The weekly Butte record., 1866-09-22

Solemnity and Axtuteness OF Politicians.
In all trying periods in the history Of Constitu-
tonal governments. there should be unity Of action
On the part Of the Of the people if they would
preserve their system Of government. This was
the to sufficient extent during the existence
Of actual war against the government Notwith-
standing there were many measures proposed and
acted upon which were deemed nadyisabe by the
people. and politicians sought to make them the
pretext for changing the Administration, for
stopping the war, consenting to division of the
Union, according to their particular desires, the
great mass of the people only one great object
to be attained, aud overlooking every other consid-
Grafton pressed forward with the determination
that those who had taken the sword against the
government should perish by the sword Then
appeal like the following, was not made to the
people In vain:
''Do you not look with disgust and adherence
upon the preson who speaks with disrespect Of the
President and the Constitution, Ought he not to
be branded with infamy for disoyalty to the fags"
The unity thus attained through the patriotism
Of the people, secured the overthrow of the armed
force arrayed in opposition the integrity of the
Union, and the alarms of war ceased by force. The
pronounced By those who profess to know, of more
importance than that Of actual war and vet there
is a lack Of unity in the great party that carried
the country safely through prolonged war. Al
though the present is deemed equally as dangerous
as actual war, the very party who consider them.
can discount the rebels in their denunc of the
Administration, and that Administration is one of
their own choosing. We are not going to apply the
argument of the Union party in time of war against
the Union party in time of peace, although that
peace may be as pronounced, more dangerous than
actual war. Neither is our opinion important
to whether the Administration, or the party that
elected that Administration, is now right. We are
only presenting the curious and solemn phases of
partisan politics, in times of great danger. The
people have been too often tried TO suppose that
they will be influenced from what they may consid-
er right and proper by mere partisan denuncaton
"full of sound and fury sgnifying nothing" How
ever much politicians may have succeeded in mud
ding matters, the people will indicate the mode
and manner of settlement. Those who oppose such
action of the people can appeal to arms. if they
think they can be more successful than those who
have already tried it. Another war would not
leave it open question for politicians to debate.
whether States are in the Union. But we regard
all talk of between the Administration and
Congress, the idle talk of partizan frenzy, that
will ultimately exhaust itself in the discussion of
the platforms adopted by the two conventions re-
Gently held in the "City of Brotherly Love" And
curious phase of politics just now is that neither of
these platforms satisfy some politicians. We sup
pose they have made up their minds to be dssatisi
ed with the results of the war, and with every dec is
ion that it possible for the authorities, for the
people through the ballot box to arrive at, and if
they are not grumblers, they are nothing They
present the ridiculous spectacle of affirming by
their actions and arguments, that nothing is const
tutional that preserves the Constitution, and the
only way to preserve the Constitution is to destroy
it, or to declare ii imperative against those who do
not like the Union it forms. 1t was generally sup
posed that the two Conventions at Philadelphia
would present issues upon which questions involved
would be decided. This must be the result whether
some object to it not. Parties in the Atlantic
States canvassing for the pending elections
upon those issues. The San Francisco election was
desermined upon those very issues, except far
they were overborne by local considerations. They
have absorbed all other questions, and it is right
and proper that they should. The sooner these
questions are settled the better will it be for the
entire country, even if it should destroy the occu-
patton of some politicians, who appear determined
to remain tadpoes instead of dropping their tails
and adopting the locomoton of sensible frogs
Evidently the great desire of this class is to have
another convention, and probably every sensible
man is ready to eNclaim with Bobby Burns:
20 wad some potr-,ro,r the gift to gle EN-,
To see themselves others see en-
As an illustration, we give some of the objections
of the Marysville Express to the Philaphia plat
form of August last
'This platform is all very well for those who ere.
ated it, but il cannot receive the endorsement of
consistent Democrats. or the Democratic party of
California As body. Yet the San Francisco Err
dminer, paper claiming to full communion with
Democracy, adopts it as its own aud would have
the Democratic party accept it. To show that we
do not misrepresent the Examiner give its own
Language. Speaking of the Philadelphia Platform.
That paper says, I'VE accept it as compromise,
and would have the Democratic party accent =
That is to say, the Examiner would have Demo-
Gratis Of California assert true. what they have
heretofore pronounced as false The second resolu-
fion declares that 1.-The war just closed has main
tanned the authority of the Constitution" What
true Democrat can Assem-. to this Again, this
same resolution says, the just closed has
maintained all the restrictions which it the Consfi
e"htt'uj tuilc>tS upon Tue UeutIdl government,
unabridged and upaltered." Why Democrats have
constantly asserted that the General Government
was overriding aud setting aside these restrictions.
This same resolution TO tells that 1.-The war has
preserved the Union, the equal rights dignity and
authority OF the States. perfect and unimpaired.
What caricatme. Look at the bleeding torn
PROSTATE States IN name, but colonies in reality,
Virginia. South Carolina Georgia etc. TO say no
thing OF the outraged, called members of the
Union, Missouri and Tennessee.
Considering that the question must he settled on
the p Ian adopted by Congress. or upon the plan
adopted by the Administration, the political course
Of the Express does not seem entirely polite. 1t
should chose one side or the other or cease to com.
plain Of the condition in which certain States now
find themselves If it is as rigid in its Democracy
rs seven day Baptist in its religious rites and that
Democracy will permit the Express to put forth
no hand for the practical relief Of States suffering
with secession bellyache, it should not cite those
States as worthy the sympathy Of those who are
doing what they consider best calculated for their
relief There two policies presented for resso-
ration One or the other must prevail. Neii
seems TO suit the Express. What would it have ?
Would il maintain the Democratic organization
now. Why it assisted TO destroy that in 1850. 1t
followed sixty delegates ont Of the Charleston Com
vention, and thus iestoyed party that had
fully administered the government for threefou
of century and had ted the rhts of States