The Placer herald., 1863-07-25


fathers or brothers there; but they ought never
to have settled far South. Besides when you
have secured freedom to our African fellow-cti-
zens south OF us, you may possibly bave the
honor OF taking part in carrying the same boon
to q similar class in Tennessee and Kentucky. |
doubt not our noble President will, in due time,
adopt suitable means to ascertain the will of the
Lord in this behalf. Indeed, il seems to have
been made known already to some of the lesser
lights. Last week grand Convention Of the
loyal women of America assembled in the city of
New York. Each delegate had conceived (not u
baby) an idea; and, under the inspiration of the
great occasion, they have commanded our mag
nlfcent President to proclaim freedom through.
out the ends of the earth. doubt not, at the
proper time, he will so proclaim; and the twenty
thousand troops which his Excellency Governor
Andrew johnson WAS authorized to recruit in
Tennessee (you have no doubt enlisted), will be
!, ready for the good work of giving practical
freedom to our ensaved fellow -countrymen. male
and female, of African descent. When the time
: comes, Memphis will be lovely city. Its walks
and promenades will be Illuminated by the smil-
ing faces and brilliant eyes OF the graceful and
accomplished sons and daughters Of Lincoln and
liberty, OF darkness and Ddhomey. True,
State Constitution and laws. like those of Ili-
nois and other loyal States will not permit free
negroes to come within our State, nor eniran-
chised slaves to remain there; but from military
necessity or. as high official expresses it, from
the er neceSS'tate rel of the thing" they
plan recently adopted in South Carolina of sell
ing there the lands of rebels might be adopted
and thereby Memphis mi ght soon become "a var-
egated city" Our white and colored brethren
and sisters might thus furnish an example of that
freedom and fraternity" which so many unhap-
py Northern spnsters sincerely regard as the only
means of compromising the present unhappy
distinctions of color
You should by all means, pass resolution in
: favor OF giving such rebel farms and towns lots
as are not needed for our colored brethren TO
Christian friends OF the North who desire to live
among their colored friends, particularly to that
numerous and respectable class who think that
both races will be improved by cross Of the
Anglo-Saxon upon the pure Guinea. "When
this cruel war is over" how our Paslm singing
t brethren from the Church of the Puritans would
enjoy Confederate farm upon Big Black. Red
River, the Arkansas or Pontchartrain! When
the rebels are disarfhed, how meek and lowlv,
docie and penitent they will be while bchodng
, our Northern brethern occupying their mansions
and Illustrating the beauties of General Banks
apprentice system! With what impunity General
Butler would ride from mis- plantation on Moon
Lake to his rancho Deer creek! Then would
be made m nitest tho absurdty of those Copper
, head croakers who ioolshly insist that, while
military power can put down rebellion, moral
power alone Can eradicate its consequences and
keep it down.
1t is true, they cite the example Of Vcndee;
which, in area, is only about onetortieth part of
France. There, we admit. the peasantry believed
that their relig on was endangered, and history
records that they defeated six or seven OF the
best appointed armies which the French republic,
in that warlke age, could hurl against them. 1t
is also true that afterward when Carnot
made Minister Of War, he quieed tho people by
assuring them they should be undsturbed in their
rei gous uith. These mischevous fautlnlers
to give further force to their insidious assaults
upon our orthy Pres dent, point also to Poland,
in which the fires OF rebellion ever burning;
but they forget that the Car Of all the Russias is
in all respects inferior to our model President,
and is wholly Ignorant of the true means of quiet
ing Il disafiected people. 1t never occurred to the
aforesaid Car that, TO squelch rebellion etfsctu-
ally. the cause must be removed. And had he stud
led the history OF rebellion in this country he
would have discovered that we always ascertained
the cause, the evil, the sim which gave pretcxt
to the insurgents For example: During the
Administration OF General Washington y portion
Of the people of Pennsylvania got up a rebellion
about whiskey. 1t WAS crushed out by "coer
cion;" but the sagacions statesman of that n day
determined to strike at the cause The result is
the people of TINT noble Commonwealth have ever
t since eschcwed whiskey and turned their atten-
tiOn to contracts. Nothing is now known in that
State OF whiskey, and, though Mr.. Buchanan
used to recte some traditiOnary stories of "old
rye" to the Junior members of his Cabinet it is
well known that the sight OF Il bottle of pure
MonOngahea was as repulsve 10 his nature
ice water to a mad dog.
Subsequently, while Gederal Jackson was Pres
dent, the people Of South Carolina rcvolted at
taxation because some demagogues called it
high tariff, and asserted that the monster "stole
money from their unconscious pockets" The re-
bclllon, however, was "subiugated" by the mill
tary power Of the Government, and the cause
taxation OF course abolished. No tax gahercrs
have been known since in South Carolina. At a
later day. during the administration of John
Tyler, of the firm of ''Tippecanoe and Tyler too,"
some unwashed Democrats in Rhode Island TO-
mented grand insulrection aginst the sovereign
ty OF that large and populous State. The army
and navy of the United States by IL hearty CO.
operation with the 'loyalists" of that day, soon
overthrow the insurgents. Their Provisional
Governor, Thomas W. Dorr, was captured. denied
the rights OF 'belgerent." and sent to the
Pententiary. The Democratic plrty-the Cause
was abolished, as all subsequent elections have
shown, throughout the United States; The rebel
lion in Utah. which occurred during the reign of
the old public functionary is too recent to be for
gotten. The cause is doubtless fresh in the mind
Of every aged maiden lady in the loyal States.
The Republican instincts of our people would
not tolerate n monopoly in Heavens "last, best
was sent to Utah with instructions to conquer
the conjugal spirit OF Brigham. The Mormon
war ended glorOusy to our arms. The cause
was removed. Harems are now unknown TO the
Latter-day Saints, and Brigham like some lone
bird without a mate, "refuses to be cOmlorted."
have often resulted from difference of opinion in
regard to the true mode OF constituting the Bible,
and especially concerning the operation of the
, Holy Ghost. The have failed to abolish the one
or deny the other The result is that few coun
tries in Europe maintain the quiet which usually
prevails" along the Rappahannock.
1t should not be overlooked that our people were
very ignorant or they never would have been de-
, ceived by their reasonable enemies North and
South, OF our noble President. II was falsely
charged that he and his party friends did not de-
sire to suppress the rebellion without first sub
verting the rights of the States freeing all the
slaves and elevatng them to political equality
with the whites Our people being OF course,
very ignorant, believed all these false, scandal
Gus and malicious statements, and among the res
outions you will adopt at your meeting, there
should be one thanking his Excellency the Presi-