The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-1864, 1862-08-16
The Issue.

The Democratic State Convention of Ohio /
assembled at Columbus, July 4th. Samuel |
Medary presided, and the following ticket was
nominated Supreme Judge Rufus P. Ram
sey; Secretary of State, A. ". Armstrong
Attorney General, l. R. Critchfeld; School /
Commissioner, C. ". D. Cathcart Board Of
Public Works, James Gamble
g The resolutions declared the party to be
the devoted friend of the Union and the Con /
stitution, denounced the Abolitionists, charged I
Governor Andrew with conditional Unionism
declared opposition to sweeping Acts of Con
fscation and Emancipation as unconstitutional. /
tending to drive the rebels to desperation, to
make Union men into rebels; to engender a feel /
ing of bitterness between the different sections
of the Union, and to be an ever present incen-
tive to foreign interference and the disruption of
the republic; 10 destroy the industrial inte-
rests of large section Of country and fill Ohio
with degraded negro population aud oppo-
sing taxation to secure emancipation"
L he IlClll-CiGtlC SUIT 1OuNG OE L emu
sylvania, assembled at Harrisburg. July 4ih.
The resolutions favor the preservation of the
Union and the supremacy of the Constitution
and laws; deuominating the emancipation par
IL the party of fanaticism and crime opposing
sectional legislation and declaring that the
Constitution and laws are sufficient for any
emergency, and that the suppression of freedom
of speech and of the press, and the unlawful
arrest Of citizens, also denouncing negro equali-
ty, Confscation, etc.
Here we have the unequivocal declarations
of the Democracy of the loyal States of Penn
sylyania and Ohio, in favor OF the Union and
the Constitution and yet the Republican press
of those States, and of California, denounce
them as in sympathy with the rebellion. The
unjust and false charge is recoiling on their
own heads Those who make it are covertly
opposing the Government in the council cham
bers of the nation, and seeking to divert the
war from its declared object, the preservation
Of the Union, the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton with all the rights dignity and equality OF
the States unimpaired, to one for the advance
ment of radical partizan policy.
The Republican papers from which we make
the above extracts denounce them as Breck-
inridge and rebel Democracy and demand
of the Government " the enunciation of clear
policy" adding, " 10 be sure, we are to put
down rebellion to maintain the Constitution
aud the laws; to bring back the States to
their allegiance. These are good words. But
what meat is in them?
what meat is there in the declared poll
cy of the Government for these fanatics
Again, they say" every nation on the globe
knows-but our own-that the gist of this
war is slavery" and they demand clear,
bold, frank enunciation of Government policy
on that subject" They are not satisfied even
with President Lincoln's compensated emanci-
patton schemes. They denounce the President
for supersediug with an inferior man, " the
genius Of that true military soul, Fremont"
because they feard his political future" These
are the men who have control of the RepubIi
can fusion movement and who are denouncing
the loyal Democracy, as traitors aud sympa-
thizers with rebellion, because they will not
endorse their purpose to make the one for
the advancement Of their sectional, fanatcal,
partizan schemes, instead of one for the pres
ervatiOn of the Government and institutions of
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party of California are with these miserable
fanatics in the denunciation of everything that
does not agree with their partizan policy
The fusion party here in Butte county join
with them in their denunciations of the course
of Government and of loyal people who would
preserve the blessings of civil and religious
liberty through the instrumentality of organi /
ganized constitutional government. One Of
their Members for the Assembly declared in
the convention that placed him in nomination
that everything was constitutional while war
lasted.
We believe this record of facts and quota
tious fairly present the issue involved in the
approaching election, to the people of Butte /
county, and they are now called upon to de-
eide whether they will adhere TO the loyal,
constitutional position of the Democracy.
or join in the fanatical cry against consti-
tutions and governments, and invoke in their (
stead confusion and anarchy, to be followed
by discovered country, and overthrown Con /
stitution and laws, and these msfortunes TO be .
followed by the expressions and atrocities of
despotism.
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