The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1865-01-07

iect and reason and the teachings of the
Divine Master. We may soon have peace
and Union If we choose, but not BY war.
however successful. The conquest of ali
the cities and the dispersion of the armies
Of the COnfederacy will bring increasing
difficulties and enshroud the country in q
deeper gloom. Your means of support
will be distracted by increasing taxation,
your sons si:atched from you by frequent.
ly recurring conscription. Large stand.
ing armies will be necessary to preserve
the country in its forced allegiance. The
simplicity of your republican institutions
will disappear, and in their stead the cost
y machinery of government which en- &.
forces obedience by the fear it excites,
E''r<' .,>41S'e.J es1lH s|s1Ie .1ottiL Induces
For your own sake, and for that Of yoUI
poSterlty, we conjure yQu to turn back
from the path of danger, in which you are
now rushing forward to your ruin.
A GLOOMY FUTURE.-The great debt
has long since passed the 1000 millions
Of dollars line. 1t will reach 5000 mil.
lions OF dollars before the bloody car of
war can be stopped. The burden of the
debt is now beginning to weigh fearfully.
Everything but land has felt the wither.
ing, pOlluting touch of taxation. Trade
and commerce are blightcd, and the vigor
which once marked our progress in the
pathway Of nations is gone, perhaps for.
ever. Every thing born Of industry is
now to be cursed by taxes, and the com.
ing winter will find bill before Congress
fastening huge tax upon the broad acres
of the great agricultural body Of our pop.
ulation, which will complete the degrade.
ton of people once the proudeSt and
most independent on the EARTH National
debt is national humility and wctched.
ness. England is one Of the most wretch.
ed nations on Gods fuotstool. "Merrie
England" was heart. broken ages ago. Go
apd visit the mines Of Cornwall, where her
women are chained to cars by the side Of
dOnkeys, to drag to the light of day the
treasures dug there. 4 large portion Of
"Merrie England are born, grow up mar.
~, exist and die, in the black, damp gal.
le'ies Of her coal mines, and as for educa.
ton or knowledge Of the Bible, or God,
they are as Ignorant as the four.eggcd
brutes they work with. You will find
"Merrie England" in the care worn faces
Of Birmingham and Sheffield, the opera
tivcs Of which are crushed to the earth
with twelve to sixteen hours OF labor, for
a pittance that starvrs and wthers both
soul and body. You will find "Mrrric
England" in the stolid, brute like counter.
ances Of the agricultural field hands, whose
wages are carefully gagged to just the
amount necessary to support nature, and
not a mite more. What has crushed GU,
the manhood and the womanhood Of a
majority Of EnGland's sons and daughters.
\ national debt. The 1000 millions Of
dollars She owes to her so.called "high.
born, prncely few" who never toll, while
at least twenty millions of the COVER or
der are their slaves. who must wear out
their bodies and sou, in less than hall a
life time /" meet the taxes this huge debt
entails. This i your fate and mine, nv
,ahorin: friends. aud we have Abraham
L,ncuin and his Infamous party t. Thank
for it.-Day Book.