The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-03-15

STATE has beeh held, by the call Of the
Governor, and they have passed law for
q special election, which was held on
Monday and Tuesday Of the present week
| 18th and 18th Nov, 1881, Of Delegates
who are to meet in Convention, at Column
bia on Monday next, to devise measures
for an organized resistance Of said law.
/" For Ourself we arc almost inclined to
think that patriotism, and the love of our
Union, are departed from our Southern
brethren-bHt tOe may be mistaken =
perhaps tie late tariff 6eaTs UneqHGtty
hard upon tkem-if so, in the name OF
JUsrcE-yes, in the name Of HUMANITY
and of our UNION, let the late law be so
modified, and . spirit Of concession mani.
tested by the manufacturing States, which
may have the effect to produce a recon.
ciliation offeeling on the part Of Southern
planters. Treason may be successfully
suppressed, where only dissatisfied indi-
viduals are concerned, without endanger.
ing our political cOmpact-.but where
States are concerned, the case is essen
TALLY different These States constitute
a Confederacy by voluntary compact,
and must remain 90, If Kept together IN a
Republican form Of Government. The
moment the general Government attempts,
by force of arms, to cOcrce State to yield
acuuiescence to her laws, THAT MO.
MENT THE UNION is DISSOLVED,
and We present the attitude of Belligerent
Powers, contending for their (supposed)
respective rights
ave are yet unwilling to believe that
the people Of South Carolina have become
thus infatuated, to openly resist the law,
by State authority. Should she adopt
that course, she must be aware, if resisted,
she would plunge herself into the vortex
of ruin-the tie Of friendship, once bro
ken, by the shedding Of blood, could never
be healed, and with a black population
nearly double her white, she would be
under the necessity Of arming them, to
defend her claims, and the first drop Of
blood which she should cause to flow from
the white man of the non-slave holding
States, would be sufficient to throw among
them, spirits, which would turn the ~~a7
pons Of the degraded African against tt cir
Oppressors, which perhaps could not be
stayed until the entire determination Of
the whites, and government Of blacks
established in our Southern States but
or beaEt .sickenS ut the thought, and ws4
turn from the revolving idea with horror.
We do sincerely hope there is yet a re-
deerning srr ~ + $3.50 y, tS<~iC
Congress is again in session, the members
will bury all local and minor difficulties
which may have existed between them
that instead of organizing themselves into
political corps, and commence a campaign
for the next Presidency instead of boast
ing Of their superior skill at gamc of
6rdg-instead of selecting the Hall Of the
Capitol to make display of their refined
knowledge of 'Ne,o England Wattz,'-
or Of giving a gratuitous hist ry Of the
party Of their own State, INSTEAD of ina.
king the City Of Washington present the
appearance of an aSsemblage Of an armed
banditti - subjects and conduct which
ought to disgrace the actors, in the eSti
nation of those who sent them there.
We repeat our hope that there is yet vir-
tue and patriotism enough to redeem our
character as a nation, and to rally around
the standard of our UNION, to save this |
last effort at selfgovernment, this hitherto
happy Republic from becoming a second
Aceldamn, Il .tieM Of blood"
Again, quote from the first number of
n paper issued on the 18th of May, 1887:
Having been nurtured in the school
of Democracy, memory pointing back to
the political contest which terminated in |
the election of Mr.. Jefferson to the PreSi-
dcncy, having aided, by our suffrages, in
to the presidential chair. Madi- |
son, Monroe, jackson, and lastly Van |
Buren,, he was then acting with the Dem
ocratic party; has since proved himself a |
traitor by joining the Abolitionists,] We
find Ourself too strongly attached to the
Democratic PARTY, to cherish even tho't
of ever proving recreant to those princi-
pies by which that party has been, and
will continue to be, sustained. We have
ever maintained the Republican doctrine
that the PEOPLE are the only and legitimate
(politicaD sovereigns of the Republic
Hen may change-principIes never do
therefore the party who pursue, and carry
out the principles of Republicansm, need
never fear Of being long left in the mi
nority."
Having reverted to various subjects of
a local nature and that of Free Bank
ing Law" then engrossing the public
mind of New York, we proceed:
"There is also another subject to which
we feel in duty bound to allude-whch
not only interests US as citizens Of New
York, but also as citizens Of the Union
we refer to Abolitionism. THAT we are
the advocate Of the institution Of dOmes.
tic slavery, we disclaim-that we are an
AbolitiOnist, in the commonplace accepta-
ton Of the term, we also deny. That we
are the friend of the bondmen, and would
do all within our means to sever their
chains and plant them upon the shores Of
their notwithstanding with them the
lights Of civilization and christianity, our
acts, in the cause of Colonization, will
bear honorable testimony. We will there
fore discOuntenance any unnecessary in.
reference with the domestic regulations
of the slave-holding States. We are will
ling to abide the wisdom of the patriot
Fathers who framed our happy COnstitu.
ton. Slavery was not only tolerated by,
but even fastened upon those States, while
they were yet Colonies, by the mother
country. The institution existed at the
time the compact was formed-the right
to meddle with the subject was never sur
rendered to the General Government
The blessings Of the Union are Of incalcu-
liable benetit-why, then, agitate the sub
ject over which We have no legitimate
right to act--and which, If driven to ex-
tremities, will dismember the Union,--
lead to a continual border warfare, car
ried even to the knife, without effecting
the liberation Of the bOndman? The
voice Of humanity--the love Of country
and of fraternal affection, calls loudly up.
on Abolitionists to Beware!'
In August, 1887, copied into my pa
per the following article from rival pa
nor (0nOocitionl ADVOCATING tho racantlv