The Placer herald., 1861-07-20

bitter struggle. OnouIu we conquer luis
people, after a protracted war, what them
Will they become loyal citizens! Can We
withdraw our army? No. The history Of
the world furnishes no such an example,
We will be compelled to keep up standing
army to overawe and keep in subsection this
this rebellious people, Can this be done I'M
der our present form of government No
one will contend for moment that it can.
The programme for the new government is
arranged. The Union Sliding" Banks
SAYS: "This government is at an end, we
must establish new one on different prnci'
pies" And Secretary of War Cameron de-
cares: "When this war terminates we shall
hear no more of Virginians, North Carolini,
ans or South Carolinians, bat we shall be all
Americans, one and indipisible" The old
democratic idea of being dipided up by State
lines and State overeignties has become in
convenient to the Black Republicans, and
hence they must te abolished, and in their
stead we must have one grand central gov
eminent, one vast standing army, and this
supreme government must be willingly obey
ed throughout the whole length and breadth
of the country, or the hirelng army will en-
force its edicts.
The Black Republicans, in their strong
holds here, are groaning with deep seated
agony because they cannot hang every man,
as traitor who has the independence to de-
nounce Lincoln and his advisers for their
base wickedness and perjury, and the papers
boldly warn all such that the people will be
compelled to give them a "short shrift" if
they don't cease their CAB.
Our newly made Republican Generals are
getting along bravey. General Pierce, with
some five thousand men, assaulted rebel
battery at Great Bethel after having had a
skirmish between his own regiments, sup
pose to test their courage, and got badly
whipped. General Bob Schenk concluded
he would retrieve the reputation of political
generals, so he obtains a few hundred men.
places them in Railroad cars, attaches an
engine to the rear Of the train, backs them
down into deep cut and dumps them into
a masked battery; permits the engineer, To-
connective, tender and passenger car, surgeon
and surgical instruments, to retreat hastily to
Alexandria, just to show that he could re-
treat on foot, carrying his dead, dying and
wounded in blankets, and be id to the
railroad and medical traps.
Don't be deceived by the telegraph news
which you may see in the associated press, y
for ninty-nine out of every hundred are base
falsehoods. Here they are believed by no
one, and it has become common if a gentle
man wishes to tell another that he lies to say
That's Telegraph" The government per
mils nothing to pass over the telegraph that
is true, on the ground that it endangers the
efficiency of the public service.
The Black Republican papers were in
great g'ee over the election of Union mem
Lers of Con- ress in Kentucky and Maryland,
but since the southern papers have announc
ed, on semi official authority, that unless
Crittenden's amendments. intensified, are
adopted, that they viii ali return to their
homes and take The stump for secession, they
have changed their tunes.
see by the California papers that Latham
has thrown another sunmersault He is as
slippery as an eel, unless YOU lay hold with
your teeth you never can hold him, and then
you get very dirty, Shiny, sinking mouth.
Indications are that there will be no gen
eral battle before the meeting of the two
Some skirmishing will still 90
on, and the confederate soldiers are active
and successful in taking prisoners. These
prisoners they will hold until their privateers-
men are discharged, or hung, then they will
retaliate by hanging an equal number. This
contest is no longer a mere rebellion but
war, war with brave and powerful people,
and our government must recognize and car
ny out the principles Of civilized warfare or
our counrymen will become reproach and
byword with all enlightened people. Eng
land did not hang as pirates, our privateers-
men when we revolted against the mother
government, and shall we be more barbar-
Gus than she was. George Washington was
an officer under the British flag, but be de-
serted it, turned traitor, and fought against
his own government. Twiggs, Beauregard,
and others, have done the same thing. Will
the Black Republicans, if they get a chance,
prove to the American people that Washing
ton should have been hanged.
You have no doubt heard much about the
LOYALTY of Kentucky, and how she has fur
nished two or three regiments to help prose
cute the war. The truth is that when they
elected their officers they elected all Obians,
l4O Kentuckians, and these men the very
worst kind of wharf rats, gathered up about
Newport, Covington and Louisville. They
had regular offices for enlisting Kentucky
volunteers in Cleveland, Toledo, Sandusky,
Cincinnati, &c, but the people of Kentucky
notified the government that these so called
Kentucky regiments must not be sent into
the interior of the State so Lincoln has
wisely concluded to quarter them at Camp
Dennison in Ohio.
That our rulers are Systematically engaged
in suppressing the number of men killed and
wounded in the different skirmishes no one
here any longer pretends to doubt, while