Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-07
73allD 5latlonal Qrmutrat
SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE.
SACRAMENTO, April 5, 1861.

SACRAMENTO, April 8, 1861.
In DrNocRAr:-The Legislature has no.
.b;ro left to do now but pass the ordinary
1.oneral laws to raise funds and appropriate
tbem for the very laudable purpose of carry
ino ON the government, and to see the boys
.l,rouoh with the various little wharf and
thar franchises desired by them, and then
od;ourn. The fire. eaters fought their last
bic battle on Wednesday, and were beaten.
The Insane Asylum is to be in new hands,
and one very troublesome fortitieation of the
bigh chivalry is to be surrendered into the
hands of DR.. Tilden, of Butte. 1t was their
nF,rt sumpter," and they " evacuate" with
reluctance, thereby yielding to the unavod-
able necessity of the case. If the General
Government had shown half the determina-
t;or to hold the Federal property in the
cortb that has been manifested 10y the Breck
;o.;doers to hold on to the Asylum at Stock
.on that awful civil war of which we
have read SO much, would long since have
been precipltated'
The call of the Breckenridge State Com
mittee looks like squint towards sustaining
.be administration of Lincoln am in earn
ost and | believe it will be very difficult for
tbe Republicans to move fast enough to head
off the experienced platform and test ma
q,ors who control the Breckenridge party.
Abyaham Lincoln could eote at the primary
eyect;ons under the BreckiRrjdgo Committees
test if he lived in California, unless the tele-
oraph has misled us as to his intentions. The
only questions to be propounded are, lst-
"A Are you opposed to coercion?" Old Ale
would say Yes. 81. care you in favor of
the Constitutional amendments recommended
hv the Peace Con(erence?" OF course he
would say Yes, and he might add, that the
great John C. Breckinridge is opposed to
those amendments, and insists that every
slave State ought togo out of the Union un-
less all future territorial acquisitions shall be
bound up hand and foot with slave code
clause in the Constitution But the loaves
and fishes cannot be retained, even by this
servile course on the part Of the Brecks
The handwriting on the wall is plain. No
man can hope for further political advance
ment in this State who, last fall, lent his vote
and influence to the cause of treason, by
supporting Breckinridge and Lane
The general impression seems to be that
The secessionists and those who are afraid to
speak their real opinions of them, will form
party by themselves, the platform of which
will be, "Unnterabe devotion to the Union"
and unalterable devotion to our dear brother,
Jefferson Davis and his sweet scented negro
Republic Opposed to these will be the
Union men, ignoring the territorial question,
and uniting upon the declaration that the
States compose nation, one and indivisible,
and that the Constitution is not a mere
compact between thirty-tour petty SOW
creignties. This is the great issue. All par
Tics seem to consent to division of the pre-
sent territories between the North and the
South. Breckenridge, and the ultraists, want
future acquisitions all pledged to the slavery
interests but that is merely impossible. So
the territorial abstraction ii dead The living
question is as to the nature Of our govern
mcut, and the relation Of states to il, Ii.
vidually. Secessionism must either be en-
dorsed by the success of Breekinlilse Con-
gressmen next September, or be rebuked by
the election Of good, national Union men
No man who is at heart opposed to the mad
caps Of the Cotton States, will longer follow
the lead of open sympathscrs with them
here The regular Democratic party of the
State has sound Central Committee, it is
believed, and they can make a call which
will assemble State Convention whose la
bors the people will endorse Northern and
Southern ultralsts have had their day.
CAPITOL.