The weekly Butte record., 1862-04-05
" Farewell, Brother Fitch.

The Placerville Republican is conducted bv
Thos. Fitch, Esquire, a gaseous young Badger
of Wisconsin. who came out here in a swallow
tailed or claw hammer coat, during the cam
paign of 1850, TO talk seetioralism to the
benighted miners of California. His activity
in running around over the State. while it was
dangerous to his coat tails, did not result in his
procuring an appointment from Uncle Abe
and he subsided to a mountain fastness. and
became the presiding genius of mountain
hebdomadal. Three or four weeks ago. the
Placerville Republican thought that, when the
Union soldiers found their companions. fathers
and brothers shot down by confederate trai
tors, they would grasp their muskets more
firmly and deal destruction TO the peculiar in
s'itution of the Southern States, regardless of
laws or constitutions. Knowing that the Re
publican had recently uttered such destructive
and subjugative sentiments We were somewhat
astonished to hear it declare, in recent issue.
that it had long desired to see the Republi-
cans and Union Democrats "unite in one
great party" 1t goes on to say, however.
that the Union Democracy will not fuse with
its party. aud they can now i" fuse with the
secessionists or the devil, or go their own road
TO destruction :" Well, the Democracy will
do neither. They will remain true to the
principles Of the Constitution and the Ameri-
can Union, will be strengthened by good men
and patriots who may have been deceived for
awhile into acting with sectional fanatics, and
"go on their way rejoicing " and knocking
"hells delights " out of sectional Republican
ism and sectional treason.
The Republican complains that every Dem
ocratic organ " from Siskiyou to San Diego "
denounces its proposed coalition" They had
not looked for this. They had expected that
the Democracy would have accepted their Of
fered love- and because they would not, the
Republican consgns them to the =" secession
lists or the devil However anxious the De
mocracy may be TO unite the Union sentiment
of California into one great party, they have
no desire to form q coalition with the FitcheS
and Greelys and Abbey kellys of the aboli-
tiOnized Republican organization. The Demo
cracy will do all they can to induce any decent
Republican TO stand on their constitutional and
Union platform. and will even pull the wool
from their heads in assisting them to mount it
but to accept your " offered love- and go with
you into the abolitionized Republican organi-
cation, would be getting " n bed with Dinah,"
and the Democracy " ant on to it, 4
The fact is simply this, and the Republicans
may as well know it: There will be but two
political parties hereafter, viz; Constitution
al Union party, and Republican or abolition
party, or whatever else they choose to call it,
headed by Greely. Sumner & Co. The Repub-
lcan party of California has been declared
defunct by concurrent resolutions of the Legis-
lature, Van Dykes, and when the Republican
announces its determination to raise the "war
slogan of Republicansm,' it simply expresses
its intention to go with Sumner Greely, Hale.
Lovejoy & Co.
The Republicans consignment of the De-
mocracy to the devil, reminds us of the old
preachers farewell sermon. The weak old man
had labored with an unappreeiative congrega-
ton with poor success, and finally, in delivering
bis farewell sermon, told them he had labor
ed with them, had preached the Gospel with
an earnest desire to save them but they had
Needed him not, and would all go to perdilion
together. He was done with them" Bye-bye,
Fitch Tell Lovejoy and Abbey Kelly and
Garrison and Helper, that the Democracy will
forgive but lot forget them.