The weekly Butte record., 1862-01-04

lnlS anonymous ScrloDler luat VIC VIII NEAR
of trouble " in Illinois +" if this thing keeps
on = (the brown domestic" of course.) As
tute secesh Profound argument As stated
in the commencement OF the letter, the rebel
sympathizers of Illinois and California, g are a
ruined people, one and all, when compelled to
pay fifteen cents yard for their regular
brown domestic" Politicians Of the Gel
wick school, are, we take it, the refuse-the
scum-thrown off by Southern society, and a
| foul, living libel, upon the honorable and chiv-
alric character Of the Southron Never hav-
ing a pecuniary interest in the South, they
have, nevertheless, been enabled heretofore to
obtain their brown domestic for less than
fifteen cents a yard None but abolitionists
would tolerate a policy that would make
brown domestic cost this ornamental if not
useful class of politicians fifteen cents yard !,
To prevent this, the Constitution must be ig-
nored, the Union severed as with cimeter.
and a Southern Confederacy established
What is constitutional liberty Worth to politi-
cal renegades from the South, if their brown
domestic " is TO cost more than corn dodgers
Gelwicks and Linthicum. you are immortal.
1t is true, as stated in the third paragraph
of the letter, that the followers of Fremont,
Sumner and Hale, did denounce the Democra-
cy of Illinois as secessionists and traitors"
because the former desired to see the policy of
Fremont's proclamation sustained wherever the
army may 60. That was the issue before the
people: Whether the war should be conduct
ed for the supremacy Of the Constitution, or
for abolition purposes. To enable the Democ-
racy TO carry that State by 10000 majority,
as they did, there had to be union of consti-
tutional and conservative men, against the fol-
lowers of the ultra abolition policy of Fremont
& Co. California would have shown herself
equally Democratic at the last election, but for
the senseless howlings of idotic rebel sympa-
thizers, for "peace, peace" when "peace
meant destruction of the Constitution and
severance of the Union.
1t is not true that the Democracy of Illinois
passed resolutions cOndemning the rar," as
stated and italicsed in the letter. If Montgom-
cry county did so, it was an exception. They
did condemn the I'VE quote) prosecution of
the war upon any other than constitutional and
Union grounds" Again they counseed the
President to I'VE quote) avoid all factions-all
sectional issues-all ab0lHionists and rebels, and
God and the true men of our country would
sustain him." Again, the Democracy of Illinois
declared that the crazy fools Loyejoy and
Jim Lane are at work with no other design in
view than to destroy the Union" Was not
that the design 81 the crazy fools who were
crying peace at tie last election in Cali
fornia, had in view? If the "peace advo
Gates of the last election cannot abandon their
fatal heresy and aid the Democracy in demand
ing that the Government be constitutionay
administered, and the Union preserved they
should at once proceed to run the blockade
and, by their presence, swell the thinning ranks
of JEFF. Davis's rebel army, or 60 with such of
tuelT OOuIHeIu UlCluTeH DIS L CTelnOul duu Ilei-
per. What beautiful quartette of Southern
chivalry? Fremont, Gelwiclls, Linthcum, Hell
per! Helper, Gelwicks, Linthcum, Fremont
Linthicum Fremont, Helper, Gelwicks !
What grand tableaux they could present,
with the "reliable and influential Douglas
Democrat who wrote the above letter from
Illinois, to put the " cap on the climax" We
trust that Gelwicks' Illinois friend will not be
arrested-unlesS caught in a chicken coop =
We are certain Gclwicks will not be. II he
should be arrested, his great resemblance to
Uncle Abe would insure his immediate release.
In the rebel sympathetic creed OF Gelwcks,
those who desire to see the supremacy of the
Constitution and the Union restored, must ne
cessarily figure as bogus Democrats" Only
such traitors as Breckenridge and Foote such
expert thieves as Floyd and Cobb; such race
horse generals as Pillow and johnson such
vile dependents of England as Mason and Sill
dell, are genuine Democrats" Have you no
word of reproof for those who have abiured
their allegiance to their country, stolen the
mints and arsenals, poisoned the food left for
soldiers who were fighting only for the restora-
ton Of the Constitution and the integrity of
the Union, driven the patriots Andy johnson
aud Judge Catron from Tennessee, aud appro-
priated to their own use such property of
Union citizens as came within their reach Is
peace " with such hellhounds of depravity,
rapine and murder, your only panacea for the
supremacy of the Constitution aud the restora
ton of our once glorious Union. Do you re-
serve all the malignant energy of your
reasonable, mean and despicable nature, to be
hurled, with the senselessness and impetuosity
of a bowlder loosened from the mountain side,
against those who only seek the maintenance
of Constitutional Government and the integr
ty of the American Union? If wool cannot
be found where your grandfather was buried,
what is it that gives you a phobid whenever
you hear the probable effect of the war upon
the negro question discussed? Who are re-
sponsible for the war or its effect, but those
who fred upon the gallant Kentuckian and
his beleagured aud starved garrison in Fort