The Placer herald., 1862-03-22
THE PLACER HERALD
AUBURN, MARCH %, 1862.
Political Parties in the Future.


lure are TO meet at the polls and battle over
the Questions that have heretofore engaged
the attention of men, has failed to compre-
hend the present. Even the great question
of slavery, has been narrowed down TO a
single point It is quite apparent that un-
der tie existing administration, if the policy
of Republicans is carried out, slavery will be
abolished. Step by step the administration
IS coming to the point.
First it IS proposed to cenfsrate the right
of the dsloyal master In the slave; next to
cashier aad punish any officer or soldier who
shall deliver up slave to his master; and
next, that Congress shall assist such States
as desire to abolish slavery. The army is
sent into the South, and as fast as it is oc-
cupied, new governments are set up, sustain
ed by the presence of the army. Of course
the army will act out the will Of the Adj
mnistraton as directed by the abolition sen.
tment of the North, and great esertion be
made to impress soldiers with the great adj
vantages resulting to them of aboishing
slavery in the particular State or department
in which such provisional government may
rule. So plainly does the action of the Re
publican party, and its leaders in power,
tend to the total abolition of slavery, that
Democrats in the Atlantic States have re-
Gently made their contest, upon this one
proposition viz: shall the war be conducted
with view to aboishing slavery in the re-
hellious States, or not the Democracy ta-
king the negative side. This indeed is the
only issue remaining, Of that disturbing
question
That the Republican party has had this
object in view, from the very inception OF
its organization, no sensible man has had
any doubt. The means by which it was to
be accomplished they themselves, did not
clearly see, in all probability, when they
formed their mad design. They now believe
that the opportunity and excuse has been
thrown into their hands by the slave holders
themselves. As long rs the war exists that
party will endeavor 10 make the army sub
serve the purposes of abositionism. There
cannot now, be a reasonable doubt Of this
On the contrary if by any chance the rebels
shall sustain themselves against the odds
east against them, and ultimately acquire
an acknowledged separation from the FEEDER
al Government, this branch of their domes.
tic relations will be protected from abolition,
and the free States Of the United States be
forever rid Of the subject This latter re'
suit would dissolve the elements out of
which the Republican party sprang, as they
would have no other object strong enough
to keep the organization together, r,-the sla-
very ssue being literally ''played out" In
either event if the war should close soon,
the people will find new issues 10 claim their
attention. We shall find plenty of objects
upon which to exercise orr genius for we
are informed on all sides, that our Federal
Uo'einuIehI 'nusI W Hi"teiiaiIy HouIHeu;
that it must be made much stronger. 1t so
happens that additional strength cannot be
given to the Federal power withou. weaken
ing that of the States, or infringing upon
the sovereigntyof the people Of the States;
and Touchstone when he remarked, tha, it
was "a figure ofrhetoric, that drink, being
poured out of a cup into glass, by filing
one doth empty the other," made an illus,
tration that may well be applied. Whether
our Republican rulers in their declining for
tunes will give Us leave to pass upon it see
ing it is SO plain proposition, is a much
nicer point to decide