The Placer herald., 1862-07-12
Dutch Flat Correspondence.
A WORD TO THE DOUGLS MEN.

truly refreshing to meet with jirnal that
has the boidness to speak the trh, in def
ance Of vile administration thahas signal
lied itself by making war upon e freedom
Of the press and of speech, surprising news.
papers, imprisoning publishers ID editors,
and refusing them the benefits of1e habeds
corpus, the vital principle of libay itself.
Such paper find in the Pac Herald,
and as its subscribers at this pI@ cannot
afford to lend it, as often | wish toead it, or
make use Of it as conyncer Cyou will!
pardon the expression) or scou,s to exco
riate Republicans and their hal brothers,
pretended Douglas Democrats, yo will place
my name upon your books and Twill hand
you the 'needfur next time vis Auburn
The tone and sense of the artes in your
last number pleases me much. he inaugu
raj Address of the great founder)f our par
ty, the immortal Thomas Jetfepn, which
you re-publshed, at this particmr time is
exceedingly opportune, and mustave a good
effect. If any of the half'beaslhalf Buzz
zard Democracy, who are in tsor of sup.
porting the Administration of re Govern
ment until the presen. rebelIions crushed
until the last yestige of distyaty is ex
tirpated" can read il without his cheeks
tingng with shame then will admit that
human nature has become muh changed.
The best way to 'crush out REBELLION" is to
do justice to those who have reblel. They
can never be whipped into submission to
wrong, as the battles before Rihmond will
testify. Had the conservative, ise and just
principles laid down in Jetfcrsonl Inaugural
been needed by the people and politicians
of the nonslaveholdlng Safes, there
never would have been a -ebeIlion-
But no, the agraran, iniides AID Repub
cans, or AboIitionists, (for they are all of
"the same kduey'0 Of that sedion Of the
Union, could not limit their attention to
the affairs of their own States; they mnst
needs interfere in the affairs of her ne igh-
bors. of the South. Slavery, thN discopered
to be ? great moral as well as POLITICAL evil
and in the face of the Farewell! Address of
the Father of his country, waning them
against cherishiug sectional feelings, they or,
ganize'l great sectional patty the funda'
mental article Of whose creel was that no
more slave territory must be added to the
Union-the Fedora Government must ex
clude shareholders from all the territories Of
the Union. Take this plank from the Re
publican platform, and it would no longer
be an organized party. Now, when it is
known that the Federal Government possess
es no power but what it derives from the
Constituion-was made by slaveholders-
that in three distinct articles slavery is broad
ly and distinctly recognized the ter,
rliorles are the common property OF all the
States-and that the slavehoIling States, as
is shown by the facts and figures published
by order OF Congress. have furnished more
than two thirds OF the exports of the whole
country, and, SIS a consequence, have paid
into the common treasury for the common
benefit, nOre than third of her share of the
money to say nothing of The tariff ranging
from 20 to 80 per cent in favor of easie
capital, and at the expense Of the Southern
and Western States--I say, when al, these
things are known and reflected upon, the
conclusion seems irresistible ihat it must
have been the intention of the founders of
this party, from tn frs, to precipitate The
country into revolution; for they could
not have but kno~n-no intelligent man
could have doubled-that no high spirited
people wruld have submitted to such an in
fringenent, such denial of the + con,tituu
tional rights.
What was the res 1t Of the organization,
and what the effects which flowed from the
teachings OF this sectional party9 The press,
the pul pit, and the hustnos, teemed and
resounded with abuse of savehoders-th
halls of Congress were made arenas Of strife
-criminaton and recrmination ensued un-
til brothery feelings and amcable relations
became as extinct as between the Irish and
the English Government - As between he
Turks and The Greeks-as between the
do~n'trodden Poles and their Imperial mas
ters. Organized bands of negro thieves, in
the disguise of preachers, schoolmasters,
schoolmisresses, poisoners and incendiaries,
perambulated the South, stirring up insubor
dination and insurrection, and running the
slaves off to free States and Canada, all of
whom had tecome aboilionized and where
the thieves were protected in their crimes
by the passage of Liberty Bills. thus in effect
nulifying positive law Of Congress. Nor
must the old scoundred John Brown, and
his raid, at the head of mixed band Of
blacks and whites into my native State of Vir.
ginia be forgotten-nor his canonization bv
the Republican Church, and the embaming
of his memory in immortal song, which is
heard throughout the Northern States, the
Federal armies in the Southland even in
some OF the sabbath schools,in San Francisco.
These are some of the fruits of Repubi-
can teachings-ihese have been the results
Of the organization Of the Republican party
and the causes which compelled the South
ern States to withdraw from Government
they held in high veneration, but which
had got into the hands of set of political
desperadoes "ho were using it for the degra
degradation and ruin of the people composing
these States. For it should be remembered
tha. nearly every free State had been aboii