The weekly Butte record., 1861-05-04
No Fusion.

union with any faction or element in politics
that is at once at war with the principles Of
the National Union Democracy and the well
fare of our people as nation. No alliance
can be formed with those who hold the sever
ance Of our country jusfi6able in the present
crisis Could the Committee form such an
alliance, it would be unholy in the extreme.
The recent call of the Chairman of the Breck
iaridge followers, to meet at the same time of
the National Democratic Committee and in
the same city. upon the urgent request of GER
tain parties named in the call, looks as if they
were over anxious to fuse with those, whom
they but recently denominated boilers" "
factionists,'' Black Republicans in dis
guse," and the enemies of the true Democ.
racy, seeking its overthrow. Surely they must
consider themselves in a great strait, to even
allow such fusion to be talked Of
But let US see who those persons are, who
assert that dead issues should be laid aside,
and upon conference we may be found to agree
u JON living ISSUES.
A fair specimen of the motley crowd Of
signers to the call, is B. F. Washington, Col
lector OF the Port of San Francisco, under the
last Administration, and letter writer elect to
the Seceders of California. Now, no doubt,
he but expresses the views and opinions of the
Committee and its followers, in his late letter
OF April 29th, in which he recognizes the in
dependence of the Slave Confederacy lauds
the aristocratic features of its Constitution,
and life estates in office (the Virginians ac-
me of high ambition) justi6es the South in all
her steps; accuses the present Administration
of being the cause of the taking Of Sumpter,
and the necessity of overthrowiDg the National
Government, and prays for peace and neutrai
ty in California, as we believe, first, because
he sails with so small crew that, they cannot
be the aggressors. He says the Government
IS too poor to go to war, and he is with the
party that is adverse to war. The test of the
Breckenridge Committee meets bis approba-
ton, and if the Douglas men ard Bell and
Everett men can swallow this anti-coercion
test, he will be happy to have them do so =
get up neutral Pacific Republic; get con-
troll of the State, by their help, and then join
his great beau ideal, the Slave Confederacy.-
This letter, written at time when he had a
full knowledge of the aggressions of the South
and the hostile attitude of the Slave Confede-
racy towards the overthrow of the National
Government, and being the accepted leader Of
the Breckinrdgers of the State, goes TO show
the hollow. heartedness and treachery intended
by their call for union with men, who despise
any such hypocrisy. The intent of the call is
too palpable and cannot be disguised by its
professions. Do we want, or can we have any
conference with men or committees holding
any such doctrines proclaimed in that letter,
which, any one can see, was written at time.
and intended to direct the action of the Com
mittee No, Democrats, it is blind, intend
and, in the hour of need and trial, to betray
and desert you. Trust them not, and hold no
communion with them Be true and just to
the legitimate Government of your country,
and permit no decoy lights to throw you upon
the breakers of an enemys coast, and cast you
into the hands of those who seek your destruc-
tion and would openly exult over your success
full betrayal, as they now covertly do, over
every act of the bloody rebels that augurs the
success of their unhoy and unnatural designs in
the destruction of our national honor.
The Union National Democracy, usually
called the Douglas Democracy, are the only
legitimate Democracy Of our State; they hold
the regular organization, and in the last Pres-
dental election they represented the true Union
element of the country, and had the strength of
The national organization and we sincerely
believe, that this Democracy represents the
will Of the people, and that, by pursuing a
straightforward course, neither turning to the
right hand, nor to the left, to court any al
lance with faction whose avowed object is
luS ltCuBuiliou VI bOtCtSSiOu dS d
whose clear desire is to overthrow the Govern
ment, and thereby acting out the old tory
doctrine of rule or rum
The language, tone and sentiment of the
Collectors letter is Secession to the hilt, in all
its varied phases, from the eager desire of the
spols of office, to the destruction of our nation
ality. He seeks to cover up by the most adroit
means, the causes leading to the present crisis.
and AYERS that one of the leading causes to it.,
is an adherence to the doctrine, that to the
victors belong the spols." The fact cannot
be disguised by language, or poetical quota
tions, that the whole document, in its great
length. is an incendiary document, tending to
instil treason into the hearts of a loyal people
Union Democrats, read The letter, and we know
you cannot but prononounce the judgment,
that it comes from an insane brain, and is in
tended as a guise to Seceders in our State in
their Vaccinations to defeat the true Democ-
racy. Stand away from them and guard well
against insidious compromises offered by some
officious representative Douglas man. We
know no such men, except those who repres-
entpd themselves as such, to obtain Office at
tho hands of the Deople TO betray the prlnci-