The Placer herald., 1862-09-13
Tue PLACER HER AID
AUBURN, SEPTEMBER 10, 1862.
Slavery the Cause Of the War.

This is the old song, set to new music. For
thirty years the luuatics Of the North have been
harping upon the unchrison horrors, and the
political impolcy of slavery in the Sonth.
They have divided churches, political parties,
and society at large by their constant clamor at
this proposition Lastly, they have educated
generation to this idea and these have seized the
rcins of government, and broken the tastnnngs
that bound the States in harmonious union. In
the States where these ideas taught there
were no slaves there they exercised the right in
herent in every political body possessing sovcr-
egnty.-they regulated their domestic nstitu-
tons to suit themselves without let or hinder
ance from any source.
Believing slavery unsuited to their wants. they
abolished it. never adopted t.s
Thus far they could rightfully go. but the spir-
it of ianacism and bigotry had become chronic.
and they fell upon the insane dogma, that they
were the conscience keepers. aud the political die
tators OF other people. They declared it to be
the duty of the people of the Southern States
to abolish slavery, and TO bestoW upon their slaves
the political status that they (the masters) enjoy
ed. They were no more responsible for. and had
no more to do with framing the domestic affairs
OF these slave states than those of Brazil or the
East Indies, but because the people of the South
would not conform to their unwarrantable and
prcpostcrous demands, they declared for 1.-The
irrepressiblc conflict Mr. Lincoln asserted the
nation could not exist half slave and half free
Mr.. Seward in lS4S in addressing from the stump.
the people Of Cleavand Ohio, declared slavery
can he limited, it can be ameliorated, 1t can be
and must be abolished. and gou and can and
must ito it, He said in the Senate. in 1860, II
think it wrong to hold men in bondage at any
time and under any circumstances hinh it
right and Just. therefore, TO abolish siagery
,rhen hare the poteer at any time, at all times
under any circumstances abolish slavery"
was the watchword oil this party. aud they dcclar-
al o a al
that object accomplished. And step by step
this conflict has gone on, until now it has been
eliminated in devastating bloody war, and the
decision upon their demand, has been given to
the sword. And now thy tell US that slavery is
the cause of the war, that rebellion is the legiti-
mate fruits Of the demon slavery; that to restore
peace and unity. it is necessary to abolish it.
The confessed and covert abotionist alike, howl
it through the press and from the stump. All
who dare to dissent from their monstrous absur-
dity, are denounced traitors. Without regard
to law or authority from any source, they declare
it to be the duty of the President TO issue his
order to carry into practice the scheme.
Let us Illustrate their position: A has piece
of money in his pocket, which is his and he has
IN unquestionablc ri ght to keep it. demands
that he shall give it up. An irrepressible con
fict. eliminating in a fight, ensues and then b
declares that rs the money was the cause OF the
fight. all tie neighbors must join in and take it
from A. in order to restore peace and good tel-
ioWshiP' NO" "hat - true VI 'nc iHuN .o'.'i
man. applies with equal force to whole societies
and states of men, IT the slave is the cause OF
the war it is the aggressive Intern eddlng OF
these abolitionists that have made him so. He
quietly and conentedly worked for his master in
Mississippi. until this madness seized the brain of
John Brown in Massachusetts.
Upon the policy of making war for the porpose
of Union, democrats have been divided, but rs to
converting the war into a means ofabolshing sla-
very and wagins it for that purpose, they have in
all places and at all times been a anti in opposi-
tion. To this however the issue has at length
arrived, and now there is no cause for divided
action.
1t is not only our privilege, but sacred duty,
TO ourselves, TO our own common country, to the