The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-05-31

walls, the Democratic party controlled the
administration Of the general government,
and during that long period, internal
peace and prosperity r.igned throughout
the land the lives, liberty and property
Of the citizen we're secure; the liberty Of
speech, the liberty Of the press, and the
right to worship God according to the
dictates of conscience were guaranteed to
all. The Democratic party has made this
country what it was in 1860. 1t acquired
every foot Of territory that has been added
to the national dOmain-it organized aud
admitted all the new States except Kan
sas. During the administration Of the
government by the Democratic party, no
single provision of the Constitution has
been viOlated-nO reserved right Of the
States has been usurped or trampled up
On-nO citizen has been deprived Of life,
liberty, or property, without due process
Of Law. From 1850 to 1860, under Demo-
cratic rule, the country increased in materi-
al wealth from eight thousand million to
sixteen thousand million of dollars, an in
crease in prosperity, wealth, greatness
and power without precedent or parallel
in the history Of the world.
But notwithstanding all this greatness.
prosperity, wealth and power, acquired
by the people under Democratic rule, the
old enemies Of the Constitution, the mon-
archists and disunionists, continued their
assaults until geographical line was es-
tablished, which, if it could have been
made irrepealable and Constitutional,
would as effectually have divided the
Union, as if the Atlantic Ocean had rolled
between the separated States.
Mr.. Jefferson, writing about the Mis-
souri, Compromise line" vol. 4, page 1922,
says 1.-The old schism of Federal Repub-
lican mot black ! threatened nothing, be.
cause it existed in every State, and uni
ted them together by the fraternism Of
PARTY. But the coincidence Of q marked
principle, moral and political, with &C.
oSraphical line, once conceived, | feared
would never more be oblterated from the
mind that it would be recurring on eve
rs occasion, and renewing irritatiOns, I'M
I'll it would kindle such mutual moral ha-
tired, As to render separation preferable to
eternal diScord. have been among the
most sanguine in believing that our Union
would be Of long duration. | now doubt
it much, and see the event at no great
distance, and the direct consequences Of
this question not by the line which has
been confidently counted on; the laws "
nature control this; but by the Potomac,
Ohio, and Missouri. or more probably, the
Mississippi upwards to our northern
boundary. My only comfort and conf
dence is, that shall not live to see this !;
and envy not the present generation the
glory Of throwing away all the fruits OF
all their fathers sacrifices Of life and for
tune, and to render desperate the expert.
ment which was TO decide ultimately
whether man is capable Of selfgovcrn-
ment." Again, vol. 4, page 1928: -" But
this momentouS question, like tire-belI
in the night, awakened and filled me with
terror. considered it at once the death
knell Of the Union. II is hushed, indeed.
for the moment But this is a repreve
only, not final sentence. A geOgraphi
cal line, coinciding With a marked princi-
pie; moral aud political, once conceived
and held up to the angry passions Of men,
will never be oblitrrated and every new
irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
regret that I am now to die in the be-
lief that the useless sacrifice Of themselves
by the generation Of 1875, to acquire self
government and happiness to their cOun'
try, is to be thrown away by the unwiSc
and unworthy passions Of their sons, and
that my only consolation is to be that
shall not live to weep overi it"
Here We have the deliberate, well-ma-
tured opinion Of the great apostle of lib.
erty, the founder OF the Democratic party,
in relation to the danger to the Union
from the adoption Of that geographical
line, for the repeal Of which. three thou
sand and ten infdel New England preach
ers, in the name Of Almighty God, cursed
Stephen A. Douglas. The continued agi-
tation of that moral and political princi-
pie" by those iRfidel preachers, political
demagogues, and their fanaticai aud delu-
ded followers, has eliminated in the civil
war which is desolating the land and
forging the chains for the limbs Of unborn
generations of white men. whose sweat
and blood, body and soul, will be mort
gagged for all time to come to pay the in
terest on the debt which the government
is now creating. 1t must be very Plaip
! to tire mind Of every honest thinking man,
that the Abolition Republican party now
| in power, are utterly incapable Of con-
Quoting the affairs of the nation on the
principles laid down in the Constitution
that single year of their rule has broken
up our hitherto prosperous, fraternal
Union, and If not checked in their blind,
fanatical course by the stern, omnipotent
voice of an Outraged people, their work OF
destruction will render the reconstruction
of the Union impossible, and the whole
country valueless, barren waste. All,
therefore, who support the Republican
party, are in favor of a final dissolution Of
the Union, and the destruction Of the lib
erty OF white men. But all who are the
sincere friends Of the Union as it was, ad-
,,,;0;,ko.od IN The hacic of tho C0nctifn