The Shasta courier., 1863-08-15
The Hereditary Curse of Treason.

w nen tne Ialnting Man OF SOrrOWS was
bearing his. cross up the accursed mount, =
Jew who lived by the ,vayrside came out,
spat upon and reyiled him. And the august
Sufferer, almost tempted to abandon the plan
of human salvation, momentarily forgot his
mortality, and, turning upon the cringing
Hebrew, commardeixs Harry thou TIL |
comet Then went forth the Wandering
Jew on his eternal rounds moaning among
the ruins of Tadmor and Persepolis, journey
ing by the cloudy river of Egypt, answering
to the melancholy bittern in the pools of Babr
ylon, shrinking as the Roman plow- share
shrieked among the PROSTATE splendors of
Salem-whercver Death lowered. there, un.
comforted, even by the tender love and pity
of the beautiful, faithful Miriam, rose the
heart broken,s death invoking despairing
prayer of SaIathiel.
Like the curse of the never dying sacrilege,
will be that of the traitor who deserted his
mother country when the bloody sweat crys-
talized on her forehead and the tormenting
thorns of her sons ingratitude plowed their
crimson burrows down her temples. In the
scale ofinfdelity, that to ones country stands
on the black record next to the objectionable
sin against Heaven. Even the mcanest crea-
.ure the very spider that works her filagree
in the corner of the murderer's dungeon,
comes out and fights with all her might for
the little territory which she has inherited
FROM her ancestors, when stronger insect
begins to rend her web and the savage who
never heard Of Caesar, or Alexander, or Ma
poleon, or our great Washington, strips. 10
the waist, and paints himself with the grim
similitudes of exterminating war, whenever
a strange track or a bloody arrow is found
on the hunting grounds OF his fathers. The
universal language of man, and which re-
mains Ineligible to savage and,eigilizel and
enlightened despite the . Confusion = od
Tongues" is s.If forget thee, o my Coun-
Try may God and my country forget me -
> Bringing the arss e~-.n~s- to our
own doors, what, therefore, Will be the fa.
ture of these traitors calling themselves
" Peace Democrats?' Read the ignominii
GUS biographies of Revolutionary Tories, of
the Cow Boys, of the Blue.light burners, of
the Hartford Conventionists. To this day
the childrens children Of those old white.liv.
cred, false hearted traitors are despised and
upbraided, and the attaint and disgrace MiA
run through the endless current of all their
future generations. Blacker, fouler, more
abhorrent will be the fostering brand upon
the foreheads Of the -hypocrites whom
we meet everyday. Even now, their little
children, radiant with the rose and lily of
the Caucasus. and with their nostrils vet
warm where God breathed in the immortali.
ty of deathless soul. are beginning to feel
the penaltv-the original sin--ot having been
begotten by q traitor. Thefri playiiates
taunt and shun them" Al, hi your ia
theirs secesh snake way for the little cop
perhead !'}--until their poor little crushed
hearts futter; and their eyes overflow WITH
bitter waters. When out of sight of their
parents, they eagerly mingle with the others,
and waye their toy-fags but, before going
home, they must throw away the hated re-
semblance of their country's standard. 1t
was only the other day, that an old wretch
at Chinese Camp beat his child for bringing
home an American Flag; under, which, the
aceursed old william lives in safety We Wish
that the might of Joab and the inspiration of
Judith had overshadowed that child. that she
might have struck off the head of another
IIolofernes -.
This, fellow citizens is modern Democracy
To that unfathomable sink of shame has fall.
en- what was once proud, warlike. national
and glorious And you-you. We hell-p pre-
destiniated Iscariots, burning the blue light
of peace Democracy. with the parieide s dag
ger IN your bosom and the traitor's gall aYe1-
flowing under your blanching livers, we know
you
" Tis he ts he know him now
know him by his clouded brow;
know him by the evil eye
That aids his damned reaehery."
Meet Union men at the polls, and look
them in the eyed Confront your children
whose veins have drunk a mortal poison,
through the amours of a traitcr, and ask
yourselves who will utter Il mass for your
outcast soul, when the Flag of the Union
streams out again in undisputed empire from
Key West to the Lakes of Maine ?-S9rcra
Flag. 's
A AREAsoNABLE PRoPosITIoN. The Copper
heads are in the habit of falsely stating that