Year: 1861

plain to us, in this matter We believe IN


the first place, that there is but one Demo-


cratic organization in this State W. believe


there are thousands Of true Union men who


voted in November last, for Breckenridge
and Lane, from the mere force Of habit oi
placing confidence in certain great political
1 leaders who had heretofore been apparently
true to the cause of the Union and Of the
| Democratic party. There are several thou
sand men who voted for Bell and Everett,


upon the platform Of "the Constitution, the
/ Union. and the enforcement of the laws.
! They now stand upon the same platform.


There are many Republicans who have not
firmly decided in their own minds that it is
| right and Just to insist that the Federal Union.
composed as it is of free and slave States, Is
an anli-savery L Mon. There nre many other
Republicans who are inclined TO abandon
that idea which they did once permit them
selves TO advocate. But the Union men to
whom We have referred have no organization.
The Union Breckenridge men cannot respond
TO the call Of their State Central Committee


which has clumsly dressed treason up in the
garb Of n non-resistnnt and has threatened
! Caiifor0ia wth ciyH war if any demonstra-
tion of loyalty to the Federal Union should
hereafter become necessary on the part OF
her citizens. On the other hand. the Repub-
licans of whom wespeak cannot well raspond
TO the call Of their State Central Committee.
at the risk Of being overpow cred in their
slavery Chicago platform. The Bell and
| Everett Committee could not hope to rally n


large party in the State There is but one
| other party, and that is the Democratic Union
| party, Of whose Committee the Hon. Joseph


p. lIoge is Chairman That party has no
secession element in its ranks. If few


wolves crept into the fold, in sleeps clothing
Last summer, they have since gone out again


They have no voice or influc"ce. They will
be in the Breckenridge State Convention
Our State Central Committee is to meet on
the 7th proXimo. They have it in their


power to call a Convention in which the true


= Oulou nltn ol NdIlioIllla VIII Oe represented |
The Secessionists have called their Conven- |
ton, and must of necessity 90 to the bottom.
less pit in that boat They cannot, then, in
terrere with our primary elections. We hope


to see no proscriptive tests adopted or recon-.


mended 10y the state Central Committee for


the Democratic primary elections which will
pt,l l., ct,t utb tb, = o4


man, and who is OPP oscd to the abhorrent


doctrine of the right Of State to break mp
! the government without molestation, as we'll


as to the doctrine that ours is either an anti


slavery or n pro slavery Government. 1t
matters not how men voted last fall. A
! Union Democrat is u man who denies the
right Of secession, who opposes any reyolu.
! tionary or secession movement, now or at any
other time, to erect Cactus Republic on the
Pacific Coast; who lavors peace, pending the
attempts to compromise existing troubles
who recognizes the right, meanwhile, of the
| Government to return blows, aud to defend


what is left in lis possession, if strong enough
so to do; and who opposes ory Federal leg
islation intended to deny the people of the
| North or Of the South any right 10 which


they are Justly entitled We hope TO see
every such man invited by our State Central
! Committee to take part in the primary cleo
tions of the party. We will never assist to
| eimilar TO the one we have named. We be-
! lieve clear majority of all the voters in the
state can act in harmony upon such a test.
These are troubous times, and men who
are really for the Union and for its main
tenancc-by peaceabIe means, unless its
would be destroyers draw the sword and per-


ish 10y the sword-ought not to be taunting
each other with having supported this or that
party heretofore. We have had many con-
versatons with men of all parties during the
past week, and are sincerely of the opinion
that the real Union men Of the Breckenridge
party desire to cooperate with our orgauila-
tion, in good faith, if no proscriptive test is
adopted. Thus far the Republicans are per-
haps as general thing disposed to adhere
to their own organization, but they will not
be able to control those Of their party who
calculate, with clear judgment, the effect that
would be produced 10y an endorsement of the
Chicago platform, after the revolutionary
movements for which that platform has, to
say the least, furnished preteXt.


The fraternization Of the true Union Dem


ocrats of the State, Che Secessionists and
their apologists being left TO shiyer in the
cold at their Convention which has been al
ready called) and the cooperation with them
of the truc-blue Union Bell and Everett men,
and suoh conservative Republicans as will
stand upon the platform, would form party
which it would be vain for ultraists to OPP
pose. Such party can, and we believe will
carry this State at the next election. No
! party can, in our opinion, ever carry the
State, that does not adopt test similar to the


one herein suggested and that does not, at
its Convention, make platform equally


sound, and nominate men who yield no pri.
vate views OF their own when they support


it. Any taint of secessonism, or any dcica-
cy about denouncing it, would call up "A sin
| gle Union party that would scatter to the
winds all who opposed it, Let US neither
cheat nor be cheated. Let there be no effort
to coax secession support under any false
pretenses Union and disunion can never
harmonize Past differences should not pre-
vent the utilization of all true Trnion mon