The Shasta courier., 1863-03-21
Democratic Addres. or secret Circular.


A copy of this address has been placed il
our possession, though without the sigma
lures. For some unexplained reason, tbil
document did not take With the people tt
whom it was addressed, and, in consequence
has been Withdrawal from circulation. The
first paragraph we quote is very good:
For nearly two years we have teen involv
ed in most sanguinary and fratricidal war
with all its attendant horrors and desola
tions. This rebellion was instigated by q
faction of infamous demagogues and fanatici
in q portion Of the Southern States of oul
Union, without even probable cause, provo
cation, or rational excuse.
But, growing more eloquent as he pro
ceeds, the author, In speaking of what be
calls a change of policy in putting down the
rebellion. gives full vent to his finer and more
patriotic feelings, in the following choice
morsel of denunciation:
Scarcely a year had elapsed before the gen.
erous confidence reposed in the Administers
ton was most foully and basely betrayed.
and the influence and controlling power Of
the Government was ypocritically yielded to
as miserable crew of bigoted,. traitorous
and sectional fanatics as ever disgraced any
country or age, since which time, the evident
object and purpose of the Administration,
under the PRESSURE and advice of Charles
Sumner, Horace Greeley, Thad Stevens and
others of the same ilk, the war has been, and
in future is to be prosecuted, rot for the pur-
pose of enforcing the laws, restoring the
government under the Union as it was and
the Constitution as it is, but for the revolu.
tionary purpose of establishing a /" New Ma
ton" by crushing out, by the force of Fed
eral arms, the domestic institutions of the
slave holding States, whose governments
have been usurped by rebel tyrants, to the
condition of servile dependent provinces. To
accomplish this mad revolutionary absurdity,
measures have been adopted, and policy
now being pursued, which every intelligent
and patriotic citizen is fully convinced can
only result in still more crushing horrors,
suferings and desolations, until the last rem
nant of our constitutional liberties is obliter.
ated in the 6endish struggle.
We would ask the author of this address in
what message, proclamation or order of the
present Administration does he find any such
policy as above stated, laid down or even
suggested. After complaining against the
arbitrary arrests made by the military au-
thorities in the several States, the address
proceeds as follows:
Fellow citizens: Those of you who honest
ly united your efforts to secure the success of
this fanatical, sectional element last year,
under the specious but false name of Union
Party,' must now be fully convinced that
you were then deceived, as the policy of the
party-as then openly avowed-has since
been boldly and treacheroasly repudiated by
the National Administration.
And yet the author Of this address, not
withstanding he admits that the principles of
the Union party were boldly proclaimed to be
to maintain the Government in all its integ-
rity, was known to be in open hostility to
that party during the last campaign. using
all his efforts to defeat its candidates.
The people well understand they motives
which prompted -this-address. and ALL mark
as 1nfaithfuIs country 1s<seo-, y
would uphold the name Democracy when
the nation is battling for existence.