The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-03-29
Negro Testimony BAH.

The negro testimony bill" allowing
negro testimony against white persons in
the Criminal Courts of this Stnte"-intro-
duced by Mr.. Fay, Republican of San
Francisco, after protracted, animated
and acrimonious debate, passed the AS
sembly on Monday might. The next break
the Republicans will make will be to grant
them the right Of suffrage. Negro Re.
publicanism has triumphed over white
men. Mr.. Morrison made a noble speech
against the bill, in which he truly stated,
the negro race was universally recog.
Missed as an inferior race, and any attempt
to elevate them would only result in de.
grading the white race to their ierel."-
Adopt this law in California, said he, and
it would only result in perjury, heaped
mountain high, and entail upon the State
such evils as would sink every man who
voted for it to eternal infamy." We be,
lieve with Stephen \. Douglas, "that this
Government was made on the uhite basis,
by Ohite men, for the benefit Of tile ,ehite
men aud their POsterity .t0rerer." AS
some Of the supporters Of the bill may be
nominated for Office ut no distant day. we
copy the vote for future reference, in or
der that the people may manifest their
gratitude to them by repudiating them
with scorn. The following is the vote:
Ayes-Amerige, Avery, Barton, of Sacramen-
to, Battles. Bell, Benton, Bigelow, Brown,
Campbell. Cunnard, Dudley. of Solano, Eager
ElaSon. Fay, Hoeg, Leach, Lnewy, Love, Mac
lay. Mccullough, Meyers, Porter, Reed, Reese,
Reeve, Sergeant, Sears, Seaton, Shannon,
Smith, Of Sierra, Teegarden, Tilton, of San
Francisco, Van Zandt, WOrthington, luck,
Mr. Speaker-3t.
Noes-Barton, Of San Bernardino, Collins,
Cot, Dana, Dennis, Dudley, of Placer, Evey,
Frazier, Griswold, Hoffman. Irwin, jackson,
Kendall, Machin, Matthews, Morrison, O'Briep.
Pemberton, Printy, Smith, of Fresno, Thomp.
son, of Tehama, Thompson, of San Joaquin,
Thornbury, Waddell, Watson, Werk, Wilcox
on, WO0dman-2S.
1t will be seen by the above that MesSrs.
Dennis and Frazier voted against the bill,
and MeSsrs. Dean and Parker dOdged.-
They were afraid to show their hands.
The Morning Call thus classities the sup.
porters and opponents of the bill:
Twenty eight Republicans. five Union
Democrats and three no-party Uni0nists voted
for the bill, and fifteen Union Democrats, eight
breckenridge Democrats, two UniOnstn and
three Republicans voted against the bill
There were sixteen absentees, or not vo-
| tlng-Ot which eight were Republicans, seven
Union Democrats and one BreckInridger.
Tom. Shannon, an INSCRIPTIONS small
potato politician, blessed with inordinatc
vanity, boundlcss self-esteem, childish
ambition, excessive brass and little brains,
worked zealously for it. He is the leader
of the " Union Democrats, and his vote
indicates whittier they are drifting. How
many Union Democrats" will follow him
into the Republican camp? What dispo.
siton the Senate will make of the bill VIC
can only conjecture. The Republicans
are too weak to pass it without the assist
ance Of the "Union Democrats" and il
the latter follow Shannon's example
which is not improbable, it will pass the
Senate. All who vote for it will hereafter
be classed as AbolitioniStS, no matter
what their professions may be or wha
name they may assume.