The Placer herald., 1861-11-30
THE PLACER HERALD.
AUBURN, NOVEMBER 80, 1861.
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ully ARISES out OF misun nderstanding OF each
other, which increases as passion swells-on
both sides-becomes bigoted injustice, and ends
ia q chronic state of 1end, ignorance and injustice
towards each other. States and nations. are but
the aggregation OF men, in political body, and
therefore arc to greater or less extent, of
piece with the individual man. To make an ap-
plication of this piece of philosophy, we have
only to look into history, when we shall find ma
tions at one period fighting, slandering, and ha-
ting each other, with the venom of devils, and
the same nations at another time, allies and fast
friends, thus giving q fat contradiction to all
they have previously said one against the other.
of nature to bring them into disreputc What
long and devastng wars have been waged-ior
instance between England and France-untll,
i: became an essential in every good and free
Enplishman to hate most rgheously French
man and until an Englishman was stencil In
the nostril. of Frenchman. At length in the
year 1915 comes peacc-a long peace between
these sworn foes. The passions subside-inter'
course springs up between them-become lntl-
mate through commerce and travel of the peo-
pie of each. A friendship ripens out OF it,
they both 90 into battle as rivals against the
Russ-become sworn friends-because now, they
understand each other.
The war of the American revolution, brought
about settled hatred, between Great Britain
and these Colonies, which blinded both sides. to
the real merits of the other, for more than tlty
years. Peace and intimate personal intercourse
between US. showed each other their blind bigoted
injustice-and at length, John Bull actually be-
comes proud of his offspring, and Jonathan
wakes up to the fact, that his sire, though BLUM
in manners, is after ALA good old fellow at
heart. Now we are doing the same thing to each
other-the North and the South. We have fallen
out and are determined not to understand each
other. Iu the north a rebel is nothing less than
IA fend incarnate and in the South, the "1ank'
is held in utter deestation;- each in the eyes Of
the other is without hope Of redemption. and
richly deserves warm place in the 'bottomless
pit." All kinds of ISLANDERS, fllsehoods, and
infamous lies are circulated of each other. We
no longer think of Saving the Union, THAT
broken and if this course is pursued, we shall
despair of bringing about a reunion.
This phase of public sentiment originated with
and is fostcred by the war prnts-most!y by the
Republicans. and if there is any method in
their madness,' il is to prevent this desired re-
union and render disunion permanent. To help
this dcusion false ideas are set on foot with re-
gard to the resources of each other.
We were told six months ago, that the rebels
would soon be starved out. that they had no arms
or munitions of war; and to doubt these state
ments was held TO be rank treason We know
now that the granares of the South, are full to
overfowing, harvests have yielded in
greater abundance than ever heretofore; we know
that they are we'll armed and are manufacturing
all the implements and material of war. The
next proposition-and which was considered a
truth too plain to doubt, was that the Southern
people would be swallowed up in y sea Of fire and
blood, through the agency of negro nsurrec-
tions We now find that it is proposed. to coniis-
cate negro propcrty-becduse II is one of their
pri,.c cipal elements of strength m this acar.
We we're Informed at first that the rebels were
mere braggarts and would not fight; even Gen.
Mcclellan before crossing into Western Virginia,
told his soldiers that he feared they would not
find in the enemy foemen worthy Of their steel
The battles that have been fought gives the lie
to that idea-the bones Of our countrymcn whiten
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other assertion equally false with the foregoing,
and very mischievous in its effect, is that the en-
tire movement in the South is the work of few
disappointed politicians; and that it is not the
substantial act Of that people.
Among the first official notices of the rebel
lion by President Lincoln, was his proclamation
requiring the rebels to disperse in tWenty days.
Seven States had then declared themselves out OF
the Union, there are now twelve in the South
ern Confederacy. Then, an army of seenty y-five
thousand men was called into service for three
months and were thought amply sufficient to
que these disappointed political hacks;" but
the South has now fully three hundred thousand
men under arms. Western Virginia gave some
evidence of discomfort and Convention was
held in Wheeling, and a new State carved out o
Virginia-on paper. The Governor of Missouri
(Jackson) was deposed. and new man assumed
the reigns of government-on paper. Recently
in North Carolina similar movements reported
and we are told the people so long tyranzed
over by those rebellious leaders, are about tC
burst their shackles and bring the 'old Norli
State" back into the fold To express doubt up
on the subject, is to prove yourself in reasonable
sympathy with the rebellion. Now is it not o
fact, that the movement in Virginia is unsupport
ed by the people?-is perfect failure; that Gov
erDor Gamble has not one tenth of the Missouri
people with him? do not intelligent men who
know the South we'll, tell us that they are unite(
there to an extent unprecedented in any politica
movement heretofore? and is it not morally Ger
tain that this movement in North Carolina vii
turn out sham and delusion? Let us sift GU
the truth, and believe that, and not hug to ou