The weekly Butte record., 1863-08-01
Position of Parties.


ereign citizens. Is to ascertain how they can
best serve the interests Of their country, and
the system Of government established by our
fathers, and beloved BIZ Us all. Il behooves
every one worthy to be free. TO first ascertain
this fact, and act upon il with Spartan firm
ness. We conjare the people Of California,
during the interim between this and the ap-
preaching election. to calmly study the posi-
tions and tendencies Of the two parties now
before them for endorsement, aud act as be-
comes intelligent men, for the party best caIcu
lated 70 perpetaate the noble Government Of
America.
The Administration or Abolition party in this
State have chosen for themselves the name of
Union party :" bat this is a political fiction
by which the leaders thereof have succeeded,
and still hope to succeed in deeeiving the peo-
pie into the support of their partisan policy
policy that never has and never will receive
the sanction of majority of the people of the
loyal States. These partisan patriots, who
care not q rush for the Government, except it
is controlled by their political views. having
succeeded 10 bullying the authorities into the
adoption Of their neFarous doctrines, against
their long struggling and better Judgment,
now approach tie people, and impudently as
sert that they are the only Union party,
and that all opposed to them ard their policy
are traitors to the Government, and friends Of
those who are in armed rebellion against it.
It is by this means that they have distracted
the people, helped themselves to positions of
profit, and increased the difficulties in the way
of the restoration Of the Union, the peace and
prosperity that formerly blessed the nation.
1t seems almost incredible that party
should become so infatuated. in the present IN
happy condition of the country, as to require
the endorsement by the people, of obnoxious
political doctrines, as the only way by which
they, being the party in power, will consent TO
a restoration of the Union. We can account
for their being sustained, for limited period.
by a patriotic and intelligent people, for their
constant and active efforts have deceived and
betrayed the people into the support of posi-
tion against which their natural instincts and
good sense and patriotism rebel.
To strip the mask from this bogus Union
party" and view them in their true position,
should be the duty Of every citizen before con
senting to sustain them. In asserting that
they are not the unconditional Union party
of the country, and that they have chosen that
name, in this State, the better to assist the
Abolition and Spiritual fanatics who control
the Administration, in remodeling the Govern
ment in accordance with the notions of those
who have heretofore assembled on the birthday
of the nation, and consigned the Constitution
of the United States to the flames, and who
declared in May last, in public assemblage
that, should the present war cease, without
abolishing slavery. they would again consign
/ that instrument TO the fire. The so called
Union party" in California are acting in
unison with these men, and have surrendered
/ the control Of the Administration to them.
/ The unconditional Union party Of the Atlantic
States is that noble and glorious party who
7 laid aside every other consideration to sustain
the constitutional Government aud restore the
Union, and gave force and effect TO their posi-
tion by the election OF Seymour in New York,
last fall All the persecution that Abolition
fanatics could heap upon them. and all the
epitheS Of " Traitors " SecesSOnsts and
d" Copperheads,7 could not dive them from
their position, and compel them to abandon
the Government of their fathers for tie sup
port of the policy of a temporary Administra-
ton. The Democracy Of New York went
into the canvass as an unconditional Union
party, while those with whom the 50 called
" Union party IN this State are acting en-
tered the canvass with policy without which
they did not desire. and would not have union
This Union party Of New York and other
Northern States is in perfect harmony and
sentiment with the Union party of the border
States, and we ask the patriotic of all classes.
if there can be any reasonable hope Of a resto-
ration Of the former relations Of the Union IN
less there shall spring up Union party in the
States now in rebellion? In Kentucky. the
Union State Convention adopted resolutions
against the war policy Of the Administration
the whole Union State ticket stand upon those
resolutions.
As showing the position of the Union party
in the Atlantic States, we make the following
extract from the Louisville journal, of June
10th discussing the qualifications of aspranis
FOR the State Legislature:
We are told that there are some few, some
very few aspirants for the Legislature. who.
calling themselves Union men. are not opposed
to the Presidents emancipation proclamation.
If there are any SUCH and if they would in
good faith serve the Union cause let them for
the sake of that cause, get or keep quietly out
Of the way. They are. as they must know al
direct issue. upon that matter, with the Union
party OF Kentucky. There is no emancipation
proclamation party il this State. ard one can't
be created. There is 20 party here that goes
for the proclamation as either political or g
military measure. The body Of our population
believe that it is injurious to the nation in its
military operation, aud. il possible, still more
Injurious to it politically. No weliuformed
man doubts that it has helped to divide tie
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