The weekly Butte record., 1861-05-04
Voice of the Union Press.

We are not in favor of party which organ
zes for the sole purpose of giving any State
whatever the liberty of seeding whenever it
feels like it. We are not in favor of organ-
zing party which shall stand ready to see the
flag of rebellion to the Federal Government
raised upon this coast, and say, "hands of-et
it be raised-no coercion-let rebellion tr-
umph."
We think party which is for peace on the
part of the Federal Government, whenever ag-
gressions are committed against 1t, but for lcar
on the part of States or bodies of citizens
whenever they feel inclined to attack the Fed
eral Government, is a party not fit to exist
We love peace, but we hate treason.-Neudda
Democrat.
There is a faction of secessionists in this
State who supported Breckenridge, not power
fol in numbers but mighty in mischief, that
will blast The last hope of any party it touches.
Let the Democracy forever stand aloof from
such men. They are enemies to our Govern
ment. Their embrace is ignoble death. As
the minutest spray from the polcat contam-
mates the pure atmosphere for miles around. so
will this little secession faction, if permitted to
ventilate itself and evaporate into the great
National Democratic party, infuse it with an
odor worse than death.-Shasta Courier.
There is still conservatism and virtue enough
left among Americans to preserve from wreck
and ruin the Country and the Union, if they
will oppose themselves firmly and with their
might against the radicalism of the age, and
the factious leaders, who would hurry them on
to destruction. Come out then Union men,
consei vators of law and order, from the ranks
of all former political parties, und join once
again in the reviving shout, The Union must
and shall be preserved" !" Form into solid
phaanx, forgetful of all the petty issues of by
gone times in the grander scheme of saving
your Country from its threatened downfall !;
and netting out to traitors and to treason to
murderers and to crime their just reward
Sonora Age.
The Democracy of California are not on the
side of the mouthing, clustering trickster who
leads the secession movement. They ask no
counsels Of those who rejoice over insults to the
American Flag, and who exut over blood split
in defence of our country's cause. The Com
mttee of our party is not composed of thieves
or shameless political harlots, as the Disunon-
ionsts would fain believe There is not, and
there never has been shadow of shade of an
intention on the part of our Committee to touch
the secessionists with forty foot pole.-Ma-
rysu'lte Democrat.
The Democracy of California is a Union
Democracy. 1t will uphold and encourage, as
it may, active measures by the Administration
at Washington, for the maintenance of the
Federal Government, Burch, Scott, Gwin,
Weller, and their kind are fossils-and who
ever tries to pack them through, or shares with
the secessonsts the onus of their course 10
the last campaign or the present Legislature
declaring Lincoln's election sufficient cause for
disunion, and backing that by declaring South
Carolina right whatever party shoulders these
things, or part of them, will sink with the
dead weight of them.-S,erra Democrat.