The Placer herald., 1862-08-30
Forest Hill Correspondence.
FoREsr Hill, Aua. %, 1862.

| "'"Po', Sot'e vi tho AooiillOu lies tuat are So
widely and cunningly circulated, to the Diet.
ri'nent of our party and its principles. Es
pecially does it behoove the naturalized citi
zen to scan closely the sentiments of party
who in former days would subject them to
an oppression far more CALLING and humiIia
ting than it is in the power of any European
despot to inflct, but who now declare them
selves the champions Of their rights Every
abolition stumper now days has n crumb of
comfort for the oppressed Irishman. deplore
his condition and curse the causes English
law.) that brought him wanderer and exile
to this free country. In their exalted views
of human freedom they don't forget the poor
German refugee, who fled from CONSUMPTION
and the mandates of despot--,o find i'm
pressment in this free land. In the pages of
French history they find every thing to com.
mend, and glory in the pomp and achieve
ments of that great nation.
Even the phlrgma,ic Englishman who was
looked upon heretofore as a block which no
hewng could shape, is instantly moulded
into human form. possessed of all the mem
tai and intellectual faculties which our race
is susceptible OF. And even the negro and
digger Indian, were it not for a certain stat
ute law, would be considered as the very es
sence of all that goes to make up the citi
zen-,he equal, If not Gas in some ins,ances)
the superior of the white race. This they
call philan hrophy, but it is false. 1t springs
not from the pure fountain Of the heaIt but
from a corrupt inclination to acquire office,
tramp!e upon ali natural laws, which should
be observed by rational beings, and are as
plain and rs mmutabe as the source of
our creation. The burden of their song is
that "all men are created equal" which is
correct quotation from our declaration of
rights. The neglo being created as well as
the white man, it follows (accorling to their
construction he must he their equal, entitled
to the same immuni,ies and privileges
They may find out yet to their sorrow that
in their unnatural love for the niger, they
forget they are white men themselves. Their
whole affection is centered in the darkey and
oppressed Europeans former especially.
How it came they took such liking to the
latter puzzles me.
About Two years ago a scion of royalty,
and heir apparent TO the British throne, con
descended to pay this country visit lie
was met on our coast line by men claiming
to be representatives of America with nm ab
ject servilude, and inherent baseness, worthy
the emulation of the most renowned Euro
pean hunkies. The ovations, dinners, and
balls, the cost of which | cannot estimate,
rendered to this young man-the lineal de.
scendant of the tyrant who tried with all
the power at his command to crush out and
nip in the bud the first ray Of freedom that
| had Lr,, t>r
enough to make patriots doubt the porpetu,
| itv of our institutions. There was one how.
ever who would not kiss the hand that smo,e
him. For not obeying an unathoritive but
perelnptory order to turn out on a certain
day to pay homage to the prosecutor of his
race. Michael Corcoran was court martaed.
The farce of court martial was progressing
when the civil war broke out. Instantly the
indictment was quashed, the counts were with
drawn and Corcoran was at full liberty dies
pite the prejudice OF Albert Edward, and his
reinne Of toadies, to raise a regiment OF
men and fight like a soldier at Bulls Run
Tn" Republicans seem to have great deal
of spare sympathy for Col. Corcoran just
nowI But in their haste TO do him justice
they are not forge,fu of the merits of Maj.
General Banks-the Union Slider" Ills
services while Governor Of Massachusetts in
tanningthe flame of Abolitionism, tngender-
ING hatred between native and foreign born
citizens, and between the North and the
South, are facts still fresh in the minds of
men. Especially, and wildly, do lrshmen
recollect and feel the degradation they were
subject TO in that Comm onwealth not many
wears since. Their militia organization dis
banded, and stripped Of their arms like n
band OF felons they have had ample time to
ponder over the beauties and bIess Ss of
Repnbliranism 1t was in that State Aboli
tionsm and Know Nothingism first raised
their piebald heads, from which sprung Re
publicanisln, combining in its construction
The dark and negro-loving principles of the
former with many of The exclusive and re-
pulsve elements Of the latter. 1t is this pari
ty foreign horn citizens are invoked 10 join.
1t is to this party The Abolition organs, by a
species of intimidation unknown before, are
striving to corral The nauralized citizen.
1t is no later than last week p Lynch, Ed'
ior Of the Placer Courier, and ex member
Of the Legislature, man whom the democ
racy brought into life, and nursed to matnr'
ity, to find him >iper-who in 1858. was
the great and elect Of the democracy of this
coun,y-but to abuse and vlify it now gave
lecture through his paper, on the duties OF
the natulalized citizen at the coming elec.
ton. BY u sort of logic and reasoning Pc
culiar to himself he concludes that any for
cign born citizen, who votes the democratic
ticket, is guilty Of a fragrant violation Of his
oath of allegiance lie don't deny there is
such doctrine as States Rights, but the
foreigner has no right to think such doc.
,rine does or ever did exist. Their duty is
plain, (according to this fellow join his par
ty and vote their icket-when they do that
~ lovaItv ;s ionoI From Tho au1a, !