The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-11-29
Cheering 1lRn.

ing symptoms Of the times is the bold
and courageous stand which Democratic
speakers and writers are taking in de.
fence of popular liberty against despotiC
power, and Of the sacred right TO the writ
Of habeas corpus against usurpation.-
1t speaks well for the future; it is an evi.
dence of returning reason and independ
cnce. At first, all the arbitrary acts oil
the administration were silently submit
ted to, the people hoping and believing
that the President and his Secretaries
would discover their miSchievous effects
and refrain from pursuing a course so
unnecessary, unwISe and unwarranta6le
so provoking to loyal citizens and so
dangerous to free institutions. Their 81
lence was mistaken for acquiescence in il
not approval Of the Ubiquitous course Of
the Administration, and encouraged by
it those in power fairly rioted in acts Of
tyranny. The slightest opposition to the
Administration was called treason, and
subjected the offender to arrest and i'm.
prisonment in some gloomy Bastilc. So
frequent, causeless and tlagitious have
been these arrests, that they have at
length aroused Si,e apprehension and the
resentdne0typf The ,Deople Rod theT ~
expressing their condemnation in an en-
phatic and unmiStakablc manner. They
will no longer be trihed with-no longer
allow those clothed with little brief au-
thority TO deprive them Of their privileges
and rob them Of their liberties under the
senseless plea Of Estate necessity" They
know their rights, and with strong arms
and stout hearts and fearless tongues will
maintain them. In this great and noble
but dangerous work Democratic writers
and speakers are taking the lead, regard
less Of consequences and for this they
are prosecuted and threatened with the
vengeance of the Administration. They
are fighting for the inperiled liberties of
the people-for freedom of speech and OF
the press-Gghting against military rule
and despotic power. And the people are
again learning, in the bitter school Of Suf-
fering, that Democracy is their only sure
rcliancc-their only sufficient defensc.-
One Of the first victims of arbitrary pow
or, f. B. Schnable, Esq, arrested and i'm
INJURED in loathsome dungeon without
cause and released without trial, which is
convincing proof of his innocence, in
speech to the Democracy Of the city Of
New York, thus reflected upon the tyran-
nical course Of the Administration:
Remember that free speech will not
be crushed. (No, never.) Imprisonment
may begin again, but at last truth will he
triumphant. Men must depend upon
public orators and the public press, and
they must judge how near they are right.
God Almighty Himself, when, anil the
darkness Of chaos, lie laid the sragnant
waters, said, Let there be light ~ And
now amid the moral and civil and polili-
cal chaos of our country, let the battle
cry Of the Democracy be: Let there DC
i 53hh..!' (Chters) If the free northern
white man is to lose his liberty in the
alrocious effort to make the descendant Of
Ham his equal then it is high time we
begin to investigate whether the teach
ingS Of the party which is bringing about
this damnabic result are right or wrong.
The doctrine announced by Simon Came
ron, the great Winnebaeo plundcrer, who
has robbed the government Golfers more
chan any criminal that ever iisgraccd the
annals Of a court Of justice, aS the only
plan by which he could save his i'll gotten
gains, was the ob!iteration of state lines
and the elevation Of a man in perpetual
power like the arbitrary Louis Napoleon,
or some one backed up 10y the abolition
lists like that monstrous jackass, John
Charles Fremont daughter and ap-
plause.) The experience ofhStory teaches
US that whenever, from generation to gen
| Grafton, you bend the knee of the labor
ing classes Off country to power beyond
.e!:eir reach, in little while the child, fol
lowing the patcrnal example, adopts the
genufcction, and submits until at length
the chains are bound upon it without any
chance Of breaking. 1t is almost the
history Of poor Ireland. It's the natural
effect Of the operations Of tyranny.
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