The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-10-11
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| Salo speaker al hepuOllcau meeting
in San Francisco few days before the late
election, mo one doubts the loyalty Of
Republicans Not one Of them has been
arrested for treason" OF course not !;
their friends are in power and not only
permit but encourage them to preach
treason. They can advocate dissolution
of the Union, deride the Constitution and
ridicule and denounce Federal Generals,
with impunity. To arrest them for trea-
son would injure the Republican party
and breed disturbance in its ranks. In
the presence Of the President of the United
States, in the presence Of Republican Sen
ators, Wendell Phillips unblushingly de-
clared that "lor nineteen years he had
prayed for a dissolution Of the Union,"
and the traitor was not arrested, not re-
buked, but, on the contrary, was applaud
~ IN re Senate Chamber Of the United
States, the Vice President presiding, this
Republican incendiary was encouraged to
preach treason by the leaders and repre-
sentatives Of the Republican party =
Horace Greedy conspicuouSly publishes q
letter to the President Of the United States,
charging him with being " strangely and
diSGStrOuSly remiss in the dischdrge Of his
official duty :" and the President, instead
Of treating his letter With silent coDteEpPk
instead OF rebuking him for his insolence,
couNSS.s.ssS >tv& NAitd,y answ erS his letter.
Is there a man foolish emo Oh to believe
that he would have been so considerate
toward n Democrat who had publicly
made such grave charge against him?
Are all the Republicans loyal? Let US
see. The following is from the Chicago
Tribune, the leading Republican organ Of
Illinois. The editor who penued it has
not been and probably will not be arrested
for disloyal conduct. His RepublicHnism
saves him from merrited punishment:
"What means this talk about restoring
the Union as il was? There can be no
Union as it was until the ContiScation
Act is erased from the statues that's
certain. THE Union as it vas will never
bless the vision of any pro-slavcry fanatic
or Secession sympathizer. and it never
ought to. 1t is thing Of the past, hated
of every patrot, and destined never to
curse an honest people, or blot the pages
of history again. The act conhscating
the property and freeing the slaves Of
traitors will not DC repealed"
The Tribune brazenly proclaims that
the old Union the Union of our fathers,
which all true Americans love,-"is a
thing Of the past, hated Of every patriot.
and destined never to curse an honest
people, or blot the pages Of history again!
If this is not reasonable language, :"
what is it?
Cas>ius NJ. Clay, recently Minister to
Russia, and now Major General, uttered
the following language at a recent meet
ing in Washington, in the presence Of
Senators and members of the Cabinet.
Yet Clay is not arrested for discouraging
enlistments or uttering disloyal senti-
ments:
Gas for myself, never, so help me God,
will draw sword to keep the chains
upon another fellow being. Suppose,
gentlemen, that you succeed upon the
present policy what have you gained !?
Better recognize the Southern Confedera-
cy at once, and stop this etfusion Of blood,
than to continue in this ruinous policy,
or have even a restoration Of the Union
as it was"
a restoration of the Union as it was"
is Objectionable to Mr.. Clay. 1t would
be the knell of the Republican party and
force its into obscurty. Said Mr.. Con.
way, a Republican member of Congress
from Kansas:
"For one. shall not vote another dol.
lar or man for the war until it assumes a
different standing, and tends directly to
an anti-Slavery result. Millions for free
dom, but not one cent for slavery"
Conway insists upon an anti-slavery"
war, and unless the war is prosecuted to
wipe out slavery" be emphatically de-
clares he "shall not vote another dollar
or man for the war" lie does not favor
n war to "preserve the Union and enforce
the laws" but he does a war to free the
slaves of the South. Senator FessendeD,
Of Maine, another Republican, in speech
in the Senate in reply to Davis, of KeE-
lucky, said:
"As the gentleman from Kentucky has
referred to the, merely wish to say, so
far as that question is concerned; that so
long as | hold to the view to which he
has adverted, and which advanced as a
sentiment of the President, much more
desire the determination of slavery, if it
can be constitutioLally effected-as be-
lieve it can-th | do to see the Union
restored. wish to see slavery at an end
when this war shall end, if it can be con-
Stitutionally accomplished"
Governor Andrew, Horace Greeley,
Wendell Phillips, Parker PIllsbury, Josh.
ua R. Giddings, Carl Schurz and others,
declare that the old Union cannot and
should not be restored. Recolect, reader,
we have quoted above the language Of
representative men 81 the Republican
party-of tho founders and leaders and
opponents Of Republicanism-of the men
who dictate to and control their party.
Tried by true, honest, patriotic men they
would all be convicted of treason. But
the Administration, true to its supporters,
but false to the Constitution, false TO the
Union, false to justice, will not permit
their arrest and trial. Does the Admin
istration really want to restore the Union?
and if it docs, why doesn't it crush out
these vipcrs? Why does it encourage