The Shasta courier., 1859-06-25
Traitors in Disguise.

Recently the Black Republicans Of the New
England States have been celebrating the BIRTH
day of Thomas Jefferson. They did it for the
reason, as they assert, that Jefferson was the
father of their party. 1t is little singular that
the Republicans of New England have been SO
long in finding out this remarkable fact. When
Jefferson lived they pronounced him everything
but an honest man or patriot-they pronounced
him an infidel, coward, a traitor, and dealer
in his own flesh and blood. Now, however, they
are seeking to canonze him as their patron
saint. When he lived it was impossible for him
to obtain an electoral vote in all New England.
In every election they unanimously declared
that they would not have him for their Chlef
Ruler. The very leader of the then opposition
to jefferson, Josiah Quincy-and who is now a
patriarch in the Republican party-moved an
impeachment of Thomas Jefferson, in 1911, for
purchasing Louisiana. And yet this same ven-
erable man, Josiah Quincy, recently wrote to his
brother Republicans, letter eulogistic of JEFF
fersonl
William Cullen Bryant, editor of the N. Y
Erening Post, another of these Republican ad-
mirers of Jefferson, also wrote letter full of
admiration of the worth of the immortal author
of the Declaration of independence. And yet
this same man, in 1907, wrote the following
lines '' On Thomas jefferson :"
And thou, the scorn of every patriots name,
Thy country's ruin and her councils shame
Poor, seryile thing derisive of the bravel
Who erst from Tarleton fled to Carriers cave,
Thou, who when menaced by perfidious Gaul,
Didst PROSTATE to her whiskered minions fall
And when our cash her emptied bags supplied
Didst meanly strive the foul disgrace to hide;
Go, wretch, resign the Presidential chair,
Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair;
Go, wretch with curious eye for horned frogs
Mid the wild waste of Louisiana bogs
Or where Ohio rolls her turbid stream,
Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy theme:
Go, scan, Phosophist, thy Sally's charms,
And sink supinely in her sable arms;
But quit to abler hands the helm of State,
Nor image ruin on thy country's fate.
We have read of men assuming the garb of
heaven to worship the devil in. These men
have evidently heard of the same trick They
remind US of many of the new Democrats here
abouts. Who are the loudest-mouthed pro-
Chalmers of their Democracy? Fresh, green
Democrass-who have not been in the ranks
long enough to know that old soldiers do not
vaunt of their bravery-who are so very young
that they are not yet dry behind the ears Until
recently they have always fought the Democra-
cy, and pronounced it corrupt in every aspect in
which it could be viewed. Some of them Joined
the Know Nothing party for the avowed reason
that the Democracy was so essentially vile Now,
however, seeing that the Democratic party is
bound to be victorious, they, after sneaking into
the ranks under cover of the smoke of the Kan
sas fight, are standing upon the corners Of the
streets, clapping their hands and crying I'm a
Democrat |" "Tm a Democratw These are
they who have assumed the garb Of Democracy
to worship their seven principles in-the five
loaves and two fishes"