The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-07-20
BIuo LIghs Traltors.

Il ought 10 be recoIlrctvd by the pres.
cnt generation that the very party which
Is now urging on Q war against their own
brethren, In 1919, In q war with foreign
country, were ten times more bitter In
denouncing it, than any that they now
so hippantly style traitors, do their cru
6ade against the South. In order to re-
fresh the minds Of our readers, we have
taken the pains to compile for them vaTi.
Gus extracts from the Federal newspapers
ofl9l2-'lA The hallis not told In these
excerpts, yet they show that the very
States now foremost In fighting the South
we're then giving aid and comfort to the
enemy by open acts Of treason.
Some Of these acts are detailed In the
extracts given, and they show that Mass
achusetts did all she could to elnbarrass
the General Government, not only by
Withholding her men and her means but
also by actually assisting Great Britain.
She even refused the honor OF . public
present to the gallant Lawrence, whose
dying words, "DOn't give up the ship"
have become classical; and all her acts
were unpatriolic, and even criminal. II
her citizens had been dealt with as rigidly
~ they now threaten tO deal with others,
they would have met the fate which they
50 earnestly desire to bring upon their
opponents
No one at the North has now, 40 far as
we know, done more than TO enter their
earnest protest against the present war,
and to give their reasons therefor. We
have yet to learn that they have aided
Southcrners by burning bluc.Iights. or
by any Of the expedients which tho Fed.
eralists res0rted to IN 1919. Aud yet
they have q thousand reasons TO do 10,
where the FederaliSts had one, for thS.wAr
IL waged against th,ir friends and rela.
tiveS-bIOod Of their blood and Hssh 0f
their neAh.
In the extracts from the Journals, Il will
be Seen how venomous those papers we're
-sOme urging FederaliSts not ~ subscribe
to the Government loans. and others even
going 90 Ter a. to actually reI0iSo over Tbs
successes Of the British, and dsplor0 ths
victory Of Harrison over Proctor aS the
triumph of'a crowd Of Kentucky saw
ages." MadisOn and Jefferson were " ruf.
fans" too. In those days, just as Southern
men are now |; indeed, wO Ses but very
little difference In the tone of the Federal
papers Of that day aud of Republican pa.
pers now. The Commercial AdOsrtiSsr,
Of this city, ct that day talked about
humbling the pride Of Virginia." and
chastisinS tho madnen Of Tennessee
and Kentucky" 1t seems a. II this jour.
nal must now be reproducing some Of its
old articles against Madison and Jefferson,
and merely changing names to suit the
times.
The pulpit, too, had its Becchers, its
Chcevsrs, and It's Tyngs In those days.
Then the OagOOds, the Parishes and the
GARDENERS thundsred forth their inyvctives
against the war, just AZ our modern apos.
ties do against sO.called slavery. JeiFer.
Son was an atheist. Democrats were an
unwashed ra6ble, and the war for the de-
fense Of our rights murder, and all who
supported II, murdcreTs. Such ara the
anteced, ats 0f the msn who now cry out
for mob law against oil who respectfully
but earnestly urge opposition 70 our pres
ent civil war. They now work 70 hang
people COr opinions sake. They were
permitted by the leniency Of Democrats
to actually commit reasonable acts; but
they accord not even the poor favor ol
free speech to those no differ with them.
-NeU York Day BOok.