Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-19
''The Mcconnell Wing of the Domocra-


Mountain Democrat as an able organ Of the
Mcdonnell wing ofthe Democracy r. The
| Democratic party has no such wing. If it
had we should be sorry ever to see it fly
very high. any Union Democrat thinks
he would ike TO have the Secession brothers
take him by the hand We have no doubt it
can be arranged Will the Mountain Demo-
crat suggest panf Letters of withdra wal
from our party should be addressed to d.
ID. Cotton, Chairman State Committee. 1t is
very clear tint no man can remain Union
| Democrat and affiliate with the Mcconnell
lies of this State, or with rebels or their
syupathizers elsewhere. A few quotations
from the Herald itself, may be interesting in
this connection Its Issue Of August 26 con-
tained the following words in an editorial :
The McConneliitcs are in fapor Of a disso1u
ton of the Uuion They dare MT deny the
charge. They hope to see the independence
Of the Southern Contederacy recognized A
recognition OF the Independence Of that Con-
federacy is Of course dissolution Of the I'M
| ion.
ed by the Herald in the above, do they con.
stitute any portion Of the Democratic partyY
Has our party one wing made up Of traitors,
and another Of loyalists? If tie Democratic
bird is SO deformed as that, its neck should
be wrung Immediately. The editor Of the
| Herald cannot mean to admit that traitors
are Democrats. He will no doubt show
hereafter that he does not mean so.
On the ID of September only two days
before the election, the Herald said
On their heads Ii. E. the Republicans) be
the consequences, if this State through the
unnecessary, un'ciSe uphoIy di0ision Of tie
Union forces, permits the success of McCon
nell. Should the latter take place, the
morning sun of September 5th, 1861 will
rise not on the peaceful State which last he
looked upon, but npon fair land in all the
throes Of disruption and strife Ills earliest
rays will glance upon thousands Of deternin-
ed men on either side marshalling for a
bloody contest Our streets and mountain
wales will see armed men drilling for com
ing conflict, and Me question: vital to us, Of
Union and Nsunjon IN Caiifornia wW hare
been committed to tile dread arbiirameat ot
t0ar. While yet we have time while yet 1t
! is possible to decide this contest, so easy of
such solution, at the ballot box, we beseech
you as lovers Of your country, as friends of
California, as faithful to your own dearest
interests, pause and reflect. That the con-
sequences viii assuredly be such as we have
here fully Gelineated. we bave no Doubt
They are patem to the most casnal oJServey.
Il is quite evident that the editor Of the
Herald spoke ironically when he called the
Sceessionists a wing of the Democracy. lie
might as well tell us Of the cold side of live
coal of fire, or the warm side of an iceberg.
On tho morning of election day, the Her
aids editorial! columns contained tie follow
ing:
The most infamous deceptions are used bv
the Secession Mcdonnell party to induce the
aholing classes to vote their ticket The
latter are told hy the Secessionists that Nc
! Connelps election will produce peace, in
crease business, and keep up the price of
wages. They visit every factory, every work
shop, and other places where numbers Of
men are engaged in the various avocatlons of
LIFE, with these stories upon their Trina
tongHeS. They are walking incendiarie$ 90
ing about seeking 10 destroy tie fair and no
! Die faJric Of our Union. They well krow
that the election of Mcconnell wis bc exact
| ly the reverse Of what they state How can
the election Of a man opposed to the Govern
ment, like Mcconnell, produce peace His
position would be hostile to the Federal an
thority here in California. and the Federal
authority would have to exert its power to
make his acts conform TO the laws and Con-
sttntion Of the United STATES The UHion
sentiment oI' tie State would be Jrouqht in con
fict wieh him. This would bring on civil
war in California.
And again:
Hon. Henry Ejgerton, one Of the Union
! Democratic nominees for Congress, gave nj
terance in his late Sacramento speech to the
following truthful remark which it would be
well fer all TO ponder before voting the Seccs-
sion State ticket headed ny John r. McCon-
! nell-especially those who have any regard
for their political social and business stand
ing in California:
1" 1t would he vain for those who voted for
Mcconnell hereafter to plead their past lov-
atty. Those who made the Secession plat
form and those who stood upon it would lie
condemned. and the contamination would
stick TO them like the poisoned shirt Of Nes-
sus. They would walk the streets with the
unerring finger of scorn pointed at them
| like the adherente Of the old Hartford Con-
vention"
These extracts should suffice to satisfy the
most skeptical that the San Francisco Herald
never meant to speak Of the McConneihtes
as wing of the Democracy" If we find
hereafter that we are mistaken, and that the
Herald only regarded loyalty to the Union
as "a good enough Morgan until after the
election" we will bid it farewell with as few
tears as possible, and listen for the welcom-
ing chorus of Dixie" as it enters into the
gates of the Disunion conspratore. For the
present, we repeat that, the Herald was evil
dently not in earnest when it claimed the Sc
cessioniss rs wing of the Democracy. The
Secessionists are the spcw and vomt, the
dischargng of which has so nearly restored
the party 10 health, though not yet TO
strength. The maady has been eradcated
but has left us weak. Shall we regain
! strength aud natural vigor by seeking a re
lapse into the disease? What school of med
cine teaches such treatment as thatY
QUENcnING THE TuiRsT Nearly one hun
rel years ago DR.. Lind suggested to Capt.
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