The Shasta courier., 1864-05-07
There,s something in Name.

I
! ike girdle the vast universe Of God, while
those who bore them have long ago passed
| from the scenes of earth But there their
names hang on Fame's shining girdle, en-
during as the stars Of heaven. How many
fond parents have named their infant son
George Washington. fo. dly hoping that the
very name might bring him honor and that
their son. at least. might be similarly endowed
as his great namesake.
But fame has its two sides-the loved and
the hated the honored and the Infamous
the brilliant and the dark. If the one may
be Iikened to the luminous track of the
Milky Way,-eser shining and gloFious,-
the other resembles rather, those starless
reg ons in space, .'openings in the heavens, y
rs Sir William Herschel terms them, in
which the most powerful telescopes enable
the eve to discern nothing but gloom and
dark ness; aud which Imagination fills with
mystery and alarm but still enduring In
their blackness like the stars in their glo-
ry-
The times are now ON us for men TO make
themselves names to liye after them. To
prove the Washingtons or Benedict Arnolds
of their country. To string their names on
Fames starry girdle. or write them on its
everlasting blackened scroll to weave an i'm
mortality for honor or for infamy. Nor dees
Fame alone follow in the track of individuals !;
but reflects its bright light or dark shadow
upon the factions as we'll as leaders,
There was in the days of the Revolution, u
class who favored the claims of Great Brit
ain. And many of this class did so-not be-
cause they doubted the justness of the cause
in which the colonists sstrugged-but because
they had no faith III the God of battles be-
lieved that the tyranny of the British crown
would triumph over the infant stuggles of
Liberty and ANONYMOUSLY preferred to die
slaves, than die battling for freedom. This
class of serfs were termed Tories in their day
and was numerous enough to prolong the
suffering, agonizing, terrible strife by which
freedom was won by our Revolutionary sires
And many of them lived to shrink and COVER
before the jeers and scoffs of their more pat
riotic countrymen under the lasting stigma
Of Tories. To this day, the sons and grand
sons of the Tories of the Revolution most
keenly feel the odium of such a reminder
But their names-black as they appeared
and still appear-will seem as white as snow
when compared in coming time with that
despicable faction. which now arrays itself
against the Union and on the side of the
most ignoble cause that ever letsloose oricalled
out the g dogs of war assuming to itself the
nams Democratic Party The great principle
implied.bythe term democracy, already appeals
to lexicograple ers for another name for the
name of Democrat is to become stencil in
the nostrils of all future nerations. 1t
will link to itself an odium less eradicable
than the saturating fumes of skunk. a
name which, if given to the damask rose,
would destroy its sweetness forever.
There's something in name, as the man
can testify, who having eaten piece of rhu-
barb pie with great relish, without knowing
what it was, on being told that it was made
rhubarb, Immediately threw it up again.
There is sometimes no removing the odium
Of name. Ye, that now hold the name of
Democracy with such a clinging fondness !;
hoping that its sweetness will exercise the
stencil of treason and ingrattude to your
country, as Lubin's extracts smother down
the sickening fumes of whisky and tobacco.
beware the time when the very name of Dem
ocracy itself shall seem putrifacton. Men
may comprehend that phase of character
that heroically sacrifices present enjoyment
to secure future reward or that which
basely defie~ the future and dares its ills, to
obtain a passing qualification But that
which stoops to infamy for the love of it, and
everlasting shame, seems an anomaly of base
ness in human character. and reaches at
darker place in Fame's dread annals than
has hitherto been found.
The worlds hstory-teeming with the
wars and revolutions of earth people the
rise and fall of nations-with all its black list
of outlawries, conspracies and rebellions,
furnishes no parallel of an equal amount of
turpitude. ba>eness and ingratitude in any
other people, compared to that exhibited by
a portion of the citizens of our Republic.
First because no other people ever had so
good government second because none
were ever so well protected in their rights;
and thirdly because none were ever half so
prosperous, or owed to their government so
large a debt for the benefits they enjoyed.
The shrieks about the rights of shareholders.
invaded by abolition fanatics, have lost all
potency except TO fire up children and old
women. Shareholders retained all their
rights in spite of individual wrongs. They
enjoyed the peculiar fostering care of the
Federal Government. and received more than
their due share of its honors and emol-
uments always, first and hast A majority
of the people in the free States upheld their
just claims They had no cause of murmur
or complaint; they had no pretext to rebel !;
and owing debt of gratitude and love to the
government they lived under, that they could
not too fully repay by their allegiance and
support. they have rebelled against its supre-
macy, and leveled at its ruin all the great mr.
tillery of war. And net content with wars
dread havoc ofhuman life, they have consign-
ed to murder and massacre and ignominous
torturing death. the scourging of the lash
and the wasting ravages of filth. imprison-
ment and slow starvation, their prisoners of
war. They have hung innocent women upon
suspicion of their loyal sentiments. and com
mltted barbarities, not only known to mo-
dern warfare. but such would put the worst
of savages to the blush of shame for the cru.
city of their intiction. History will bear
upon its pages the darker record as we'll as
the brighter transcript of the present war
and when those pages come to be read by
posterits, the soul of the reader will revolt
with horror at the blackness-more hideous
than the strongest imagery of hell's black re-
gians could paint them-of those dark names
The SHAREHOLDERS REBELLION and its abet-
tors. the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. as they will ap-
pear in the simple garb of truth. Truly,
there's something in me.-4mericda
Eagle.
MINNEsoTA.-At meeting of the Trus-
tees of the Minnesota Gold, Silser and Copper
Mining Company. resolution was adopted
that in view of proposition made to the diff.
far,,4 ,or,1oD,as IN p;ttsb,r~ A..