Year: 1861

/ alton to adhere to their old forms and prelu-
dices by holding primary elections, calling
conventions and nominating candidates, all
the rincor and malignity which heretofore,
in times of profound peace, characterised
their proceedings, are being re-enacted The
politicians and political papers have already
begun to handy epthets, to traduce each
other, and widen the breach against recon-
ciliation as much as it is possible to do.
| The sincere patriot, who deSpises the
offices as much as he does those who would
sacrifice every ennobling feeling to attain
them, must lament this and yet, with all
his pity and contempt for such class, he
will hardly receive credit for disinterested
ness in the expression of bis honest opinions
For our part we can freely say, while zeal
ousiy laboring to effect fusion of all the
Union elements for the nomination to Office
only of undoubted Union men, that although
our insignificance may have shielded US from
the suspicion of entertaining political aspi
ratlons, still, as an evidence of undefiled
sincerity in the premises, and by way of
example to those who imagine themselves
in the line of promotion, with uplifted hand
neither desire nor would accept of public
position, from the office of Governor down
to the humble position of a township clerk.
We are for the CAUSE, and the cause only.
That cause is the country-her laws, her
Constitution, her f1ag-the States, united,
fraternal; indivisible. Are men so degener-
Grated, so besotted and selfish that they
cannot, for once in a life time, rise superior
to their british instincts and devote their
energies, and lives, if required, to so noble
and dsinterested work


AS the canvass progresses the strife be-
tween wire-working politicians grows more
rancorous and lmplacable. Many will for
get that they have a country which claims
their paramount affection. Advancing step
by step in the dirty work of elimination and
recrimination, they will not scruple to COM
pound with their real enemies, in order to
gain temporary advantage over their fan
ced ones. In this manner they will barter
off everything worth contending for, so that
even victory gained would prove more
embarrassing and disastrous than to sustain
an honest defeat.


Union organization could not have failed
to hush and crush these senseless clamorS.
But one enemy, contemplate in numbers,
irresolute in determination, and that could
easily be vanquished, would have presented
itself The bold prominence into which it
must be thrown by such movement, would
have intimdated its rank and file from max
ing themselves conspicuous in a cause which
is generally reprobated. But in a promiscu-
Gus fight, by the use of strategy and those
covert means so we'll understood and skill
fully used by veteran partizans, the chances
for success are greatly enhanced, if not alto
gether equalised-and who shall pretend to
say where the victory rests when the smoke
of the battle has cleared away?


Mr.. A. A. Sargent, one of the shrewdest
and most intelligent leaders of the Republi-
can party in California, made speech before
the County Convention of that party in
Nevada on Saturday last Hear what he
says:


"These men the disunionists are our
only real antagonists in this State, and let
not their numerical strength be undervalued.
| am firmly popvipcad hx, tho cir,pc Of III a
times, that the next officers Of this State will
be either Republican or Secession"


The Douglas Democracy think themselves
by far the strongest of either of the three
parties, while the enemies of the Govern
ment are plotting secretly, and will leave no
effort untried to maintain power which
they now possess, and which can be used with
telling effect to perpetuate itself in the hands
of those who now hold it.


And if the Secessionists should carry the
State, who would undertake to keep Cali
forna in the Union? Who could prevent
the palmetto flag from waving on the dome
of the State CAPITOL or flying from the tops of
thousand poles in all our principal cities
and villages?


Miserable, blind, headstrong, infatuated,
corrupt politicians workers, conven-
ton packers, caucus-controllers-will you
not pause before you have ruined the coun-
try? Can nothing induce you to forego
your Unsuitable lust for Office? If the Union
battle is lost, and the State converted into a
Pacific Republic, an eternity of repentance
would not avail to remove the curse which
will rest against your hell-deserving souls.


THE ExPENsE.-Those great humanitarians
and political economists known as secessionists,
after shedding the first blood in an unnecessary
war, and then raising an outcry against coercion
after justifying the seeding States in stealing
about a hundred millions of dollars worth of
Al