The Placer herald., 1862-07-05
Col. Sam. Medary.

This veteran Democratic editor, of Ohio,
is doing noble service in the good cause Of
the Union and the Constitution. The last
number of the Crisis is brim full of ab ly
written and convincing articles in behalf OF
the Democracy. The old chief scor es the
Administration and the Republican party
right and left. He deals his blows with the
vigor of an intellectual giant that be is.
Well done, noble old patriot! Alas, poor
country, thvt there are not more such patri
OTIS than there are in these times of gloom
and peril! We copy below an extract, from
an article in the Crisis, in reply to the lying
and malicious ISLANDERS of the Republican
"Union hypocrites whose stock'in trade con,
ssts in their idiotic slang about "dislovalty,"
"treason," ''secessonism," &c, &c. We
commend the extract to the "thinskinned"
Democrats in this State, who have discover
ed so much beauty and patriotism in Black
Republicanism, rs to cause them to abandon
the Democratic party and its faith; and join
with our country's enemies in the infamous
work of vllifying and msrepresenting the
political party and princip pies of Jefferson and
Jackson:
1--WE say just here, as it may be Of servi ce
to gentry that they should know it, and know
it now. You said we were secessionist
and disunlonist. We proved in each num-.
der Of our paper that you lied, not by boast
ing and assertion, but by your acts and la
bors. We shall now, having arrived at the
point to which we have called your attention,
without ceasing, show you still further, viz,
that oursef and those who thought and act
ell with us were the only Union men--lhe
only men who at heart desired the restora-
ton of the Union with all the constitutional
D, wers, and the States with all their rights
and independence, just as they were when
our fathers gave them, and just AS they were
before this sectional strife eliminated in di.
vision and civil war.
Can our opponents place themselves on
such grounds-it they cannot, it will not take
much argument to prove their Unonism was
only sham, that they were sailing under
false colors, and that they were AT heart dis
unlonists, when they were charging 5" freely
upon others and they were ''dlsIo, AL" We
may differ about terms possihly-we are not
fully posi- ed on the technical meaning in a
Republic or Democracy Of the word loyal.
1t is of too doubtful application. You may
he loyal to King, an Emperor, the person
of leading polilibiaa, President, or what
not Some go SO far as to declare themseh
YES "loyalisls' We are not a loyalist that
is cerlaln-never were, never expect to be.
We are for our country, its Constitution and
the Union of the States and th, rights of
the States as they existed under the Consli
tuition We claim, therefore to be Demo
crat as known and accepted by Mr.. Jefferson
and the party which elected and sustained
him. That is what we are now, always were
from cur cradle up, and always expect to be.
The DIFrEHENCE The democracy say,
restore the Union support the Consttu'ion
support the laws and he just TO all sections.
Aboliionists cry, destroy slavery" To
Democrats the government that made the
nation and protects 30,0O0,000 of white
people, is Of infinitely more consequence
than he crude theories of the Abolitonis;s
for the benefits Of 100000 black nen--
heories of men who have no practical
knowledge of whose welfare they seek to pro
mote The difference between The two parl
ties is marked, asly understood, aud OF a
character worthy of consideration. In a
short time the people will be called upon to
choose between them, and on their choire
depends the perpetuity or destruction Of the
Uuion Mountain Democrat.