The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1862-11-29

this glorious and majestic fabric of human
happincssf A southern orator once pre-
dicted that this epitaph would be written
some day on our tomb; "Here once -four
shed a great people, who, in seeking to give
liberty to negroes, lost their own" Alas!
it is coming true already In two short
years of struggle, despair and .desolation,
the grand pageant of American prosperity
has vanished. For many years past the
enemies of our institutions have been at
work to debauch, demoralize and overthrow
them. They set up the theory that negroes
were men like ourselves, except in color, and
therefore, it was grievous sin, and inconsis
tency moreover, to deny them the same
liberty.
Thirty years of "agitaton" has so cor
ruped the northern intellect that great
party enters the field to carry out the grand
scheme of European monarchists for the
overthrow of our institutions. If the
scheme of Pitt and Wilberforce, and Rus
SELL could be completed, and the theory Of
a single race reduced to practice, the
negroes, &r., of America, forced into inn
partial freedom, with the white citizen, then
they would have nothing to fear in the fu-
luIc, lOI WuIlo ucu SO OCpouNuCet ouu UO-
graded as to share their freedom with ne
groes, would never disturb the institutions
of the Old World. And if the Constitu'
tion should be thus perverted, and the mad
delusions of the North really potent enough
to "abolish slavery" to degrade the white
people of America into a common freedom
with negroes, there could be no hope for a
restoration of the Union, nor even Tor the
preservation Of American civilization. The
late Congress abored to create "Union"
in harmony with their vile perverson of the
Constitution, and at this moment negroes
are everywhere within its jurisdiction forced
into "impartial freedom with white men.
All distinctions founded on race are al,ol-
ished in the Federal District and in the
Territories, and if the Congress dared, they
would force Mr.. Lincoln to fill the army
with negroes to fight the people of the
South. In brief, if the men who made the
Constitution had designed to include me-
groes equally with white men, in the politi-
cal system, it could hot be possible to carry
it into practice more fully than it is now.
And if the white people of the South are to
be externinated in the conflict and new
Union built upon the basis of "impartial
freedom" or in accord with the present
construction Of the Constitution, northern
democrats still have allies in the South,
but instead Of Washington, Jefferson, Jack
son, &c, they will be their servants, Cutfee,
Pomp and Sambo. This is, then, the obvi-
Gus and inevitable end towards which we are
drifting. But this frightfu! fate should not,
must not, cannot overtake this great people.
We must restore the Union-the Union of
our fa,hers-the Union of Washinton and
Buchanan, of Marshall and of Taney-the
Union as it was but two short years ago,
and oblilerate from our records the horrid
nightmare of the present. The white Com
stitution as it is, and the Union as it was"
must, therefore, be our battle.cry; and when
we succeed in thus restoring the "Union as
it was" and the Constitution as it was de-
signed by those who made it, the war will
cease, of course, for then there will be no
cause of conflict with the South:
Three inventions have appeared lately
that will, perhaps ultimately revolutionize
those branches of industry which they are
designed to effect. One is an engraving
machine, which produces on steel designs
from.surfaces, either fiat or in relief, with
marvellous fidelity. The second is spiral
trowel, which, when attached to plough,
share, cuts a round hole, so that. in few
hours, permanent drain is formed-the
process of ploughing and draining going on
simultaneously. The third is trihe, but
useful trihe. 1t is a match which cannot be
ignited by any species of friction, nor by
fire itself but only by being rubbed against
the box prepared for its reception, which is
coated with the flame giving pro erty.
A CURIOUS FAcr.-Tbe Marysville Ap.
peal tells us that the rivers-the Feather
and the Yuba land the American may te in
cluded we presume )-obtain their lowest
comparative stages on Monday. "This is
owing to the fact that from Saturday even
ing till Monday morning large amount of
water that had been running down from
mining bitches through the diggings is
shut off and saved in the reservoirs, and
the average flow is not reached again in the
lower country till Tuesday evening. The
lowest stage Of water reached this year in
Feather river was on Monday of last week.
The curious fact just mentioned will afford
some idea of the vast amount of water used
in mining operations on the ridges dividing
the forks of the Yuba, as we'll as in the foot,
hills along the main streams"
Men love women for their natures-not
their mplishments; for their warm feel
ings, strong sympathies, gentle hearts and
fond dispositions, not for their natural &C
quirements More men Of genius marry and
are happy with women of very common
place understandings, than ever venture to
take brilliant wives and enjoy showy mis-
cry
A Quaker praising an organ in church,
said if people worship God by machinery
he wanted them to have first rate instru-
ment.
White paper rags in New York advanced