The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-04-11
THE PLACER HERALD.
AUBURN. APRIL II, 1868.
ON ,ETsbC SENSATION.

school, appear at this time, to be bent upon
magnifying "tritles light as air." into matt
tiers of vast State Importance. With what
object, we are left to conjecture. The cum
ming office hunter probably proposes to
himself to play over again the farce of 1861,
at which time the cry was raised against
Democrats, charging them with secretly in
tending to carry California out of the Union,
and asserting that they were combined for
this purpose in secret societies known as the
Golden Circle.
The timid were induced to give their
votes for Stanford d Co., under the impress
sion that CONFESS was not strong and that
if Mcconnell was elected he would insti'
tute revolution, but if he did not the Re
publicans would resist his Inauguration and
thus civil war would inevitably ensue
Al this date, no sane, honest man will
declare it his opinion that any such society
existed in this State, or that any such design
existed on the part of Mcconnell and his
supposters. 1t answered the purposes Of
asprants, and now they seek to humbug
themselves through again. To the malig
nant and intolerant there is another and
more grlifving result to be hoped tor,-one
that should startle every good citizen with
out regard to party predilections. If by
this means they can fill the hearts Of our
people with deadly hate, the one against the
ther,-excte to fury the passion, of their
more unthinking and inconsiderate parti-
IAN cansmen, they may induce the rising
of the mob and using it as a cats paw seek
the smotherel revenge Of coward hearts upon
those they dare not openly assaI. It is pos
sbe to bring this about The ridicule of
the great Yeast Powder rising has scarcely
subsidized, when we hear rnmors of ''seces-
sonis's, copper-heals and traitors" arming
themselves secretly. There is talk in The
Leg islature about treason being rife--new
oaths are provided, additional legislation is
needed to suppress reasonable manifesto,
tons, the organization Of Union leagues is
urged, the atmosphere is filed with suspicion
and v que talk of uprisngs.
TO back all this, there must be some
showing Of facts. Then comes the story Of
the pirate Chapman-a little ninety ton
schooner, fitted out with a cargo for trading
to Mexican ports; Swallowing this is the dis
covery OF terrible plot in Napa to seize
Mare Island, Alcatraz and Fort Point, and
before the imagination has cooled down,
terrible fellow turns up at Red Bluff with
secession flag, shouting for jeff Davis, and
this confirms all their preceding charges and
suspicious. Something, they say, ought to
be done, is rampant in the land -
traitors should suffer the fate so Justly mer
tied by their treason. General Wright is
appealed to, who issues an order warning
persons against "plungng into the yawnng
abyss of treason" and notifying such peri
sons-not that they will be dealt with accord
ing to law-not that he will do ANYTHING in
vindication of law and the Government-but
that "An indignant people wW rise IN their
majesty, and switt ret,ibatjre justice. wiU be
your certain doom." This is about the Ian,
guage of the Sac. Union, when it excuses
the action OF mob and would encourage it
to wilder deeds of anarchy.
Now what is this terrible array of facts,
upon which these suspicious are based and
which Justify this order of Gen. Wright
Let us see-we shall quote from war papers
The Territorial Enterprise concludes an
article on this affair as follows: The Chapman
affair was the basis for this new sensation. At
first we did question the piratiea nature of that
vessel. But plots are accommodating too thickly
The officials have all at once become too alert
They know TOO well where to go after conspira-
ces. In short it begins to look as il the thing
was stocked And finally, we suddenly remem-
Der that revelations have been made at Washing
ton which are likely to cost the principal Fedc
raj officers on this coast their positions. Sinking
men catch at sraws, and hideous secession con
spiracy handsomely defeated may rcinstate the
doomed officials of executive favor. Let the
Chapman case be thoroughly and quickly inves
tigated. Plot or play, that is the key-noter
THE Atlas HUMBUG. The United States
steamer Saginaw has not gone for Il cruise on the
Southern Coast (after secessionist~) as stated in
the morning papers. but has simply gone back to
Mare Island. The United States sloop- of-war
Cyane will remain in our harbor until the return
of the Saginaw, and we beg to assure our readers
that there is no danger order reigns in Califor-
MIA notwithstanding the efforts of interested par
ties to get up an excitement and make the people
in the East believe that were on the verge of
being voted out of the Union by few hundred
crazy secessionsts Benica is preserved; no
mares nest has been discovered at Mare Island
San Francisco is safe, and the Napa folks may be
happy gets. +. Journal
The Red Bluff Beacon, speaking of the
affair up there, says:-
"The Sacramento C,i0n whose articles is fol
the most part fair commenting on this circum
stance. says: There are several reasons tor be
lieving that this transaction was part and parce
of the general plan ~ which the secessionist