Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-19


huge practical joke practced on the Dcmoe-
racy ON election day, publishes the following
interesting correspondence:
- VALLEY, Sept C, 1861.
Mr.. Editor If tile UcIa:-up pom leaning
the result OF the late election in this county,
returned home from Nsalia for the purpose
Of calling meeting Of the citizens of this
place to take into consideration the course
which wopd be best to pursue
The meeting met precisely at p. NJ, when
being duly organic j. Mr.. Skeezicis. our
orator aud constitutional lawyer WAS loadiv
called for, who appeared cIotu, il his right
miud, with all his tran sceudental intellect for
things. and addressed the august ussetnb lpge
in noarly the following superiatiye ely eloquent
and brilliant style:
Gentlemen, FcYolg citi.olss Il am proud to
be again permitted to appear before this com
munity as an adviser Gentlemen, have
too much disuust OF my abilities to suppose
that | can do ample justice to the suffice
which is the object otthis meeting | tear
that | will not he abe to present it in all its
various lights and shadows; but where fall
short nope your good sense will see the
point.
The question under consideration is one Of
tremendous moment
The election has gone against us and it is
now for lis to say Whe,her, we Us free and in
dependent citizens OF a sovereign country,
will sui nit to the inuusu alton OF sectional
Chief Executive.
Shall the citizens of Tulare county be COM
pelied to pay tribute to the followers of Abe
Lincoln? Never.
Now's the day and now's the hour.
bUhnldt bnuld KING Abraham : bnv.pr
CLAIMS, and Slave y"
Yes, feIlow-citizens, the iron heel of that
despotis already upon our necks, and we must
he his serls ehal we suffer h.m to send
hither sWnrms of officers to harrass Us and eat
up our substance? erie. of NO, never"
Now, gentlemen, to snow you more plainly,
| will cnumer,e to You some lew of The acts
which he has done. This usurper of Ameri
can freedom something more than year ago,
had the nudacty 10 ccome a candidate Tor
She Presidency. In this itself there was no
particular assumption, because any person,
under the Constitution, who is thirty-tive
years If age and has oheyed the laws of hi,
country is eligible to the office of President,
but he permitted the people to elect him in
opposition to The will of ten millions of peo-
pie, who wished to lie President themselves.
For such high-handed outrage there was
no immediate redress but i resort to arms
aud this they done; and Now, because the,
have in this way asserted their will he CALI
them rebels and brands them as traitors and
at this day he is mpusng trNes upon our 5a-
come to compel these same people to bow their
neckS to hi- yoke Shall we submit Not
muchly." And now to cap the climax, the
people Of this Sttt, who "love the uigger
well, have elected follower Of this same
despot TO the office Of Governor, when the
united voice Of this county has said no. Yes
gentlemen if our wishes will not he respQcI-
ed, it is our constitutional right to withdraw
from any and all allegiance to such Il gov
erumeut. Must We submit to that we don't
like? If We must, then let us have "A king at
once If mnoriles can't have their Prosi-
dent and Governor in equal turns with he
majority, we might as well have dysputism.
BIT don't go SO far as to ask turn about,
| only ask to have our candidate take the
chair whenever theirs is Il sectional man, and
is obnoxious to Respectable norton of a
state or community
Gentlemen, we have been living under a
deIusion. We thought we were free but we
are not. We have been bIindy following
with upturned eyes the lofty FIGHT Of the
American eagle, as he scared amid the blue
ethereal sky, until we grew fat and eorpu
lent; then we stumbled and fell like Judas
of old-we burst all thanks to the guns of
Beauregnrd they brought him down, and now
we see that We have been following stink
ing buzzard. Cheers But why dwell longer
upon tbs theme have already said enough
| see from the expression upon your faces that
your minds are made up
10 from The regions of the North
The reddening storm ofbntte pours,
Rolls along the trembling earth,
And echoes on the Southern shores
Where rests the sword whore sleeps the brave
Awake jeff Davis al HES save,
From the fury Of the blast
Burst the storm on Sumpters walls,
Arise, or cotton forever falls
And nggers breathe their last
Tremendous cheering.
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolpe9, That from this time forth our
motto will be Nary Time.
Jopr, RypoN descrihed Marty with which