The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-04-20

The New Administration.

VIM. II. Seward, LlncOln's right bower,
the present Secretary Of State, in speech
at Cleveland in lslS, said:
slavery can be limited 70 its present
bounds il can bc, and must be abolished.
and you and can and must do II.
Extend q cordial welcome to the fugitive
who lays his weary limbs ut your door,
and defend him as you would your putrr.
nal gods,
Correct your own error that slavery
has any Constitutional guarantee which
may not be released. and ought not TO be
rclinQuished. You will soon
bring the parties of the country into all
effective aggression upon slavery"
Not content with thus denying the cx-
istencc Of "any Constitutional guarantee"
to slavery, not satisfied with thus advis-
ing forciblc resistance to the reclamation
Of fugitive slaves in defiance Of the Con.
StitutiOn, which says expressly that they
shall be "dclivCrcd up" Mr.. Seward pro.
ceeds to set aside the entire Constitution,
and to erect in itS stead his higher.law
gospel:
"Bnt there is a higher law than the
Constitution, which regulates our author.
ity over the domain, and devotes il to the
same noble purposes"
AT Albany, October 1855, be said:
"Slavery is not, aud never can be per.
petual. 1t will be overthrow either
peacefully and lawfully under this Con.
Stitution, or it will work the subversion
If the Constitution together with its own
overthrow. Then the slave holder would
perish in the struggle"
Tho AntiSlavery fanatics Of the North,
with Mr.. Seward at their head, have
brought about dissolution Of the Union
but the Constitution Us made by the great
men who founded the government, and as
interpreted by the Supreme Court, is not
subvrrtcd or overthrowm, but still lives in
tho Southern Confederacy and whenever
Mr.. Seward aud his fanatic hordes are
ready, he will find tho slave holders pre-.
pared and ready to conquer or perish in
the struggle. At Lansing, New York,
Sept, 7th, 1860, he said:
"There IL not . nation on tho face Of
the earth that dare attack any one Of the
Tree States if they were all separated and
disunitcd from the Union, mot one |!
There Is no such thing then, as danger,
and yet We are keeping an army and navy
for whatV In order that the slaves may
not escape from the slave States into the
free, and that freed or emancipatcd negroes
in tho Tree States may not enter and intro.
duce civil war into the slave States, and
because that, if We provoke foreign enc.
my, the Southern frontier is exposed to
invasion from England, France and Spain.
That Is the whole object Of our army and
navy. Have | not, then, q right TO say
that | would rather have no army and no
navy-that would rather not wiring from
the frecmen Of the United States money
to sustain the army and navy, which, in
their very Influences corrupt public vir-
tue? Certainly; that is my duty as a
patriot"
Mr.. Seward must estimate the intelli.
Stnco Of the people Of Lansing at very
low standard, if he could have the assur-
ancc 20 attempt to palm such miserable,
bald falschood upon them as an historical
truth. llO may now dispense with his
army and navy as soon as he thinks prop.
er, for he will not be able to "wring'
any more money from the "freemen" oI
the South, for the support Of either. Az
to their "corrupting influences" there
certainly can be but little danger to the
present AdministratiOn-it can only des
cCnd from bad to worse.
Al Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 1860, he snid
"Society can have but two forms BY
which the individual can defend himself
from oppression. One is that which put.
the MuSkct into his hand and tells him o.
tho last resort to defend himself and hi.
liberty, The other is that which puts into
his hand tho ballot, and tells him in every
exigency to defend his rights with tht
ballot. do maintain that in founding 4
new State we have the perfect liberty q.
well aS the perfect right to establish I
government which shall SECURE every mar
in his rights; or rather l say you mus
put into every mans hand-not into tn,
hands Of one-the ballot or put into every
mans hand, and not into the hands Of
few, the bullet, SO that every man shall b.
equal before the law In his power ~ citi
zen. All men shall have the bullet O.
none; all men shall have the ballot o.
nome"
White men of California, how do yo'
like the foregoing doctrine Of the acknowl
edged head Of the present Abolition, Re
publican, ncgrO.worShippiUg AdminiStra
uOnr lie tells you in language not to b
misunderstood that, unless you submit t
! allow negroes, Cinnamon, Indians and a
others to vote. you yourselves shall b
deprived Of that rtgha;r and IL you refus
to permit them to carry aud possess arms
then you, too. shall be deprived of tha
right guaranteed by the Constitution
But to show the miserable demagoguery
Ofthe great leader Of the mongrel tribe
It is only necessary to look at the law
establishing territorial governments 70
Colorado, Nevada and Dacotah Territories
Here, no and his party had the power
, they bad tho "perfect right" to found
new government" on the principles be be
! already laid down; but did they do II
! Did they give the PAh Utah Indians an
). Chinese and negroes that are now in NJ
!, vadA Territory, the ballot! Did they Civ
/ them the bUllstl Why not appoint wiz
; nSmueca, Governor Of Nevada Territory
4 Did they sppOlnt Ink pa -du.tah, the mul