The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-04-06
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the principles and usages Of party organ
izatiOn, and however completely convinced
that partisan activity and combination
among the people are necessary to the
maintenance Of . governmental system,
we do not hesitate tor acknowledge that
there Is too great a tendency to partisan
slavery, to humble submission to the
pressure Of considerations which have no
near relationship with the material inter
ests Of the community. The slaves of
party are increasing in every quarter. 1t
is wretched increase, for the reason that
the enslavement Of white men TO political
parties has originated in and is maintained
by the existence Of negro slavery, which
is . system Of servitude adapted to the
nature and circumstances Of the enslaved
and not demanding the expanding sympa-
ihics Of the superior race. The infatuated
white slave Of party has become such by
means Of the black slave Of the United
States; IL his susceptibilities are moved
against slave ownership, he concentrates
his duty as citizen and partisan upon
the mere inconsistency Of slavery in n
free country, and SO sectionalizrs himself
M to neglect his obligations Of respect TO
the equality Of the States Of the Union
aud OF the rights reserved to the States
respectively and to the people themselves.
II the partisan be an antagonist Of the
anti.black slavery whitc.slavcryism, he
becomes, also unavoidably, a white slave
Of party through oil of the conditions Of
the antagonism. All Of the energies of
his party, all Of the vigor Of his efforts,
all Of the strength OF his partisan pnr-
poses are really TO counteract the working
Of the opposite set Of white slave hands
who are toiiing with . determination as
-t''denrttsble- aS-lsi''- '''"Fs, yet-with nn-ob-
jcct more remote from the peace aud SAFETY
Of the country.
The two elements are dissimilar except
ing in attention to work, and withal the
basis Of the unlimited toll is unsubstan-
tial, unfit for the scrvitude Of men who
in all other relations have succeeded splen.
didIy with the troublesome experiment of
n free government capable Of UNFOLDING
and grandly divcrsifying the expansion Of
a nation sPringing from every rank of all
nationalities and seeking the utmost range
Of human development. There has been
but one high mountain in the way and
that is volcano; each year of our ma
tional independence has widened the era
ter. and lowered its frightful depths, and
accumulated matter for its awful fires.
The white slaves Of party have kept the
volcano in perpetual flame with the agi-
tating pillows Of niggerism until now
there's no machine more noisey and alarm
ing; all are at work upon it; oil are per.
severing TO excel in the production of
some result-either the removal of the
mountain, or the extinsuiShnent Of its
fires, or the increase Of the heat till the
fcrvent elements will overflow and run in
red and blazing streams over the country
to burn out the intersectiohal lines of the
national Union.
Thus the trucst photograph Of Amcri,
can Partyisn conveys the features of the
"nigger," while it exhibits the appear
ancc Of exalted white citizenship, and in
dicatcs the miserable attributes OF the
slaves Of party, serving in perpetual con-
fusion. The picture is hidcous but we
must look on it, and all must acknowledge
some hateful. concern in the incongruitics
Of its composition.