The weekly Butte record., 1862-07-12
The Democratic Platform---The Saera-
mento Union.

The loyal and cenOcratic platform adopted
bv the State Central Committee at San Fran
cisco, Is working beautifully. 1t is just the
thing demanded for the times: loyal, patriotic,
constitutional, law-abiding, correct. 1t is Just
what the people demanded, and what they had
right 10 expect from State Committee of
the patriotic and Union-loving Democracy. 1t
is thorn in the side of The Mcconnell crowd
of rebel guerillas headed by the Marysville
Express, and the rabid, fanatical fusionists,
and restless agitators headed By the Sacra-
mento Union. We have referred to the former
elsewhere. in our present issue. and now pro-
pose to pay our compliments to the political
department of the Sacramento Union.
1t was not expected that the Sacramento
Union would indorse the Democratic platform.
no matter how excellent it might be; but we
did expect that it would speak of it honestly,
I fairly and truthfuly that it would rise above
the petty partizan feeling of political journals.
/ Possibly there was nothing in its political
course, that could lead US to expect so much
of the Union, but it exhibits so much enter
/ prise as netrs medium that anything polit-
cally unfair in it, strikes the mind more harsh
than it otherwise would.
+ The Union Of July 4. speaks of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee and the plat
form they adopted as follows:
The Committee-or rather a majority of
the politicians present adopted resolutions
F somewhat similar to those of last YEAR and
then added to them, substantially, the Rhode
Island resolutions. The latter we believe
have been indorsed by every Secession Dixie
Democratic paper in the State, and are under
stood to be the basis on which q union be-
tween a fraction of the Union Democracy and
the Dixie Secession wing are to unite. The
Union Democratic Committee has, therefore
taken the first step towards fusion with the
secession element"
Was the above extract true in every parti-
cuar, where would be the harm or danger to
the country? 1t is but two years since the
people of Rhode Island were divided into three
political parties,-the same as the people of
California are now. They united upon the
Rhode Island resolutions constituting but
one party, and were pronounced loyal and pa
triotic. Must those, here in California, who
adopt the loyal and patriotic resolutions of the
people Of Rhode Island be considered " Dixie
ties and " seceSsioniSts ?" Had the Repub-
lican fusion State Convention adopted the
Rhode Island resolutions, would the Sacramen-
to Union accuse the Republicans Of having
' taken the first step towards fusion with
the secession element ?" No. indeed They
would, in that case, have been the perfection
of liberal and patriotic sentiments
| We are led TO this conclusion because we
fancy the Sacramento Union desired that the
! Republican State Convention should adopt
the Rhode Island resolutions" These reso-
lutions were first published in the Union about
the 1st of April last. They were very gene
rally irdorscd by the Democratic press, and
by portion of the Mcconnell guerilla press.
The Union saw that they were exactly what
the people and the times demanded. Six
weeks after their first appearance in the Union,
they were repubished in that paper with ed-
torial comments. Here is evidence to our mind.
! that the Union desired the Republican Con.
yention TO adopt the Rhode Island resolu-
tions," now so distinctly condemned in the
above extract. The Republican State Con
vention was TO meet in Sacramento on the
11th On the morning of the 18th of June
in time to catch the eye of arriving delegates,
they reappeared in the Union, together with
approving editorial remarks. How beautifully
timed for the Republican Convention after
they had been generally indorsed by the peo-
pie of the State, and after the Sacramento
Union had maintained strict silence of six
weeks subsequent to their first appearance in,
and Endorsement by, that paper. The follow
ing extracts are from the Sacramento Union
of June 18th. They will be found in an arti-
Gle headed The Rhode Island Resolutions"
said article being composed of resolutions and
comments thereon. These extracts simply show
what the Sacramento Union thought of the
" Rhode Island resolutions " prior to their
adoption by the Democracy of California, and
the first quotation, from the Union of the 4th
instant, shows what the Sacramento Union
thinks of the Rhode Island resolutions " af-
ter their adoption, " substantially" by the
Democracy of California. As comparisons
are proverbially odous, our readers need not
compare the following extracts with the one
above unless they choose. Here they are,
from the Union, of June 18th, only twenty
days prior to the publication of the extract
first above quoted
They" the Rhode Island resolutions
announce that it Is the duty of all loval
citizens to render to the Government cheer
ful and earnest support; to such a sentiment
the secesh inclined Democracy in the State
will hardly subscribe. The second resolution
denies the right of secession"
Again, in the same article, the Union says
the resolutions concede that no words or
acts of abolitionists can for moment Justify