The Shasta courier., 1862-11-22
The :. Reconstructionu Brethren.

1t is remembered that the 1.-TWO wir,gs
exhibited, the one towards the other, in thu
late election, that they were possessed of the
most fusible properties. That little matter
about the Democracy having before thatcon
temptuously spurned and spat upon PROPOSE
tions for harmony, emanating from the Sc
cesh wing, was forgotten and forgiven in TIE
most Christian and obliging spirit. Chivalric
as ttey are supposed to be, they nathless pock,
the affronr, upon the condition, however,
that the few hungry and unappreciated Office
hunters, constituting the mortal remains Of
the defunct Democracy, should strive to for
get that ever since the Lecompton swindle,
when the giant Douglas throttled a secession
Administration and killed it, they, the secesh
flipper, had called all supporters Of that gen
tleman 'Abolitionists." The little affair that
one of these wings had been read out" of
the Democratic and had joined the rebel ranks
was likewise to be forgotten. Upon basis
as charitable as this, the fusible Cotton, the
tee:otum Latham, and all the little hungry
pack, were to join in with the conservative
Heydenfeldt and the patriotic Bolts. to the
end that the Democratic party might be re-
constructed, the "Union as it was and the
Constitution as it is" be preserved, and the
sway of the benign Buchanan, Gwin, Floyd,
&C., be perpetuated.
Owing to the rather dull comprehension of
the people of the State of California, who
failed to see it" and consequent paucity
Of votes for the ticket headed by the eminent
Sfevegerald, the prget of fusion was, at that
time, not as satisfactory as these patriotic
gentlemen had expected and desired. Contra.
ry to all calculations the SWEET ticket pre-
vailed. and both halls of the State Legislature
were crammed to the full with the bloodiest
possible minded "Abolitionists.' So far, at
any rate, the lions of the Cotton side have
found prey about as scarce as the lambs of
the Bolts and Crittenden persuasion have
found official browsing.
Wherefore another effort is needful. Both
wings would still lack an alarming number of
thousands of votes to turn out the abolition
lists" and renstate the domination of Bigler,
Weller, &C., which presents a difficulty that
has to be provided for. How is it to be done?
By what persuasive or other art are they to
do away with that ten or twelve thousand
which Mr.. SWEET received over both the war
rior Stevenson and the gospeler Fitzgerald.
g The question: as Mrs. Micawber would
say, recurs; how is it to be done?'' The
people: the dear people, the dear delightful
people seem to be stolidly tolerant of the
emancipation proclamation, and will not
arouse themselves to the danger to American
liberty that is to ensue, from setting few
millions of people free. They sturidly refuse
to understand that the Constitution confers
no right on an assailed nation to defend itself
from the greatest earthly aggression. The
result of the recent elections in the East af.
fords no special comfort, for it is well known
that over there the flexible Democracy run
open emancipation ''Abolitionists" for Con-
gress. that such success as they did achieve
in other places was owing to the aid of the
votes of admitted traitors, and that they
won d have been successful nowhere but for
the absence of about one fourth of the voting
populatio on the battle field, now engaged in
fighting foe led by one wing of the
great Democratic party. Verify it is a
gloomy prospect. The people of this State
know their rights and their power. and will
perform all of their duties, regardless of how
many a pet ambition may be upturned.