Year: 1861

this Administration or not. If we believe
the Government has done and is doing no
more nor less than its duty that it has been
true 60 the spirit and meaning of the Con-
stitution that it has respected the legally
assured rights OF the States that it prose-
cutes this war because no other honorable
alternative was left in self defense, and with
no other motive than the preservation of
our nationality and the salvation Of popular
rule everywhere; and if we believe, more
over, that the men in charge of the Govern
ment are honest and competent men it is
plainly our duty to choose for Congress those
candidates who are most closely identified
with the Government in sentiment. purpose
and character, and who will not offer it cap
tious opposition because of by-gone differ
ences of opinion upon Constitutional ques-
tions.-Appeal


The people of California will send Joseph
C. McKibbin and Henry Edgerton to Con-
gress, because they know that they will sup
port the Government in all time to come;
that they will never consent to see one single
star erased from the national flag, because it
represents State whose people are slave
owners; that they will strive faithfully to
convince the misguided followers of the king
traitor jeff Davis that slave and free
States can live together, in harmony, and
on terms of equality, notwithstanding the
contrary opinion expressed by Abraham Lin
coin and Jefferson Davis. The people will
elect Mekibbin and Edgerton, because they
know that they will contend for Union Of
thirty-four States, based upon justice and
equal rights, whether the present Admins
tration" shall persevbre in its efforts in that
direction, or shall yield to the disunion howl
of the rank Abolitonists in the Republican
party.


There ie not sane man in America who
anti-slavery faction in the country exists, the
members of which preach, pray and labor
for n separation Of the slave from the free
States. We are in doubt whether that fac.
tion is majority of the Republican party
| or not.


There is altogether too much talk about
Letting some of the States 60" to suit us
That Abolitionist who says " let them CO.





Union in order that an ant-Slavery Repub
lie and Slavery Republic may be erected
side by side upon the ruins, is as fit a subject
for the gallows as is the besotted Wigfall or
the clustering T3mbs. We are engaged now.
in struggle to preserve The Union, and not to
impress upon the country the anti-slavery
notions of Sumner, or the pro-lavery notions
of Stephens. Those worthes say that men
who work slaves, and men who do not, can
not live peaceably as one people. We say
that this is wicked lie; that no people on
earth were ever SO happy as we, until dema-
gogues of both sections made the "nigger
question" the stepping stone to power There
are twenty-four negro SLAVES in the Territories
of the United States at this time, and no
more, although the Federal Government has
long been in the hands of the Democratic
party If slavery had needed more room it
could have had it. But Davis and his fellow
consprators are trying to break up the Union,
by making the Southern people think that
the North is crowding them out Of the COM
mon Territories. The Republican Anarch-
ise have been equally busy. trying to inilame
the Northern people with the idea that the
Southern Shareholders were about to monopo-
lie the Territories to the exclusion of free
labor And SO these two blades of pair of
shears have been cutting away at the nation
for years. Now, the Republicans have gained
| ,bof oh oI vi ha oG bp
Presidential office and its attendant power
and patronage. A great rebellion has followed
deep-laid conspiracy, and all Christendom is
staring upon us, to see whether we are to
longer exist as nation or not A little mag
nanimity on the part of the dominant party
would decimate the rebel army of jeff Davis


A kind assurance on the part Of the Ad-
ministration, that no war should be made by
the Federal Government even in the terrific
ries, upon an institution which has only sue
| ceded in taking twenty-four of its sooty rep
resentatives into those territories thus far,
might destroy all the bitterness against the
North which has been kindled in the South
ern mind. Would this be humiiating What
are we told when we say these things? The
Republican papers and orators say, ooh, the
slavery issue is dead. Events will control
that" We never talk with a radical Repub-
lican upon the subject without arriving at
the conclusion that he is opposed to the Union
of any but non-slaveholding States Many
| of them know and admit that slavery cannot
| be erterminated and are therefore - favor
of kicking out of the Union all those States
out Of which they cannot hope to kick slave
ry. We abandon all hope of any yielding
upon the part of the leaders of either the
Republicans or the Secessioniss. We the
Union Democracy. now appeal gain to the
PEOPLE. We ask them TO elect AlcKibbin
and Edgerton to Congress, that our infatuated
brothers in the South, who are pouring out
their bood in defence Of bad cause, may
see that this free State does not endorse the
Chicago platform, although it will forever
stand by the cause Of the Union, the Consti-
tuition, of law, order and good government.
They will know, if we elect McKibbin and
Edgerton, that they can only destroy the ma
ton after wading through seas of blood; but
they will also know that IN the Union they
can be happy and prosperous, as they were
for years and years while national feeling
stihed sectionalism.


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