The Placer herald., 1863-05-23
WHAT THEY SAY IN RICHMOND.

Hes from the ApoltOn papers, insisting thal
the democrats Of the free States and the
secessionists of the slave States are laborino
for one and the same object, and advocating
that object by arguments identical in sense.
To every complaint made by citizen, con-
cerning the maladministraton of the Gov
ernment, and the violation of civil rights in
;he North, there is the same stereotypeds
answer uttered parrot-like in almost the
same words-"thal's what the rebels say"
or "that's such talk as would suit in Rich
mond." Now although there is no argument
in this if it even we're true, but it is the
stock in trade OF whole tribe of scribbers
and by repeating over and over again, may
induce some one to think that there is a
foundation in fact for it. These cauminators
would have you believe. that such men as Cox
and Vaandigham of Ohio are in secret com
munon with jeff Davis and are working hand
ia hand with the most extreme secessonists
at the Confederate capital, to the great det-
rment of the Union sentiment so much
boased and talked of at one time If these
thing, were facts, the Louisville Journal-
acknow lodged Union authority Ger.
tainy know it, and express it, in no unmis'
taxable terms. Now it so happens thai
this paper has borne testimony upon this
point, and in an article spes king of the
Northern Democracy, and the aid and com
fort they give the Union cause in the border
States says:
"We agree with our neighbor that th North
ern Democracy, and the conservatives who now
act with them, are all the friends Kentucky has
| in this contest
But we will not stop here,-w will 90
straight to the head quarters of rebeldom-
to the very mouh-pece of the Davis Cow
ernment-the Richmond Enquirer. Recent
ly that paper had an article on the Northern
Democracy, and it says, speaking and nam
ing Mesers. Valand CHAM and Cox:
'We wish from our hearts they were both
already safely chained up ut the present writing.
They have done us more harm. they and their
like. than ten thousand Stewards and Summers.
"Oh, Dictator Lincoln! lock ye up these two
peace Democrats together with Richarlson-in
some of your military prisons"
And in speaking of the Northern Democ-
racy as party, it says:
'Let our enemy appear az an exterminating
| Yankee host we pray, and not as a Democratic
Convention. Let him take any shape but that.
Already we have visions Of the men of feeble
knees, tender feet and undulating spines. losing
their sense and manhood by the contact as they
did, alas! so often before,'
Those fellows of the "feebe knees" the
editor was SO fearful Of were men with
Union sentiments aroused into vitality by
this same Northern Democracy, which the
AboIiIionsts of California are denouncing
as in league with the Ant-Union men and
traitors in the South. This leading editor
and supporter of secessionism is against the
Northern Democracy, and so are the Lincoln
men OF our own State. Nor does the En-
| qutrer stand alone; we have another excel
lent witness We wish to introduce. The
Richmond Eraminer of March 5lh, says:
ITO be plain we fear and disrust far more
these apparently friendly advances of the Demo
Gratis. than the open atrocity Of phlanthropists
of Massachusetts,. The Democratic party always
was our worst enemy; and but for its poisonous
embrace these States would have been free and
clear of this unnatural Union twenty years ago.
1t is not the Stewards and Summers the Black
Republicans and Abolitionists who have hurt us
They were right all along, there was an rrepress-
ible conflict.
The idea of that odious (Democratc) party
coming to life again, and holding out its arm to
us, makes us shiver. Its foul breath is malaria
Is touch is DEATH
Yes, the touch of Democracy is death to
disunionsts--it has been so for twenty years
past This is what they say in Richmond
does tins look like the "copperheads' were
) in league with those who are Dey Sc djsI
unionists of the South? On the contrary
is it not proof positive that they have always
p been Union men of the most practical and
absolute stamp? for they have retained these
dlsunlonsts for twenty years from their
: work of destruction. Who does this rebel
E authority declare to have been and are now
= the friends and workers for disuuion?- ?-"the e
Stewards and Summers, the Black Repubi-
cans and boli'ionists.' 1t is time the
people should understand this matter as it is.
The abolition papers whilst repeating these
taIsehoods against the Democracy. are also
= quoted from the Southern papers, showing
their disgust for the Democracy of the
North, about holding their noses, when
e coming in contact with Democrats, thus
showing that they were fully aware that
q they were uttering ISLANDERS upon their fellow
citizens, who may happen to belong to a
: different party When they speak of the
o "traitor NalIandigham" they know they
II utter foul and malicious lie,-they know
v that they do not wish the Union restored a,
II our fathers framed it,--and that Vallandir
e ham aud his operators do. Time and
again these Black Republican patriots have
Q declared against restoring the States with
their rights and the citizen in his rights, as
n they were, and this is exactly what please,
y the leaders in Richm mand-it is the very fac,
b that forces men, who retain some desire for
+ a restoration of the old state of affairs, more
l. firmly into the secession ranks. This show.
how they feeI-what they say-and the
reasons for the same, in Richmond /
a ought to satisfy any one, of the faIseness o
o these long-wiuded articles in the leading
Abolition papers, Northern Democrats anC
Southern traitors working in unison.