The Placer herald., 1863-05-16
THE PLACER HERALD.
AUBURN, MAY 16, 1868.
HEAVY LOGIC.

answer Democrats, who complain OF what
are admitted violations of the highest laws
of Federal and State Governments, and Of
the inalienable rights Of the citizen, that
such charges might reasonably be made by
the Southern people against the abolition
administrators of those governments; and
that therefore these charges must neces-
sary be false, and those who make them
traitors and rebels. 1t is a kind of argument
that saves brain work; any ass can utter it,
as it has neither reason or common sense in
it. We have but to illustrate this logic to
show the utter nonsense it leads to. For
example: the people of the South, eat, drink
and sleep, profess the christian religion,
read and write, pray to God, marry and are
given in marriage, hold elections, have
courts Of law, respect the Sabbath day &c,
therefore it is traitorous and reasonable to
do those things at the North This is their
logic. What miserable twaddle it is when
sited to the bottom. But they go a step
further than even false logic will warrant, in
their insane hatred towards their fellow,
citizens, who cannot concur with them in
their theories Of public policy,
If a Democrat complains of violence being
done his rights here, then they aver that
you mean to declare that the South is the
most free and desirable part of Gods creation
to reside in; and then exultingly confound
you with stories of wrongs suffered Ivy Union
lists at the hands Of secessionists in the South,
as if one could justify murder in Placer
county by citing horrid case of homicide
in San Francisco, or that case of bigamy
in California could be successfully defended
by showing that Brigham Young had two
hundred wives and a thousand children, or
justify the eating Of ones brother in the
United States by showing that cannibalsm
was legitimately practised in the Fejee
Islands. These cumming fellows (D maze
you say whether you will or not, that when
it rains here, it is sunshine in Sacramento
that if YOU crlicise the conduct of Judge
in the first judicial District of this State,
you mean thereby to say that the Judge of
the sixth Judicial District IS the very pink
of perfection although in fact, you have not
had the poor gentleman in your mind at all.
Indeed it is not safe to charge Tom Bell with
being a highway man, lest you thereby
prove Three fingered Jack and joaquin
immaculate saints Nor have we vet reached
the reductio ad absuydun1" of these phiIoso
pliers. Democrats have always regarded
the Government of the United States, AS
those powers conferred by the Constitution
upon the Federal officers, but we constantly
hear of persons being traitors, who oppose
the policy of those same officers, when that
policy is based upon theories quite at war
with the features of our Constitution. What
ever Abraham Lincoln assumes as President,
or Commander in chief to do, is, without
any regard to his legal right to do it, deemed
an act Of the government, and to criticise
such act, is extremely reasonable.
We are told that the Government is
"confident," or "tbe government has inior
nation" of this or that, thus expressing
the mental state of "the government" and
all the loyal" must walk up and say amen
to the intellectual whims of government"
Now if the mental state of "the government"
can be definitely known in one respect, why
not in another9 Why not let us know
whether "the government" has a portic,
serious or comic turn of mnds Will not
the court journals tell us whether "the
government" sleeps soundly, visits the
theatre, eats ham and eggs, or has mutton
chops and fried oysters for breakfast, does it
like wine for dinner9 and if so, what kind?
is It subject to the gout or chils and tevers'
If Mr. Lincoln is "the government" has it
ever had the measels? was it cross when it
was baby! did it love candy in its juvenile
daysl whose vermtuge was used in sickness!
These and many other facts are of deep
interest to 'the Goernment's loyal subjects"
If it is not Lincoln that is the Government,
is Hannibal Ilamin, Seward, Stanton, Hal
leck, or which of them is? Is Government
married. and happy in ins domestic affars'
we ought to be informad on these matters,
that we could worship as loyal subjects"
As absurd as all this is, it is when ey-
amined. the twaddle that the Sacramento
Union dishes out to the people, in different
forms every issue. You can't speak of that
paper as being what every one knows it is
aboitionist, but 1t comes back with that s
what they say In Richmond" Say the
Administration is weak, corrupt, inefficient,
and it finds as singular coincidence, that
some rebel paper says the same thing
Charge upon Lincoln an admitted violation
of his oath of Office, and it insists you are
praising jeff Davis Administration. Charge
that ten men we're murdered in Missouri