The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-05-24
A Funny Cell.

Committee Of Ell Dorado county," has is
sued call for Republican County Con-
vention, in which he magnanimously in
vites the people of FL Dorado County,
who are in favor Of SuS aiming the present
National Administration, and Of maintain
ing the Constitution Of the United States, "
to elect delegates to the Republican COun-
ty Convention Like faithful and duti-
full employee Of the Administration, he has
issued a call for n Republican Convention,
but the ironical language in which the
call is couched, seems to us in bad taste,
reflection on his bencfactors and calcu-
lated to wound the sensibilitieS Of the
faithful. Internationally, perhaps, he ex-
cludes tbFi1 from participating in the pri-
mary meetings and the County COnvenl
ton. lie innocently rebukes the Admin
iStratiOn fIr violating the Constitution Of
the United States" and coOlly informs
them that he is organizing a party to
maintain" it. He has read them out OF
the party and is bizvS1jfs 'robel' Reppb-
lican. At Il single bound he jumps square
upon our plattoem. BE cautious, frie"d
Rogers, else you will be called "seceS
sionist."
The Democratic party has been diStin
(guishe1 Tor lis inf xiGte adherence to the
Constitution Of the United States" and
its hostility to those who advocated a
higher law" doctrine. 1t has maintain
ed it in its purity for years. 1t opposes
the present National Administration"
because it has disregarded its compactS
in numerous instances and has almost
converted friend Rogers, if his call is put
forth in good faith. The Constitution
cannot be maintaned' by violating it.
/ Has it been violated and if SO, by
whom? five prove by the Administra-
ton, can the " Chairman IF the Republic
can Central Committee" consistently call
NPon 1.-The people Of Ell Dorado County
! to sustain the present National Admins
trat:on and maintain the Constitution of
! the United States? Every man who
suStainS the Administration ignores the
/ Constitution. The Administration and
! the Constitution are autagonlStic to
uphold the one is to put down the other.
ITO prove this, let facts be submitted to
a candid people. Senator salisbury, of
! Delaware, says: Never has there been a
! Government in the administration of
which its Constitution has been 50 often,
so violently, and so cauSele>Sly imlGacttd
in which civil liberty has been preserved
1t is this that alarms me, and it is this
that alarms the conservative everywhere.
In the language of celebrated jnlist Of
the present day, himself a son of one Of
the Trainers of the Constitution, and a de-
voted friend Of the Union, Chancellor 5.
S. Nicholas of kentucky:
THE following powers are given exclusively
to Con greSs:
81. To increase the Army.
=. To increase the Navy.
"3. To appropriate the Nation : money.
~. To regulate commerce With foreign ma
-. To regulate commerce between the
States.
&c. To- contract debt ou behalf Of the nation.
-. To suspend the writ Of hdted" c1'p"s
cite following powers are denied to both
Congress aud the President:
a. To proclaim martial law.
49,. To arrest without a legal warrant.
as. Imprisonment or other punishment
without conviction upon legal trial.
-. Punishment under &C post .t'trto or non
existing law.
-. The introduction of letters De cdchd,
bastiles, aud the midnight secret proceedings OF
the InquiSiIion.
| 80. The Introduction If exports
~. The fIvoring of some ports to the pre-
iudice at others
-. The regulation of the commerce Of a
State within ills own 'S'indS.
80. To impair the freedom of speech or OF
the press
"iu. To infringe the peoples right to keep
and To bear arms.
Ill. To make unreasonable searches and
seizures.
"l2. To prohibit emigration or require a
passport.
"i3. To dismiss the police of city in an
unprecedented Stale, aud appoint otheis in their
place
Chancellor Nicholas says: -
Here are twenty important laws or Cnnsti-
tutinnal provisions which he President Lin
coin has grossly, willfully violated His uSur-
patlnns are 81 extensive that it would narrow
the inquiry to ask what law or Constitutional
provision he las nat cioiited rather than to ask
which ne has violated or usurped upon. The
rights, the safeguards he he has taken away.
are greater, far greater, than those he has left
After reading the above Postmaster
Rogers, if he be a sincere friend of the
! Administrator, which we have no reason
to doubt, will modify his call, aud not
drive men from its support by demanding
that they shall pledge themselves to