The Placer herald., 1861-09-21

vitality in the blood, flesh and bone, to cause
vomiting, eruption, commissions, spasms in.
sanity. madness, death, and ultimate dsin.
tegration Of the entire system. The body
corporal is in this respect but type Of the
great national body pollic-and poisoning
the public mind will have upon it like eff
feet. FAlsehood, to the latter, is what arsen-
ic is to the disorder, convulsions,
civil war, blighted commerce, public debt,
discorl and madness, disunion and death to
the highest hopes of the nation, follow as
the equally natural sequences. The false'
hood Of anti slaverysm has abused the con
fidence and corrupted the heart Of the North
and West, whilst it has e'nbittered and sown
hatred in that Of the South. To attempt to
stem the poisonous current, was to draw
down upon person the charge of either
being "slave driver" or "doughnface." -
The teachers Of Republication have first
poisoned the und rstanding, and by persecu
ton and bigotry closed the ear to the voice
Of reason. Hence we have gone forward in
this madness, until the effects of the fatal
potion are made manifest in the clash Of
arms, the shedding of fraernal blood, and
the Acknowledgement Of the Union of States
A catalogue Of lies amounting 10 one huge
Of national prosperity, harmony, union and
strength, and the Republican party Of 10 day
is responsible for it, The difficulties and
evils Of secession date further back than The
Kansas imlroc lio--than the commandment
of Sumter. The firing the first Gun does not
fix the fault, the fanlt and cause lie at the
door Of those superinducing that mad rash
step. We make this charge in 10 spirit of
acrmonv, but in the hope that men will
examine the facts, and as they regard the
veal of their country-as they revere the
blood Of the gallant dead shed in this strug
| eie-wiI act upon il in the future. In wiar
does this false teaching consist: i; is univei-
sally admitted that The question of domestic
slavery, as it exists in the Southern States, is
the cause of our troubles. Until tina: mat
ter was aci,ated there was no contest par
taking Of a decided sectional cast The
right of States to have such 4 system Of ser
vitude and Of the people Of the same to he
protected in a specific property in the labor
Of the slave WAS recognized by the Consitu
ton, which bound these States together
The rights of one State and Of its ne pie
were as sacred As the rights of another. BIT
certain teachers, and among them men now
high in favor with the dominant party. lie
clarel tha; because Of this feature in our
national compact, it was "a. league with the
devil and u covenap, with he'll" aud that
there WAS higher law than the Constitution
for the guidance OF men in this matter
that the nation could not exist half slave
and half free. These are plain, open falsel
hoods, striking a. the very root Of our unity.
Ii has been taught for years, that there was
a conflict between the interests Of Slave and
free labor, by which means The aborinr men
OF the free States, have been induced to ION
in the crusade against the slave owner of the
South. This is false for the laborer who is
free to act, will no where engage in the cul
tivation Of those products of rice, cotton and
sugar which form the staples of the South.
and how can the labor Of the slave in pro
ducing them be in conflict with the labor of
those who do not care to do so?
1t has been asserted that the slave power
of the South has had control of the govern
ment Of the United States from it's founda
ton up to the present administration, and
that such rule has been gross Y tyrannical and
injurious. AS a whole this assertion is in.
correct II you admit that the poli,ical
power Of the slave States has exercised q
ruling influence in the management of our
national affairs, then the unexamped pros
perlty OF the country for over seventy years,
gives Nat contradiction to the injurious
effects Of il. But the South has been plant
ing, agricultural. and OF Necessity in following
their own Interests, pre- eminentIy conserva
tive in the management of Government.
They wanted no protection for products
| that were necessity to the whole civilized
world. Their interests WERE to have the
Government Administered economically. that
their taxes might he light. They were not a
commercial people, and had no grand
schemes OF internal improvement to deplete
the Federal purse or stretch the stipulated
powers of Government
1t has been Proclaimed from the Senate
hall to the school house that two systems o,
"i'lllza'ion existed IN the United States-one
in the free States, Illuminating, good and
glorious in results: the other in the Slave
States,-coarse, barbarous and brulaizinp
The latter part Of this assertion is as Sian
derous and false, as i, is by the comparison
instituted, meanly insulting The white mer
of the South are Of the same race as ,hos.
OF the North; they profess the same religion
speak the same language have in thei,
houses the same luxuries and refnemenls .,
those of The North, and are noted for pen
erous hospitality. In the practice of medi