The weekly Butte record., 1862-04-19
Veto of the Union Resolutions.


ranks in this State Most Of the Republicans
in the Legislature declared. by solemn resoln- /
iion. that the good of the country required the
Republican organization TO cease its existence
that party lines were obierated, and that
necessity existed only for Constitutional and
Union party.
Governor Stanford. and some other State
officers. more ultra than patriotic, desired to
veto these resolutions. and keep alive the Re
pnblican organization. Five Of the present
State officers. after arranging the matter to
snii their Purposes. addressed note to His
Whale Oil and Camphene Excelency, asking
his opinion as to WHICH would be the proper
course.-to adopt the patriotic and conserva
tive policy declared in the Union resolutions of
the Legislature. or the more ultra one Of main
tanning the organization Of the aboitionized
Republican party.
This correspondence was not originated with
view to the approval of the patriotic and con-
servative resolutions of the Legislature but for
the purpose of veloing them. and of informing
the more conservative and liberal Republicans
that they will not be permitted to give way to
feelings Of patriotism towards their country,
and of Christian fellowship towards mankind
and maintain their rank as Republicans. We
trust that those Republicans who voted for the
Union resolutions viii not exhibit the weak
ness to turn from their patriotic course at the
bidding OF this abolition Governor. Let them
continue to believe that the preservation Of the
Government. the Constitution and the Union,
is Of more consequence ihan the preservation
of sectional party. President Lincoln though,
50, when he kicked the thieving abotionis'
Cameron out of his Cabinet and supplied his
place with National Democrat.
Here, in California as in every other State
ia which the Republican party has carried the
State elections they have filed the Executive
chair with an abolitoniSt. Their leaders, those
who pulled the wires for the party, have taken
good care to nominate only ultra men for such
positions. and then to urge their election By
constitutional and Union grounds The rebels
pursued similar course prior to the secession
of the Southern States Under the name of
Democracy, they were careful to nominate no
man for Governor who was not q member of
the order Of Knights Of the Golden Circle and
sworn to carry their State out of the Union
when the time arrived for action. Thus was
this irrepressnle couh ct inaugurated bv secret
enemies of the people in both sections of the
country and thus do they seek to perpeuate
it. The rebels. by fighting for dissolution of
the Union and the abolitiouized Republican
organization, by fighting for the abolition of
slavery. The mass OF the people have seen
the deception and fraud that the Republican
organization have praciiced upon them in this
respect. and have repudaicd the Republican
organization in every State, since the com
of the war, IN which their abolition
Governors have shown their abolition hands. /
They will do il here. The fate of the Repub. /
ican party in Illinois. Connecticut Pennsylva. /
MIA. Ohio and Rhode Island. will be their fate /
here if the manifesto of Governor Stanford /
shall be adhered 10.
In the Governors manifesto vetoinr the
Union resolutions. and deciding in favor of
the Republican organization, he tells his en-
quirng brother State officers " | am glad at |
all times to avow myself the uneompromistng
foe Of human slavery in every form This be-
ing the case. of course Gov Stanford is for |
continuing he present war until slavery is ex
tinguished. Shonld the Republican party fol- /
low his advice. instead of the advice of the /
Legislature, and re-organize the Republican /
party, the party viii be necessarily like its
lender and dictator The uncompromSing
foe of the institutions OF the Southern States. /
and, if endorsed by the people, the war must
go on until the South establish their coufede- +
racy, or until slavery is abolished.
Such is not the policy Of the Federal Ad- /
in conducting the war. 1t Is, +
however, the policy of such leaders in the Re /
publican ranks, as Fremont. Cameron. Sum /
ner, Hale. Lovejoy and Co, and there is no
doubt but that Gov. Stanford and his aihe- I
rents are acting under their advice in main
lainng the Republican party, and committing
it to the position of an uucompromising foe -
to the Institutions Of portion of the States of
the Union. Their object is to force the Ad-
to disr, gard the constitutional
guarantees and obligations. and become like .
them, the u'comp,OmiNag foe of insiitu-
tons yich any State has the right, under the
Federal Constitution, to adopt, if they 50 elect
1t is with no regret that We see the leaders
of the Republican organization uumask them
'elyes and demand the maintenance Of their
party organization. They have heretofore sail
ID under false colors. and can deceive the peo-
pie no farther. The Federal Administration
IS not making an uaoompgomisng war upon
the constitutional rights Of States. rhe Union
resolutions adopted by the Legislature declared
a ditftren, policy. Let Gov. Stanford and his