The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-10-05
Dav is Breaking.


this State directly, and by example, indirectly
to the people of all the States Of the Union
Week after week we contended that the war
was not waged for the salvation Of the
Union, but for the purpose Of carrying out
Republican views in regard to slavery.
The only answer to our arguments we re-
ceved from the supporters of Stanford and
CONFESS was charge Of disloyalty TO the
coun,ry-of favoring the designs of Jetfer-
son Davis and his associates-of being a
secessionist. Among the press Of the op'
position quite apt in this style of argument
was the Butte Record, which in late ed-
ton published letter ION George Fl. Cros-
settle, one Of its editors, (and great Doug
las many now, and for some time past on a
visit to the Atlantic States, in which he
SAYS
There is no use in Disgusting the fact that,
the Republican party is Thoroughly Aboli'
tionised, and their great effort now is to make
this war erterminate slarery. This is not
the case, perhaps, with all the rank and file
of that party, but their leaders are -4boh
tionists and are as mnch enemies to the Coz
eminent as the rebels themselves"
Here it will be seen the fact is admitted
Just as we have heretofore argued, and it is
now so notorious that it is mo use in dis
guising it,"
The Red Bluff Beacon, another furious
supporters of the war policy, and very saw
age against those who differed with it in
that respect, testiies now in the following
pointed language:
1T is deplorable, lamentable and hu
initiating fact, that on account of design
ing men in the Cabinet, a weak man in the
Presidential chair and ignoran: officers in
command of the Federal army, not single
decided and signal victory has yet been
achieved over the secessionlstS.
President Lincoln has proved himself not
the man for the emergency"
II has come to the conclusion at last that
the South can't be whipped. 1t says:
"On the other hand, the conservative
Union men of the North have come to the
sensible conclusion that it is impossible to
conquer the South. A parcel of rampant
black Republicans think that tn" Southerners
can be whipped, and tina, they will stay
whipped, But they are beginning TO see
The folly of such opinions"
We have time and again advanced the
same ideas in much more courteous language,
and scarce month since; and yet the Bea
con was one Of the papers that joined in the
cry Of treason, rebel and secessionist, against
any for so doing.
The Stockton argus, before the election,
WAS also very hot upon the trail Of those
who disagreed with i. on war measures
Traitor, rebel. or any other opprobious
term, calculated to bring political oppo-
nent into disrepute, was most literally show
ed, by that paper, upon the heads of those
who dared to advocate the claims of John
Mcconnell for Governor on party grounds.
But recently the editors views seem to have
undergone quite change on the war ques
ton. He finds that courses like chickens
vii! come home to roost."
Hear him as he recently exhibits himself:
"The friends of the Administration are
unable TO controvert the facts constantly
presented that under its influence, by its
non action, secessonsm las been actually
nursel until its huge proportions Brighten
the land, and make the most sanguine low
ers of the Union sink with doubt as to the
termination o! the present unnatural and
horrid state of affairs Of our Nation"
And again:
"As Al present conducted, the war is not
a war of Union, but of disunion."
us it not time for the people to speak
out, and demand a changed "Oh," but say
they who bow down before Abe Lincoln,
'if you murmur against the Presidents war
policy. whether it be right or wrong, you
are secessiouist"
Now, what new fact has come to light
since the 4!h day Of last September, in the
year of Our Lord, 1861, which makes that
truth to day, which was rank treason then!
Why is it persecution to day to do that
which but four weeks ago was unaloyed
patriotism! Or, was the editor of the Ar
gus playing hypocrte then, and has since
turned a candid and honest man. We do
not desire to press these questions, and we
will not nurse spite. We are glad return
ing reason has left the argus man sufficient
candor to make the acknowledgements we
quote. He has right to his opinions, and
to change them when he likes. When he
advocates that which we regard as reason
and ,r,tb wa shou o,n1.ud j. onI wo,como