The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-06-20
NEW DISCOVERY.


gatherings Of their opponents, but rowdies some
times do Sacramento Bee.
The mob journals and organs Of this State
have just discovered that gentlemen never
interfere with the right Of free speech or free
press. 1t is consolisg to know that these
former sncouragers Of abolition tyranny have
even at this late day made this new discov.
cry 1t is seid that necessity is the mother
Of invention and perhaps but for the fact
that the people are with the Democracy and
are showing q willingness and ability to
maintain this right Of free speech and free
press, especially so far as the true statesman,
PATRIOTS and friends Of the great masses are
concerned, that this necessity would never
become powerful enough to have brought the
mob to its senses. We recollect when the
Bee did not take little disturbances OF poIit-
cal meetings to heart, and dsnounce all who
engaged in that sort Of pasti,ne as rowdiss.
Nhen j. w. Downey was nominated for
Governor ex Gov. Weller, ex.Gov. Bigler
and N. E Whtesides for Congress by q
Democratic meeting convened in the Psvil-
ion 10 Sacramento, 10 1868, that Con,
vention was disturbed and with the intent TO
break it up, when it was being quietly held
in hall, and not on the streets as vas the
late outside one IN San Francisco.
When John R Mcconnell and Ell. Ran.
dolph wished to speak in Pla,ts Hall in San
Francisco, in 1861, were they disturbed
a. did the Bee denounce as rowdies the dis.
,urbers! We do recollect Of a man, just one
man. in San Francisco who protested against
these more than rowdy proceedings, and that
man was Perkins, the present Postmaster 10
San Francisco, but did the Bee, Union. and
Bulletin heap praises and econiums on Per-
kns, and denounce the mob who booted the
speakers down as rowdies and bIackguards2
IL they did we don't recoIlect it. Oh no, it
was not their OK then. When the Demo.
cratic press of San Francisco was mobbed
and destroyed did these papers raise howl
against rowdies! We will be Wiling to take
their files at these times aud prove that they
were all on the side of Tie mob.
What say Ihesa now moral and anti-rowdv
sheets when a proposition is made to pay
these papers for the losses they then sus.
tanned. All fought the prop ,silon in the
Legislature last winter and nearly all their
friends backed them. We might multiply
instances indefinitely to prove that no party
ever so abused power or was 80 intolerant to
those who differed from them, and who were
willing TO maintain their differences in open
debate. as the hypocritcal canters who try
to make a case of persecution out Of the
urj"s,iied co"dsSs Of few individuals.
When The Democratic press day after day
shall publish with loud laudaions exaggera
ted accounts Of assaults made upon their po-
itical opponents as the abolition press has
done for yeazs then may they talk With some
show Of dscsucy Of free speech and free
press They encouraged their buIlies for
years to insult men physically unable to f. BIT
them as ro~di.s fight, and if a weakly Dem.
ocrat resented with becoming spiri. their in
suits and got the worst in an encounter it
was with shocking taste paraded by these
parlizan sheets all over the State, and
exuled over with false and most disgusting
details. A former Senator Of tbs county.
gentleman Of most amisble disposition. re.
speced by bis neighbors Of every class, was
most brutalIy beaten on the head, at bis own
door when the news of the death Of Lincoln
was received, without the slightest provoca.
ton. 10 cold blood. his assaiant not having
the poor excuse Of being heated in political
discussion. and yet no voice was ever raised
to denounce the assassin like attack made
upon him by one who as charity was occu.
plying one Of his cabins. The Democratic
party is never found justying mob., or any
Other lawlessnsss. can the Bee say with truth
the same for the Radcalsi Individual
Democrats may and do do wrong but they
are never sustained in it by the press, q.
rowdies among the Aboltionists have been.