The Placer herald., 1862-05-31


the ignorance, meanness incapucity for govern
ment, and disposition toward the moet unbridled
despotism, of the members Of the Republican
party.
Whether Judge Hardy will see at to contest
the legitimacy of this action of the Senate not,
it will stand record of shame and burning dis
grace for all time to come, against the men whose
names are marked aye upon that conviction.
Each one of them can cxchin with honest Dog
berry, Masters remember that l am an ass;
though it be not written down, yet forget not
that am an ass" Here are the names of the
famous two dozen: Guilty-Banks. Burnell. Cham
berh,in, Crane, Gallagher, Gaskell, Harvey, Har-
riman. Hathaway, Heacock, Hill, Kimball, Nixon,
Oulton. Parks. Perkins, Porter, Powers Rhodes,
Shafter, Soule, Shurtliff, Van Dyke-24.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONvENrIoN.-The Demo-
cratic State Central Committee met in Sacra-
mento on Wednesday, and selected Wednesday.
tue 9Th of August, as y day for holding State
Conv ention to nominate Superintendent of Pub
bic Instruction. A Committee was also appointed
to issue an address to the people of the State.
To maintain the Constitution as it is' and "the
Union as it was,'' the Committee calls upon
Democrats to stand by their time-honored creed.
The Sacramento Union, and it's Abolition echoes,
are sorely exercised, that the Secession-Dixie
Committe, as they opprobously call it, had the
temerity to meet at all;-and are yet more tr0u-
bled that it has called q State Convention
They will now endeavor to create a terrorism,
to frghten Democrats from participating in coun-
p,kt th,<
used without effect last season, and will as surely
fail now. Making mouths and calling hard
names will not trfghtcn Democrats; they under
stand their Constitutional rights, and will main
tain them. in defiance of every yelping. subsidiz-
ed abolition sheet in the State.
Nor So.--The Marysville Erpress interprets
the Presidents recent proclamation to mean that
he claims the power for himself, as President
to abolish slavery in any State, whenever he con-
siders such measure necessary" Not so. He
claims no such power us Presdent but he does
claim the right, as commander-in-chief OF the
army and navy, TO declare, whenever it shall be-
come necessary for the preservation OF the Union,
that slavery shall no longer exist in any State
| Or rather, that the United States will no longer
recognize it rs existing. 1t is not Mr.. Lincoln as
President. at ALL but it is Mr. Lincoln as the COM
mander Of the nations forces" Sac. Bee.
That is as clear as mud-Abraham Lincoln
would scorn to abolish slavery in State-as
President-but Abraham Lincoln as Commander
n-Chief of the army and navy of United States,
would take particular pleasure in doing so AS
President he is boiling ever with scruples, but as
COMMANDMENTS Chief he is rolickng hair-brain-
ed fellow, ready for anything, from spree at the
bvouac to the dictatorship of the world. Call
him Brown and he is u thoroughly honest and
conscientious man. but address him as Jones and
he'll give you counterfeit money or rob the mail.
The people voted for him as President of the
United States without thinking of his ex-oficio
position in the army and navy. What can the
mighty difference be- 'twixt twidlem twi, and
twidlem twe?"
That they, the Republicans, defeated the
Crittenden Compromise, is utterly false,
and the editor that makes such an assertion
must imagine that the ignorance and gull
bilitv of bis readers is most profound.
True Republican,
Mr.. Crittenden, Mr.. Pugh, and Mr.. Doug
las, were Senators and actors in that matter
when it was before the Senate; all three
bear testimony to the fact that the Republi-
cans defeated the measures known as the
Crttenden Compromise; but the great
DR.. Clapboard, Of Dutch Flat, who was not
within two thousand miles of Washington
at the time, says it is false. The vote was
taken on the 2d Of March, '6l, every Repub'
lican in the Senate voting against it. The
Federal Constitution, article V section 4, says
it requires two thirds Of both Houses to pro-
pose amendments to tina, instrument, and
the House was hopelessly Republican.
Three fourths of the States of the Union
must ratify it before it could have force, and
where could you get those States from! In
Republican hands the thing was hopeless.
We have then, the testimony and record
on one side, and the great DR.. Clapboard Of
Dutch Flat, on the other-which ahall We
bslieve2
The Constitution guarentied rights to the
several States, and under its @gs, not one
privilege would have been denied them; no
government would have dared to have in.
fringed on a single line of that sacred instru,
ment while it was in force.
Caloveras Chronicle.
The Chronicle protests itself very strong
Union paper, but if the constitution, is no
longer in force We should like to be informed
what sort of Union it is in favor Of or OK.
poets to- consummase by the war! We have
said that the Government was no longer
administered under the Constitution, and
for SO doing have been denounced as seces
e;oc;et tro;tor thu NTH ToH Dovio