The Placer herald., 1862-08-23
Disinterested Advice.

The Forest Hill Courier Of last week, in q word
to the naturalized citizens" bestows gratuiouslj !
some very sapient advice upon that class of citi-
zens. And first they are cautioned against the
crime Of perjury, as if that crime was one which
they were naturally inclined to,-as if swearing
to lies was the chief vocation, and daily practice
of our foreign born citizens.
Secondly they are warned against the heresy
of State right doctrines. a heresy which the edi-
tor of the Courier INDUCED in whilst the democ-
racy had office and patronage to bestow, and
and which he intmates is rather natural and even
excusable in native born citizens, but luxury
not 10 be tolerated in them-thc native born citi-
Zen having this peculiar immunity over them
And thirdly, this spokesman of the abolition
ticket of Placer county, warns them in the most
urgent manner not to vote the democratic ticket,
but to come up to the support of Messrs. F. L.
Higgins Sibey, Boggs, and others of this coun-
ty who were the political founders and leaders of
that political party of Placer which held sway
here in 1855 and whose stock and trade of argu-
ment, was tyrade against the naturalized
citizens. The Courier man imagines that these
facts are easily forgotten, lhatthose days when
these lTlenuS OF MS tiihPu so lc1TUeuly ABOUT
Sam" and shouted 'Americans shall rule Amer
ica," mo naturalized citizen shall hold oflice ~
nor vote until he has lived here his regular
trenty-one years. He imlgne that this class
of citizens have forgotten that the Herald and
the leaders of the democracy Of Placer, breasted
the anatcal storm rs we are doing the present
one in de cnse and in support Of the rights of these
l,orp oil tb,t thny, nd wv ulv
ted and voedt hen. rs we do and sha II now for the
rights Of the white man, without distinction Of
place Of birth. II these citizens have forgot Ell the
times when it was scarcely safe for EN- to come
to the polls AMI vote, and the men who brought
about this state Of bigotry and persecution, we
greatly underrate their intelligence and sense Of
Justice. What has the Courier to promise these
citizens in order to induce them to sustain his
abolition cause? When the tax collector comes
about the answer will satisfy the most ncredu
lous. He has already paid two dollars poll-taX
and Is cents on the hundre dollars OF property
tax Ito suppress rebellion and there is more o
what thay call rebellion to-day, than there was
fourteen months ago This, however. is not Il
fee bite; there is national war debt. that will
him. The Doctor that otficiates at his BIRTH is
taxed for his vocation; the first rag of clothes
placed upon the new born babe is taxed: the pa
per upon which the marriage of his parents is
written and the record Of his birth, are taxcd
the bed that he lies on and the first mouthiul OF
meat is taxed; the house in which he lives is
taxed; there is not a thing that he sees, or tastes,
or uses or touches, through life but is taxed.
Through his weary days this incubus rests upon
bis shoulders and he must bear it with his labor,
and when he dies the coffin, and nails, and grave
are all taxed. and then they commence upon the
patrimony Of the widow and orphan, and tax
that down TO the last red cent OF money. Yea,
and the lawyer for advocating their cause, must
pay Il tax. But there are still other advantages
which the Courier can offer our naturalized
friends. If they will only assist in the work OF
abolitonism. they will have African negroes and
their descendants as their equals. may vote
with them at the polls, testify with them in the
Courts us they now do in Massachusetts and in
several other Republican States; they may visit
their old homes in Europe in company with them
as their brother citizens of the United States;
they may labor with them side by side, they may
march with them shoulder to shoulder in defense
OF the great cause of African equality, and white
degradation.
These arc few of the advantages (?) that the
Courier can offer them, and they must have an
overpowering claim upon every one of these or
votes. We point our naturazcd citizens TO the
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts, a State that
has long been under abolition rule. as an ndca
tion of whit they my expect from the friends
OF the Courier. More than twenty years ago
Convent was burned and sacked by the native
born citizens of Charestown, and to this day rep
aration or apology has never been made by any
Of tho authorities o. that State. The authorities
of that State some eight years since disarmed II
Irish volunteer company, and gave their arms to
a company of negroes. By the laws Of that
State negro votes in twelve months, whilst IL
white man OF foreign birth waits five years. and
then cannot vote Tor two years after he is nau-
rdlized. Gov Andrews Of that State orders that
negroes be mustered into the army to march side
by side with foreign born white men these are
truths.
The OFFICE OF ROAD CoMMIssIoNRR-
Perhaps it is well enough to inform the ci,i
zens of Auburn that they have no vote for