The Placer herald., 1872-02-03
THE PASSIVE POLICY.

article that the great fight in the coming
Presidential election must be between the
people and the thieving, tyrant monopolists
that are ruling and running the country under
Grant. TO that indication the Mendocno
Democrat takes exception. Mastery mac
tivity, passive policy, or divide and conquer
are doctrines as old as mankind, and have
been practised by armies, nations, parties
and individuals, from time immemorial, and
will be while rational men have an existence
on earth. We suppose if our friend Mont
gomery's house was in flames and his family
about to perish, he would refuse assistance
and let all he consumed. Our national lib-
critics are being consumed; our property,
labor and wealth being stolen, and our name
and future prospects being destroyed by or
ganized, leagued thieves and tyrants as des-
peratc as ever cursed or destroyed any gov
ernment or people. In this condition Of
things, we hold that it is the duty Of all
patriots, all lovers Of liberty, honesty, JUS
tice and free, pure government, to sink all
minor considerations and combine for the
overthrow of these leagucd rascals as the
first initiative act to save the people and our
form of government. If the liberty of my
country and the property Of its people must
be lost and white slavery follow, or my par
ty name be abandoned, then we shall not
hesitate as to our choice. If the Democratic
party can avert this threatened and appalling
disaster to our country aud people, then it
can ask us for no sacrifice which we will not
make. We have not changed or abandoned
a single principle that was national with the
party from the days of Jefferson down; but
these great principles have been fruitlcss for
the past twelve years, and will remain so
until we have the power to enforce them.
The Administration is seeking to enrich all
its adherents out of the substance of the
people, knowing that wealth is power; it is
laying its foul grasp upon the sword and
purse of the nation, and if its power is not
broken in the coming election, it may not,
and probably canno; be four years hence. One
third of the Republicans are the enemies of
Grant and his plundering crew. The labor
ing men arc organizing and moving, and so
are the landlcss aud anti-land- nd-monopolists
while the old Democratic hosts stand stern
and immovab!e in the cause of justice, good
government and liberty. Grant and his
party have no hope of pcrpetuating their
power and privilege Of punder if these hos
tile and opposing elements make a combined
fight against his party, and his doctrines and
tactics is to divide and conquer. Shall we
drive Gratz Brown, Schurz, Trumbull and
their adherents into separate organization
and nomination for President? Shall we
drive the laborng men into a second organi-
zaton and separate nomination for Prcsi-
dent, and shall we also drive the free trade
anti-monopolists to third organization and
nomination, and then nominate fourth
candidate against Grant ourselves
This would suit Grant and his thieving
faction; but will it suit or save the country
from thieves and tyrants? The Administra-
ton party is held together by the cohesive
power of public plunder, and in such con-
test it would win. In such contest two
thirds of the votes might, and we believe
would, be against Grant, and yet he be
elected. What is there that is antagonistc
in principle in the doctrines of all these opo-
sition elements? Nothing, literally nothing
that involves a material sacrifice in one going
to the other and yet each stand and invite
the aid of all the others. No party expects
TO succeed against the Administration with
out the aid of the Democracy. as in fact it
is the only organized party of power which
Grant fears; and in this light it would seem
but fair that it should be the party around
which all the opposition elements should
rally. But will this be the case if it wraps
itself in its aged dignity, announces its self
Importance, and chls all that approach by
demanding concessions from all and yielding
none? We are ready to take by the hand
and march with him in the coming battle,
every man that denounccs Grant and his
thievng crew of tyrants, promising joint aid
in correcting the abuses of his Adminstra-
ton, and to bring back the Government to
the days of honesty. liberty, economy and
purity in public officials. Those who would
refuse or deny this, we think are only Dem
ocrats in name.
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