The weekly Butte record., 1863-02-28

which it has not been that the burdens of the
war would not be felt by the Northern people
and other nonsensical braggadocia, which hIs-
tory has stamped as fraudulent and void
Upon these and other like arguments the
Abolition or Republican party obtained power
and led the country into the antisla7ery cru
sade which they are now pursuing by force Of
arms
Was there ever more signal list of fallacies
published to the world Was ever party 50
completely stripped of all their past professions
and promises
Yet they still ask the people to support
them; to forget promises and professions uow
broken and good for nothing to forget the
hundreds Of thousands of dead and manned,
and the thousands of millions of dollars sacri6-
ded to false ideas and incompetent manage
ment, and TO hope that in the future they will
do what they have not done in the past-dis-
play practical abilities. and govern the nation
by the stern teaching of facts, instead of the
wild vagaries Of their visionary theories.
The worst of their failures has been upon
the nigger, They do not now pretend even
that he pants for freedom" as they contend
ed in the beginning. and as every sensible man
then knew, as well as he does pow, that he did
not. Instead of flying TO arms for bis liberty,
he has TO be punched, and poked, and procla-
mationsd, aud stirred up in various ways, none
of which have been attended with any con-
spicuous success.
CALIFORNIA AND MASSACHUSETTS.
The patriotism of California has boiled
over" California is right in desiring to do
what she can to put down the rebellion, but
altogether wrong in furnishing troops to fl
the quota of Massachusetts,. Did it ever occur
to CalifOrnians that, the high prices they are
paying for everything is consequent upon the
protection afforded New England manufactu-
rers? II the California press is paying, now,
100 per cent advance in the price of printing
paper it is because New England refuses TO
give up the duty of p per cent on the import
ed article. 1t is so upon everything else. The
West pays the enormous duties, and the manu-
facturers of New England divide their hundreds
of thousands annually: But the worst feature
OF the affair is the fact that New England
manufacturers, who refuse to go to the war.
and whose places in the army are now being
filed by patriotic Calforniaus, are now enga-
ged in shipping shoes and clothing to the re-
bels. This is positive fact. These supplies
are shipped 10 Canada, ard from thence to
Nassau, where they await an opportunity to
run the blockade, The abolition Puritan pa
triots Of New England are thus making too
much money to think of joining the army
They can afford to make great display of the
patriotic CalIfornians who come to take their
places in the ranks, while they furnish the re-
bels with supplies, and divide the per cent of
forded by this contraband trade, and Morrill's
protective tariff Out upon the Purtanical
hypocrites They feast the patriotic CaHfor-
mans who come to fight their battles. and then
provide the rebels with means to destroy them
PEACE PROPOSITION.
An important measure has been iptroduced
into the Kentucky Legislature. 1t is in the
form of resolutions declaring the attachment
OF that State alike to the North and the South.
and proposing, first, that the Federal and Con
federate authorities appoint commissioners to
consult and prepare such amendments to the
Constitution as will be satisfactory to both
sections; and, secondly, that the Legislature
of Kentucky appoint commissioners who shall
wait upon President Lincoln at Washington
and President Davis at Richmond. and urge
an armistice and the appointment of such com
missioners, and visit the Legislatures of Illinois
Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania, New jersey and
New York, and seek their cooperation in pro-
curing suspension of hostilities during nego
tlations for peace and re union
PURITAN PATRIOTISM.
Hon. S. S. Cox. of Ohio delivered an eo-
qnent address Oh this subject before the Young
Mems Democratic Union Association of New
York, few days since. He spoke of Puritan
ism as a reptile which had bored a hole in the
embellishments of the Constitution and let in the
flood of war 1t must be crushed. a. d the
mound re built. But it will not be done bv
the present Administration. We must patient
ly wait and work for two years for better
policy. Meantime, new schemes of division
may distract US. Strife may come between
the people of the North, because the reptile
brood still fourishes 1t is not confined TO
New England. l fear new alliances among
the States and fresh conflict among the peo-
pie speak as Western man, ever opposing
all schemes of diyision-still opposing them
but speak to warn. The erection of the Mis-
sissippi States into republic, standing on its
resources besought by South and East choos-
ing for itself its own cheapest, best outlet to
the ocean and market of the world, is DO
dream"