The Shasta courier., 1863-08-22
Democracy.

In all ages of the world canting hypocrisy
has assumed the garb of virtue to cloak ne
farious designs; bat it seems to have been
reserved to tho present time for assembling
to reach its elimination in the ranks of the
Copperhead Democracy. Claiming to be
true TO the country, they pursue line of
policy marked out by the Confederate press
to divide the loyal sentiment Of the people,
and by creating fire in the rear, give aid
and comfort to the enemy. In one breath
they assert themselves in favor cf the :: Con,
stitution as it Isl" in the next they advocate
Convention of the States to alter the Con-
stitution, by giving such new guarantees as
will answer the exaction of their Southern
brethren. Proclaiming themselves for the
"Union as it was," they endorse Vallandig,
ham, who proposes to carve four govern
ments out of the territory of the United
States; while on this western coast, in Sc
cret organization which they SO much
detest) they plot for the establishment of
Pacific Republic. (See Yallandigham N s
speeches and the Street correspondence. y
Announcing themselves in favor of {: a vigor-
Gus prosecution of the war until armed re-
bellion ceases" (see the call for their late
County Convention, and thYs inyeigling
war Democrats into their ranks, they oppose
all war measures Of the Government and
openly aft late with those whose darling wish
is the success of the rebel cause. Protesting
to be the friends Of the soldiers of the Union,
they take advantage of. their absence in
the field of battle, attempt to deprive them
of the right of suffrage, thus repaying the
most unselfsh patriqtisT with disfranchise-
ment. iSee Seymour's message to the last
New York Legislature.) And here in our
own county, imbued with the same spirit,
they confer nomination on one who, to use
his own language, "would rather give five
dollars to buy rope to hang our volunteers
than to contribute dime for the purchase of
their Company flag" Pretending to be
tie especial friends of law and order, they
position to the laws of Congress, and at
tempted notification of the draft, and thus,
by crippling the Government, attempt to
subject the country to humiliation and dis
grace. Lacrymose over the deserved arrest
of Vallandigham, they have no tears for the
martyr O'Brien, who in the commercial me-
tropolis of the nation was brutality murdered
in upholding the laws, and this is the party
which, to use the words of another " has the
unblushing ell, ,ontery to represent to the yo-
tiers of California that the safety of the re-
public and the welfare of the nation will be
saved by the election of their immaculate
nominees
But the people will decide at the approach.
ing election lip devotion to the Union is not
what is needed in the present crisis 'Tis
but n gossamer web that cannot conceal the
hideous form and rerulsive features of their
disloyalty. If the sentiment of Democracy
is to lead the people, it will not be the bogus
Copperhead Democracy of the yalandig-
ham, Wood and Tod Robinson school, but
rather that represented by those unfaltering
Hooker and Meade, or Butler, Bancroft,
Dix, Dickinson, Boutwell,. Wright of Penn.
sylvania, Wright of Indiana, Cass and host
Of others yet living. who stood around the
Administration of jackson. Yes it will be
the unterrifed Democracy of the Hero him.
self. when he caused quaking of the knees
of the South Carolina traitors, by uttering
the words, stThe Union, it must and shall be
preserved.
- - DouGIAs DENocRAT.