The weekly Butte record., 1862-03-15
Democracy.

Z he Democratic party nave ever priced
4 themselves on being the champions of the Con-
stitutiou, and now, as they ever have been, are
ready TO repel assaults upon it, no matter from
what faction or section such assaults may ema-
nate. As general principle the broad propo-
sition may be lad down that, no matter iato
/ whose hands the Government may fall, the da-
/ ty of Democrats is to support the Constitution
and the constitutional Government. Those who
refuse to do this cease to be Democrats, how
ever much they may bIoviate about their con
sistent Democracy. They are either Aboli-
tiouists. or Rebels lacking the requisite courage
TO defend and champion their treason.
In the present crisis of the country there
are really but two parties 0ae for the Con
stitu;iOn and constitutional administration of
the Government and another in opposition
thereto technically, the latter may be consi-
dered as two parties: The Rebels OF the
South and their sympathlzers. and the Aboli-
tionists of the North The Rebels consider
the Constitution, under which We have so long
lived and prospered as a nation. thing OF the
past. and are armed for It's destruction. The
Abolitionists consider it of no possible eonse-
quence, when It's provisions may interfere with
their peculiar notious. The Rebels have their
champion in JEFF Davis, and his Southern
Confederacy; the ultra sectional element of
the North, had theirs in Major General Ere.
mont, who was placed in command in Missouri.
Their inability to conduct the Government
through its present difficulties was then demon
serated, aud the Rebels overran the State
Their efforts in Congress demonstrated the
same thing. and, afle- their policy had brought
nnumerable disasters upon the Government
and army, Kentuckys firm and consistent pa
triot Mr.. Crittenden) offered a resolution IN
effect declaring the object Of the war on the
part of the Government. to be for the suprema-
cy Of the Constitution, and that it should cease
when that object was accomplished. This was
opposed by the Abolition element in Congress,
but was, nevertheless, passed, and became the
declared policy of the Government. Hence the
removal Of Fremont from Missouri Phelps
from Ship Island, and Cameron from the Cab
met. If the Crittenden resolution was not
Democratic, then, as the old traitor, H. S.
Foote, used to say, when he wanted TO tell a
pohtitical opponent that he lied, "we don t
know it," The Democracy of the North ac-
cepted it as the foundation plank of their
creed, and by the aid Of the conservative ele-
ment that had heretofore been bound to the
Abolition car by ties Of party, swept the ere
mics of the Constitution from power in the
States OF Illin5E Connecticut and Pennsylva-
MIA, and will, when the proper period arrives,
sweep the last vestige of sectional fanaticism
from the Northern States Had the Union
and conservative element of California pursued
q similar Democratic course, the State would
not have been turned over TO the control of
the PiXleys and RABIES of AbolitioniSm. 1t is
not the policy, however, of the followers of
Fremont, Cameron & Co, and the sympathiz-
ers with jeff. Davis & Co., to permit this
The former denounce constitutional Democracy
as Secessionism, aud the latter deuounce it as
Abolitionism They want but two parties =
The Rebels of the South, and the Rebels of
The North, between which the Constitution
should be ignored, and war of conquest and
subjugation be inaugurated.
The first step for the preservation of the
Government in the present exigency, should
be the dispersion ard complete disorganization
eff the Rebel and Republican parties There
is no use of looking beyond these rotten and
corrupt, sectional, fanatical and reasonable
organizations, for the cause of the war. We
await the cousttutionally appointed period for
the voice of the American people to be heard
confident in the belief, that the days of both
are numbered-by the ballot~box, if possible :;
but, nevertheless, by the cartridge box, if
necessary.