The Placer herald., 1864-04-23
THE ISSUES OF THE DAY.
De Tocqueville said:

| lie Iocquevllle SAID:
The negroes may long remain slaves
without complaining if they are once raised
to the level Of freemen, they will soon revolt
at being deprived of all their civil rights; and
as they cannot become the equals of the
whites, they will eventually declare them
selves as enemies"
No man who knows the negro will contra
dict the above. No calamity would be so
great for the United States or for the North
ern portion thereof, as the success Of the Alb
oltlon party in their war for the aboliti on
of slavery. They may call it a patriotic
war, or war for the Union, or they may
give it any other name that will tickle the
ears Of fools but it will not alter the princi-
pies involved, nor hinder the success Of their
arms from binging ruin and disgrace upon
the country. This is plain language; but
we had as we'll begin to talk plain. The
"Government" party are now fully commit
ted to the policy Of giving social and polti
cal equality to the negro, ahd if they con.
quer the South and carry out their plans Of
giving the negroes land voice in the ma
tional councils, the status of our Government
will 60 down to level with all the negro
governments; for the reason that they will
hold the balance of power and shape the
Legislation of the country. In short time
after the experiment Of the negro equality
was tried, there would be party ready to
take grms to force him back into his inferior
position, aud the negro having been told Of
his importance, would object to this proceed
ing, and as De Tocqueve says, would revolt
and become the enemy of the white
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violence, the negro would be exterminated.
This is just as certain to follow the success
fuh carrying out of the policy of the "Gov>
ernment," as that the sun will rise tomorrow,
or as that any other of the fixed and immu-
table laws of God cannot be repealed or set
aside by man. 1t is not in the nature of
man to love his conquerers, and if the South
is subdued, her people will have to be PIN
ned to the Government with bayonets, and
be denied a free election of their representa-
tlves. A free Government cannot hold the
people occupying an equal amount of ter
rltory with themselves in subJectlon; but we
would require ''strong government"-on
SO strong that all our actions would be sub
lect to the criticism and condemnation of the
"Government"
i'O'O''uS tuaI Iuio wal 10 COu(IdIy W tu0
spirit of our Institutions, and destructive Of
the principle of self government, and that its
successful prosecution would result in evil
nothing but evl-we say that our voice is
for peace. War can never restore the Union
We may conquer the South and make them
lay down their arms but who will never re-
store the Union, and it is strange to us that
sane men never tolerated the idea of whip.
ping people into friendship. fellowship and
love. Let us, then, if war will not do it,
try the arts of peace, of compromise and
conciliaton If that will not restore the
Union, then we will never have Union
with the Southern States. We do not un-
derrate the value of the Union, but we would
like to be citizen of one grand and power
ful nation Of freemen, extending in territory
from ocean to ocean, and from the lakes to
the Isthmus; but there is one thing that we
like more than power and grandeur in a
government, and that thing is LIBERTY to the
citizen. Our forefathers did not fight for
dominion, and power and grandeur, but they
fought for the principle Of selfgovernment,
and for nothing else.
The issues in the coming campaign will
be peace and liberty, and law and order, on
the one side, and war, desolation, taxation,
negro equality and anarchy, on the other
Is it hard to choose? Colusa San.
ALPINE CoUNTY.-The following are the
boundaries Of the new county Of Alpine, re,
Gently organized in the Silver Mountain
District: Commencing at point where the
State line crosses the eastern summit of the
Sierra Nevada mountains, thence southwark
ly on said summit to Thompson's Peak,
thence westwardiy to Q. Kirkwood's on the
Amador wagon road thence south across
the north Fork Of the Mokelumne river to
the road leading from the Big Trees in Gala
veras county, near the Big Meadows, thence
eastery, in direct line, to where the So'
noma trail strikes the middle fork Of the
Stanislaus river, thence easterly along said
trail TO the summit of the Sierra, thence
northerly along said summit to the dividing
ridge between the West Walker and the
Carson rivers, thence northerly along said
dividing ridge to the State line, thence north
erly along said State line to the place of be-
ginning. For representative purposes the
new county is attached to Amador and for
judicial purposes to the Fifth Judicial District.
On the 18th day of August an election will
be held for county officers and for county
seat. Silver Mountain and Markleevile are
both trying their best to secure the advantage
of the location of the county seat. The first
number Of a new paper, the Alpine Chronicle,
will appear in few days, when we shall
probably hear further particulars Of the new
county, its productions and prospects.
Out Of party of l27 recruits sent from
New Haven under small guard, no less
than sixty deserted before reaching Bati-
more.
I'll. Dr.. N.Y.. 1890. kI,.t;.o Wol1>ar