The Shasta courier., 1862-05-03
The Two :. Wings"

nent that small sized scheme is on foot at
San Francisco, to bring about :" fusion"
between the Democrats of this State and that
segment of that organization which sloughed
off at Charleston and went into the war bu-
siness, and has since been engaged in butch
ering their "brethren' of the loyal States,
and, just to show:.that they were not at all
sectional, massacreing every Unionist they
could find in those States cursed with seces-
sionism Who leads in this movement is not
clear, but who will not follow is very well
known. Their self constituted leaders may
swallow the pill, the people will not. The
people of this State, and most decidedly that
portion who last year cast their votes for John
Conness, emphatically demand that this war
shall go on until the supremacy of this Gov
ernment is everywhere established, and the
leaders of this revolt hung by the neck until
they are dead. That, and nothing less than
that, is the demand of California, and he is a
shortsighted trifler who does not see it
There is no earthly bond or consanguinity
possible between those who uphold this ulti
matum, and those who are prating of peace,
in the midst of a war, by them commenced.
To sustain the Government, loyal, old line
Democrats have yet to sustain the war policy
of the present Administration, and they have
done it, and are doing it nobly, which every
body understands. How ptiful. how mean,
how infinitely, unutterably and Internally
11- ha fN-t = tbaI Io,-
lists in this State to herd with the sympathiz-
ers of those whom our armies are now fl: ht-
ing! Over on the other side, loyalists, with
set teeth and compressed lips, engage in hand
to hand struggles for life and death with
those the peace Democracy of this State sym.
pathize so deeply with. Over here the 10y
alist is to take them to his bosom, sit around
the same council fire. and devise means by
which this :. horrible, u - unnatural y '.bru
tai war;" which they began, can be stopped.
We just see them doing it.
Below we print the declarations of the
Democratic party of last year, on this sub
ject. We ask if there is a man in this coun
ty who would back down from one word
therein contained? Is there one who would
not rather add to it than subtract from it?-
If such there are, let him go over to the Sc
cessionists at once. He is not needed in TIE
company of men loyal to this Government
WHEREAS, the Democratic party has ever
been the party of fealty to free government
and fraternal devotion to the rights of States
of the Union, and of unwavering fidelity to
the laws, the Constitution, the Union and
the country-ready to maintain them by all
proper means and at every sacrifice:
And whereas, The country is now defen-
ding itself against Il war W .thout justification,
or decent excuse waged upon it by treas
enable combinations claiming to repres, mt
the people of certain States claiming to have
seeded from the Union-vhich is m.,nilestly
war for the invasion Of our National Gap.-
tai for the overthrow of our National Gov
ernment the oppression of the loyal States :;
the subjugation of the Union a TO hun.-
BILE in the dust ou: National flag to wrench
from the American people their constitution
al right of determining for them YES the r
own policy, foreign and domestic, ana to blot
them out from the class of the great powers
of the world
And whereas scch war. so aggressive n S
character, and so deadly in Its purposes.
forces upon the country an issue which n
be met but in one way by any people having
the common instincts of self-preservatior !,
or worthy ofan existence as nation;
Therefore, be it unanimously resolved by
this Committee,
l. That at..this time, when the country is re-
sisting with all its might war of invasion
and destruction Indifference is impossible To
the patriot, and neutrality is cowardice, if
not premeditated disloyalty.
2 That the people of California in the
past have been most anxious for peace
throughout the land, and will hail with joy
an honorable adjustment in the future; at
the same time they are. aborc all things, for
the UniOn the Country and the Flag,
against all assailants-no matter who they
are, whence they come, or ruth chdt po,cer
armed
4. That in this great crisis of the Ameri-
can nation and name, our State will always,
as heretofore, faithfully discharge her con-
stitutional obligations TO the Union and the
Federal Government, and, as in duty bound.
will earnestly sustain the constituted au-
thorities at Washington in all measures ne
cessary to defend and protect either against
this most unjustiliable and unnatural war.
4. That in the name of the loyal people Of
California, we demand of the General Gov
ernment. by all Its power, TO protect the
lives and property on the high seas, between
this coast and the Atlantic. from the pratt
cal flag which already threatens injury, and
would infiict destruction on both.
5. That all former partisan differences
are lost in the present overwhelming crisis :;
and he who would seek, by reviving them,
to distract the people. to wrest from their
honest and patriotic devotion some sord d
partisan advantage. is not true to the cour-
try, nor worthy of the name of American
citizen.
g. That we hold that our paramount allie
giance''is due the Federal Government that
the right of State secession is dangerous
heresv, inevitably destructive to our form
of Government.
:. That obedience to the constitution a wi
of majorities is the only safe guard of Re
publican Governments that we will uphold
the constituted authorities, under..all circum
stances, and at all hazards. in maintaining
Federal jurisdiction in any sphere, regard
less of what party may be in power.
s. That Governments are political organ
izatiens. armed with eoereive power, withou
which they cannot exist; that it is not only
no assumption of authority on the part o
Governments, but their positive duty to ex
ereise such eoercive power, in order t,
maintain themselves against either foreign