The Placer herald., 1862-06-14
'Thirty.two Thousand Secessio onists. ;

We are constantly reminded by our Re.
publican cotemporaries that there are 32,.
900 secessionists in California; that means
all those who voted for Mcconnell in the
last State election. As many Of those men
are now in the employ Of the government,
and many others are reported as being in
the Southern army, we think they ought to
abate a bit Of those figures; but no, our
Republican neighbor speaks of the "thirty.
two thousand secessionsts in this State who
swear the Union is played out" and shout
themselves hoarse at every success of the
rebels in arms;' and alludes to these same
thirty two thousand in like manner no less
than three times in one issue of his paper
all swearing, roaring secessionists. If our
neighbor really knows this to be true, he
ought TO do something about it. Only think
Of thirty two thousand rampant secessionists.
all swearing and shouting themselves hoarse
at the same time in California, after Gen.
Wright has issued proclamation against it!
He would only have to speak to some mill
tary officer to have the thing suppressed
Is it not barely possible that our neighbor
was aborng under the same delusion that
caused honest John Falslaf to see "ten men
in buckraml"
This is fair specimen OF Republican
facts and arguments. If the diligent inquirer
should attempt to find and indivdualize
these $4,000 secessonists in California, be-
yond the fact that they voted for Mcconnell,
he probably could not find y hundred ol
them in the State. He would be told a,
San Francisco, as we were, that Stockton
was filled with Secessonists, and here he
would be told that there are nothing but
secessioniss in Los Angeles, and so on to
every settlement in the State, and would
find in the end that like the men in buckram,
they exist principally in the muddle brains
or exaggeraing propensities of those who
speak of them. That there are men in the
State who believe in the right Of secession
and sympathize with the South in their
effort to establish an independent govern
ment, is undoubtedly true, but that any
considerable portion Of the party which
voted for Mcconnell held such views is
refuted by their own platform upon which
this accusation is based. We copy the
following resolutions from that platform:
"Resolved, That the Kentucky and Vir-
ginia resolutions of 1898, referred to and
approved by us in the Cincinnati Platform,
and reaffrmed by our first resolution, are
not construed by us as being dsclaratory Of
the right of secession or any other specific
mode of redress"
"Resolved, That it is the duty Of the
State of California rs member of the Union,
to yield obedience to all constitutional acts
of Congress, and to all constitutional and
legal acts OF the Federal Executive"
In this the party declaimed the right of
secession as remedy, and acknowledged
obedience to the constitution and laws Of
the United States as a duty. This embra
ces all the requirements of a loyal citizen,
and having resolved to do this, they had an
undoubted right to express their opinions
upon any measures or policy of the govern
ment within that scope. What justice or
right is there in calling all the men who
subscribed to this platform secessionists!
1t is the unworthy device Of a party which
has no hope of sustaining itself upon its
own merits. ST.. Republican.