Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-07
Dailp NatlOnal 1rmOtrat
: CORRESPONDENCE.
SACRAMENTO, April 8, 1861.

SACRAMENTO, April 8, 1861.
Tn DEMOCRAT THE Legislature has no.
.1,;,o left TO do now but pass the ordinary
,,oreral laws to raise funds and appropriate
tbem for the very laudable purpose of carry
mo on the government, and to see the boys
,,rouch with the various little wharf and
o,ber franchises desired by them, and then
,d;ourn The fire. eaters fought their last
big battle on Wednesday, and were beaten
The Insane Asylum is to be in new hands,
ord one very troublesome fortifeation of the
l;cb chivalry is to be surrendered into the
hands of DR.. Tilden, of Butte 1t was their
O. Fort sumpter," and they evacuate with
ro,retance. thereby yielding to the unavoid-
ob,e necessity of the case. If the General
Corornment had shown half the determina-
.;or to hold the Federal property in the
cortb that has been manifested 10y the Breck
;a.;doers to hold on to the Asylum at Stock
ton that awful civil war of which We
lava read so much, would long since have
been precipitated
The call of the Breckinrdge State Com
,,,;ttee looks like a squint towards sustaining
the administration of Lincoln. | am in earn
ost and | believe it will be very difficult for
4he Republicans to move fast enough to head
off the experienced platform and test ma
qkers who control the Breckenridge party.
4byadana Lincoln could rote at the primary
elections under the breckenridge Committees
test if he lived in California, unless the tele-
oranh has msled us as to his intentions. The
only questions to be propounded are, 1st-
"Are you opposed to coercion?" Old Ate
would say Yes 2l care you in favor of
the Constitutional amendments recommended
bv the Peace Conference?" OF course he
would say Yes, and he might add, that the
great John C. Breckenridge is opposed to
those amendments, and insists that every
slave State ought togo out of the Union un-
less all future territorial acquisitions shall be
bound up hand and foot with slave code
clause in the Constitution But the loaves
and fishes cannot be retained, even by this
servie course on the part of the Breck's.
The handwriting on the wall is plain. No
man can hope for further political advance
ment in this State who, last fall, lent his vote
and influence to the cause of treason, by
supporting Breckinlidge and Lane.
The general impression seems to be that
the secessonsts, and those who are afraid to
speak their real opinions of them, will form
party by themselves the platform of which
will be, "Unalterable devotion to the Union"
and unalterable devotion to our dear brother,
Jefferson Davis, and his sweet scented negro
Republic. Opposed to these will be the
Union men, ignoring the territorial question,
and uniting upon the declaration that the
States compose nation, one and indiyisble.
and that the Constitution is not a mere
" compact between thirty-four petty SOW
creignties. This is the great issue All par.
ties seem to consent to division of the pre-
sent territories between the North and the
South. Breckenridge, and the ultraists, want
future acquisitions all pledged to the slavery
interests but that is merely impossible. So
the territorial abstraction ii dead The living
question is as-to the nature OF our govern
ment and the relation Of states to II, inli.
yidually. Secessionism must either be en-
dorsed by the success of BreckinIilgc Cor
gressmen next September, or be reLuked ly
the election Of good national Union men
No man who is at heart opposed to the mad
caps of the Cotton States, viii longer follow
the lead Of open sympathisers with them
here. The regular Democratic party of the
State has sound Central Committee, it s
believed, and they can make call which
will assemble IA State Convention whose la
bors the people will endorse. Northern and
Southern ultraIsts have had their day.
CAPITOL.