The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-05-10


. purpose have the. effect 70 Strengthen
tho loyal sentiment Of the seeded States
Will It confirm and bring to your aid the
hesitaing and doubtful, or will Il not
rather, IL that be possible. make more
desperate those now arrayed against you,
increase their power, aud bring to them
an active strength that has up to this time
kept alOOf from the strugglep Is it ex-
pedient to deprive decrepid age and help.
less infancy Of the means Of support II
we do this thing, the cry Of the widow
and the wall of the orphan will 20 up to
heaven, and the God Of the widow and
the Father Of the fatherless will say in
the stOrm-clOud: Vengeance is mine,
and | will repay, saith the Lord"
Mr.. Carlisle declares that the passage
Of this bill would be q violation Of the
nations faith rs pledged through the Elk.
ecutive and Congress. and a fraud upon
our people" and proves the correctness
Of his declaration by quotations from the
messages of the President, resolutions Of
Congress, proClaIDatioDs of Generals and
letters Of the Secretary of State. In his
inaugural address the President declared :
81 have no purpose, directly or indi.
Pectly, to interfere with the institution Of
slavery in the States where il exists.
believe have no lawful right to do SO,
and / have no. inclination to do So"
This language the President repeated
in subsequent messages to Congress-
Was the President inSincereI T5iS bill
proposes to do what be said he had mo
lawful right to do" 1t proposes what he
forbid General Fremont from doing. In
his letter to Fremont, requesting him to
modify his proclamation, he said:
al think there is great danger that the
closing paragraph, in relation to the con-
iiscatiOn Of property, and libvrating slaves
Of traiIOrOus ownerS, will alarm our South
ern Union friends, and turn them against
us-perhaps ruin our rather fair prospect
for Kentucky"
Is the danger" over? Was Fremont's
proclamation modified merely to deceive
the Southern Union" men? IfnOt why
urge upon Congress the passage of q bill
embodying the features of Fremont's dan.
gerous proclamation? We. have room
St,t Tor -pne more -e$&s e 80 HShi ~ .s>s.N-
isles admirable and unAnswerable speech :
Think you, Mr.. President, il General
Halleck and Commodore Foote. had an.
/ N0nnnaI IN th. Dans,In IF hoN
their purpose was to cOntiScaIe their prop.
erty and turn them homeless and house
less upon the world, and to free their
slaves. Nashville and GAINESVILLE would
have been ours? Would they not have
been reduced to ashes. and would not
their people have rushed with eagerneSS
to the field and arrayed themselves under
the standard Of rebellion? Pass this bill,
disregard the tears Of widowhOOd and
the cry Of orphans, visit upon the chill
dren to the third and fourth generation
the sins of the father, irnpoveriSh the wife
aud pauperize the child, as this bill pro-
posses to do and the mother, instead Of
taking upon her knee her lisping babe to
instIll into his infant mind sentiments of
love for his country and gratitude for its
beniticence, will cause her child to kneel
by her side aud swear undying hate and
eternal hostility to the Government that
took from her the means Of support, and
turned mother and child beggars upon
the world. Pass this bill, and interlnina-
BILE, never ending war will be the result"
McDougall, Latham, NeSmith and
Stark--every conserva tive member OF
COngress-all who revere the Constitu-
ton and desire to see the Union restored
as our fathers msde it, are opposed to the
measure. Bat it will pass. The same
Congress that abolished slavery in the
District of Columbia, will pass this bill.