The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-1864, 1862-09-20

/ McOlellan. ne young cOrll1anuef Vi LIE
Army Of the Potomac may not have given en-
I tire satisfaction BY bis recent military career
but surely be has done nothing to earn TIL:
sort of punishment " For President, in 1864
Major General George B. Mcclellan Subject
/ to the decision of the National Democratic
Convention" The last National Demo
cratic Convention assembled in this State
was avowedly in favor Of recognizing the indie
pendence of the Southern Confederaey- The
most persistent foes of Mcclellan have not
ventured to accuse him of being an available
candidate for such a party as that. We hope
that he will drive the rebels out of Maryland
and then whip them badly in Virginia. But
such conduct would certainly injure bis chan
ces as a &" National Democratic candidate
for the Presidency. The RECORD has no right
to asperse the Generals loyalty in that way.
Sacramento Union.
The Misrepresentation in the above para
graph, would never have been conceived by
the Sacramento Union, being connected with
the Republican party, assumes the right to
misrepresent, falsify and cast aspersions upon
the motives and loyalty of Others The Union
would not, of course, make the broad assertion
that every one who did not vote the Republi-
can ticket at the recent election, was traitor,
because that might bring corporal punishment
upon the cowardly caTcasses Of its lying and
reasonable conductors, but if it can produce
false impressions upon the public mind, concern
ing facts, characters and opinions of those who
fancied they could be true and loyal citizens
without voting the Republican ticket, it is
satisfying its malignant spirit, and serving its
partizan ends.
An honorable and respectable journal would
shrink from such a course. 1t is the natural
element of the Sacramento Union. Its object
is to brand as traitors every one who does not
vote the Republican ticket, and echo its howl
in favor of Republican doctrines, while the na-
ton is struggling for its own existence The
calm, sober sense of the people has repeatedly
repudiated the doctrines of the Republican
party. Now that civil war exists, the fanati-
teal leaders of that party, having control OF
the Government, are determined to make it a
war for the enforcement of their political doc
trines, under the lie that they are necessary
measures for putting down the rebellion. and
those who oppose them are denounced as trail
tors, and Republican Provost Marshals are TO
dog their heels. Douglas never uttered a truer
sentiment than when he told the Legislature
of Illinois, just prior to his death, that the time
would come when he who dared to stand up
for the right would be declared a traitor to
his section. 1t is so now. The man in the
South who proclaims himself in favor of the
Constitution, is denounced as traitor In
the Senate of the United States, Republican
legislators have proclaimed that he who mer-
tions the Constitution now is himself traitor
Under the cry of " no politics. and " no par
ty,' the Republicans do not hesitate to break
down constitutional barriers, to carry out their
political doctrines, and attempt to silence the
voice OF those who oppose them, by deuouncing
them as rebel sympathizers and traitors. The
most false and contemplate of this lying gang
of Republican sheets is the Sacramento Union.
Vattels description of traitors suits them ex-
actly. He says:
ave see traitors to their country only
among those men who are solely sensible of a
base interest, who have an immediate value for
none but themselves, and whose heart is inca
pabe of every sentiment of affection for Others
They are, therefore, justly detested by the
whole world, as the most infamous Of Williams :"
We indorse Vattel. He could not have de-
scrIbed the ultra, malignant and detestable
Republicans, who are bearing down the Exc
cutive of the nation with their political press
ure, if he had been writing at the present
time Especially does it describe the conduc-
tors of the Sacramento Union, who are actua-
ted only by base partzan interest, and are
justly detested as the most infamous villains
By assuming that we are connected with
the Breckenridge organization of California,
the Union asserts that we are casting asper.
sions upon the loyalty of Gen. McClellan. The
Union very we'll knows that we have ever op-
posed and denounced the Breckenridge organi-
cation as just as sectional, miscellaneous and
criminal as the Republican organization.
But let us see if the Sacramento Union is
not casting aspersions upon Gen. General
McClean's loyalty, remembering in the mean
time that Mcclellan is at the head of the ar
my by the Presidents sanction, aud the Union
is professedy an Administration paper
The Unions Fortress Monroe correspondent.
speaking of the withdrawal of the army from
the York Peninsula, says:
:" If, as we are being reluctantly compelled
10 think, General Mcclellan. besides being in-
competent to execute the nations wish at the
head of its armies, has at no time been Jealous
to do So there is but one reflection that can
soften the American heart tolrdrds a crime 50
great, and that is, that We are not the Judges
of what Is best that in the Providence of
God ttlS hating, tim0r0uS General is but an
instrument for the accomplishment of the very
end which he may have in his weak or wicked
purpose endeayored to ward off In other
words, that slavery Of which he was so tender
and compromise which he may have hoped to