his bead to see if he was
in danger, McCook all the while pecking
him on the head with pistol to keep him
down. At last McCook's attention WAS called
away, and that was the last Of Ely.
A fat, irrepressible ex'alderman went on
from Cincinnati to see "the Seseshers gutted"
and when the ''run" began he outrun the
whole crowd, never stopping until be reach.