The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-08-09


encouraged by the pIaudits Of the virtu-
Gus. 1t still clirgs, with undated fend-
ness, to its old creed--a creed which has
received the cordial aud unqualified in
dOrscment Of the greatest and best men
Of our cOuntry--a creed which made our
Union prosperous, powerful, formidable
and happy. 1t still maintains its organi'
zatiOn unimpaired--an organization from
which has been elected the impure, treach-
erOus and trading members, who brought
it into disrepute. Never were we proud
er Of it than on Saturday last. Its repre-
Sentatives-a noble body Of intelligent
men-men Of character and influence
men who have ever, in adversely as well
as prosperity, proudly and fearlessly
borne alOft the Democratic banner--men
who cOnscicntiously believe in the Demo-
cratic creed and boldly maintain it, met
in convention and, with an unselishneSS
worthy the best days Of the Republic,
disregarding personal attachments, nomi-
mated ticket composed Of gentlemen who
} differed from them on several e,V~-''i"-"
To defeat the CONFESS A BOLTON fusion
faction and febuke the apOstate Demo-
Gratis who joined it for Office, it was ne
ceSSary to concentrate the Democratic
vote on but one ticket, ANsl !A;o - Tatri-
otto men who met on Saturday did, with
out a sacrifice Of principle or surrender of
organization. Never, in the history of
our country, has there been a greater me-
cessity for sacrifice, and never was there
party more willing to make sacrifices for
the country than the Democratic.
| 1t has been q characteristic Of the Dem
Ocratic party that the principles Of its
creed are not inspired by the excitement
ofthe passing hOur-that they are not in
tended for temporary purposes. They
nave a deeper, stronger, more abiding
foundation. They consist Of The funda-
mental political dOCt2i7vSs HPOM which the
government of this Republic ought to be
administered, and arc not likely to change
with each new wave Of the passions Of the
multitude, or to assume the hue of every
passing popular excitement. They are
not shaped for popularity, but for the
interest and honor and perpetuity Of our
confederacy. They may be ovcrborne by
the phrenzy of interest, sentiment, prtju.
dice or passion, which for brief period
sometimes seizes and sweeps away the
judgment of the people, but the true and
unyielding Democrat, who is able to give
a reason for the faith which is IN him,
who loves his principles, is not dismayed
or discouraged by such reverse, but abb
ding calmly and securely upon the doc
trines which he has espouscd, looks for
ward hopefully and confidently to the
time when the sober thought Of the hon.
est masses Of his country shall discard
error, and his principles, acknowledged
and vindicated by their own truth and
purity, shall guide the administration Of
public affairs.
Such has been the experience Of hiSto.
~ under our government. The Demo-
cratic party has been occasionally may
be again-prostratCd under the pressure
of some sudden excitement, some pecnni-
airy panic, some unforeseen embarraSs-
mentS, or some insane, illegitimatc issue.
But those who obtained the direction Of
the government under such circumstances,
having no well,deined, settled principles
to guide their action, little faith in the
permanency Of the organization that elect
ed them, as is the case of the present i'm
beetle National Administration, have
shown their ineficiency or reckleSsneSs,
and the public judgment has turned back
speedily, for safety and repose, to the
well. established doctrines Of Democracy,
and has recalled to power those who.
governed by these doctrines and eager to
inaugurate them, carried forward our
country to unexampled greatness and glo-
~; and thus it will be again.
So emphatically has all this been true,
that the leading measures, which the
Democratic party has from time to time
advocated, although meeting at times with
violent opposition, have in the end won
the confidence Of the great mass Of the
people to such an extent as to be acqui'
csced in, and been adopted and advocated
by their former opponents. Opposition
to them has been the death-knel Of many
a politician, a fact Of which Conness seems
to be ignorant Hence it has come to
pass that Of late years the Democratic
party can hardly be said to have been OPP
posed by any permanent, organized Ma
tional party, with distinctive, well-defned
principles, but it has been called to en-
counter enemies warmed into life by some
temporary excitement, having merely a
present object to accomplish, often sec.
tional and Indifferent, and seldom nationa'
in their views, and not unfrequeudy adVo-
eating contradictory sentiments. Against
such party, organized and led by n rem
egadc Democrat, the Democracy of Ell
Dorado will present nm unbroEen front
next September. The AboliIion-fuSiOD
ticket must and will be defeated, and the
only way to defeat it is to present to the
voters of Fl Dorado but one opposing
ticket. This the Democratic convention
which met on Saturday took into consid-
Grafton, and, like true Democrats, adopted
the only course that Was certain to defeat
the unprincipled faction arrayed against
them. Their action has disconnected the