The Placer herald., 1861-01-19
The Proposers of REORGANIZATION"

There are many who speak of "the union
OF the Democratic party in California" and
the propositions Of reconstruction appear to
come wholly from the faction which has not,
for many years, been oherwi ise than fast in the
business of obstructing the true course Of the
Democratic party, and foremost in proclaim
ing that they are themselves the trues Of De-
mocrats and the regularly selected guides and
guardians of the Democratic party. Previ-
Gus to elections, these little usurpers of parti
san position are always hot with "princple," :"
and head and heels into 1.-The great duty
and future success of the Democratic party"
But Immediately subsequent to elections they
depore the difficulties which they produced
IN party organization and demand opportu-
mites fer ere organizations" When such
Democrats profess to .'regret the separation
of the party" in the late Presidential cleo
tion, and express the hope that there may be
no further necessity for dissens on, leave
them and 90 back to the record of all that
Democratic leadership which was found in
opposition to the Presidential election which
placed the General Government in the hands
of the Black Republicans, thereby bringing
nearer than ever the danger of national
destruction. That record is too blotte,l to
show the work of genuine Democracy, either
in the Union at large or in this State. In
deed we may trace all the successes Of Black
Republicanism to the anti Lecompton cham
pionlzation of the Kansas question, out of
which grew Squatter Sovereignty inatua,ion
and various faclio"s favorable to men rather
than principles. Now, upon this easily as
| oipuI lociS tho lor,orl f>r ~
tion of the Democratic party is made, pro-
vidcd, that the Democrats who are really
such and who have pursued no course which
has proposed to interfere with the guaranteed
and reserved rights of the people, or threat
ened to dsmember the States, will accept
terms from men who have embraced almost
every form of faction and been on a regular
turn from one ism to another, and up and
down with every denagoguing favorite who
has sought position and notorety through
vain antagonism towards the old conserva
tism Of the principles Of the long tried and
patriotic Democracy, procIaiming while do
ing so, his adhesion to the Democ attic party.
Must Democrats derive future prospects from
corrupted sources? Must the inferior element,
un,rcd in National affairs, and offering no.
thing perfect, become the absorbent of the
superior which has been the experienced
protection of the Constitution and the reli-
ance of Union loving patriotism? There
cannot he an event so unnatural and IRA
,i"na; but the natural determination of the
inferior element, now calling for Democratic
organization, is to Black R-publicanism,
viii, ID is much the more absorbing in its
qualities an! tendencies and which reaches
hospitality out to grasp and swallow its ener-
waited affinity"
The Democratic party is always ready to
receive the ALI glance Of men who discover
that the element in which reposes regenera
tive germs, both for its own rerpetuity and
that of good 90 ernment, is the Democracy
which has been brought down from the or
sanizalion of the Republic, with but few
defeats, to the present, where it is drawing
from the circumstances and probable conse-
quences of recent defeat, more than suh
cient energy to overcome organized sectional
opposition, and to completed y scatter all parts
of parties which have stolen, or would steal,
the name of Democracy to be enabled to
pass respectfully to The range of despicab!e
mischief
The situation of the Democratic party in
California is not so greatly deplorable as the
Popular Sovereignty and Republican organi-
zati' supposes the Democrats are supposing.
The party which supported the nomination
Of Mr.. Breckenridge and asserted the equality
of the States, il the last Presidential election,
will have all Of the best Of the partisan adj
vantages which will arise from the election
of sectional President. This State will not
be given up to the control of the Republican
party, nor to the fiction f Popular Sover-
eighty; for the principles of that Democratic
party which in the Presidential election
insisted upon the equality of the States and
the non interference Of our State with the
domestic institutions Of another, are the
same which are prompting the conservative
men Of the non slavehodlng States to com
bine for the purpose of deciding that State
rights shall be maintained; that Northern
fanatcism has gone too far, and that there
must be a better understanding and appica-
ton Of National principles. With this in
view the Democratic party may make no
effort for converts; no proposition for recon
s,rnclon; the Popular Sovereignty element
will return those who were deceived into its
support, and the remainder will he fully Re
pnblcanized. and the next general election
of this State will show thai the Democratic
party re e.enisted its old hosts and recon
structed its victorious self, without any terms
of concession to pretenders and factionists.
Mountain Democrat.