The weekly Butte record., 1862-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS.
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come at last Il has been current IN the
mouths OF the radicals for the past eighteen
months. The whole tribe of radical Republi.
can second class saints have repeated II as the
shibboieth Of their faith amid calamity and
blood, amid deeds of desperation and wicked
ness, amid the tears Of orphans, the sighs of
widows. and the myriad groans from the battle
fed, even when the laud was shrouded in the
darkness Of death, and the nation writhed in
the humiliation Of inexcusable defeat, they
have cried, IS the world moves When the
guns at Fort Sumpter announced that the
mortal struggle between treason and loyalty
had begun, when personal liberty was stricken
down in the free loyal North, when the writs
of patriotic and venerable judges were defied
by petty Provost Marshals and small detective
policemen, when the press was muzzed, the
telegraph perverted, the liberty Of speech de-
MED, when spies dogged the steps Of loyal men
IN the street, and terroTists attempted to found
a new Austria in our midst, when the patient
back of the people were bent to great loads of
taxation, and their brave breasts to the cannon
of rebels, when industry was checked COM
merce deranged, money deprecated, and long
vista of sacrifices, such as no people ever made
before, was opened to the nation, they gloated
like demons or madmen over the growing ruin,
and shouted forth their shibboleth as if they
proclaimed peace on earth and good will to
men,"
"Quacks, villains, mauiacs and politicians
have been the same in all ares. The afecta-
ton of fuftherness,' as a sign of thoroughness
and earnestness, is as old as deluson as wide
spread as sin. The gipsy who gazes on your
palm has her exalted jargon. The Praise-God-
Barebones Of Cromwels times had their cant
of pretended exaltation. The sans culottes of
Paris stood around the blood dripping guiIlo-
tine, chanting enthusiastic strains to the liber-
ty which they were overwhelming with crime"
So, too, when the President yielded to the
pressure of the radicals, they shouted with
fendish delight, d" the world moves"
The election Of Democratic Congress has
whsted down the breaks on the radical wheels.
and if - the world still moves, or revolutions
never 60 backwards, the Greeleys and Beech
ers of radicalism have not the heart to repeat
their parrot song. Nevertheless, " the world
moves" and the great revolution at the ballot
box, in the loyal States, is another evidence
that revolutions do not 90 backwards, but
that the people are arousing 10 the dangers
that threaten them. The people have not for
gotten that ours is a constitutional Govern
ment. They recognized in the pressure Of
the radicals upon the President, an exact re-
Election of the divine right Of kings The
Democratic party, on the other hand, have
steadlastly adhered to the Constitution as the
only test of loyalty and duty. Hence they
have asked nothing special, nothing partizan
in the conduct Of the war. This may be easily
tested by reviewing the different issues which
have been before the country since the rebel
hon broke out. Their position ever since they
have been party has been that every citizen
must obey his Government, acting under the
Constitution, alike in war ard in peace
Hence they uuhesitatiugy y arrayed themselves
against the rebellion. This was their grand
starting point in the war. They entered upon
1t and have clung to it without condition ever
since. The Constitution, pure and simple, was.
and IS the only rule which they recognize. In
this they were exactly loyal; nay, more, ex
actly just, for they have 10 right to ask any
body to do anything or submit to anything
beyond the Constitution, and certainly nobody
has right to ask the same of them. There
fore. as measures arose, they referred them to
that one test. When Fremont attempted 10
defy the President in Missouri, they arrayed
themselves upon the side of the President. be-
cause he was constitutionally Fremont's supe-
rior When the President assumed power to
suspend the habeas corpus they said he was
wrong, because the power, under the Constitu-
ton, is legislative, and must be exercised by
Congress. When the radical caba brought
" pressure upon the President and attempted
to coerce his action, they took sides with him
because under the Constitution he, and he
alone, is responsible for the conduct of the
war When he issued his decree Of emaucipa-
ton, aiming to overthrow the institutions of
States, and to destroy the property Of loyalis,s
as well as rebels, they took part against him,
because he exceeded his constitutional powers.
When he announced, through his Secretary.
that Offences properly coguizable by the courts,
would, in loyal and peaceable districts, be tried
by military commissions, they told him he was
wrong, because the Constitution makes the
civil superior 10 the military power In all
these respects they only asserted the law Of the
land. They did 20, thrust forward any party
policy, nor insist upon doubtful constructions.
They only demanded the observance Of element.
airy principles, of the essentials of liberty. con-
corning which no American citizen can dispute
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