The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-21
THE PLACER HERALD.
AJ8UGN. MARCH q, 1868.
A VOICE FROM THE EAST.


learning come from the east" and whether
true or false in the main, it is fact that the
Atlantic States, at this time, are speaking
words Of wisdom to California, which her
people should hearken to and ponder well.
The copperheals-tha hats the modern slang
phrase in use by the abolition press, applied
to the democratic people of those States not
in the Southern Confederacy-are every
where victorious in the recent elections
There is nothing eqnivocal about the politics
of these successful democrats-they every
where fight under banner upon which is
inscribed "the rights of the citizen, and the
sovereignty of the States. They denounce
the tyranica usurpations of the Federal Adj
minisirAion. illegal arrests, unconstitutional
legislation by the Abolition majority of Con-
gress, unwarraned assumptions of the Exec
ulive, the infamous doctrine of necessity IS
an authority for assumption Of powers never
conceded to the government. by either the
people or the States. and the prosecution of
the war for the purpose of ahoIltionism -
There is no trucking to power among these
men. There is an unwavering integrity, and
a high wrought purpose to arrest the course
of this corrupt and fanatical administration,
not to be mistaken. The people are falling
back upon their reserv ryhts--estab 'i>h
ING power ut home, in the States indvdn-
ally. upon which they can rely for pr"ter
ton and support, should thick night over
spread the sliv, and the lightnngS of wrath
threaten them from the outside. You have
but to listen to the voice of Ohio, Indiana.
Illinois. PENNSYLVANIA. New York, New J-r
sey and New Hampshire, to become convne'
ed that there is with the people of those
States no sIavish submission to the nsoen
dctaion Of the Lincoln dynasty. You will
not find in their creed any place for that
modern fungus Of Republican mi>rnle so os
tentaliou>lv promulgated 10y Mr.. Linroln-
1.-The States are not sovereign-lhey never
were overeion-thpy are to the Federal
Government as County is to a Stale-to
be made or unmade at the pleasure Of the
Federal power
A CLEAN of light is beginning to find its
way through the bef,gged brains OF R-pub
licans, and making an eleventh hour repen
lance, they join hands with those they have
denounced, as "doughlfaces," and now as
"copperheads." and are endeavoring to res
cue New England, if possible, from threa' en-
ed doom. States. that in their blindness
and fanalicism, they fancied could not be
kicked out of the Union, and from com
merce with which, it is now apparent, they
derived their prosperity, they now begin to
sec cannot be forced into measures The
sacred soil of Virginia." at which they scott
ed and made merry, is no longer a jest, but
has become terrible verify, as the grave of
many an unreturning brave, for whom they
mourn as among the dead, sacrificed to their
impous madness. New hampshire but n
short time since gave for The Republican
President a majority of over nine thousand
over all other parties combined, now changes
front, and these same maligned dough faces,
'copperheads,' and TRAITORS carry the State
upon An out and out anti war platform, over
all other parties combined. They heard III
.hos, old granite hills of a war "to crush
out rebellion, va war to restore the Union,
and they have seen this war Systematically
used for abolition purposes and swim ling
war now openly waged to free the slaves
Of the South, and place them on political
and social equality with the willie man-and
they have heard too, The tax of "leaving
New England out in the cold,' and like pru-
dent men and true patriots, they 60 lack to
the faithful democracy for a remedy against
these manifold evils. They discard lheil
blatant clerical stump orators, and betake
themselves to men of tested patriotism and
political experience.
Connecticut is now in the field, and the
banners of her great democracy are freely
and dehantly flung to the Decentralization
ism already covers before the power of the
marshaling hosts, and the great sham phlIos
ophers of "a higher civilization" concede the
victory to the democracy.
It is undeniab!e that the people of al
those States, 10y being scourged 10y Fedora
usurpaiion misrule and corruption, have de-
.ermined to profit by the lesson, and-n"
that they love the Federal Government les.
but themselves more-are endeavorng It
establish themselves behind the barriers o
State rights, and remedy in the future the
wrongs of the past two years. They have
thus discovered and are about acting npo'
the true philosophy, which has made II:
heretofore great people because united
strong, because a pc pie of independen
States willingly combined for na iona pur
poses; doing justice and demanding justice
one from another; neither perpeIrating no'
suffering wrong at home or abroad, bat
bound in one great brotherhood hy the silk
en- bonds of conservative democracy
When we have discovered the national DUAL
ty which has chiefly made us great as a ma
ton, we cannot too warmly foster and too
earnestly encourage l.; we should break
down all barriers that oppose ii; ioresee. and
betmes destroy all principles that are likely
to check or prevent it, This reliance of 4
State upon It's people, and of mutual support
and protec,ion between Stae and citizen j.
the vestal fire which daily and nightly we
should keep alive; and we should consider
all our prosperity to be coupled with its ex
istence. This is our true principle OF actor
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