The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-05-03

ftuUSaAuNty @Nu&b UGS pOVGftY 4uu tuo E9Ct
that she had Once provided for its payment
are no excusss-t that she agrced to receive
Mr.. Slidell as Minister PlenipOtentiary,
(thOugh she did ROt) and then e revOlu-
ton having meantime OccurTed) refused
to do it-and what miserable apologies are
they all for invading her. unQuestiOned
Territory, and slaughtoribg her feeble,
barbarOus, wretchedly armed people ~
The Wing Convention Of Massachusetts,,
September 99th, ls47, passed the follow.
ing resolution
ResOlred, That the great and perma-
nent interests Of the American Union. as
il is, and the brightest and highest hopes
Of liberties end the rights Of our race on
the American continent, require Of the
great North American Republic to stay
her hands, already too deeply stained in
blood shed in THIS UNNATURAL WAR
between the two great Republics of this
continent"
On the 18th Of February, Hon. Thomas
Corwin, Of Ohio, now Mr.. LincOln's Min
lister to Mexico, in speech in the Senate,
said:
"One hundred millions Of dollars will
be wasted in this FRUITLESS WAR
HAD this money of the people been ex-
pended in making q railroad from your
Northern Lakes TO the Pacific, as one Of
your citizens has begged Of you in vain,
you would have made highway for the
world between Asia and Europe. Your
eaPital thea would have bUeR withiR 80 or
40 days travel Of any aud every point on
the maPs6F the civilized world. Through
this great artery Of trade, you would have
carried through the great heart Of your
OSE 1C%atry thS tssS of Cbina, 'ESsI -
~,p,>,>s - +S,ss..A, ~ lOs VssNNeysO, nmgiann
and France. Why, why Mr. President,
did We abandon the enterprise Of Peace,
and betake ourselves to the BARBARoUs
Gehievements Of Var!
elf ] were . Mexican, l would tell you
have you not room in your own coun-
tryr II you come into mine, we wifi
greet you with BLOODY HANDS, AND
WELCOME YOU TO HOSPITABLE
GRAVES"
Mr.. Horace Greeley, the present fierce
advocate for uncOmpromising war upon
the Southern States, wrote letter to q
friend dated Oct. LIST, 1851, in which he
gave his reasons at length to the question
"Why am Wing" In the course Of
it occurs the following:
mo repzaacA has hcea 7sG-n c0ws7On-
lly applied 10 the Wing party by its enc
mics than that Of being peace party,
and of taking the side of the enemy; and
nothing could he said which, rightly re-
garded, rebounds more to its praise. 1t is
easy and popular, in case of international
disputes, to take extreme grounds, to in
siSt on all the points which favor our own
country, and slur over those which make
for an antagonist to rouse the dogs
of war, aud cry havoc amidst the shouts
of excited and ddD.iring muLtitudeS. But
to urge that there is another side to the
picture, which also demands consideration
that men are not necessarily demons be-
cause they live across river or speak a
different language from ourselvcs-that
we have not only endured wrong but done
wrong, and that the claims put forth IN
our behalf arc beyond the measure Of JUS
tice-this is not the way to win huZzas
nor elections, yet it is the course often
dictated by stern duty and genuine pGtri-
0tisn1.
Honor, then, to the party which has
repeatedly dared to stem the mad torrent
Of revenge and lust Of conquest, and to
receive in its own bosom the darts aimed
at foreign peoples, States and nations, and
calculated to stir up revengeful passions
in their breasts in return! BLESSED
ARE THE PEACEMAKERS,' and blessed
also are they who, for half a century, have
stood forth the unshrinking antagonists OF
Aggression and WAR!"
VIEWS ON SLAVERY.
1t is too clear for dispute that the en-
shaved African race were not intended to
be included, aud formed no part of the
people who framed and adopted the Decla-
ration OF independence for if the Ian
guage, as understood at that day, would
embrace them, the conduct of the distin-
guished men who framed it, would have
been utterly and fiagrantly inconsistent
with the principle. they asserted; and in
stead Of the sympathy Of mankind, to
which they SO confidently appealed, they
would have deserved and received univer-
sal rebuke and reprobation. CHIEF Jus.
tice fancy.
hold that a negro is not and never
ought to be citizen Of the United States.
| hold that this Government was made on
the WHITE BASIS, by white men, for
the benefit Of WHITE MEN aud their
POSTERITY FOREVER, and should be
administered by white men and none 9th.
ORC \
The sig1ers of the Declaration Of indie.
pendence had no reference to the negro
whatever when they declared all men to
be created equal. \ If they had
they were bound as honest men, that day
and that hour, to have put their negroes
on an equality with themselves. Hon.
Stephen A. Douglas IN Debates With Lin.
coin.
There cannot and there never will be
peace again in what once formed the Uni
ted States, as long as slavery exists in the
South. This is the decree Of God himself
who has declared an eternal antagonism
between right and wrong Harrisburg
(Pa.) TeLe9rapA--LincOtn's Organ, The
Editor Of sohich is Postmaster.
To talk of peace. therefore, as long a.
sLaUery crisis on this continent, in con.
junction with freedom, is both foolish and
impracticable 10.
If We intend to be free, the sooner we
60 to work to overthrow and Danish the
institution of slavery, the longer our free
dom will last, and the nobler it will be-
come !ll-I6.
IN the case of the alternative being pre-
sented, Of q continuance Of slGUerg or a
dissolution of the Union, AM FOR DIS
SOLUTION; and care not how quick it
comes.-Judge Rufus p. SpGMing, Re
publican candidate for o. S. Senator in
Ohio.
When the power of making laws and
the power of executing them are united in
the same person, or in the same body OF
magistrates, there can be no liberty, be.
cause apprehensions may arise, lest the
same monarch or senate should enact ty-
rannical laws, to execute them in tyran-