The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-10-11
TaE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT.


Tho Emancipation Proclamation.
EDIrOEs DENOcFAr: The late proclaim
s,ion or rather edict Of the President, or
rather Sovereign Of these United or rath-
n disunited States Of America, has cauS-
ID profound sensation throughout the
land-mOre sensa ion, perhaps, than sur
prise. Who can wonder at that or any
hther proclamation coming from an i'm
beetle aud plant Executive, surrounded
bya Cabinet Of Abolition fanatics to whom
legislative ability is a stranger, and the
legitimate province of craftsmanship a
terra incOgRitO.
From the very Inauguration Of the pres
ent Administration, the Government has
been conducted in the most inefficient
manDs7. This is patent to all who read
and note the current of events The most
superficial observer can but have seen
that the nation has taken retrograde
movement The elevation to power Of an
Administration blinded by prejudice and
Eanaticisrn, and pledged to such . short
sighted and suicidal policy, has, in its
bitter consequences, verified the predic
80 7f.the Democratic pnssS zs-1 "rRtsrs,
North and South. Those keen-eyed sen.
Iinels, ever watchTul and jealous Of the
liberties Of the people, warned the country
against the success Of a party SO insidiOus
and perniciOus in its tendency. so radical
" sectional, so evidently u ira and intole-
rant, 30 unconstitutional and unjust, 50
eminently inexpedient. In vain were Re
publican members Of Congress told by a
distinguished Southern orator and states
man: "You are sowing dragons teeth
and will reap a crop Of armed men," Fa.
haticism is deaf as we'll as blind. The
warning was UNDECIDED. Prejudice and
aectiOnalism prevailed, and after years Of
aSSiduous cultivation, in the nursery and
from pulp. and musings, eliminated IT,
ually in the election Of all Abolition Pres.
Ident and Congress- fatal success to the
Republican party and a Trojan horse to
the nation.
1t is needless 20 enter into detail con.
corning the deplorabe condition Of the
country. resulting from the triumph Of
Republicanism. The whole career Of the
rArty now in power has been marked by
.vacillation, imbecility, and reckless dis
regard Of the authority Of the Constitution
and the rights Of the people. And n0W,
alter nearly eighteen months Of aggressive
war, having for its object the subJugati'
Of the South aud the overthrow Of their
institutions, our unhappy country pre-
Bleeding at every pore, her energies and
her power fast fading away, in mad and
vain effort IL huniiiiate and destroy the
Southern people. and give political aud
SOCIAL elevation L Il race, for which there
is no precedent in their history and which
nature never designed them To occupy
an elevation, too, which, removing them
from the >autary restraints aud whole
some Discipline that make them useful and
harmless in the sphere to which they are
adapted and should occupy upon thi, con
tinept, licenses the Indulgence If their
natural Incidence. and throws them up"i.
the country-a burden ard curse. II
is 4 question scarcely admitting Gcbnte,
which will be most demoralzcd 10y the Ell
f,rcenent Of the Presidents emancipation
<iict The negroes, evidently; thrO"n,
Is they must BE-, in contact With the abo-
lition element Of the country with whom
they will readily a>simate. In the be-
nevOence Of our nature, We sincerely hope
that, having mutually found their AFFINITY,
the two classes NAV be joined in iniIs>o-
luble social and political wedlOck, and
their millennium come.
Ia connection with this general eman-
cipaiion project Of the Administration,
allow me TO refer 10 language used some
months since by Ex-Governor Seymour,
of Connecticut, refusing the use Of his
nane AZ Vice President of war meeting
held in Hartford. He closes his letter a.
follows: 1.-The meeting, il have not mis-
understood its general bearing, is one
which ignores peaceful remedies of any
sort as = means Of restoring the Union,
and calls loudly for men and means TO aid
in the subjugation and consequent degra'
dAtion and overthrow of the South.
follow gentlemen in no such crusade, nei'
ther will contribute in any way to the
accomplishment Of any such bloody pur-
poses. The monstrOus fallacy Of the
present day, that the Union can be re
established by destroying any part OF the
South, is one that will burst with the
shells that are thrown into its defenSclcSS
cities, and leave the condition of this coun-
TRY, after its treasures are exhausted, and
its brave men on both sides consigned to
hospitals and graves, q spectacle FOR re-
IpToach or cOmmiSeI alton of the civilized
world" Would there we're more Sey-
uOuIS III ouT uISuACteu COUNTY, wiz, IT.
sing above the binding passions of the
hour, allow the clear light Of reason and
common sense to control their judgments.
Is not the truth of his prediction being
sadly demonstrated How stands our
Government to-day, with reference to its
proposed conquest Of the seeded States :
is the great army Of the Union any near
er its nrnnosed poal-the snhiucatiOn Of