The Placer herald., 1862-05-24
THE PLACER HERALD
AUBURN, MAY "a, 1862.
Abolitionism Openly Avowed.

Wltnln Cne DiStrlCt OF COlumola III mas aHecteu W
he the protector to some extent of the loyal slave
owner. 1t is credtable to the Republican party
to find that this last remnant of hypocracy is
being discarded and that abolitionism the real
object and intent of the eaders-is being openly
acknowledged.
We learn by telegraph that Generrl Hunter, an
officer high in the confidence of the Adminstra-
tion has issued the following proclamation:
1.-The three States of Georgia, Florida and South
Carolina. comprising the Military Department of
the South, having declared themselves no longer
under the protection of the United States, it be-
comes military duty to declare martial law
This WAS accordingly done April 25th. Slavery
and martial law in free country are altogether
incompatible. Persons in Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina. heretofore held rs slaves are
therefore declared forever free"
The more efectually to carry out the plan, we
told through the same source. that the General
is organizing negro brgades, and has directed
his officers to train contrahands in the use of
arms. The reasons given for this in the Generals
order exists in at least twelve of the slave States,
viz: having declared themselves no longer under
the protection of the United States" and We may
reasonably expect to see the same rule of practice
established in the balance Of them. as General
Hunter has prescribed for Georgia. Florida and
South Carolina.
We shall probably hear from Republican apo
logists, that it is necessity of the war that has
induced this step-but this dodge is played out.
Congress has passed law prohibiting slavery in
the territories. which was certainly not a war
necessity. 1t abolished slavery in the District Of
Columbia, peremptorily denying to the people of
the District any opportunity to vote upon the
question; and in violation of respectful protest
from the Legislature of the State of Maryland
This was not a military necessity arising out of
the war. The proposition to aid the States to
abolish negro slavery, by taxing Northern people
to pay for the slaves, was not necessity Of the
war The repeal of the law which forbds negroes
from being stage drivers or carrying the United
States mail, was not war necessity. The recog- |
milton of the negro Empire of Hayti, was not a
necessity of the war. None of the foregoing acts |
of the Republican Congress and President Lin
coin. are pretended to have grown out of the ex-
istence of o state of rebellion. They are the |
logical results OF their principles as announced at
Chicago. and rebellion and war is the necessary
result of their success at the polls in 1860, and
their tenacious adhesion to those principles, in
the face of all attempts to modify or compromise,
when assured that disunon would surely follow
such persistency. If the slave owner is disloyal
to the Government that is the reason for setting
bis negroes free; if he isl supporter of the Gov
ernment and friend of t. Eaistration, then
that is considered a strof} son why he should
lose his property. 1t is all fish that comes to
their net, and take either side of the question,
and aboltionsm is the result. They declared at
Chicago their intention to put the Government
on the side of freedom. and this is what they
meant by it. We have always understood it so,
never doubted the correctness of our understand
ing, and have ever charged it upon them. There
are persous, however, assuming to be Democrats,
devoted to the Constitution as it is, and the Union
as it was, who have apparently not been convinc-
ed that this was the leading object of the Repub
licanism of to-day. With the many facts now
before them-and particularly this move of Gen.
Hunters rs cincher there is no longer any
excuse for their blindness If they are determn-
ed to continue acting with the Administration
party, we advise them to come out like men, and
declare themselves abolitionists. and enemies OF
the Constitution and true Government of the
United States.
nounced by telegraph that the President repudi
"tes the proclamation of Genl. Hunter The Pre-
sldent' however, reserves to himself the right to
make similar order 'f at any time it shall be.
come necessary and Indispensable therefore by
no means changing the abolition tendency of the
administration which has been so strongly, time
and again, foreshadowed by numerous acts.
Tba
ton constituted about much of an American
war as the British nation cared to indulge in dur
ing THIS critical period Sac. Union.
For cool shameless impudence, considering the
source, the foregoing is equal to anything we
have ever met with. The Union had columns of
law authorities proving that the action of Wilkes
was right according to the law of nations; it ap-
proved of the endorsement by the Secretary of
the Navy, by Congress, Of the wholesale fulsome
adulation Of public meetings in the Eastern
states. OF the officers and men of San Jacinto.-
Every one who pretended to differ with it in this
view, and of the action of the administration.
was in its opinion. u secessionist traitor, and in
sympathy with Jeff. Davis; but when Great Brit
ain sent over little gunboat with demand for
Mason and Slidell, Mr. Seward was smart to give
them up, said he knew it was wrong at the start
never thought OF endorsing Wilkes action, and
the Sacramento Union got down off its high horse
-eaved and swallowed its volumes of law and its
assertion of right-like a cringing spaniel. Now
1t talks forsooth of the bluster of Britain-bab.
THE EFFECT OF A RAILRoAD.-Captain Bristow
Assessor of Township No. 10, informs us that he
assessed this season the property of teamsters
horses and wagons, who drive from Lincoln to
different parts of the Mines This is all new pro-