The weekly Butte record., 1862-12-27
csiiing names

party By the Democrats, and that universal
grumbling Journal, the Sacramento Union, ha:
discovered that the rebels are applying ths
same term to its party. and therefrom deducei
the fact that the Democracy must be rebel;
likewise. o sapient seeker after a sign Il
prove the disloyalty of that party which ha:
shown its patriotism to be co-exteusive with
the Constitution and Union, how you do catcl
at straws that will fail YOU when possessed
The term "abolitionist," means one who seek:
to aunul aud do away with some existing thing
and was first applied to a party in our country
who sought to annul and do away with slavery
+ That party has been fully incorporated into
the present Administration party. and has
shown itself the ruling element of that party
hence, we Democrats call the Administration
party Abolitionists." We, further, think ii
the appropriate name for the party now in
power, because it seeks 10 abolish and do away
with other things that have been of long stand
ing in our nation and country. 1t has, so far
as it can, abolished the freedom of the press
the great stumbling block to tyrants, and the
palladium of the liberties of the people. It
has abolished. not by law, but by proclama-
ton, the reserved privilege of the writ of ha
! beds corpus 1t has abolished the constitutional
right reserved to the people, of speedy and
public trial by jury upon arrest for any crime.
1t has abolished the distinctive powers of our
Government, and blended and centralized them
into one-the Executive. Ii has, so far as it
can, abolished slavery in the United States,
not by law, bat by proclamation, and IN terri
tory over which it has no power and can ex-
ercise no jurisdiction. 1t has abolished the
right of a man to receive his exchanges and
mail matter through the post-office of the na-
ton, because the paper be had published had
been prohibited the use of the mails 1t has
abolished the right of persons to assemble to
gether in political meetings and hear the ad-
dresses of public speakers who denounce this
great Abolition party, under the pretence that
such things discourage enlistments. In short,
it seeks to abolish, annul, and do away with
all of those old and revered landmarks of our
Government, which have been the pride and
boast of our freedom, and the touch-stone of
selfgovernment. Then, if we Democrats have
no good cause to call the party in power abo-
litionists there Is no appropriateness in the use
of plain English terms And to show the
stretch of the Union, in seeking TO throw
odium on the Democracy because others use
the term, look at the rebel reports and news
papers, and on almost every occasion they
term our troops Yankees. The highfalutin
Pierre Toutant Beauregard and one or two
other popiQjays use the term aboltionists as
applied to our troops; but the Democracy do
not apply it to our troops but to the political
party in power, as it has good reason to do.
THE RAp1CI. Press COVERING BEFORE THE
VERDICT OF THE People. - The Louisville
Journal thus scores certain abolition papers
who, since the election, have come out against
arbitrary arrests. 1t says:
If these papers now spoke the language of
hearty repentance, we should not say one un-
kind word of them but they seek TO throw
upon Mr. Lincoln the odium of acts which they
and their followers forced him to adopt. He
was not inclined to pursue proscriptive poll
cy toward his political opponents. They made
him do so. They filed the land with the
senseless shout of treason. They affirmed
that large party were sympathizers They
clamored for the Bastle, for spy craft and ter
roriSm. He conceded to their requests, their
threats and their pressure, for policy of Aus
trian severity. They thought such a policy
would insure success at the fall elections; but,
now that defeat has followed, they blame him
and him alone. In this they are guilty of the
meaneSt of political meanness. They display
neither the honesty of Christians nor the mag
nanimity Of gentlemen. They treat Mr.. Lin
coin as one from whom the sceptre has depart
ed, but they are mistaken. Let him respect
the Constitution and the nation will respect
him. The next Congress VIII be the real war
Congress Of the rebellion"
Big STRIKE on BRowxs FLAr.-The Sono-
ra Flag of Saturday last, says " Messrs. 4.
j. Pittman and John McCome, who have been
running tunnel on quartz vein in the hill to
he east Of Browns Flat, near where Turner
and Patterson made their big strike, some
years since struck very rich rock on Wednes-
day, Dec. 17th, and took out over $4,000.
We rejoice to chronicle their good fortune, as
they are industrious and deserving men. The
hill on which their claim is located has yielded
an immense amount of the precious metal in
times past. Turner and Patterson in 1856,
took out over thirty thousand dollars from
their claim and company of Austrians after
wards realized large fortunes in the same
locality The gold is generally found in pock-
cts of decomposed quartz, and much of it en-
tirely pure. The veins are inuumerable, which
run through the hill in many directions, and it
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