The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1862-12-13
Marching On.

,ce in the S. f. Bulletin in which the
writer endeavors to prove beyond question
that though the action of the Administration
is slow and The advance Of ths army almost
imperceplible, we are nevertheless progress.
ing in the work Of restoring the Union.
There is nothing remarkable in the paper
and we only notice it because it is sugges-
tive of the kind of pap upon which the
people have been fed since April 1861.
Either this Administration and its support.
ers do not comprehend the mighty events
that are transporting about them, or they are
endeavoring by combined action, and sys
temstic concerted lying to deceive the
people. Considering the fact, that the
freedom of speech and of the press have
been utterly disr'garded by them, we are
inclined to believe the latter proposition
true. The telegraph is under Federal CEN
sorship-you get nothing through that
source but what the Adminis,rai ion chooses
to permit. If n newspaper speaks forth the
words of truth and soberness, the use Of the
mails and of The Express are denied to it
thereafter. There is a ban upon truth-its
utterance is treason--it is destructive of the
powers Of the Administration and encourages
rebellion. He who would thrive must bend
the plant knee,-must become time ser
ver,-must prattle and lie,-must repeat
and ierate and reiterata what he knows to
be false. These are the requsitions Of
Iowa! C) men and loyal C) newspapers.
Before March. 1861, Mr.. Seward assured
the people of New York in the most posi-
tive terms, that no rebellion should take
place-tl,at the storm which sensible men
saw impending was false alarm. Mr. Lin.
coin proposed to quell it (,he rebelIion) by
a paper proclamation ordering the rebels
to dispense with in twenty days After the
reduction of Fort Sumter. seventy five thou.
sand men would do the job, sure. Be
cause, said they, there is great Union
sentiment in the South, and these troops
will overawe the little clique Of Office holders
| hat were pretending to represent the South.
Any one who gave expression 20 doubts upon
any of these propositions. as they were AM
nounced and became the order Of the day,
was at once denounced as traitor in sym
palhy with rebellion. We were "marrhing
on" they said-and there could he no doubt
OF it.
At that time Kentucky, Tennessee. Arkan.
sas, Missouri and Western Virginia were
warmly attached to the Union. Maryland
could be trusted Now all these States
must be held by military power, or off
they 90 to rebedom, and vet forsoo,h, we
are "marching on" July '6I came and
with it the great disaster of Bull Run. This
ION to Richmond" policy of ending the
rebellion in sixty days, was given up, and
one might speak Of the Anaconda as a fail.
ure, without mourning the penalty of treason.
Three hundre thousand men were put in
the field, and whosoever doubted that this
force wculd crush out rebellion was certainly
in league with the jeff Davis Government.
We captured some of the Southern sea-
coast, pierced Missouri, Tennessee and Loui.
siana. An opportunity was given to the
Union sentiment" Of the South to deve'
ope itself, but 10! the people were barbar
ously ignorant, and the friends of the Adj.
mnistla,ou began to talk treason:-to say
there WAS no Union sentiment in the South.
Ye, we were "marching on
Gen. Mcclellan WAS placed in command
Of a great army about Washington, and
was the object of the most fulsome a.uaion
Whoever refused to fall down aud worship
this second Napoleon, was certainly
traitor. Now these same tlalterers denounce
~ in the most abusive and unjust manner
L.. we are "marchng on" and have
got Burnside, who ia his turn will 90 to
the gull tine.
When the army was moving up the Pen
insua towards Richmond, no one was
allowed to express doubts of its success.
Nay was step by step proclaimed success
ful--even to the retreat upon James River.
That very retreat was made to appear a
great stratgetic move, by which Richmond
was placed within easy grasp. These lying
time serving politicians and papers proclaim
ed that we were marching on" At last
the army broke up for withdrawal and
then the terrible truth burst upon the connl
try, that all these assurances of success were
false and tie campaign a failure. Now these
double tongued creatures will not do justice
to the brave men of that gallant army,
Alb. yes, we are "marching on"-eighteen
months Of war to crush out what was de
clared an insignificant rebellion, and within
the past three months, the States of Mary,
land and Pennsylvania. have been invaded
and during the whole of the time, periodical
cries have been raised TO 'save the Capital"
We have "broken the backbone of rebel
lion" several times, but the monster rises
before US again and again, more erectly, and
sturdy in form than ever. We have the free
run of the SEAS and the ear of every Court
in Europe, and yet The rebels are destroying
our shipping, and we have the best evidence
from the reports Of honest men, that we
have lost caste abroad, whilst the South has
more than correspondingly gained.
Let the truth be spoken, the people are
getting tired Of these time servers,--we are
not marching on. The policy OF the admin
stration has been such as to drive step by