The weekly Butte record., 1861-01-12

| Ever in the front ranks of the combatants
unswerved alike by entreaties, promises or me-
naces, ever true to the right let his reward
consist, not merely in the conciousness Of
right-doing, but rather give him a position,
that he may be able to show that be has not on
former occasions micrepresehted US.
By this course we can administer rebuke
that will be felt throughout the whole land,
and also do but justice to Mr.. McKibben.
A UNION DEMOCRAT.
REMARKS CT REvERDY JoHNsoN.-At the
conclusion of his argument in an important
case before the Supreme Court Of the United
States recently, Reverdy johnson spoke as
follows in impressive reference to passing events
and in just tribute to the historical place which
in any event, must be filed by the high tribu-
nal before which be was called to Plead
May it please your HoDors, indulge me with
word or two more before | conclude. This
may be the last time that this Court will sit in
peaceful judgement on Constitution acknowl-
edged and obeyed By ALL God, in his provi-
dence, and for our sins, may in his inscrutible
wisdom, suffer the folly and wickedness of this
generation to destroy the fairest, noblest fab
ric OF constitutional freedom ever erected by
man. Its whole history, from the first mo-
ment of its operation even to the present hour,
bears evidence of its unrivalled excellence
Our country, our whole country has from the
first prospered under 1t, and because of it, with
a rapidity and in manner before or since
unknown to the nation. That prosperity vim
dicates the wisdom and patriotism of its good
and great founders. Is this prosperity now to
cease? Is it now to be dashed to the earth :?
Are the hopes OF civilized men, the world over,
now to be blasted Are we to become the
jest, the scorn, the detestation of the people of
the earth? Is all memory and reverence for
the great dead, who living we admired and
adored, to be now forgotten? Is all gratitude
for mighty trying struggles of our fathers now
to end2 Are the warnings, the parting warn
ings of the peerless man of all this world now
to be disregarded and despised? Is the coun-
try of Washington, consecrated by his valor,
wisdom and virtue to freedom and peace, now
to be converted into wild scene OF disorder,
fraternal Strife boodshed, war? May Heaven
in its mercy forbid May it stay the arm of
the mailman, arrest it in mad career before it
strikes the fatal blow. May it give time for
reason and patriotism to resume their sway J
May it remove the delusion of the misguided,
strengthen the efforts of the patriotic, impart
heavenly fire to the eloquence of the faithful
statesman silence, by the universal voice OF
the good and true men of the nation, the ut
terings of treason now taintng the air and
shocking the ear of patriotism, and the whiu-
ings of imbecility, now discouraging and sick
ening the honest public heart May it, above
all, rekindle that fraternal love which bound
us together by ties stronger, infinitely stronger
than any which mere Government can create
during the whole of our Revolutionary struggle
and has since cheered us on in our pathway to
the power and renown which have made us
until now, the wonder and admiration Of the
world
But if all shall fail Us and ruin come: if chaos
worse than chaos. is to be our fate, the spirits
of those who have departed, and the survivors
who have administered Justice in this tribunal,
in the general wreck and wrctchedness that will
ensue, will be left this consolation-that their
recorded judgments, now, thank God, the rich
Inheritance of the world, and beyond the spoil
ers reach, WILL till time shall be no more tes-
tify to the spotless integrity the unsurpassed
wisdom, the ever bright patriotism of the men
who from the first have served their country in
this temple, sacred to justice and duty, and to
the matchless wisdom of our fathers who be-
queathed it and commended it to the perpetual
reverence and support of their sons, and re-
main never-dying dshonor and reproach to
the sons who shall have caused or permitted
its destruction.
THE ONLY REMEDY.-rhe Boston Post
touches the secession question with a needles
point 1t says:
What spectacle is this monstrous bypocri-
South in keeping md working slaves, while
the North lives upon manufacturing the pro-
ducts of slave labor, and Massachusetts alone
works 100000 slaves to keep her cotton mills
going And now when the supply of the sta
pie and the markets Of the South are barely
interrupted by this " battle of the States, -
which the Aboitionists have raised up with
their war cries of " five headed barbarism .
and sacred arnmoslty and :" heels on the
neck of the slave power" everybody is wonder
be able to get through all this without gen.
erai and financial crash and break up.
What has mainly produced this but this
mad war of the North on the South, culminat-
ing in the first election ever made by geo.
SFdpnlCdl party vi IL SeCIiOiidl
What is the remedy? Not this miserable
little subterfuge of waiting for cotton to come
North which can better be sold by the South
to England and France, and in the meantime
pinching laboring men and failing the men OF
business. Not at all. The remedy is in an
entire change of the Northern aspect of hatred
to. the slave-holdng States. Tie people of the
North must shake off this incubus of sec
tionalism. They must turn their backs on the
men who have deceived them; they must re-
solre 10 lire up TO their constitutional ob!iga-
tions, and let slavery alone in everything ex-
cept turning to the best account for the benefit
CT mankind.
This is the remedy; and the great question
of the day, Union or half dozen Republics,
prosperity or national ruin, depends upon the
sense and justice of the people of the North to
stop this aggression upon the South, and
change this whole policy of an irrepressible
conflict into full recognition of the equal
rights of the States, and the strict observance
of the duties between the States enjoined by
tho Constitution