The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1865-01-14
The Golden onnortunitx.

An eminent criterion" said Burke, in
his great speech on reform in 1880, for
distinguishing a wise government from a
weak and improvident one, was this: well
to know the best time and manner oil
yielding what,it is impossible to keep
1t was the want OF this wisdom that in
volved this country in all the horrors Of
civil strifs4EThe craftsmanship that was
in powt Rdt The commencement Of our ma
tional difficulties, and which is still TO rule
us to our ruin for four years more, treated
he deep seated disconteats Of great
section as they would the wild fury Of a
moo tnat destroys mms ana pUWef- n",rn-.
Had they had the sagacity to have yielded
at once by concession, the trouble would
have soon passed away. The minds Of a
large portion Of the Southern people chung
with great tenacity to the Union. They
loved it for its historical associations
their ancestry, as well as our own, had
helped to make it, and nothing but the
insane rage Of abolition fanAticiSm could
have driven them out Of it. But even af,
ter the first battle Of Bull Run had open.
cd gulf between the sections. into which
has been poured oceans Of blood and
thousands Of millions Of treasure, this
Administration might have learned 10
yield what it was impossible to keep. 1t
was the same insane folly that actuatcl
Lord North and his followers in the policy
they pursued toward the people Of the
Colonies. There was time, in the ont.
set Of the colonial troubles with the moth.
or country, when an ounce Of concession
would have prevented disruption; but al
ter the first blood was spilled at LeXng.
ton and Concord. political wisdom should
have taught them how best to yield what
it was impossible Ia keep. Time has no,
bly, vindicated the exalted wisdom Of the
BurkeS, Lutteralls, Pitts and POwc>cS OF
that era; while it has covered with shame
and confusion the policy Of the crown and
its advisers Daring the continuance Of
the Revolutionary War, Fowls, dcnounc
ing the North administration, used the
following language concerning il, that
might be applied 10 the present Abolition
Administration
This whole war has been conducted
IN deluSiOn, every promise broken, every
assertion ialSiticd, every object rc,inGui>h
ed. 1t was row war for the support Of
government. now n war for coercion, thea
a war for the constitution. Now the rrb
els are in state Of exhaustion from OK
posture. without suitable clothes and ~it1.
out food for their furnishing bellies; and
again these haifclothcd, halffel wrrtchcs
are dlScOmtiting the best troops we can
send against them. or outmarUuvering
the ablest Of our generals by their state.
gy: and thus the people, the House and
the country have been dcluled, couiYuni.
ed, abused and cheated
1t is curious study to trace the par.
allcl that exists between ;hc policy %!
Lord North during the American REBEL
ion, and that Of this Abolition dynasty in
regard to the Southern rebellion. The
same glaring errors at the outset. In ref
ercnce TO the resources, power and cour-
age Of the coloni>ts, were repeated here
at the commencement Of the civil war, il
regard to the South The same conf.
dencc, bomhaSt and hc5toriDG bravaio
CharacteriZ. the statements in regard L.
the movements Of the Federal army To-
day, as filled the English journals daring
the progress: Of the revolutionary War,
in reference to the Kings troops. That
the end is to be similar, 10 wise man
doubts. AMI when that en,l comes, the
men who are now 80 willnlly blind WA
wonder at the extent Of the drluSioH t.
which they were male the Victims. The
English king dill not learn Until, Il va, to-
late "thc best time and manner Of We'll.
ing what it was impossible Ia keep
Neither will this Abolition dyna~ty.-
They will to,ter on in b'unders u the
last but when the people. in the nj l>t
of widespread ruin and hopeless bank
ruptcy. b'Sin to gaze around them ith
savage 10 k for the authors 81 their "a.
Iamlics, these fanatics VIII have to cal.
on the rocks and mountains 10 cover them
from the righteous indignation oi a De
ceved aud ruined people.