The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-11-08

OwSlmpotency The country will sus.
tain all public servants who adhere 10 the
Constitution, but whoever violates that
instrument w:'fully and de>ignedly. il
traitor, whether he be in private or pub.
lie life, and should be so regarded. In
whatever the Presidcrt. clVe.> to u,.Lold
the Constitutional Govcrn;rout oi the
United States, and to >1ilu. H.. bc'>
nov devastating the iaDi.,. itt. viii i,r ,.t,r.
dIalll sustained nv the un~i;uird h,ond
aud treasure at the p"nIr; tut >husl he
transcend his legitimate limits 70 crafty
the ultra spirits who ur4r him to cX.
tremes his own Judgment condemns, hr
will forfeit the confidence of his fellow
men, and leave his country wreck to the
/ mad ambition Of those who raised the
whlrl~ind bnt could not control the storm.
- yrnR tbs spslRSSrId JHAssJ Republican.
lmSsmc 5lnneW an jackson reading such
proclamation TO tbp rebel armies. They
might well conclude that the last stage of
imbeciity had been reached. The com.
mon sense of the country says, let MS
have no more proclamationS; no more pa
per warfare; nothing but real manly fight
ing till we win the power to punish.
From the Wheeling Press the leading Union paper Western
Virginia.
We regret to know tina. one more bla.
zing faggot has been cast into the fiery
furnace Of national discord, and that bv
the last hand that should have been en-
gagged in such an act. The President Of
the United States has so far yielded to that
accursed "preSSure" of which he once
lugubriously complained, as to have be-
come no longer the master of his own ac-
lions. He has at length come to such a
pass as to be sure, sooner or later, to obey
the beheSts of the insane fanatics he has
encouraged around him, ard to close all
his circuit u> Wandering by tira, en-.
guItmrnt i'll IA" :, tlnn!,>> pit oi ',l.,-
dr,.nahl =
W -;.. .' .-.i aN pl .io
Pi,>i .r,.' Is ,.r.,',a;i-.u. ,y waste .uv
h"l's To" 4 >"ti.' .r,u'J SOLUTION ot our
tanGtc'I aIIal III that prcuIiar honesty"
80 often a>c'ihcd to him, nor in any other
of li> personal qualities, good, bad, or in
different. TO all intents and purposes of
our future history, he has dehnitively sur
rendered to the most ultra men Of the ul-
ira Northern faction, and turned his lack
upon every tie that bound him to conSti-
tutionaity and moderation. lie has taken
his last leap, and henceforward in all mat
ters of public policy will be regarded as
but the finger Of Greeley, an executivein-
strument of Sumner aud Lovejoy.
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To the rebels hagrantly in arms, to the
hostile people of the South, and to those
in the loyal States who sympathize with
the Southern detection, the proclamation
will come with healing on its wings. 1t
will command their unmixed qualification,
aud will he counted by them as not only
iurmirg a set Oft to their recent disasters
in the field, but a> adding at least another
luO.u 900 mvn on the SiIc Of their sinking
carlSe.
1t is not within our power to express
t.c hundrrdth pant ui the thoughts that
crowd for uttcrance, but we will say in
terms AS comprehensive as now occur to
Us, that the proclamation on which We
thus hastily aud briefly comment, sounds
more like the knel of Freedom and the
wall ol the departing Angel of Peace, than
any t,,,t h,s h,.n ,rn,nnloot.1 in IN.
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faint but. on the contiai>. aggravated hy
the menace of great and unmIxed evil.
Kentucky caunot aud " III not a. oulc>cc
in this measure. Never! As nlttc VIII
she allow il to chill her devotion to the !
cans. TINS cru, ilv. imuer,l.d ancw. The
Government our fathers Trained for Us : !
one thing. and a thing above urice: Abra
ham LINCOLN. the Temporary occupant of
the Executive chair, IS another thing, and
a thing of cOmuarative little worth. The
official existence are running fast, and
who, when his official existence shall end, |
will be no more or less than any other in
dividual The other is a grand political
structure, in which is contained the treas,
ureS and the energies Of civilization, and
upon whose lofty and shining dome, seen
from the shores of all climes, centre the
eager hopes of mankind. What Abraham
Lincoln as President does or fails to do
may exalt or lower our estimate Of him
sell, but not Of the great and benefcent
Government of which he is but the TEN
c0rary servant The temple is not the !
Is; -",tPc a"GR -""'9Jn'e m"pps ~" n"'-', ',--
The loyalty Of hvrtnrk' j. rot +" be iha