The Placer herald., 1870-10-29
APPROACHING DESPOTISM.

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are approaching despotsm or revolution In
this country. The public sentiment of the
great white conservative hosts of the coun-
try, and of the laboring masses is healthy
and promises well for return to good
Government and the overthrow of theving
corruptionists and selfish tyrants that now
rule and are fast running our people and
Government. The two great objects of the
party now in power and its leading and ac-
tive adherents, is the acquisition of wealth
and the Capitalization and retention of power.
In their efforts to reach this coveted goal,
neither the allurements of Heaven or the
yawnngs of hell seem to have the slightest
influence on their career. Perjury, murder,
theft, falsehood and robbery is daily conceiv-
ed in their hearts and practiced by their ac-
tions, until the more ignorant of their vic
tins seem to have become insensble to the
thongs that are binding them to perpetual
slavery and making them and their descend
ants loyal serfs for all time to come. This is
the great fight in ours the representative
government of America, to-day, and this
fight involves the veal or woe of our country
and its people for all time to come, and
more or less affects the liberty or slavery of
all mankind. The party in power now Is
not composed in whole of original Federalists,
Wings, Abolitionists or Republicans, for all
these parties in their day and time had some
good men in their ranks, and some good, or
at least sincere and we'll meant objects at
heart, but it is composed in its ruling elements
and membership of the tlieving, renegade,
rascally portion of all these parties, the Dem
ocratic party included. For the sake of the
country we regret to say that nearly the en-
tire crew of hateful, villanous rascals that
once figured in our party organization now
belong to and act with the party in power;
but for the good of the Democracy and the
purity of its organization and its standing
before the American people we are proud to
proclaim that this element of our party has
now found its aflinitics and fit associates in
the ranks of the filthy mongrel party now in
power, and engaged in its normal pursuit.
that of stealing. Even Grant and his whole
family were once, and that but few years
ago, all Democrats; the Dents, bis wife s
brothers were also all Democrats; but the
chances and temptations for stealing were
too great, and they went over to the enemy.
Senator Morton, Senator Jim Nye, Senator
Stewart, ex-senator Conness, Ben. Butler,
dirty Logan, Dick Yates, George Gorham,
j. w. Forney, and hosts of others of their
ilk were also all howling Democrats at one
time, but the chance for place, power and
stealing was too great in the Radical ranks
and they also left the party, for its good,
and joined the ranks of the eeches that are
sucking the Nations life-blood and robbing
the people of the last remnant Of Republican
institutions. That wealth is power is the
doctrine Of the mongrel party, and to that
end as we'll as their natural propensities does
its officials steal from the Government and
rob the people. They believe that money
is all powerful in elections, and that the pow
er thus gained can perpetuate itself by % rep
ettion of The same means. This may be so,
but if so, then q base and unaloyed despot-
ism is in ,he near future. The system of
taxation, spolaton and peculation now prac-
tced by the party in power is fast making
the rich richer, the poor poorer, and unless
soon checked must result i'll governing and
governed classes; the former the rich and
well born, the latter the rabble, the "hewers
of wood and drawers of water, who must
loyalty stand with uncovered heads while
royalty passes The Acknowledgement of the
ignorant African is but one of the scenes in
the programme that is intended to aid in the
downfall of the Republic. The white intel
ligent voters could see and guard against this
stealthy approach Of bastard royalty, and
hence, an ignorant and purchasable class of
voters must be forced to the ballot box We
have confidence in the great mass of white
men of our country yet, and believe that
they will, before it is too late, rise in their
might, shake off the lethargy that seems to
bind them, and hurl this great incubus from
place and power-this rank, rotten mongrel
crew that is without national pride or COM
mon shame No man should now say 81
am Republican" or, 81 am a Democrat, "
but it should be 81 am an honest man or a
rascal; am for liberty or bondage, for the
Republic or for Monarchy for, into these
two classes must the people be divided, and
on these issues must the Government be sus-
tanned or the Republic sink to rise no more,
and with it the hopes of libertyloving man
kind the world over.
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