The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1865-04-15
WHAT NExT1

Administration speakers, organs and
bummers inform us, with q chuckle of in
tense delight, that slavery is 'gOne inin-
stitution"-that It will never again be q
disturbing element in politics. Admit it,
and what is to become Of the Abolition
party I-the party now dominant, power
full and arrogant. 1t was organized for
the express purpose Of abolishing slavery;
that it declared to be its mission, and it
has accomplished its mission. For a
period of twenty years thT sNSject Of
slavery has furnished its leaders their on.
" political capital. Fanaticism seized it
and:dupes and charlatans embraced It. We
have experienced its disastrous Effects
1t has been the constant theme of the
widest defamation and inflammatory ap.
peals to the passions. 1t has more impe-
ded wholesome and necessary legislation
than all other causes besides. Measures
the most needed and salutary-laws most
imperatively required by the great inter-
ests of the country, and especially by the
people of remote sections, have been stop.
ped in their passage, often on the very
eve of their enactment, to give place to
the renewed clamors of Abolition agita-
tors, reviving, for the thousandth time
the discussion Of negro slavery. But for
the dirty dia.ribss Of these brainless DEM
agogues, the country would now be en-
joying peace and unexampled prosperity.
They involved tire country in q most
formidable and disastrous war, and have
inflicted upon their fellow-citizens the
most grievous calamities They have
demoralized the public mind and corrupt
ed all the channels Of public business,
embarrassed and we'll nigh bankrupted
the treasury, placed the business and in
dustry Of the country upon an unstable
basis, ruinously enhanced the prices OF
the necessaries of life, snatched from the
hand of labor its adequate reward, fright
fully increased taxation, brought sorrow
and mourning to thousands of homes,
filled the whole country with cripples and
graves but then they have abolished
slavery and accomplished their mission !!
Ought not the people to be satisfied, il
not gratifcdH Has it not put an end to
the Buncombe speeches on the rights Of
the oppressed bordmen"? On whom
now will Sumner and Wilson and Wade
and Jim Lane and Greeley vent their
spleenP What now will they do with
their choice epithets,so musical to refined
and cultivated and Christian Abolition
ears, which they were wont to bestow
upon the people of the South? "Slave
breeders" &C. The lash Of the hell hound of
slavery" and other elegant expressions
will be useless hereafter. What new sub
ject for agitation, designed to provoke
implacable sectional animosity, will they
Start? They must agitate and their thirst
for blood is Unsuitable and their hostility
to the people of the South relcntless.-
They will not rest satisfied with what
they have done. Emboldened by sue,
cess and elated with pride, they will seek
some other cause of quarrel. They be-
lieve they have reaped harvest Of honor
and gain in their conflict with the South,
and they want more. 1t matters not to
them that their fanaticism has been o
fruitful source Of evil to the country. 1t
gave them position and wealth. That we
should have been happier, better and far
ther advanced on our march to greatness,
as a people, if their advice had been un-
needed, none will deny.
Slavery, and the antagonistic exaspera-
ton it produced, constituted their entire
stock in trade. Slavery agitation was the
very breath oftheir nostrils; they flourish
ed on it; grew fat and sleek and boastful
They tell US it is dead and seem rcjcced
at the death of their bencfactor. Good.
If it be dead, it is useless to agitate it and
they are bankrupt. Their capital has
vanished. Their philanthropy dodge is
played out. What next? What new
subject will they introduce to keep up
sectional strifeH When slavery died their
own party experienced the throes of dis
solution. Slavery is dead and SO is the
Abolition party. Laus Dec!