The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-10-04

Easesn - Wsnsses.
An he sbless piaissnsa, end puE.st pa
lslss e err es1asty hass, ct dIgsFsat
tlnsA alnsaIahsd he psspls 10 beware
ofAbolisiohia They PFsaicted What IL
triumph woald Inevitably lead 10. They
knew that lis advOcAlss were lnsidiOusly
working for 4 dissolution Of the Union.
They deprecated the feeling that sought
to array IN deadly hostility one section Of
the UniOnaguiHst the other. But in spite
Of their warnings, Abolitionism has tri-
umphed demagOgues are in power; sec
tionalists Of the Sumner and Wade and
fanatics Of the Greeley and Garrison
school, dictate the policy Of the Admins
tratiON;. and the predictions Of the old
statesmen are about being realized. Our
once happy country is "drenched in fra.
ternal blood" in order to carry out the
wild theories Of the Chicago Platform and
satisfy . sectional factiOG,
When We think, says a contemporary, Of
what crushing rebuke Daniel Webster,
were be alive, would give these men in
the free States who call themselves patri-
OTIS, but are actuated solely by their en-
nifty toward the Southern people, and hew
he would drive them from the land by his
whip Of scOrn, we wish he were alive
The stoVks defc4-- ef 'lA@ .c~ps.;"s,ti'7
was never deceived by declarations Of
UOionism nor professions a <4&s&S%sW.
he incurred the deadly hostility Of the
AbOlitiOnists Of Boston for exposing their
reasonable sentiments. He saw, in his
day, the disuOiOn tendency Of that portion
Of the old Wing party which has since al
lied itself with the Abolitionists, and
which was under the leadership Of Gree
ley, Seward, Giddings and Stevens. That
restless, intriguing. prOscriptive faction
disorganized and destroyed the old Wing
party, and it is now seeking to dismember
the Union.
In q letter written by Daniel Webster
on the 18th of March, 1862, and addressed
to bis farm-manager, John Taylor, he
says, truly and forcibly:
"There are in New Hampshire many
persons who call themselves Wings, who
are no Wings at all. and no better than
disUnionists. Any man who hesitGtes in
granting and securing to every part Of the
country its just and constitutional rights,
is an enemy to the whole country. John
Taylorl if one Of your boys should say
that he honOrs his father and mother, and
loves his brothers and sisters, but still in
sistS that one Of them shall be driven out
of the family, what can you say Of him but
this, that there is no real family love in
himf Y0p and l are farmers; we never
talk politics-Our talk is Of oxen but re-
member this: that any man who attempts
to excite one part of the country against
another, is just as wicked as he who
should attempt to get up a quarrel between
John Taylor and his neighbOr, old Mr..
John Stndborn, or his otAer neighbOr,
Capt. Burleigh, There are some animals
that live best in the fire; and there are
some men who delight in heat, smoke,
combustion, and even general conliagra'
lion. They do not .totI0aO the things that
make. for peace. They enjoy only contrO-
uersy, cOhtemtiOn and strife. HAVE NO
COMMUNION WITH SUCH PERSONS
AS NEIGHBORS OR POLITICIANS
You have no more right to say that slave
~ ought not to exist in Virginia than a
Virginian has to say that slavery ought
to exist in New Hampshire. This is a
question lett to every State to decide for
itself; and if we mean to keep the States
together, we must leave to every State
this power of deciding for ITSELF think
| never wrote you word before upon pol
itics. shall not do it again. | only say.
love your country, and your whole coun-
try and when men attempt to persuade
you to get into quUrrel with the laws OF
other States. tell them that you mean to
mind your own business, and advise them
to mind theirs"