The weekly Butte record., 1862-07-05
The Politicians Circular.


" to the members of the several loyal county
committees and political organizations Of Cal
ifornia," and starts out with tie bald presump-
ton that the recent rump Republican eonven-
ton that assembled at Sacramento, was the
elimination of the uncomfortable desire of the
people to support the Government against
treason. We do not believe it. The people
Of California were Just as unanimous in con-
demning treason prior to the assembling of the
convention as they have been since. 1t would
appear TO be nearer the truth to say that il
was an effort of the Republican leaders 10
/ stigmatize all as rebels, who do not assent to
their doctrines, as the Republican press have
done since.
! That convention was the result Of the mani.
pulations of Republican politicians. The peo-
pie had nothing to do with it, further than
they had to Go with Republicanism. 1t is
time these gentlemen ceased their political
chicanery. They have practiced it during the
short period Of the existence of the Republican
party which was, and is, Northern sectional
party, until they succeeded in building up a
Southern sectional party, contrary to the ad-
vice Of the patriotic founders of the Govern
ment The defeated sectional party, as was
anticipated by the true Union men of the
country, few to arms to destroy the Govern
ment, when they found themselves defeated.
The Republican party was warned of this
result of the sectional proceedings, and affected
to despise it. judging their opposing section
by themselves, they affected to sneer at the
fears of the patriot Douglas, and denounced
him as the dirty little demagogue of Hi
nois. They held steadily on in their determi
nation to triumph with their sectional views.
Their Helpers, their Giddingses, their Carl
Schurzes, and their Cassius NJ. Clays, obtained
high places as the consequence of their tri
umph. War came. Its sorrow pervaded every
household of the land, and its devastations
have laid waste one half the extent of the
republic.
The Democracy, With the patriotic Douglas
at their head had foreseen, and labored to
avert the horrors Of war. But they shrank
not from their duty to their country, and to
constitutional government, when the folly, the
Madness and the drunken delirum of sectional
fanatics, had involved the country in civil war
The unanimity of the rank and file of the De-
mocracy in support of the Government in the
peril brought upon it by sectional parties. is
attested by the cheerfulness with which they
have sustained the flag in the field and on the
flood. That the leading spirits and heroes of
the army-those who have been instrumental
in saving the capital of the nation from being
sacked by rebels, after its treasury had been
plundered by the Republicans, are Democrats,
we need only mention the names of Mcclellan,
Haeck, Buell., Grant and Dumont All poll
teal parties, except the rebel spmpathizers
under Mcconnell in California, and the ultra,
active portion of the Republican party in the
Atlantic States, united upon the following
platform for the suppression of the rebellion,
leaving the political opinions of men to regu-
late themselves. This resolution was adopted
by Congress, with but two or three dissenting
voices. 1t may be found in the proceedings of
the extra session of 1861:
"Resolred, That the present deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country by the
disunionists of the Southern States, now in
arms around the capital; that in this national
emergency, Congress, banishing all feeling of
mere passion or resentment will recollect only
its duty to the whole country; that this war
is not waged on their part in any spirit of op-
preston, or for any purpose of conquest or
sublugation or purposes of overthrowing or in
terfering with the rights or established instiu-
tons of those States; but to defend and main
tain the supremacy Of the Constitution, aud TO
preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equal
ity, and rights of the several States unimpair-
ed and that as soon as these objects are
accomplished the war ought to cease
This platform is considered quite sufficient
for patriots, but it seems it Will not do for Re
publican politicians. 1t was opposed by Love
joy, and the Republicans have recently received
new light. Everybody was wrong but Love
joy. 1t is true that, while Lovejoy's policy
prevailed under command of Fremont in Miss
ouri, the rebels oyerrun the valley Of the Miss
issippi, and came nigh forcing Missouri out of
the Union. 1t is quite as true, that, with
Halleck in command under the above policy,
the whole valley of the Mississippi has been
swept clear of rebels and the old flag again
floats on the breeze. But it is not the Repub-
lIcan flag. Hence the distress of that party,
and the anxiety of Nathaniel Holland and AL
fred Barstow. Who ever saw the Republican
rag raised in triumph, that it was not con-
tronted with the rebel bars?
Under the patriotic and prudent policy Of
the Government, as declared above, the Re
publican party read their doom. They see
Democratic convention in Illinois. They see
Pennsylvania wheel into the Democratic line.
just as Cameron had healed the political feud
between himself and Thad. Stevens. by squan-
dering four millions of Government funds in
horse contracts. They see Democrat succeed
Cooper in Congress, from the Bucks and