Year: 1861

1t was coolly argued that call by thirty or


forty respectable citizens for Union State


Convention Of all parties, was party trick.


because those citizens composed the State


Central Committee Of the Democratic party.
The same men who so argued were very in
dignant when a Union Club movement, start
ed by Republicans, was called party affair.
The Fourth of July Convention call was a
good one. 1t should have been responded to


by every man desirous of burying past party
differences while dangers surround the


country. It's invitation did not extend to
any other class of citizens. But the Republi-
cans issued a strict party call. They said to
the people: Repubcanism is the door and
the way to the restoration of order and good
government throughout the land. They
have nominated ticket composed Of anti
slavery men as well as Union men. They
give no indication in their platform of any
intention or desire to waive one single iota
of their Chicago platform. They are as
much an anti-slavery party now, as they
were last summer, and they will not deny it.
Having thus followed the dictates of party
prejudice, and laid their plans for securing
the public plunder of the State, in addition
to the Federal spoils which they are already
greedily consuming, they now take time for
breath, and say to anti Republican Union
men: Why do you not join our party
What can there possibly be to divide us
We are all Union men. We have concluded
that popular sovereignty is right-so long as
slavery is excluded by it from the Territories.
Your lcader-DouGLAs--is dead. We want
to be elected to the Offices. Come, and Join
u.s." We need give but this short answer to
all such demagogueism The Republican
party is an anti.slavery party and its love for
the Union is too much hampered with hatred
of the slavery interest.


The Union men who are not Republicans,
entertain various opinions, as individuals,
upon the slavery question, and do not seek 10
use political power for advancing or retard-
ing the slavery interest, outside Of the State
or Territory in which they reside. They will
labor and fight for the preservation of this
great nation, and when the present evil days
are gone by, and order and good government
are restored, they will countenance no North
ernzing nor Southernizing of the Federal
Government. They will support National
men and National measures, and will them
selves oppose and teach their sons after them
to oppose any political party which is founded
and sustained for the avowed purpose of
building up or pulling down any local inter-
est by Federal legislation. This we conceive
to be the difference between the Republicans
and their opponents who are Union men,
We can thus differ and yet be a unit in sus-
tanning Federal authority throughout the
land. We can be American citizens without
joining the Republican party. If the Repub-
licans desire but one Government party, let
them abandon their organization and join the
Union hosts. They will find no test imposed
except that Of loyalty to the Nation under
all Administrations" They can take that
simple test, better than others can swallow
the Chicago platform; and besides the "Flag
of our Union" is more inspiring in the sight
of patriotic men, in times like these, than are
all the partisan banners ever devised by the
cunning of party leaders.


Mn. MOTLEY ON TILE REBELLIoN-Th Lon
don Times, of May 23j and oath, publishes an
elaborate essay, by J. Lothrop Motley, the
historian, on the "Causes of the American
Civil War" lie argues that the whole re-
sponsibility of the war attaches to the South
and that the President was bound by bis oath
to oppose the present secession movement,
and defend the Constitution. Secession means
revolution, and must be dealt with as such.
We give a single passage in Mr.. Motleys
essay, which we find in an eastern paper


1t is strange that Englishmen should find
difficulty in understanding that the United
States Government is Il nation among the ma
tions of the earth; a constituted authority |
which may be overtbrown by violence, as
may be the fate of any State, whether king
dom or republic, but which is false to the
people if it Goes not its best to preserve them
from the horrors of anarchy, even at the cost
of blood. The Omitted States happens to be
II
designated is unit, "E Pluribus Unum."
The Union alone is known and recognized in
the family OF nations the Union alone helds
the purse and the sword, regulates foreign
intercourse, imposes taxes on. foreign COM
merce, makes war ard concludes peace The
armies, the nayies, the militia belong to the
Union alone, and the President is commands
erin chief of ALL No State can keep troops
or fleets. What man in the civilized world
has not heard of the United States? What
man in England can tell the names of all the
individual States? And yet, with hardly
superficial examination of our history and our
Constitution, men talk glibly about Confed-
eracy, n compact, co-partnership, and the
right of a State to eecede at pleasure, not
knowing that, by admitting such leose phra-
seology and such imaginary rights, we should
violate the first principles of our political
organization-should fly in the face of our
history-should trample under foot the teach
ings of Jay, Hamilton, Washington Marshall,
Madison, DANA Kent, Story, and Webster
and, accepting only the dogmas of Mr.. Cal
houn as infallible, surrender forever our ma
tional laws and our national existence.


CARsoN VALLEY IrEMs.-The Territorial
Enterprise OF the 29th ult. has the following:


GREAT YIELp.--W last week alluded to a
yield obtained from some rock at Esmeralda
which we thought sounded rather largely.
Since then we have positive information that