The Shasta courier., 1863-11-07
Copperhead Press.

country. These would be exp0nents OF prop
er measures that the Administration should
adopt as war policy, cry out. that war Is
unconstitutional, and yiolatiye Of that arti-
Gle. and in the same breath, ask for a more
vigorous prosecution of the war 10 suppress
the rebellion. They say we want the ''C Con-
stitution as it is, and the Union as it was, y
ald at the same time laud to the skies, the
very leaders of their bastard party who call
for a convention of all the States to change
the Constitution, and then ask for cessa-
ton of hostilities until the politicians can
fix up peace for the purpose of preserving
the institution of slavery in the rebelious
States
All this is mere bosh. and these writers
know it; but they are for the preservation of
the Union, as much as those who are exert
ing every effort to aid the Government in
defending the country against the blood
thirsty hounds who have inaugurated the
most fiendish and cruel war ever known to
mankind. But under the cry of conserva-
tiyeism these writers would try to make their
readers believe that they are, par excellence
the exponents of Democracy. Do they not
know that the Democratic party was always
the radical party, until the shareholders
found that they could not force their cursed
institutions into the Territories, and make
them slave States, against the will of the
majority of the citizens who emigrated hither
to found new homes, and there plant the
standard of liberty and freedom, that all. of
whatever class, could maintain their rights
as American citizens. The Democratic party
was always the war party, and believed that
the manifest destiny which awaited only the
progress of events, to throw its protecting
arm around its citizens whenever their choice
of residence might prompt them to MAKE
their homes ON the North American CONT
nent, and eventually bring them under the
protection Of one flag and one Constitution.
These long have been. and still are, the bright
visions which animate the true Democracy of
our country. and which stimulates the great
masses of our people to renewed exertions
in support of the Administration in hurling
back secession from the territory already
purchased with the blood and treasure of our
Nation. and teaching such of our disaffected
citizens who seek a disruption of our Union,
that no new nation can be carved out of cur
territory upon any pretense whatever; but
that all Of our people must submit TO the re-
quirehents of the Constitution as it now is.
unless it is changed in the manner pointed
out by that instrument itself
To maintain the true Democratic theory of
government was the !" Monroe doctrine ;"
established, which was to shut out all
European powers from establishing foot
hold npen American soil but leaving the
people living under other forms of govern
ment than ours, to their own free choice of
how they would be governed, until they
should see proper to accept our liberal insti
tutions, and be admitted into the Union on
an equal footing with the older States And
this Monroe doctrine will be carried out in
Mexico against France. or the whole Euro
pean powers combined, should they ever
attempt to plant upon Mexican soil a mon
archial government 10 be udder their special
protection.
The old spirit of Democracy as inaugura
ted by Jefferson, and confirmed by Jackson,
still pervades the great masses of the Ameri-
can people at this day, and they will not
yield those great principles to that class of
Il ,ol,tio;,pe bo have s,oloo
the name of Democrat, but have forsaken
the fundamental principles of that time
honored party.-for the purpose of convert
ing this great nation into slave breeding
and slave propigating aristocracy that
would soon crush cut with the iron heel of
tyranny, every spark of independence and
liberty from our people. So long as the
spirit of our republican institutions are un-
derstood by the masses, the cause of our
1 Government will continue to prosper: and
notwithstanding our land may lose many of
her rnoblest sons in this bloody conflict against
traitors, the country will add strength to her
institutions, and become better able to assert
her character as great and powerful nation,
and better appreciation of the liberties we
are blessed with be more generally diffased
among our citizens.
These Copperhead editors advance the
same arguments, and stand in the same posi-
ton towards the present Administration and
its measures for suppressing the rebellion,
that the Tories of 1716, and the Federalists
Of 1912 occupied towards the Government in
those great contests for she maintainance of
our liberties and when this cruel and heart
less war is ended the leaders of the present
Copperhead party throughout the whole
Union. will be held up to the scorn and de-
testation of all honest lovers of liberty, and
they and their descendants will be considered
as unworthy to be entrusted with any office
of trust or profit. for generations TO come.
/ RISE y THE PRIcE OF AsHEs-A Philadel-
\ phia merchant. to whom the merchants of
| Charleston owe S50, 900, upon hearing of the
/ bombardment of that city by Gilmore, said
"Well, | have $50. 900 owing me there. but
l am perfectly willing to square accounts by