The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13
The Address of the Seceders to the De-
mOcracy.

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should gel hold of it.
1t has come to hand and it is truly pom
derous paper as to style, it being of the order
ejaculative, but wholly without that candor
and cogency of reasoning, which would tend in
any degree to draw those to whom it is ad-
dressed, to the support of the doctrine it
inculcates Anti Coercion, Anti-Civil war,
Non-Action by the Federal Government to
maintain its possessions, peaceable submission
to indfgnities of the grossest character to the
flag of our country, and an acknowledgment
of separate State Sovereignty to the extent of
the absolute right of peaeeable or forcible se-
cession. These are the leading tenets promul.
gated by the so-called State central Democratic
Committee, and directed to the Democracy of
our State. The great majority of the Democ-
racy of California are Union men, devoted to
the maintenance of 1t as it was handed down
to us. They are also peace-men, but not to
servility. They are selfsacrifcing, but not 10
degradation they believe too, in the capacity
of our people for selfgovernment, but not in
the shape of Pacific Republic and, in a few
words, they are not made of such pliable stuff
as to be induced to follow such teachings as
laid down by the addressing Committee; nor
will they ever recognize that such committee
speak by authority, ex cathedra," to the true
and majority Democracy Of our loyal State
such an address may do very well, to the
chivalry seceders, and may cause them to rally
around the Committee in support of such doc
trines as they put forth but it will fail, sig
nally fail, in so beguiling any true Union Dem
crat, as to make him so far forget his country,
as to follow the beckonings of such an ignis
fatuus- such chaf may catch here aud there
some greedy and green aspirant for political
preferment, who knows not that promises Of
Office are only lip-service, but, gentlemen, il
never will catch any of the old guard of the
Lion hearted Democracy, who have seen their
country tower up among the nations of the
earth under the lead of patriotic statesmen,
and whose first care was to see to the perpetu-
ity of the Union at all hazards. They are not
blind to the acts of the drama now being per-
formed by the actors in the so called slave
Confederacy, neither are they so blind, as not
to see who of the spectators applaud those
acts, although they may be in the outer circle
of the upper tier ; nor are they deaf to the ex-
cusatory applause made by those who in shift
ing the scenes, commit some faur pas that
calls down the house, nor are they deaf to the
talk of those, who justify the whole scheme of
that drama ; but they are not of those who
will ever admit or recognize its legitimacy.
The time is now rapidly drawing on, when
the old guard will be required TO again buckle
on their armour and do battle under the an
cient flag of their country and we believe
they will do it, with an ardor increased by the
dangers by which they are being surrounded
by their enemies who pretend to have the same
watch words, and rally under the same flag
We say to the Democracy of this State, that
this address, although parts of it are specious,
is strong secession document, recognizing Sc
cession as it is being performed in the Cotton
States, with all the seizures of forts, arms,
nails, mints, custom houses, Government money,
ships, revenue cutters under the Federal flag,
and claiming it as right-and blandly asking
you to submit to it, and any more of it that
they may inaugurate. 1t is general invita-
tion to participate in the gorifcation over the
degradation and humility now offered, and by
them to be repeated on the first fit occasion,
to the Federal Union for we sincerely believe,
that so soon as they feel that they will be able
to make respectable show to that object, and
have sufficient entrapped in their gauze-like
meshes, they will hold out to you the chalace
of secession and insist that nothing but Pa
cifc Republic, under the lead of their Knights
of the Golden Circle, will satiate their rapacity
for more government plunder, or fit you for a
proper sacrifice to the old Calhoun theory,
now called into practice, of rule or ruin.
The Committee repeatedly ask g how can
war be avoided ?" if you do not bow down and
worship at their shrine of Anti Coercion and
let everybody run over you rough shod2 We
answer by simply retracing your steps, repent
ing of what you have done, and turning from
your tIeachery to your country, and leading
the life of quiet and respectable citizens, con-
forming with cheerfuness to the Government of
the country which alone has given you respec-
liability abroad, and happiness at home
The taxation of commerce in the barbor of
a State against its will is the highest insult to
sovereignty" the Committee, that is, the
collection of customs by Federal authority under
the Constitution and Laws, when certain hot
headed, fire-eating and self-elevated leaders see
fit TO put all law to defiance, nullify the acts
passed by our national Congress. and take by
force, this much prated about coercion, which
they so much deprecate in others, and turn the
natural resources of Government to their individ
ual aggrandizement is just cause for civil
war on the part of these people-fearing seces-
siouists, but no resistance to such acts can be
tolerated. Abject submission to all this high
handed treason is what they demand, or off
comes the top of your head.
Democrats will not submit to such doctrines