The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-12-13

thah II IN mere. Inere-where there is
no Constitution like our own, embodvng
and reproducing among, other great prin.
ciples the great assertion Of the Petition
oil Rights, that no person should be de.
talned in prison without having a speedy
t'lal-even there the great malvGactors
(SsiNANSt the State, like 0rsiui, have safe
(Gnd speedy trial, and counsel can thun.
der, as they dare not to do here, against
the niquitieS, the corruption and tyran.
ny OF the government, without fear, and
where an interference By the Emperor
would be scorned by judge and jury, aud
would raise a revolution which would
shake even the Imperial throne tn its
center. But here, where we believed
was an inheritance all of those great writs
of freedom from our English ancestors,
who won them from king and wrested
them from Magma Charta. the
Petition and Bills of Right, the habcas
raSgs,E1~f 7>'~1 --..~.., ~. JIassti,ntjop of
our land. which embodies and reproduccs
the great popular principles and aSSer,
tionS Of those writs, are revoked by a
Pennsylvania lawyer and a New York
Fouche. Applause.
<>e",s>e., .s9.,. .::}S1;;9a,s Of oul ..onSt.
tutional and personal rights, in place of
the peace, prosperity and happiness
which the Republican oracles predicted
for us, we have had war, bankruptcy and
mourning throughout the land. II the
Senate House, where Webster and Clay
taught those grand and undying lessons
Of patriotism for the youth of the country
have been heard the voices of the Sena-
tors Of the Republic calling for war
leader, the result of which would be the
Inauguration of a second San Domingo
massacre. Under the Republican policy,
within less than two years, this nation,
which, under Democratic leaders, was
reaching the acme of civilization, has
been relapsing into the most ancient and
the backest barbarism. And uhile - ,,
dsstinies Of the Republic have been
trembling IN the balance, and the people
especially the Dcmocracy-have been
giving themselves, their lives, and pour,
ing out their money like water for the
cause of betrayed Union and a violated
conStitutiun-th the Republican Cabinet ard
Republican Congress have been plotting
and organizing disaster and defeat to our
armies, and-amost impossible to con.
ceive, but yet it is the truth calculating
with cool, mathematical, precision, how
many lives of the noble Democratic
youths, who graspcd their arms and
sprnng into the ranks Of the army of the
Union on the call Of a Republican Presi-
dent, they must sacrifice efore they
arouse them to the fendish enthusiasm
of themselves to demand a war policy
whose history will be that Of the San
Domingo massacre. of Outrage and as.
sa>snation Of poor defencelcss women and
children of the Anglo Saxon race, by
slaves, changed into demons of lust and
blood. Cheers.
The Democratic party must save the
country. The country not only appeals
toa Democratic army, with the youthful
Den ratio general at its head, to pre-
serve it against the armed assaults of re.
bcI>, hut t. the 'emOcralic party to guard
it against the no less dangerous attacks oI
! the fanatics an traitors in our midst. 1t
rests With the Democratic party to save
this government, which is drifting like a
ship over the open sea, rudderlcSs, dis,
mantled, without even the smallest pleiad
in the overhanging darkness to give light
and hope, except it may be the 'aint dawn
ing of the Democratic victory in the east
-[Cherr> to man and guide hcr-tc
take the places of the drunken crew who
are on board Of her, and the imbecic pi
lots at her helm, who, while she is fast
settling into the deep, cling for safety tr
the broken and rotten timberS of the plat
form Of Chicago, looming up in tie dark.
ness before them. (Chcer>).
1t rests with the Democratic party OF
this State whether this magnificent poity
-ibr ultimate and conSummate rcalza
tion-this masterpiece Of civil structure
shall be lost through the insanity and
imbecility Of its present rulers. aud the
visionary theories Of the Republican par.
ty, or whether it shall have a renewed
lease of power, prosperity and grandeur
As the best euloSiun of the Democratic
party is the past history of this country
so the best proof that it can save it, i,
that even amid the shock and storm OF
battle, il does not swerve from its own
policy-that it still proclaimS its old faith
and recitrs the articles Of its ancient ritn
al. IT procaTnS no other creed than the
Constitution and the laws, as springing
from and based upon the Constitution. :
It deals in no Utopian theories, but is sat
is6ed with the Union as it was. .(Grea
applause).
1t rests with the Democratic party tc
save the Republic. True it is, that New
York is but one Of thirty-four. But SHE
| a., Nor,y VOrE Cfofo Oh, loo So . IA,
great revolution Of the people. As she
lends so follow the other States. Her po
sition will not be merely one of entreaty
nor even Of example, but one Of command
in the form of an official popular mandate
If New York State, with her commanding
geographical position, her great banking
commercial, manufacturing and trade in
terests--New York, so cosmopolitan ant
continent tai in the characteristics of hel
citizens. with but little of the character
isticS of New England, where Black Re
publican :sm thrivcs, and is indigenous a.
an element OF fanaticiSm, with her peerless
position among the States, declares for t
change of measures and change Of men
be assured that there will be change O
measures and change Of men. Let th'
tenth of September be what the 4th o
July, 1776, was to the Republic-it is AZ
important a day for our liberties-w
the immortal days of history has been tc
the nations, on which day we chose ou
leader, Horatio Seymour. On which day
before the assembled representatives o
the Democracy of the State of New Yort
at her capital, he, the brave chieGtain o
the Democracy, declared that the BaStie
of the land must be levelled to the ground
the gags be taken out Of the mouths o
the citizens, the fetters and clogs removed
from the printing press, that there Shoulc
be no San Domingo massacres to reldcr
the land with the blood of helpless wo
men and children, but from that day ou
there should be freedom Of speech, free
dom of the press, respect for the Consti
tuition and the laws-that the war shoult