The weekly Butte record., 1862-04-26
Re-ight the Old Watchfres. ;

milton OF une reoei Oo0ieQeTacy ana which
organization will the Express stand by: The
National Democratic organization, or the spu-
rious organization that seeded from the Ma
tional Democratic Convention at Charleston
We have no desire to be captiocs. The Ian
guage which the Express quotes spprovingly
is from the Chicago Times, the Democratic
organ of the gallant West, conducted by W.
F. Storey, for years the Editor Of the Detroit
Free Press. 1t represents the majority of the
great National Democratic party that assem-
bled at Charleston in 1860. Will the Express
give up its secession organization. and assist
the National Democracy of the Northern
States in demanding the supremacy of the
Constitution, the integrity of the Union, with
the rights Of the people and the States unim-
paired, and assist them in Wrestling the control
of the Government from the misrule and plum
dering of sectional Republcanism What
has the Express to hope for by maintaining
the California remnant Of the organization
that bolted at Charleston. What could be
better than to "re light the watchfres" p" of
the good old Democratic party of former years,
that national peace and prosperity may return
to drive the horrid visage of civil war from the
fair field of the American Union.
If the adberents of Breckenridge could once
claim nationality for their organization, how
stands the question to-day? Its leader in arm
ed rebellion TO the Constitution of his country,
and the organization that supported him with
out a representative on the face of Gods
earth, except in California, and the paper
limits of the rebel Confederacy. Who most
requires the aid and sympathy Of all claiming to
be Democratic: Is it those who have taken
up arms 10 overthrow the Government of the
country? or the noble patriots and Union men
of the South who are soon to struggle at the
ballot-box with sectional and fanatical Repub-
canism, for their rights under the Federal
Constitution Is it not better 10 strengthen
their hands than to throw California into the
balance against them?
Does it require anything more than the SIM
pie exercise of the broadest and noblest pa
trot;sm to accomplish this, and aid III the
preservation of the democratic form of govern
ment, under which we have made the most
rapid advancement in all that constitutes ma
tional prosperity, greatness and power?
The Democratic watch6res of old are burn
ing brightly in other States, and they have
constituted a power, q behind the throne, -
though it was, that has preserved the demo-
cratic form of our Government. Why should
the Influence of the great State of California
be thrown year after year, by plurality, in
favor OF sectional party whose policy is die
tated, and whose candidates are named, by the
New York Tribune, instead of being thrown
with the gallant Democracy of the North and
the West, who demand now as they ever have,
that the constitutional rights of all sections
shall be respected and preserved? Where will
the Express find a national organization with
which to act, except that known in the cam
paign Of $50 as the Douglas Democracy, now
triumphant in nearly every loyal State by the
adherents of Breckenridge throwing up their
political organization, after their once honored
leader had proven traitor TO bis country and
his God ? Why should California be the ex-
ception Why should minority of section
alists control the majority who profess to be
patriotic, national, Democratic? Who can
better enable the constitutional majority of
the people of California to control affairs, and
to throw the influence of the State with the
National Democratic party as of old, than the
Marysvle Express? The principal prop and
support of the California remnant of IFS party
organization, it has but 10 cast its lot with the
Constitutional Democracy Of the Northern
States to "re-light the old watchfres that
burned so brightly before divisions had entered
the Democratic ranks, that sectionalism might
desolate our common country. Look at the
case as it stands to-day. The Douglas Democ-
racy of 1860, are the only representatives of
the once proud and powerful Democratic party.
They are gaining power at every election, and
strength with every advance of the Govern
ment army. Truth crushed to earth shall
rise again" There is devastated South that
demands the protection afforded by our Con
situation. Will the Express, by dropping its
useless party, assist in extending them that
protection? or, by continuing its organization,
assist the Republicans to deprive them of it ?
Contemplate for a moment, the spectacle pre-
sented by the Breckenridge party of 1860 :
Ninety-nine one hundredths of that party are
in armed revolt against the Constitution. Is
/ it reasonable to require that the time -honored
Democratic organization of California, shall
surrender to the mere remnant of such an Or
ganization, or suffer defeat by the Republican
party? What is the difference between main.
taining the Breckenridge organization of Cal.
itorna and voting the Republican ticket
IF support of the Union is Repubcaaism
We can conscientionsly say that We have sass