The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-06-28
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attention from their own reasonable re
cord. A reference to the speeches -anC
writings of their own leaders and Lress
will prove, beyond the power Of succeSsfu
contradiction, that they, and not the De
nocracy, were the advocates and defend
crs Of Secession, and likewise provoke eC
and abetted Disunion. We give portion
of the black and damning record fron
their own lips and hands to substantiatt
OuT charge.
In the House of Representatives, Jan.
uary II, ls4s, Abraham Lincoln, then q
member RON AM,MoIs, ,soa,a ....
Any people, anywhere, being inclined
/ AVID having the power, have the right e
rise up aNd shake Oh the existing govern.
BeDf, Snd form q Hts.>JssU T25af fsuits then
better. This is most valuable, a most
sacred right-a right which, we hope and
believe, is to liberate the world. Nor j.
this right confined to cases in which the
whole people of government may choose
to exercise it. AHy portion of such peo-
pie that can, may revolutionize, and make
their OrR Of so much Of the Territory as
they inhabit. More than this, majority
Of any portion Of such people may revo-
lutiOnize, putting down a minority inter
mingled with, or near about them, who
may oppose their movement. 1t is quail
ity Of revolution not to go by old lines or
old laws; but to break up both and make
new ones.
November I8,s 1860. the New York
Tribune, speaking Of the secession Of
South Carolina said:
The right to secede may be revolu-
tionary one, but it exists nevertheless; and
we do not see how one party can have a
right to DO what another party has the
right to prevent We must ever resist the
asserted right Of any State TO remain in
the Union and nuhty or defy the laws
thereof: to Withdraw from the Union is
quite another matter. And whenever a
considerable section of our Union shall
deliberately rrSOlVrtO 20 Out. re ShdU re-
sist all cOeicire measures designed to keep
1t in. We hope never to live in Repub-
lie whereof one section is pinned to the
residue by bayonets.
The following is from the San Francisco
Alta Administration paper] of Decem-
Der, 1860:
The States are sovereign and have le-
gal right-evrn without moral right, for
the two are entirely diStinct-to tedre tie
Union erhen they see tit. They owe no
explanation to anybody. There can be
no judge or no umpire or final authority
to dcciuc what is proper ground for seceS'
sion, save the will Of each individual State.
And again, in subsequent number:
If the Cotton States desire to secede,
let them do SO. Under our form Of gov.
crnment the riyht ot seceSsiOn is SOcereiyA
aud complete. 1t is nothing more than
the right Of one partner to retire from the
firm when things are not going on 10 his
satisfaction. Let them go, then, we say
III peace.
This also, from the S. F. Times, then
the organ of the Republican party of this
State, in December, 1860:
The policy Of keeping a State in the
Union against her will, and at the expense
of war and boodshed, is another question
We deprecate the policy, and We doubt
also whether the game would pay for the
powder. IL would be better to part, and
for each section to work out its own fu.
ture good or i'll.
The San Francisco Bulletin, another
Administration organ, said:
The idea Of Goercing the SecederS back
into the Union by force of arms cannot be
entertained by any sane man. To begin
war for such purpose would not only
be the height Of wicked stupidity, but
would be perfectly barren Of the promised
result A few iBen in the heat Of passion
may urge coercion now, out when the cool
second thought comes, bloodshed will be
condemned everywhere and by everybody.
So much for the present to show the
former Secession proclivities Of Mr.. Lin
coin himself, aud the quite recent indorse-
ment and defence of it by his followers
Lcb uS uOh tuiu W luS AOOhhOh1 NSSiV
Equality, and Disunion record of the
President and his chosen cOunSelols, his
party leaders aud followers.
Mr.. Lincoln said in speech at Cincin-
natl, May G, 1912:
True Democracy makes no inquiry
about the color of the skin. regard,
therefore, the exclusion of the colored
people, as body, from the elective fran
chisc as incompatible with true Democrat
ic principles.
In speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858
Mr.. Lincoln uttered the following:
| i'll were in Congress, and vote should
come up on question: WGetfitT slavery
should be prohibited in new Territory,
in spite Of the Dred Scott decision, l would
vote that it should.
Mr.. Seward, in the U. S. Senate, Janu-
airy 80, 1850, said;
am in favor of the equality Of men
Of all men-whether they are born in one
land or another.
Again, in speech at Cleveland, he re.
marked
1t [slavery] can be, and it must be, abol-
ished, and you and l can and must do it.
And again, he said:
The party of Freedom seeks complete
and universal emancipation.
Correct your own error, that slavery has
any constitutional guarantee which may
not be released, aud ought not to be relin-
quished.
In 1868, Mr. Chase, then an U. S. Sen
ator, and now Secretary of the Treasury,
declared:
In swearinOto support the Constitution,
| would make mental reservation Of all
those clauses protecting slavery, and l
would rather commit perjury than give
any assistance to the execution Of such
provisions. -
Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts,, af-
ter the passage of the Fugitive Slave law,