The mountain Democrat., 1865-10-14
A BIAek RSeSrA.

Asaieyi Tue euIsdsTy OF Oueses Enu'
lips, Sumner, Ffed. DOsgIaS 4 Co., who
was sent to this coast for the double puf-
pose Of converting the people to the radi-
cal negro equality programme and to or
ganiEs party 10 opposition to the Presi-
dents reconstruction policy, said, in his
harangus at PlAtt's Hall, on the 18th Of
last month, addressing the lOyalists Of
San Francisco;
I said, substantially, shat the auti.slavery
men Of the United States had destroyed the old
Whig and Democratic parties."
Partly true, partly false. The "anti.
slavery men destroyed" 1t is true, 1.-THE
old Whig party" but the Democratic
party still lives, in undiIninished vigor,
purity and hOpsfulness and it will con.
tinus to live long after such puny asSail-
ants as Ashley and men Of his stripe are
dead and forgotten. A party that sur
vived the fierce attacks OF the eloquent
and gifted Clay and the profound and
logical Webster, has nothing to fear from
the Malignant assaults Of such fanatics as
Sumner and egotiSts as Ashley. 1t was
great before trey entered the political
arena, and it will be great when they pass
into obscurity. As we'll might thsv at.
tempt to drain the Mississippi with =
squirt, as to arrest the onward and splen.
did march Of the grand old Democratic
party.
Ashley might, with truth and justice,
have mentioned something besides I" the
old Whig party" which the anti slavery
men had destroyed. They destroyed
confidence between the North and the
South destroyed respect for the laws,
which they violated with impunity de
stroycd reverence for the Federal Constr
tuition by declaring it "a covenant with
death and league with hell -; destroyed
attachment for the Union by encouraging
John Brown to make war upon Virginia !;
destroyed love for our National flag by
sneeringly calling it "a Haunting lie ;" de.
stroyed property by stealing it from the
South; destroyed order and peace by mob
bing citizens in search of their stolen
property; destroyed thousands of lives
by provoking civil war destroyed Courts,
the ballot box, freedom Of speech and Of
the press, trial by jury and civil liberty
by establishing military commissions and
employing spies and iniormers to bear
false witness against their neighbors; de.
stroyed religion by introducing politics
into the pulpits And unless arrested in
their mad career will destroy the coun-
try. Their destructive faculties are enor.
nous, and restrained by no law, human
or divine. For "more than thirty years
the Anti-slavery men" have "labored,
with diligence that has never tired, and
q perseverance which has never faltered,"
to "educate the North to hate the South"
to breed dissensions between the two sec.
tions; to make the institutions of the South
odiouS and her people discontented and
apprehensive Of serviIe insurrection to
make her property insecure and her laws
. nullity; to create 4 prejudice against
her everywhere; to drive her from the
Union or to provoke her to hostilities.
" Anti-slsvery men" boasted that they
had her in their power that they would
grind her into powder that they would
arm her slaves and encourage them to use
them against their masters and their mas.
ters families; that they would not live in
. Union with slaveholders. "Anti.slavery
men" defeated the Crittenden Resolutions
the passage Of which would have averted
the war, rejected all peace propositions.
and frantically cried for q a. little blood
letting!" "Anti.slavery men," Judge
Douglas stated on the floor OF the Senate,
and the statement was not denied, "are
responsible for the war" "Anu.slavsry
men, said Andrew johnson, in Congress
on the 18th Of December, 1859, "are en-.
gaged in the work Of destruction, and in
violating the Constitution Of the United
States" "Anti.slavery men" passed the
reasonable Personal Liberty Bills. IAN.
ii slavery men" of California have con
tributed funds TO puI chase n homestead
for the family Otto use the emphatic Ian.
guage Of President johnson, "a murder.
er, robber, thief and traitor! And
these men. and this party and its plat
form, blackened with crime and stained
With blood, this man Ashley boasts of and
has the audacity to ask the people Of Cal
ifornia to support!
: We repeat that Mr.. SpraRue Was slaughtered
BY the Breckenridge element in the sn.called
Democratic State Convention. - Marysville Ap.
peal
1t seems natural to you to invent and
" repeat" 9 falsehood. You do it with
hraEenness exquisite IN its Shamelessness.
We placed Mr.. Sprague in nomination;
Judge Thomson. of San Francisco sec.