The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-08-01
" RIGHT CRINGEs, WHILE WRONG Is
AUDACIOUS."

Under this caption some one, whom we
strongly suspect to be another than the ed
itor, gives that branch Of the John Brown
family residing in Auburn terrible tongue
lasbing in the Stars and Stripes Of the 23d.
We think We know the old scold by bis
ear marks, and if not mistaken bis hands
are not altogether clear of the smutch of
having bad, at one time at least. an
almost uncomfortable itching to deal in
"chattels" where such little practices we're
not provided for in the statutes. In his
text he reverses the truthful and beautiful
aphorism that 1.-The wicked flee when no nan
pursueth," and with mental obliquty winch
we cannot comprehend. labors through
whole column. with wordy nothings, to fist
convince them that it is right to desolate en-
of the States, and hand over the governm'nt
of them to brutal and ignorant negroes, md
then berates them with i,b.monger slangbe'
cause they refuse 10 60 where such bind
leaders lead. When he asserts that "an
overwhelming majority Of the people of the
United States endorse the mongre- party,
his own i'll tempered TRADE gives it the lie, If
the result of elections everywhere did not
1t is because the misguided men who
went into the Union party to restore the
Union, not to overthrow the Constitution
are unwilling to follow them in their will
orgies that he so loses his temper. Ill
will wake up yet to a realization of the tao
tina: there are vast numbers, in his own party
who as earnestly as any Democrat believe
that white men alone should administer tie
affairs of this government. Indeed we car
not doubt that it is a foreshadowing Of tbs
which leads him. 10 fine frenzy, to tell then
that they "crnge, cover and lrstnbie," wbe,
they simply refuse to sing peans to this 500,
God lie tells them that they advocate
their cause with baed breath aud ready
framed apology" and that " they consider il
necessary to bid and plead for Democratic
forbearance by asserting that there is some
other more liberal aud ennoblpg doc,rin.
which they do not endorse" Now We take
the plain English Of this to I've that many o.
the Republican party look with adherence
upon these crazy or corrupt efforts to de
grade the standard Of American citizenship
by, we will not say elevaing the negro, but
degrading he white man for it comes to that.
We firmly believe, and We ask our readers to
mark what we say, that these leaders, in
their hearts, are tired of our form of govern
msnt, and that by degrading labor, and
white lahorers they can so modify it, that
one set of laws can be made for them. and
another for the meaneSt Of all aris'ocrats
they whose claims rest upon wealth, a'q"lrsd
it matters not how.
| And we further believe that, so repugnant
! are their doctrines to American sentiment
that the present contest could safely be let
to their own speakers and writer's. And VI
feel convinced that if they dill not think 81
themselves they would have pu, on thei
ticket man who had some political princi
pies, instead of the mers military tool VIII
declares that be bias 20 policy, in fact a
much as SAYS he don't care d-n SO that b
gets the high office that be would occupy
not fill, SO unwortbily.
We know that your sectional and factions
par,izaus have very bIindIy followed tn
dlcla.ion of a few whippers in. but this NJ
groism seems little too much for thei
stomachs.