The Placer herald., 1864-06-04
From the San Francisco Hebrew.
Partisan Newspapers.

| When among animals, one of their mum.
Der is seriously manned or injured and 10
separated from the herd, then we find that
carrion birds, beasts and reptiles. guided BY
their filthy instincts, watch and seize upon
the crippled carcass as their Legitimate prey.
So, we also find among States and Nations.
when foreign and domestic wars threaten
their unity and strength, that partisan poll
ticians and peculating patriots, find their op.
portunity to fatten on the decay of their
country, and like carrion creatures, grow
upon its destruction.
Taking the press as a means, they estab-
lsh under the lion. skin of patriotism their
assinine stupidity and vitality, as We see it
shown forth in organs that daily meet our
eyes Haunting under some patriotic emblem,
and dedicated to the dominant political pow.
er by which they hope to build their fortunes.
These Bohemian wolves of the press, have
their various journals throughout the Repub.
c here and elsewhere; blatant, they daily
howl forth vtuperations, bIackguardisms and
abuse, against all who differ from them. but
not in argument or reason. They abound in
party-catch words. bearing the semblance of
loyalty to country, and fuIsome praises Of
those they hope will hold political power,
and aid them in grasping the spoils. They
cry aloud continually for our great national
Union, which to them is only stalking.
horse under which they would creep into
office. They denounce with low abuse. as
traitors, those who honestly doubt the capa-
bility of politicians as leaders, who, having
had almost unlimited means al their com.
mand, have accomplished so little.
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of hackneyed cant and stale loyalty, the
waving folds of the Stars and Stripes, on
which are emblazoned the words Liberty and
Freedom-yet it a freeman who truly loves
his great country, shall refuse to bow down
to their political idols they, with fou.mouth
ed lies, declare him to be rebel.
A half million graves are stained with the
best and bravest blood of our countryman.
and more than million, sad, hopeless hearts
weep for those who died to save our Union:
yet it is fact that will make a page Of our
history, that many, many thousands of those
precious lives were wasted, perhaps Mrovn
array, by the culpabe ignorance and want Of
ability in those who ruled. Now, if the peo.
pie, seeing and understanding these wrongs
and evils, cry aloud they must not continue,
but they must have able leaders and COM
manders to crush to death all rebellion, pre-.
serve the Union, and conquer lasting peace;
then we hear the hounds of mere partisan
press, subsidized by political party, howl
ing forth in universal chorus: "AlI who op.
pose US are traitors to the country, for our
party, is the Union."
They acknowledge great bunders and mis-
takes have been committed; they acknowl.
edge some hundred thousands of lives have
been thrown away; but with lying lips they
ask u.s. "Dd they not die for their countryl
DO not our rulers mean bones,l," There is
an old proverb which says: "uel is paved
with good Intentions"
Can not the citizens Of our country obtain
those above mediocrity to rule and guide its
destiny! Shall the bonds and fetters of ig-
noble partisan politics always so ensave and
crush down true ability that it cannot rise to
its proper level? Have the people, in their
blindness and sorrow of national evils, for.
gotten that with them it lies to choose, con.
troll and act? The paid scribbers of hire
ling press may deceive temporarily, but the
innate practical sense of the masses, will
brush aside their sophis,cal verbiage, as we
brush cobwebs from our windows TO admit
| the suns rays.