The mountain Democrat., 1863-05-09
7 NUNNBE
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The danRaro1s sselle
which now controls our httl6hsl 4,
appears TO have run ISEd iAIls - -
domination and power: WheFetsF the
Republicans have 3ttA Asd ssuptt
seiaiug with reckless hand the 49, -
government, they-haFV=sFi1ensD
rights Of their fellow-eitizens ,aAa 4FUn-
Piled down the laws Of their co9ptrXs1f
This party seems TO think that mincl1kieA
hdve no rights; that political CPpesseHtS
are entitled to no regard Or eenSSdsAtteni
All their energies ara bent to waaksa1ae6
destroy their opponents, and to build IN
gigantic political structure, founded
upon the negro equality basis Of freS gov
erument. This is the uniform c0uFsS sot
leRislation with them. 1t is the same IN
our State and National Administrations
They legislate not for the good Of the
whole people; but with an eye single to
the success of AbolitiOnism and the OvoVs
throw of slavery. 'c'- ;.ar -s-l'o
This party entirely fOrgets or ignores
the fact, when it attains power, that pub
lie officers are the servants Of the people
generally, without regard to political Opitr-
ion, and that tits their sworn dutyt fabet
impartially for the good Of all This, q
the principle Of free representative govern
ment. We deny not the right of tbs party
in power to fairly advance its own Opln-
ions and strengthen its own cause; bot ~G
do say that this should never be done IN
disregard of justice and at sacrifice OF
public interests. -.. .--.,r---..-.tf
If there is a man in the country who
has not remarked the intoleraDt, selfish
policy of the Republican party, as dis
PLAYED in the North, East and West, and
shown by its fragrant injustice to the
Southern States, he must, indeed bO Z
poor observer of passing events- SincS
the advent to power OF Republicanistn.
what has it not done that is nnwise, inn
polite, corrupt, unprincipled, and in open
violation of the Constitution and aa@s q
the land Take the action fiths IiaDt
Congress- controlled, and governed As i
was by the Republican party. See It's
course on the compromise measures d
Douglas, Crittenden, Bigier and Rice
measures which would have saved the
Union and averted civil war. A solid,
united vote of the Republican members
defeated each and every proposition to
save the country from disunion and fra
tricidal strife. In the language of Senator
| Chandler, OF Michigan, the people wanted
"a little blood-lettingl" Have they not
had it? And has it all been on one sidel
| The desire for disunion and q morbid
thirst for blood animated and actuated tho
Republicans in this suicidal course. ThS
record shows it, and the day will DAWN
ere many years have rolled around the
calendar Of time, when q long g.sufering
and outraged people shall hold them to q
fearful accountability. Upon other meas.
nres of public policy the same spirit Of
partisan malignity has been repeatedly
exhibited. The negro, the contrabAndSs
the American citizen Of African de.
SCENT" 80 called by the Presidential head
| of our nation, occupied almost exclusively
| the time and attention Of the last Con-
gress. A stranger foreigner, from reading
the proceedings OF that body; would be
Impressed with the idea that theysWete
legislaling for some negro eolpnyi instead
of q government Of free born, white men.
Look at the bill recognizing the negro
governments Of Hayti and Liberia, sad
admitting its sable representatives to an
equality with the highest functionarieS in
Washington City the bill to emat1cipate
the slaves of the South !; the bill to pro-
tect negroes coming within the Federal
lines the bill to coloniSe freedmen Of the
African race; the bill to compensate loyal
owners for the freeing.of their slaves; the
bill declaring universal emancipation3 and
an indefinite number of other bills Of
like complexion and character.
The short.t tailed politwogs of the Abo-
lition crew in the Legislature Of this State
have followed in the footsteps Of their
Eastern brethren, legislating exclusively
| for the benefit of themselves, and doing
Q civil war. Their iUitiatory more, the
nOtarial bill, was one of despicable mean.
ness, and served to indicate by what lofty
ideas and principles they would be actua-
ted in their law-making career. Since
then they have passed by strict party
vote the negro testimony bill, the test oath
bill for litigants and lawyers, the soldiers
bill, allowing volunteers to vote, whesever
they may be, for State and county ofi-
GERS, and numerous other bills of q like
character. Mixed up with these we have
been RECALLED with nigger speeches, fhstian
resolutions about the Union, and whole
sale robbery bills for the emolumeht of
Republican spectators, thieves and stock
ioGbers. The mind revolts with disgust
at the contemplation of the foul mass oi
disgraceful acts passed by this body. II
is shame that our statute books must be
encountered with such villainous trash.
But so it must be so long as demoralized
set of fanatics rule the destinies Of oul
State and nation.-[Sonora Democrat