The Placer herald., 1862-08-16
Conservative Triumph.

We find in the Sacramento Union the fol.
lowing paragraph, without comment, and
thus tacitly indorsed
REPEAL OF THE LAw.-The Personal Lib.
e7ty Bill in Wisconsin has heen repealed by
the legislature. In announcing the fact the
Milwaukee Neps of June 10th said:
WISCONSIN TO MARYLAND-GREErINa-
The Wisconsin Assembly sends across the
States to Mary land the assertion of sympa-
thy and friendship--the assurance that our
people will stand by her in the maintenance
of the Constitution, with all its provisions,
unmpaired. In single week the popular
branch of our legislature has blot,ed out the
odous Personal Liberty Law; and indorsed
the Union platform Of slave-holdng State.
A triumph for patriotism this. worth an age
of labor. Mary and Wisconsin pledged
to common declaration Of principles. Let
the whole world rejoice. Let us hope that
the war between States living 10 the same
Union and under the same Constitution, is
hereafter ended, and that the age Of trater-
nifty and equality has come once more We
are proud that Wisconsin has been the first
of all the States of the great northwest to ex,
tend the olive branch of peace on this ques
ton of slavery.
Little thanks to the party which the Sac.
ramento Union represents for his brothery
greeting between Wisconsin and Maryland.
We have the published proceedings Of the
Wisconsin assembly, npon this question, be-
fore us. That body is composed of 100
members, classed politically as follows: Sc
democrats, l2 "Uniou democrats" 40 repub
cans. now calling themselves Union men.
This measure was carried by the close vote
of so to 3S-every democrat voting aye and
none but republicans voting no-ten mem
bers failing to vote. From which it will be
seen that there are 3S abotions,s out of the
40 republicans in the assembly, without
counting the absentees. This memorial TO
the legislature of Mary land was simply an
assurance to the Union men of that State
that the war should only he prosecu ed for
the restoration of the Union and the consti
tuition. Every democrat subscribed to this
pledge: five sixths or more of the republicans
rejected it. There is at least an equal pro-
portion OF aboll,ionists to conservatives
among the republican members of Congress,
or any other representative body of that
party. 1t is useless and absurd for any men
to say they are not abotionsts SO long as
lhey adhere to party in which the aboli
tionists SO greatly predominate, and in
which the conservatives cannot defeat the
most ultra abolition measures without the
assistance of democrats. But for the dem
ocrallc votes in Congress the bill of general
contiscation and emancipation would have
passed, entirely revolutionizng the govern
ment. But for the democrats a system
would have been inaugurated by the legisla
tnre of this State tending to negro equality
But for the large number of democrats in
the Wisconsin legislature we could not re
Joce over conservative triumph; looking
to the final restoration of the Union, in that.
Y ct such meu rs the editor of the Sacramen.
to Union, while pretending to commend
these conservative indications, to do all they
can to oppose theparty which achieves them,
1t is stupidity or dishonesty.
s. j. Republican.