Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-31

| submits to dlsmem berment loss OF place anu
nationality, until after tremendous ana eA-
hausting struggle, is doomed on the earth. lts
history is written and the volume closed. It's
''sun has gone down, while yet 1t was DAY
For fifty years we have not been called on
for war tax Out of our abundance snail
we grudge this mite to sustain the best go
vernment on earlh to which we owe 1t all
\ Our brethren in the other States pour oul
their money and their blood in the cause
| Shall California, to whom the Union Is more
than all the rest, be heard to complain OF IA
tax? Let the Union fall, and she will re-
pent in sack cloth and ashes she had not CIV
on her all to preserve it.
Peace and the Southern Confederacy are
demanded, also because (say they) this Is
an "Abotion war" By this understand that
the war is, or is to be, waged for the aboh-
tion of slavery in the hostile States There
is no just ground for this charge, either IN the
original purpose of the war or in the conduct
of it, thus far 1t is a war begun and waged
to uphold the Union and the Constitution
and not to destroy them. 1t has not been
perverted from that sacred purpose and can
not be The irresponsible fanatics here and
there. who seek to give it different charac
ter will fail in their efforts 1t must he that
the accus' tion is intended only for political
effect. Who can credit it that reflects that
the war is earnestly sustained by Crittenden
and johnson (of Tennessee) and Dickinson
and Cass, and Dix and Walker. and many
such men? That it was approved by Doug
las with his dying breath That it is firmly
upheld by Maryland and Kentucky in the
popular branch of Congress? That 1t had
the solemn sanction of the pious and venera-
ble heads of the Christian churches. who for
the first time in all their lives made public
their views on a political question Are all
those great and good men and those South
ern and slnveholdng States guilty OF hound
ing on an Abolition warp
i The statement is q cruel calumny an out
rage equally upon all propIiety aud senae.
The truth is, the demand for peace at any
price" is simply the prevent version of the
old cry of " no coercion in any event. Both
are the ralIying cries of movements made in
this State in the interest, not of the Union,
but of the States in arms 60 destroy it, That
our fellow citizens who are bound by birth,
blood or friendship to the hostile States
should have their sympalhies deeply excited
for them is not at all surprising | can the
better appreciate because | have felt an
still feel in my own person-the power OF
those strong and kindly influences. Yet,
who can doubt that the very strength of
those feelings is most apt to overcome the
patriotism and the Judgment of those in
whom it is grentest; and to render them
most unsafe guides in questions between the
country and those States, and which reach
beyond our time into futurity? That they
should love part of the country better than
the whole, may be natural. That they should
therefore in this contest side with that part
against the whole is also not very unatura,
however erroneous But, | put it to those
| Al IL, 1,, =, ,t
to the whole to seek to force upon it policy
which is fatal to it, for the qualification Of
their feelings and the advantage of part
Civil war is terrible; yet it is the ordeal
in which all the nations are tried Some
survive the trial and come out the stronger
for it. Those are the great nations of the
EARTH like France and England. Have we
less national life, vigor and courage than
they? Or are we to perish in the fires, like
some inferior race? ?
If the country is now to surrender at dis
creton, we may as well give up entirely, for
everything is gone. There is neither Union
nor Constitution for the States that 90 out
or those that remain Secession and revolu-
tion will be the new order of things. Free
institutions, government by the will Of the
ma iority consttutionally expressed, are no
more. no election will stand where the de-
feated party has the force to overthrow it
We are sunk to the Mexican level, The power
and the glory, and the very name of America
among the nations are departed forever
; TO California this election has a conse-
quence nearer and even more momentous, of
which her people should think very deeply.
The evils of the times have been to her "a
material advantage. From the misfortunes
of the country she has reaped nothing but
benefit. Wealth and population, and the
expectations of many in all the states, have
begun to set towards her like a tide, and a
long course of boundless prosperity was op-
ening before her She was known to be a
loyal State, and she was remote from the
civil strife. Men knew that within her bor
ders would be found peace, concord and Sc
curity.
if the ticket headed by Mr.. Mcconnell
shall receive any considerable vote, all this
bright prospect will disappear Though ii
large proportion of that vote should have
been cast for him by men entirely loyal to
the Union and on grounds distinct from the
question of peace or war, yet the result will
most as-uredly be claimed as a triumph Of
those who sympathize with the hostile states
more than they do with the country, and
who are for an unconditional degrading and
fatal surrender by the Government In the
camps of Secession it will be hailed as ri-
umph, and will do more to encourage the
foe and protract the war at the added cost
3 of thousands of lives and millions of money,
than another Manassas. But to the friends
Of the Union and of California it will bring
sorrow and gloom 1t will show the exist
ence here of an element of danger and it
will blast all her bright prospects at a stroke,
destroy her credit, arrest the flow OF wealth
and population, and paraIyze all the elements
of her prosperity and power Her sister
States will look on her with grief and dis
trust and the nation will turn with averted
brow from the ungrateful child to whom she
has always given, and lately more than ever,
; from the fulness of her means and of her
bounty.
OF such a thing as the sueeess of this tick
ct, do not trust myself to speak both be-
cause | believe that impossible and because
, p efer not to increase the excitement al
ready too great. Sincerely and solemnly
declare that in my judgment no greater ca
lamity could befall the State. A vast ma
jority of our people are perfectly loyal to the
Union, and perfectly in earnest in their de-
termination that their State shall remain so
likewise. 1t is Mr.. McConnelrs misfortune
that they have profound conviction that
his election would very speedily array this
State in some manner against the General
: Government | have no heart to d weH on
the consequences which would result Heaven
grant that California may never be another
Missouri!
, Would that every man who has tbouoht