The Shasta courier., 1867-11-23
From the Carson City Appeal.l
The Issues for the Presidential Campaign.

Do'"eeu lhe party OI Onloh, justice, LlDertl
and Progress, and the party of Disunion, Ia
excused under the doctrine of State Sover
eIgnty, and palliated by the cry of " N
Coercioh'' Injustice to the Freedmen
Slavery and the conservation of those evil
IN our form Of government which derive al
their appearance of virtue from their lon.
existence. The relative positions of tn,
two parties, we say, may be briefly and witt
truth be thus stated but we may with
profit patiently enter more into detail, ant
reproduce for consideration some of the act,
and occurrences which have formed q part
Of the history of the Union and the Demo
cratic parties since the war began.
Let it not be forgotten that the attempted
secession Of the Southern States wa. not
only not resisted by Democratic Admins
tratlon, but that it was declared by Presi
dent Buchanan to be unconstitunar' tc
take the necessary steps to prevent it; that
the then Democratic Vice President. John
c. Breckenridge, took the earliest opportu-
nifty to join the rebels that Buchanan s
Secretary of War, Floyd, used his position
to disarm the North and arm the South for
the approaching conflict; that Buchanan's
Secretary of the Navy, Toucey, caused the
navy to be scattered in order that it might
not be available in support Of the Union.
Let it not be forgotten that Republican
President, Abraham Lincoln, issued the
Proclamation which called forth the volun-
teers of the North; that a Republican Con-
gress voted the means which were indispen.
sable to the carrying on of the war for the
support of the Union that Republican
statesman. Salmon P. Chase, instituted the
vast, admirable and comprehensive financial
system which enabled the nation to sustain
its existence and its credit; that a Repub-
lican President issued the immortal Eman-
cipation Proclamation, and that a Republican
Congress passed the resolutions which
eventuated in the adoption by three-fourths
of the States of the amendment to the Con-
stitution abolishing slavery.
Let it not be forgotten that Yalandigham,
Pendleton, Wood, Bright and the other
prominent leaders in the Democratic party
were members of the Knights of the Golden
Circle that they aided and abetted the
conspiracies to throw the Western States
into the hands cf the rebels; gave aid and
comfort to John Morgan on his raid through
Indiana and Ohio gave countenance to ho-
tel burning in Northern cities, and stimula-
ted that diabolical hatred to the measures
of the Government which resulted, in New
York city, in the terrible anti draft riots in
1868.
Let it NOT be forgotten that Abraham
Lincoln was foulIy murdered by Wilkes
Booth "a Constitutional Democrat, and
that Andrew Johnson another = Constitu-
tional Democrat became, by consequence
the President of the United States
Let it not be forgotten that Republican
Congress made the construction of the Pacific
Railway possibility-and above all, that by
their steadfastness to the principles and the
ends which were sustained By the final tri,
umph of the National arms, the Republicans
who constitute the majority In Congress have
prevented thus far, the persistent designs
of Andrew johnson and other conspirators
against the public, veal from giving the fruits
of the war into the hands of the enemies of
the Republic.
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recent history be forgotten, for they are
merely the antecedents to the struggle
which is still going on between Unionists
and Copperheads. They who have been the
friends of the country in times past are still
its friends they who were its enemies IN
the dark and trying times of the war, are
its enemies now they who still wave aloft
the banner of Republicanism seek to oppress
no man, but, on the contrary have the high
est aims of humanitarianism in view; they
who would prevail over Republcanism would
erect in its stead the most available substi-
tute for that abominable state of things
which was contemplated by the architects OF
a confederacy whose corner stone should be
African slavery Republicanism stands as
the champion of a broader enlightenment
wider and more expanding justice an
elevation of the American name; the in.
creased perfection and dignity of American
citizenship, and the perpituity of the form
and credit of the National Government
| Is any man who has ever acted from pure
and patriotic motives with the Union party.
in doubt as to which of these parties to act
with in the campaign of 1868?
MURDER.-the Sage Brush of November