The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-10-25
Some Mistakes of the North.

!. To 'alienate one portion of the Un
ion from the other by preaching 'an ire
pressible conflict
2. To form party based on q geogra.
phical line and hostile to one bnA6 OS sbt
Union, and pledged to the ultimate ex.
/ tinction' of their State institutions.
3. 10 set up party platform above the
! Constitution and the Union, and refuse all
propositions Of adjustment and paciiica.
ton offered and urged by the best patriots
North and South.
4. To believe the Republican party, in
stead of Washington and jefferson, when
told that such policy would not end in
disuniOn and civil war.
5. TO believe Seward that all would be
right in sixty DAYS
6. To believe al ks Republican papers
and orators, that the election of Lincoln
would quiet the country and stop the agi-
tation of the slavery question:
Z. To believe the Wide Awakes when
told that they would go down and wipe
EN- out
8. To suppose ta@t7 IS, 900 three months
volunteers would cause the rebels to re-
tire to their homes in twenty days
8. To believe General Scott'S anacon-
da' would squash the rebellion in eleven
months.
10. 10 believe Mcclellan that the war
would be Short but terrible
II. To believe the rebels would he
starved out, had no arms, no clothing and
no money.
u. 10 believe the rebels could not raise
as mauy troops as three of the Northern
States
13. To believe it would take one half
to stay Mt home aud keep the slaves from
rising
II. To believe slavery to be maga-
zine which only needed to be touched with
an Abolition match to explode the whole
South.
Is. TO believe there was Union SEN
timent South which, with the presence of
an army, would upset the rebellion and
bring back every State
16. To believe that Black Republican.
ism, undiluted, unrecanted, unrebuked,
but rather sanctified and endorsed by
Democrats, would ever allow n single VIC
wi w lOt III GNlOu VI Wdhc
up Union sentiment.
II. To think that gunboats, bayoncts,
bullets and shells would do, unaccompa-
nicd by Constitutional and Union princi-
pies.
18. To believe Republicans when vo-
ting for Crittenden's resolution, that this
war would not be waged in any spirit of
oppression or for any purpose of conquest
or suhjugation, or for the purpose of inter-
fcring with the institutions oF States, but
to restore the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton and the Union, with all the rights,
the dignity, and equality Of the States un-
impaired
~. To believe that the rights or equal
ity of States, ever had any Sacredness
with men who from the beginning have
shown more interest in abolishing slavery
than in preserving either Union or Con-
stitution.
20. 10 believe that Stephen A. Douglas
was wrong when he said war was eternal
separation and right when he urged war
10 prevent separation.
81. To believe that radical Republicans
now are or ever were for the Union.
%. To believe they now have or ever
had any object higher than the Abolition
OF slavery.
23. To believe the Constitution can be
preserved by violating it.
"a. TO suppose that 100000 of people
can be held by force loyal to government
hostile to their institutions.
%. To believe that this, if possible,
would not be an overthrow OF our Repub-
lican form OF government
26. TO expect to save the Union by
the same principles which destroyed it.
%. To expect peace, good will, fricasc..
ship and fraternity. by continuing the
policy which produced strife, discord, ha-
tired and civil war. -
At cost of nearly one thousand mill
ions of dollars we have learned nearly all
of these twcnty-seven mistakes to he such.
We have followed the authors of the ire
pressible conflict wherever they have led
so far, until we have not only destroyed
the Union, but by trying to retrieve their
errors with tine sword, have almost ruined
the North. Now, at this very crisis, is it
not fitting time to foot up the columns and
see what we have gained, and whether it
will pay to go it blind any longer? We
are nowetold to 'arm the negroes and all
will be we'll If we are to Judge the fu-
ture by the past, we may expect soon to
record this as mistake number %. AS an
humble citizen, in the same boat with nv
fellow citizens, and having the same inter-
eSts, do most solemnly protest against