The weekly Butte record., 1862-11-29
Sensationists and Agitators.

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rers and agitators, who 20 about, generally
under the livery of the pulpit. to serve parti,
zanship in politics. These men have been
prolific in mischief in the North and in the
South, in former days. and are now doing their
work among Us. We have, in our minds eye,
one of these sensationists, who, with sopher-
moric eloquence, seizes on passing events and
panders to fanatical political agitation among
the masses, for money aud for price. which be
invests IN Government seven and three-tenths
per cent. bonds and then blows his own horn Of
devotional patriotism. The people Of America
are prone TO sensationists and still cling to
their idols even after their hollowness is made
manifest. T. Starr King, who is divine by
profession, goes about among Us and openly
breaches treason TO the Government of our
country but the authorities do not see it, IS
the sedtious language does not have tendeu-
cy to molest eulistments for the army that is
under call Of the Government TO maintain its
supremacy and to enforce the Constitution.
King is radical Republican. of the Wen
dell Phillips stamp. He lectured upon patri-
otism.n as he understands it that is if lie can
carry out the Republican doctrine of " Higher
Law under the Constitution well and good
but if be cannot, then, says be- in bis lecture
in San Francisco q few days since, IRE must
drive through the Constitution This is the
clear intention of the party now in power, that
has created the pressure and coerced the
President into policy subversive of the fun
damental principles of our Constitutional Gov
ernmeut.
During the canvass for President, in 1860,
/ these same agitators of Republican i" Higher
/ Law" when reviewing the decision of the
/ United States Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott decision, held that if the Court would
not decide according to views higher than the
Constitution they, the Republican party, would
make court that would so decide. King, in
his lectures on potriotism and the Government
to come after the war, foreshadows n deter
mined spirit on the part of the radicals to
create a Government subversve of the present
/ form, by a means not provided in the Constitu-
though they be. he has hundreds of followers
and co-workers in his agitated doctrine of
Higher Law. He calls upon Congress to
enact laws to allow the military in the field of
service TO vote for officers in their respective
States, a right reserved by every State in the
Union, as to whom shall be an elector in the
State, and if such law be declared, uncon-
stitutional," of course by the Courts, then be
declares his higher law" lre aust drire Mro'
the Constitution"
Gen. Mcclellan, 10 his order to the Army
of the Potomac upon the Presidents procla-
nation of Emancipation and Abolition of
Slavery, declared the true Democratic doctrine
of our government, that the military arm Of
the government is second and subServient to
the civil power-et the civil authorities egis-
late and decide and we will execute their Or
ders and decrees." But King, and his ilk of
sensoiionsts and agitators, would have the
diiI luz IeS IsidtINe, juulcld anu executive arm
of the government and carry out his "drire
through the constitution at the point of the
bayonet. But we presume that the wearer of
Dictorial crown in our country would soon
meet Brutus in bis guarded way to chair of
State.
Our forefathers established the principle of
democratic seifgovernment upon the ruins of
the strong tower of ancient credulity-" that
the king could do no wrong" We have as
the result of their efforts in overthrowing that
doctrine, a representative Constitutional Gov
ernment of democratic form, and an intelli-
gence among the people TO sustain it, If not
toe hardly pressed by such sensation lecturers
and agitators as Starr King Our doctrine is
the Constitution and its supremacy over all
seusationists, agtators and proclaimers of
Higher Law doctrne-of such fanatics as T.
Starr King.
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