The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-08-24

invective, misrepresented and villified the
Democratic party. He boastcd Of his SER
vices and sacrifices for the Democratic
party, Of his exalted virtue and diSinter-
ested patriotism, of his reverence for the
old flag and his attachment to the Con.
stitutiOn. For years the Democratic party
had been plotting to destroy the Union,
and had at length succeeded. For years
it had been a dishonest. corrupt, treason
able party, controlled by Southern traitors
and villains. and supporting them in all
their iniquity. Now, if this be true, what
must we think of Col. ZabriSkie, who
knew all this, and yet was member of
that party and aided and abetted the
Southern traitors" in their treason. II
it were dishonest, corrupt, reasonable
party" why did he take the stump, assure
the people that it was a great, pure, pa.
triotic party, and implore them to keep
1t in power! According to his own con-
fession, he was either hypocritc or trail
! tor, If not villain!
10 show his contempt for his friend
Stanford, he entered into lengthy argu.
ment on the slavery question, and proved
that 1t was not a dead issue. lie said
that in 1920 Mr.. Monroe and the South.
ern members Of his Cabinet favored the
Missouri Compromise, and it was passed
by the Southern members Of Congress.
thus establishing the fact that IL Congress
could prohibit slavery North of So so, In
the Territories, it could extend it, but he
carefully neglected to state that it was
compromise, and that the Supreme Court,
higher authority than Congress, deci.
ded that slavery exists by force of the
Constitution, in every Territory of the
United States, paramount to all legislative
authority, either within the Territory or
residing in Congress-" lie ridiculcd the
idea of the Democratic party being Ma.
t'onnf, alluded to it repeatedly sneeringly,
and predicted that it would never make
another fight. A party is certainly Ma.
tional that has an organization in every
State of the Union, and Platform that
Democrats North and South stand upon.
Greater and wiser and purer men than
Labriskie have predicted its disruption,
misrepresentcd its creed, slandcred its
champions and attempted to crush il :;
but it has survived their efforts, outlived
their misrepresentation and SANDERS and
faIsified their predictions. and 1t still lives
aud will live in fadeless lustre, long after
its traducers shall be forgotten or remem.
bered only with scorn.
How stands the Republican party? Is
it nationalf Has 1t an organization in
every State of the Union? Is not its
platform essentially sectionalr Did not
Gov Nye, the very man Lincoln appointed
Governor of Nevada Territory, move to
strike the word National" out of the
Chicago Platform? and did not the Con.
vention that nominated Lincoln strike il
out? Certainly $50 thoroughly sectional
was that Convention. Again how many
States were represented in the Convention
that nominated Lincoln A few more
than half. And the same party in 1856.
SO intensely did it hate the South, sneered
at the National flag, refused to rally under
1t. and adopted purely sectional one
These are irrefragable facts, well known
to every intelligent American, and yet in
the face Of them, Zabriskic has the un.
blushing audacity to stand up and declare
that the Republican party is national and
the Democratic sectional. Why, tho Dem.
ocratic party has ever been distinguished
for its deadly hostility to all sectionalism,
and has ever been freely opposed by all
sectionalists ZabriSkie announced as the
fixed determination Of the Republican
party to oppose to the bitter end any and
all propositions for peaceable Settlemen,
OF our difficulties. The South, he exult.
antly declared, must be whipped. con.
quered. subjugated, and submit to such
terms as the conquerors may dictate.
and the Republicans vehemently cheercd
the atrocicus assertion. He, no doubt,
spoke authoritatively. Compromises he
considered beneath the dignity Of a great
nation-forgetting, or being ignorant Of
the fact that the Constitution of the Uni.
ted States itself is the result of compro.
mise, and our Government more than
once agreed to compromise with other ma.
tons. The Eastern Boundary difficulty
was settled BY compromise. The Oregon
question was settled in similar manner.
but then statesmen Of the Zabriskie calibre
did not control the policy of the Govern.
ment. All our purest and wisest states.
men believed, and acted on that belief.
~"Ss O"' ~Vu"Hy SOuIu OS SUVeU only Oy
adhering strictly to the compromises OF
the Constitution.
Zabriskie, unintentionally, perhaps, re.
fiected severely upon the gallantry of the
troops from the Eastern States. In re-.
pelling the well authenticated fact that
Cameron, the Secretary of War, who is,
largely interested in the railroads Of Penn.
sylvania, had ordered the Northern troops
to Washington by q circuitous route,
in order to benefit the railroads in which
nc is a stakeholder, stated that Baltimore
was in the possession of the Plug Uglies,
and the troops were therefore forced to
go round il! Even President Lincoln.
said he, the representative of the people.
had to steal into the Capitol in the dis.
guise OF fugitvel The blood thirsty