The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1861-06-08
Tn. OBJECT. ana Limit. Of the war.

York, which enthusiastically supported
Douglas for the Presidency, in the last
campaign, has an excellent article from
which we take the following extracts:
ave receive from many quarters letters
from conservative citizens. who have taken
alarm at the attempt of the Abolition
press to ilc:tify the war with their cause,
and who ask us If such is indeed the OBJ
ject for which they are sacrificing their
money and the lives of their kindred?
"a distinguished Democrat Of Western
New York cnclo>es to us the following
handful, which had been sent to him by
a clergyman of Boston, who says they
are freely posted up in that city. our
correspondent asks: .Arewc, Democrats,
subscribing money and sending our suns
to vindictvc war against the South and
her institutions? war to be guided and
controlled by Boston AbolitioniS;s?'"
We copy the handful below:
CONDITIONS OF rEACE REQUIRED OF THE
sO-CALLED Seeded STATES.
ARrutE |. Unconditional submission
to the Government of the United States.
ART. ,. To deliver up ONE HUNDRED Of
the ARCH TRaIroEs, To be HING.
ART. 3. To put on record the names of
all others who have been traitorouS to the
Government, who shall be held infamous
and diSfranchiSrd forever.
Art. /. The property Of all traitors to
be conliScatcd, TO pay the damage,
ART. ). The seeded States to pay all
the balance n the expense, and restore
the stolen property.
ART. 6. The payment Of all debts due
to NortherncrS, and indemnity for all in
digniticS to person., loss Of time, life and
property.
ART Z. The removal Of the cause Of all
our difficulties, which can only bc done
bv the immediate and unconditional Abo-
liiion Of Slavery.
ART. 8. Until full compliance with all
the above terms, the s0.called Seeded
States to be held and governed as United
States Territory.
The above is the least that an indignant
people will accept, outraged as they have
been BY the toule>t, most heinouS and
: gigantic instance OF crime recorded in
history.
! ave attach some importance" con-
times the irguS, Ito this evidently Adolf
ton attempt to characterize the objects Of
the war, andwe see the Boston Transcript,
a paper called conservative among the
Black Republican journals Of that section,
joins in the cry to turn this war, COM
menccl ostensibly for the protection of
Washington, into an abolition crusade for
the suhjugation of the South and the lib.
Grafton Of slaves.
THAT Democrats are the trueSt of all
friends of the Union; that they have no
sympathics withany, North or South, who
wage war in any form against the Union, we
all understand. But are we Democrats to
support war Of coercion upon the South
ern States? VIII thathelp save the Unior!
Will it have that effect forcibly TO re.
possess the forts, places aud property
which have been seized from the Union ?"
We do not question the right to do so,
but under existing circumstances, is it en-
pedient, and will it tend tn preserve or to
destroy the Union? No man who attends
to what is before him can fail to see that
this war is to be carried on, if the power
and causes hold out, to snbduc the South,
to reduce them to subjection-if not, of
what use is it "tO repossrSs the forts,
places and property which have been
seized from the Union: 2" Shall Demo.
Gratis uphold such war? Can such a
war be successful? And if it be, what
shall we do with the subject States when
We get them?
1T is all very we'll to talk about de-
Tending the Capital, of vindicating our
flag and all that sort of thing. But the
war policy Of this Administration may,
and probably does, include things which
National Democrats cannot approve, and
they should be careful not to commit
themselves TO them. If we may judge
them by their acts there is reason for sus.
tpecting they arc not so anxious to pre-.
serve the Union as they might be. Else
why did they not conciliate the Border
States Why reject the Crittenden
amendments p? Why say they will yield
not an inch? Whatever the Administra-
ton may mean, no one can doubt that
there is a party behind them goading
them on, who mean the Addition of
slavery at the point Of the bayonet,
by means Of scrvile instructions,
&c. This is shadowed forth in the hand
bill, in the leading Republican press, and
preached from the pulpit, and is taxing
hold on the Northern mind. Would such
men as Gov. Andrews, would any man
who approved Of the John Brown raid,
hesitate at such war policy? And is it
impossible that Seward and Lincoln may
see in the elimination Of the irrcpressi-
BILE conflict! Now shall Democrats not
be cautious how they give force and mo-
mentum to a war policy with such pos,
sible tendency?
1.-THE Democratic party must maintain
its organization. There never was great
er use for that party than now. We are
involved in war. We must conduct it to
an honorable issue. The Democratic
party must do it, and it is capable of all
/ the efforts and all the sacrifices the crisis