The weekly union record., 1865-09-02
To Union Men.

Appeal:
The most important State election, except
ing perhaps that when the rebel sympathizing
Mcconnell was defeated by Gov Stanford, is
DOW at hand. Ii behooves every sound, sensi
BILE man 10 recognize real issues aud discard
those advanced BY demagogues and Office
seekers. What are the true issues?
| l. The maintenance of the Union party
A set of guerrillas are making war upon the
party that has the holest and highest record
ever obtaining power 10 this country. 1t is
the party that has saved the country from dis
solution. 1t is the party to which we owe all,
and through the iDstrumentalitg of which are
able today TO say i" we have country" But
for the Union party the United States would
have been divided into independent States, or
into two or three conflicting and jealous Re
pubics. Perhaps into warring. jarring and
dependent States, as weak and vasciuating as
those of Mexico, the prey of France and En-
gland. Through the power, patriotism and
irmness of the Union party, composed of old
Democrats, Republicans and AbolitioDists
Americans can boast of country-a great, free
and Republican Government. The first great
issue then before the people of California is the
maintenance of this great party. If the
Union party is kept intact, we are assured that
the work OF re organizing the Union, so nearly
completed, will be finished. If the Union
party is sustained the amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution, forever abolishing slavery,
will be endorsed by the requisite number of
States. If the Union party is sustained the
rebel States will be reconstructed with Re
publican Constitutions, and the great irritating
question of slavery. which has cost SO many
thousand lives and so many millions of dollars,
will forever be put at rest.
2. Though every Republican principle hin
ges upon the maintenance of the Union party
there are political questions only secondary in
Importance to the first which follow as coro-
larry. All the laws, State and Federal, which
have been passed the last four years, are at
issue in the approaching election. The poli,i
cal policy of the Government, as defined and
marked out by the laws of Congress and the
laws of State, are at issue. Shall the policy of
Lincolns administration be carried out, or
shall we 60 back to the Old Buchanan
Democracy, and begin anew the war for the
supremacy or death of slavery?
3. Shall the laws passed by the Legislature
of California in support of the General Gov
ernment be repealed, or shall they remain the
laws of the State?
4. Shall the Constitutional Amendment
abolishng slavery, be adopted, or shall it be
lost
6. Shall men who have denied the authority
of the General Government, spit upon its laws,
and expressed desire for its destruction, be
entrusted with its administration
These are some of the Issues pendant on the
election of the 9th of September. Let US now
see what question is not at issue
Negro suffrage is in no way at issue. The
Union party, the Copperheadsl and their allies,
the Boilers, are opposed to negro s'.ffrage. If
all are opposed, how can it be iD issue The
demagogues, who would obtain votes by enlist.
ing the prejudices of the ignorant, declare that
the Union party wish 10 make voters OF negroes.
The Boilers, who have sacrificed every principle
they ever proclaimed assure the people that the
Union party is in favor of negro suffrage. Now,
hou ,, D1l,
Bolter declares the Union party is in favor of
negro suffrage, is his word worthy of respect?
These Boilers. when acting in the Union
primaries and Union Convention, did not
charge the party, or believe the party, in favor
of negro suffrage, But as soon as they are
defeated for an Office, and move for Boilers
ticket, they are suddenly impressed with the
belief that the Union party is in favor of negro
suffrage. Though they nominate Union men
who have expressed formerly that negro's
vote was better than disloyalists they are now
all spontaneously opposed to negro suffrage .
But we asked how much confidence can be
placed in the declarations of these guerrilla
Boilers, who say the Union party is in favor of
negro suffrage? Those, who go about the county
making these charges, are self convicted, po
/ ltical perjurers. They went into the Union
/ County Convention, and there soemnly pledged
/ themselves to abide its acts. They failed to
receive nominations, and Immediately proceed.
ed to get up a Boilers ticket in violation of
these obligations. Who will then believe such
men, no matter what they charge? Having
acted so dishouoraby, can they ask MEN to
credit their assertions! If they declare they
are in favor or opposed to negro suffrage. or
that the Union nominees are in favor or op-
posed, what are their declarations worth
They deceived their Union friends in the pri-
maries and in the Union County Convention,
and are unworthy the confidence of Union
men, Copperheads, or even Boilers,
! Let Union men stand firm and true to the
/ TTnior orcenizatlon We are not fuhtinr for