The mountain Democrat., 1863-06-06
MntchIeas Insolence.
We extract the following from the
Sacramento Union of Thursday:

Sacramento Union of Thursday
Gentlemen will find that they will be
obliged to obey the law until it is de-
clared unconstitutional by the proper
tribunal, or suffer the penalty provided
for its violation.
Democrats have always obeyed the
laws, and always will, however oppressive,
partisan, unjust or unconstitutional they
may be; but what 6razeu fmr~@e,>Y< 10
hear this organ Of mobocrats talk about
constitution and laws and proper tribu-
nails, this sheet yet stained with the blood
of the victims of mob violence, this sheet
that is daily gloating over the suppression
of Democratic newspapers by mobs, and
is constantly but covertly and cravenlg
urging its party to commence the work
ofviolence in this State, to be followed by
robbery, arson and assassination! These
wretches ~&Ht 80 see our Own fair and
peaceful State "drenched with fratcr-
nal blood" Confident in their strength,
in the knowledge that they possess all
the arms and ammunition in the State and
control the military, they are impatient to
commence the work Of carnage and would
laugh, with detestable glce, to see every
Southern man butchered and every Dem
ocrat crucIficd who refused to bow down
and worship their masters at Washing.
ton.
No paper in the State more heartily en-
cournged and justified the Vigilance Com
mittee of San Francisco in their rebellion
against the Government, than this same
mendacious and venal and cringing Sac
ramento Union. 1t was profitable to do
so, and it did not hesitate to take the
profitable side, regardless Of laws, s,constitu-
tion>. justice aud humanity. Every man
acquainted with the dark and corrupt and
greedy antecedcnts Of the Union, believes
that if it were profitable and popular and
safe-no earthly consideration could get
the cowardly wretchcs who own and con-
duct it to expose themselves to danger
to advocate the cause of the "Confed-
crate States" in California, the Union
would be their obsequious organ. Strange
that the hands of these advocates Of mObs
do not fall palscd by their side when
they write Of broken laws, and their
tongues do not blacken and blister and
swell and choke them when they speak
of 4 violated Constitution. For years
the editor Of the Union has been the
mouthpiece Of treason in this State, the
humble, sincere, ardent follower of Phil
lips, Helper, old John Brown, and other
Abolition traitors: and but a short time
ago announced, with grand flourish Of
tumpets, that Mr.. Lincoln had issued
proclamation declaring Western Virginia
State of the Union! The Constitution
of the United States, which this Mr.. Lin
coin swore to support when he was in
auguratcd, says:
" New States may be admitted by Con-
grcss into the Union; but no new State
Shall be formed or erected within the ju-
risIiction Of any other State, nor any
State he formed by the junction Of two or
more States. without the consent of the
States concerned, as well as Of Congress. "
This is plain, pointed, unmiStakable.
The Constitution Of the United States ex-
pres>ly declares that "no new State shal'
be formed or erected within the jurisdic-
ton of any other State" Mr.. Lincoln
says, in defiance of the prohibition Of the
Constitution, it shall, and the Abolition
traitors Of the Sacramento Union, instead
Of censuring or rebuking him for over
riding the Constitution, pat him on the
back, say it's all right, go ahead--we'll
stand by you. Mark the duplicity and
scrviiity of the editors of the Union,
citizens of California.