The Placer herald., 1867-05-04
10 The Democracy.

Democratic State Convention, held on the
22d Of February. They favor National
Convention at Louisville, on the 7th OF
May:
"Under the control of corrupt, fanatical,
desperate, and reckless men, our Republican
institutions have been destroyed by success
sive usurpatons, which are becoming more
and more daring and shameless and
m ore defiant of the oahs which are still, as
an empty formaity, administered to official
personages. A determination is plainly
shown to perpetuate the reign Of disorder,
despotism, and oppression upon false and
himsy pretenses, and it is painfully evident,
not only that the golden age of our Repub-
lie has passed away, mever to return, but that
all the dark, tyrauical, calamitous and bloody
scenes of European history may be reproduce
ed upon the continent The bloody convul-
sions of Italy and France in their struggles
for liberty, justice and seifgovernment-the
dark and painful history of Irish, Greek,
Hungarian and Polish enslavement and per-
secuion-are all foreshadowed in the stern
and revengeful policy of the leaders OF faction
at Washington, who resemble the demagog'
ues of the French revolution, not only in
their daring usurpations and vind'ctve
spirit, but in their hypocritical pretences of
love of liberty, equality and fraternity
Under their despo,ic sway, which is
system oforganized usurpation and welI-plan'
ned violerc &C, the majority of the people of the
United States are permanently governed, in'
suited and pIundered by the minority There
are no indications of any sense OF justice or
any spirit of moderation or fairness. The
most solemn covenants among the States and
the people Of this country, guaranteed by all
the oaths and pledges that can possibly bind
the human conscience, are trampled IN the
dust with unconceaIed contempt, and SYST
tematcalIy demoralized public sentiment in
political party not only sustains but even
seems TO approve this open proAigacy.
"There is no indication of any intention to
yield to the republican right of the majority
to rule, or to allow the restoration OF tree or
republican State governments, which are
guaranteed by the Constitution. Our pros
poets are far more gloomy now than in 1861.
Then we had the hollow and insincere pro.
fessons of the Chicago platform, upon which
Mr. Lincoln was elected, which have since
been utterly disregarded, and we had the
solemn pledge of Congress that the Union
should be restored when armed resistance
ceased, with the equality, rights and dignity
of the States unimpaired. Now we have not
even that poor shadoao of a guarantee, reso.
luton or pledge Of Congress, cheap and
worth ess as it may be. There is no decIar-
alton Of an intention that our future shall be
aught but the graspng domination ola mil
nority enforced by the despotism ola all per-
vading military establishment.
"That such a system cannot be permanent;
that it must result in bloody convuIslons, and
probably in bankruptcy, is a proposition so
plain that no intelligent citizen will doubt it;
and the authors Of this system, fully aware
of all that it means, have no expectation OF
sustaining it expect by converting our repub-
lie into a gigantic debt burdened military,
despotism, the exactions and the tyranny OF
which will be worse than French, Austrian,
or even Russian tyranny, and if maintained
will drive our best population by millions to
emgrate to other climes in search OF liberty
and peace.
"The mighty task Of defeating this malign
combination, restoring down-trodden liberty,
and reinstating the republican institutions of
Washington and Jefferson, devolves upon the
Democratic party, which is but another
name for the friends Of the Constitution, as
the party recognizes no other criterion OF
membership than strict adherence to the
Constitution.
"That our national calamities have arisen
from divisions, and want Of concert in the
Democratic party, is truth of which we are
all conscious, and that our future is utterly
hopeless until that unity and harmony can
be restored, is equally certain. Nor do we
see any practicable mode Of restoring this
unity and concert, except by the meeting OF
the leading, the active, the wise aud patriot
c men of the party from all the States, to
consult upon the condition Of the country,
and the duties of its patriotic citizens.
"Kentucky extends her hospitabe invita-
ton to such TO meet, TO fraternze and delib
crate in her metropolis, until they shall fully
and in spirit of patriotism and harmony
determine upon the future. policy that will be
most wise for that oppressed majority, whose
aim is not revenge nor domination, but the
perfect restoration of republican institutions,
with the peace and prosperity which they
insure"
ARTIFICIAL IoE.-The Mining and Scen-
tific Press has the following notice OF an at
tempt to make ice in San Francisco: