The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-06-07

| to propose amendments to that itstru-
meht. As we have before stated on this
subject, according to the Constitution 1t
required Jorty:tour votes to carry the
COmpromise'in the Senate. At most, il
could count as its supporters but thirty
eight Senators, for we have the authority
Of the RePSAlie0" for stating Il" the Repub'
licGns could not hare rOted for it," The
Republican proves its own statement
false it occupies the ridiculous position
Of being q witness against itself and fatty
contradicts its own assertions. Recollect,
reader, the Crittenden Compromise
proposed certain amendments to the Con-
stitution Of the United States" and the
Constitution Of the United States ex.
plicitly states it requires tsoO-thirds Of
both Houses Of Congress to propose
amendments to that instrument. Recol.
lect too, that in the Lower House the
Republicans had a majority, not one Of
whom would have voted for it. Does
this not prove that the editor OF the Re
publican is ignorant Of political matters ?
The rest Of his article contains nothing
but balderdash, which-requires no an.
swer. 1t is his stock in trade and it would
be ungenerous to rob him Of it. If he
can live under the accumulated weight of
such stuff we can and so, for the present,
We ieaye nm haIpre IN ms G1ury.
GooD.-Forbes, editor of the Sierra
Democrat, closes an article against fu
sion with the Republicans, Il, S{is peril.
nent language:
Democrats, will yOn be true to yourselves
and to the sound principles you have hereto
fore protested: Or, will you submit u this
sale ?"
If report be true, some self-Styled. Dem
ocrats in this county have not only sub
mitted to 1.-THE SALE" but begged their
master John to sell them. To speak clearly,
men who, a week ago in this city, de-
nounced fusion with the Republicans,
now strongly favor it. Why? Because
John CONFESS ordered them to do so.--
taT?cH GaVyt; -.,-;s,, >Ayt < .,..I,.l. saI,e
place, and has taken upon himself the re-
SponSibility Of selling the Union Demo
Gratis" to the Republican party. Demo.
Gratis, in the language of the Sierra Dem
ocrdt, "will you submit to this sale -
Not one of you, who has spark Of indie
pendence or principle, will.
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Tue LErTRES DE CACUET.-The n. Y.
World, an able Republican organ, thus
speaks Of the letters de edelet, which, for
a number Of months, were issued by the
State Department:
Patiently as the people had submitted
to the summary procedures Of the State
Department in arreSting on mere suSpi.
cion OF treason, and combining for weeks
and months without trial, they still felt it
T. be deep public misfortune. 1t was
i direct conflict with the guarantees of
the Constitution; was most dangerous
precedent for future times; was effectively
used as a taunt and a reproach by the
Confederate President; and was taken bv
the powers abroad as a virtual acknowl
edgment that the Constitution Of the Re-
public was not adequate to its own pro-
lection, and as proof Of the desperate
condition Of the Federal cause. These
tettres de edehet were an unhcard of
thing in any country not ruled by a des-
pot. Never before since the Barons en-.
acted Magma Charta at Runnymede, did
the Anglo Saxon race submit to such an
assumption Of power. The fact Is extTaor.
binary as it is incontrovertlble, that the
American Secretary of State has exercised
power in immuring American citizens
without judicial warrant or trial, which
neither Charles |. nor James H., in the
utmost stretch of their roval prerOgative,
ever burst attempt, though the one did an
arbitrary act which cost him his head,
aud the other did arbitrary acts which
cost him his throne.