The weekly Butte record., 1862-03-15
Low Cunning and Duplicity Of the
Marysville EXPRESS.

Doubtless it would have turned Kentucky.
Tennessee, Missouri, and even Washington
City over to the rebels for the sake of the
= peace it so much coveted. The dissolution
of the Union, the destruction of constitutional
government, weighed no, a feather in its esti-
nation of peaeer :. Peace meant, break
the American Republic in pieoes, that factions
and sections may have governments Of their
own lis policy was defeated. In the course
of six months thereafter, and after oue or two
of the pious peace party papers on the Pa
ciie coast had been squelched - for their
treason, the Express reformed so far as to be
able TO say our troops when speaking Of
the Government army. Shortly after this re-
markable effect of a palpable cause another
peace paper, that talked treason TO the
rancheros of Los Angeles, could find no room
in Union mail bags and then the Express be-
came Jealous for union of factions and par
ties in opposition to the powers that be-
This has been its hobby for the past week or
two. and was the Express sincere in its advo
cacy Of Union, some good thing might come
out of the recent worthless peace organize
ton. Worthless, because we can see 10 good
they have accomplished since they wandered
from the Democratic fold, under the guidance
of that weak old man, Buchanan, tho, after
enjoying the highest honors and diguities of
his country, has e1t compelled in his declining
days 10 publish book in his own defence. and
in denunciation Of his Cabinet. Buchanan and
his adherents to the Iecompton policy had full
control of the Government, from December
1857, to March 4, 1851. Under Democratic
rule, the Nation had been united, prosperous
ard happy Thus they found it. They claim
ed to be genuine Democrats and even while
lauding their own National Democracy, and
before they had surrendered the Government
to their successors in office, States had seeded
generals had surrendered their departments
and their troops, and Government mints and
forts had been stolen. After they had infict-
ed these evils upon their country and passed
from power, they still claimed to be National
Democrats, declared the Union hopeessly dis
solved, and cried "peace," peace - But
peace did not come at their call, and the
heart of every patriot thanks God that our
Revolutionary fathers did not live in vain as
the lightuings fash over the transatlantic
telegraph, the glad tidings that the Union IS
not hopeIessly dissolved This TO them) I'M
expected intelligence, has induced them to ad-
yocate union Of "all Democrats" to what
ever wing of the party they may have hitherto
belonged" Would they do this in honesty
and good faith, they would be met in the same
spirit by nine telths of the people Of California.
They honestly desire union of sentiment and
action that shall justly govern every section of
their common country.
Some of the organs Of the Administration
that inaugurated secession, treason and armed
rebellion, still exist. The Marysvle Express
is one of them 1t is the fossil remains Of old
Bucks glorious Administration "a wriggling,
squrmiug m2ggot in the corpse of secession.
Since the Union victories at Roanoke, Somer>
set and Forts Henry and Donelson, the Ex-
press has beloved Justify for union Of all
wings of the Democratic party. How chang
ed and lamb ike lis tone. For the past four
years lis anathemas have been bold and de-
fant against the lamented Douglas, and all
Democrats but those Of its own reasonable
wing. Two weeks advocacy Of harmony has
not cured the Express of its chronic cunning
and duplicity. 1t may require another turn of
the thumb-screws-th diScontinuance of an
other peace paper in Oregon, or another
Union victory, to make the Express cease mis-
representation and double-dealing. In its issue
of the 9Th inst, it says:
We have before us a series of concurrent
resolutions introduced in the Senate by Mr..
Denver, and which, IRE are iceH Informed, meet
the entire appreciation Of dH Deaoc IN the
Legislature, to uhoterer armg Of the patty they
hare hitherto belonged.
The evidence we offer in contradiction of
this statement, is taken from the Express of
the Sth inst, and reads as follows. The Ex-
press can find it in their Letter from the
Capital, under the sub-head of Union Reso-
lutions =
Mr.. Denvers substitute was lost-ayes S.
noes 81.
If We harmonic these statements Of the Ex-
press, then it means that there are but eight
Democrats in the Legislature, and there are
about that number of peace party Demo-
Gratis in the Senate, where Mr.. Denvers reso-
lutions were rejected by vote Of to /. If
that is not what the Express meant, then its
statement that, Denvers resolutions "met the
entire appreciation Of all Democrats" in the
Legislature is false.
If the Express viii honestly and truthfully
seek for i union of Democrats in California for
the sake of the American Union, it is an easy
matter to Gnd it. 1t is mistake TO suppose
that the Union Democracy of California can
be deceived and betrayed into supporting the
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