The Placer herald., 1861-04-06
s,cp,uExro ConnEspoNDENCE.
SACRAMENTO, April 4, 1861.

al Feuelal ana St1tp-1 pIOPoSc W ucNotC uCti-
y the entire letter to the considerations or those
two topics. | therefore commence by my specul'-
tiOns upon
THE STATE OF THE UNION,
and will close by q general review of Senatorial
matters. from The commencement to the tnas.
There is no need or plausblity for the Repub-
licans to pretend to deny that Lincoln so far on
his Presidential career, has pursued course IN
sensibiy antagonistic to his former political dec
laratons-thut is. anti to the ''irrepressble con-
Aict'' Before the Inauguration every Republi-
can in the State was boiling over with "blood and
thunder at the "secessionsts," and 'they," to
use the identical language. "wou Id see that
soon as Buchanan, the stupid old imbecile, was
out of Office, that these disunionsts were whip
ped back into the Union.' SO they all talked and
there is no use of any ones denying the charge.
But change in the proposed policy Of Presi-
dent Lincoln has resulted in great disappoint-
ment to the people composing the Republican
party. A few "loolish fellows" with more zeal
than discretion still "blow" about coercion, and
absolutely curse the President and declare that
the party is disrupted. | am not surprised to
find such state of facts to exist, because all
men are not discreet and will refuse TO exercise
that judgment which God has given them. BY
this boiling position each Republican sets him
self up as a)udge for the party and the admins
trution without having any of the testimony in
the case. Such Republicans are not Republicans,
but Garrsonans-and pqrhaps it may be reas-
onably expected that u Garrsonian Abolition
Secession party will organize in this State before
one year Of Lincon's term shall expire.
The True Policy.
\ Republican with the least possible degree of
common sense, can now begin to see through the
thick veil which has hung before the President
from the day Of the election and from the first
steps taken towards q dissolution Of the Union
by the Cotton States rs regarding his policy on
assuming the administration OF the Government.
T.iucoln's in,urur1I lonol,au cnn also he DIN to
be interpreted. He declaims that he should be the
President Of the whole Union. and that he
would enforce the laws if supported by the peo-
pie. This is now plain. He was not sustained by
Congress by the passage Of the force Bill-and
how then could he coelcc the Southern States if
he had so felt disposed? Mind too. another
point Mr.. Editor. The President swore to sup
port the Constitution, and that there is a great
difference between supporting the Con titution
and coercing the people to obey the laws
WHAT Is FoREsHADowED
If any one, Republican, Douglas man or Dem
ocrat wishes to anticipate the policy of President
Lincoln | would refer him to two political text
books s"-Sewards late speeches and Lincolns
Inau oural. The former nterprets the latter, and
if there are hard knots found let the politicians
take into the count the fact that Fort Sumter has
been abandoned by order of Il full Cabinet and
Gen. Scott in the bargain.
WHAT Follows NEXT.
After full digestion Of TIE above strokes of
policy" can the next sep in the policy of the
Administration be reasonably anticipated? Very
easily in the judgement of your correspondent.
The next move by the Administration or rather
mo move at ALL will be to declare to the South
ern people, in the extreme South to do Just as
they please. And the best reason in the world
for Lncolns saying so is that they cW ito so
,chether the President orders it or not This
may seem foolishness and folly to the wise poll
tician-f it should so appear and become final
y the way Of wisdom. it would again prove a
great fact in truth written down on the pages Of
Sacred history, and from the pen of Solomon
(supposing be used such things.)
AND WHAT CONES NEXT.
Such policy by the Administration would
perfectly disarm the Sccessonsts or the Revolu
tionary leaders. This truth is very evident from
the fact that the policy of the Administration
of the Seccssionsts North or South. Is not this
an insignificant fact, and cannot the gumbling
Republicans plainly see by such demonstra-
ton their own weakness and the wisdom thus
far displayed by the Administrations? They are
stone-blind if they cannot. Perhaps their stu
pid eye-lids will rise when they that Lincoln,
in carrying out the programme OF his Admins
tration does not intend to collect the public rev.
enue in either the seeding States, on sea on
land. BY every principle en- which the Federal
Government stands, so exists to-day another Con-
federcy, over which presides Jefferson Davis. as
President. That ie--so far as the people of that
Government have gone the second Republic
stands on equal and inalienable rights-the same
as pronounced in the Declaration of independence
by the Colonies in 1776.
SHALL WE TREAT?
The mother government in 1916 refused to
treat, and attempted to coerce. Shall the moth
er Government Of the Atlantic refuse to treat
and coerce? So far President Lincoln has failed
to coerce. but he still refuses to treat (Thc par
allel does not quite bold good, as the border
Slave States are constantly acting as pacifcators
and the two governments materially diter)
The policy of coercion, under our anomalous
government, is too absurd to be entertained for
moment, and isnow generally condemned, sncc
the late development by thea administration.
THERE WILL BE no FlGHrING, PERHAPS.
If the same policy be pursued as inauguratcd
by Lincoln, thene there can be no fighting unless
the mad-caps Of South Carolina shall attack the
North, or the Federal Government by marching
on Washington. But this is an absurdity as great
that Lincoln will march Federal troops into
Southern Territory, or anchor a hostile feet off
the Southern ports for the purpose of collecting
the Federal revenue
LTNCoIN's Policy.
The policy Of Mr.. Lincoln seems to point to
the conquest of the seven Seeding States in
peaccable way. and through the instrumentalitv
of the Southern people themselves majority
OF the people OF the seeding States are tacitly
admitted to be sovereign, either as a Confedcra-
cy or as States 1t makes no difference which in
the eyes Of the Administration which for the OBJ
ject and purpose in view The sober sec ond
thought Of this people has not yet been poled,
but in the course Of the present year, at the
State elections, this reason will be appealed to.
The question Of Union or no Union has not fairly
and impassionately been submitted to them
When reason shall resume It's throne, then, and
not till then does President Lincoln expect to
win his battle, and c0erce the Southern people
back into the old Union.
THE BATTLES TO BE IN THE SOUTH.
All the battles. (fraternal warD | can see in the
future between Lincoln and jeff. Davis are to be
fought with paper ballets at the ballot box in the
Southern States Some of these harmless la II les