The mountain Democrat., 1863-01-10
Abolition Traitors.

l
Chicago Platform, gone in for the Abolition of
slavery as the chief end of the war. They
have indorscd, fully and unrescrvcdly, Lin
coins reckless and inhuman and unc0nstitu-
tiOnal emancipation proclamation, knowing It
to be Just us trcasGnablc as secession, just MS
wicked as opcu and armed rcSeSsa.sG Y|S5
are S.s. io,iSIS40g ih'the footsteps Of their il
lustTious predecessors, the negroes, who cele-
brated its promulgation on the first instant BY
the firing of caunons, &c. The members of
the Legislature were quite as foolish and ex'
travagant over it, and may derive as much
pleasure and benefit from it as their respecta-
BILE ulies. The negroes were excusable, but
we cannot say as much for their white imita-
tors. The best and the wiSest, the purest and
noblest men Of our country have condemned
it the lowest and vlest, the most ignnrapi,
and fanatical have approved it, and their APP
J ,,roEOJ sonros ~ h"ro 5NNile1 ,b~, rrsr"- -'F
he California Legislature.
Senators Harvey and Saxtou, of this county,
with impatient eagerness and becoming sim
! cerity, voted for the resolution indorsng it.
| The proclamation corresponds most fully with
| their sentiments, their feeling, their tastes.
| 1t is not quaGneu a6oitiOnisnl, it is the pure,
unadulterated, undisguised thing itself. 1t is
radical, so are they. 1t expresses the views
and wishes Of the traitorous band of Aboli-
tion leaders who have prayed and worked for
a dissolution of the Union industriously and
persistently and insidiously, for the last thirty
ycars--the Garrisons, Lovcjoys, Greeleys,
| Wades and Fred Donglases-and it expresses
-ifntrs. They are now with the party and fol-
low the lead of men whose sentiments they al
| ways secretly approved, Notwithstanding their
| repeated seemingly positive and indignant re-
pudiation Of them, but a short time ago.
Their vote has not disappointed US; VIC expect
ed they would vote for it and they have real
lied our expectations.
1t must be apparent to every intelligent
man that these Abolition emancipation trail
tors are disunionists; they advocate the eman-
cipation scheme because they know that it will
render the restoration Of the Union impossible.
Their contempt for the Constitution, for the
solemn resolves of Congress, for pledges vol
UNFAIRLY given, is not calculated nor intended
to encourage Union sentiment in the seeded
States; but it is 10 increase the bitterness in
the different sections and erect on the ruins of
the old Union a Northern Confederacy. Sup
pose the emancipation scheme to be practca.
ble-how much better are we off? Does any
one think that the two races in equal numbers
can live together as equals? What is to be-
come Of the emancipatcd slaves? Is their la.
Dor To come into competition with white labor!
If not are we 10 be taxed to support them, as
we are now taxed to support thousands of vi
cious and worthless contTabands?
The very men whose "pressure" forced Mr..
Lincoln to issue his emancipation proclama-
tion, have time and again openly declared that
disunion and eternal separation is preferable to
words, that they would SCOOTER destroy the
Government and the Union than restore the
Constitution and the Union as our fathers |
made them. " No union with SHAREHOLDERS"
is still their reasonable motto, and national |
rum is preferred to the Union as it was. Tn |
der the cry Of war for the Union they propose |
what will insure its dismemberment The |
Uuon is to be restored on its old basis, or
not at all, and SO the conservative people |
have declared but recently in the three great
Western and two great Northern States.
Let the conservative men Of California, the |
men who still revere the Constitution aud re-
gard the salvation Of the Union as an object for |
which no sacrifice is too great, reflect upon |
these facts, for they are facts. And let them ask
themselves whether duty and interest alike do |
not require that they should exert all their
power and influence to the overthrow of n par
ty which has shown itself so corrupt, so in
competent, SO tyrannicaI, so faithlcss to Con-
stiutional obligations, so utterly regardless of
the plaincst requirements of patriotic duty. |
All such men should separate themselves from |
the corruptionists and abolition traitors whose |
conduct and policy are rapidly consummating
the ruin of the country in the overthrow of the
Constitution, and unite with the Democracy
in vigorous effort to avert the impending ca
lamites which, BY the prosecution of their
schemes, the radicals will inevitably bring
upon us.
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