The weekly Butte record., 1864-01-09
Major General, Commanding. &c, {
Calumny is the Homage which Radical
ism Pays to Conservatism.

At 10 previous period in the history Of pol
itics in this country, has misrepresentation
been so persistenty pursued by any party as
By the radicals toward the conse ryatives during
the past two years The misrepresentation
has been deliberate, gross, bitter. Conserva-
tive men who but few months before, were
reyiled aud sneered at as Union Savers" all
ct once according 10 these new born patriots,
became plotters for disunion and downright
traitors; while those who had spent life time
in assailing the Constitution and denouncing
the Union as an agreement with death and a
league with hell as suddenly assumed TO be
the sole true friends of the Union The SIN
cerity of these new aedged Unionsts requires
no comment Their professions, viewed in the
light Of their previous acts and history, can
leave no doubt in the mind of any unprejudiced
person as TO their true character. They are
just the same Union men they have always been
and ne other. They desire to see the old Union
destroyed as they hage always desired it; and
they are determined it shall be destroyed, in
the vain hope Of founding upon It's ruins, in
the mids of passion and commotion, better
Union than that founded by Washington and
compeers That is what they mean. That is
their purpose, and they are pursuing it with
zeal worthy of better cause.
The great obstacle to their success iu over
throwing the present. Constitution is the con-
seEvati7e mon Of the country who have stood
by it in evil as in good report They are the
lion in the radical path and it is because Of
this that they are assaed and magned with
an industry and spite unsurpassed except by
Satan himself In this connection We ask at
tention to the following from the Louisville
Journal on the subject. That paper speaks
/ for the Union men of Kentucky, anl as it has
never been a democratic Journal it will not be
accused Of Demo- preiadices. 1t says;
at is consolinc and even cheering refec-
tion that the radicals of the country would not
so grossly caumuate the conservatives but for
dread OF conservatism. Between radicaliSm
and conservatism on the naked issue of their
respective claims. radicalism would stand no
earthly chance before the people. THIS the
radicals well know. Hence they deem it nee
essary to obscure the issue, which they endca
vor to accomplish through immeasurable cal
umny Hypocrisy says Rochefoucaud is
sort of homage that vice pays to virtue We
may ftly adopt this saying to the subject in
haad Calumny is a sort Of homage that rad
icalism pays to canservatism.
1t is indeed hard to conceive how any ra
tional and patriotic man can give his voice
and Influence to swell iae deadly power OF
radicalism. Can any such man doubt that the
only salvation Of cur country is by the union of
the American people around the conservative
standard? 1t is universally conceded, as
co,emporary sa, :, that Union at the North is
necessary to success. What is success? We
answer peace aad the restored power of the
/ Constitution and Union. That is complete
success. Why is there division at the North?
Because the radical party boldly pToclaims
their intention to oppose the restoration of
peace under the old Union, or any Union with
the slavehollug States. They assert that
there can be no peace with slavery.
.On the other hand. the Conservative party
believe tha, simpIe. sieadfast adherence to
the constitution will give US peace, and, what
we want, the Union. On which platform is it
easier to unite? On which ia success more
likely to be achieved? The radica, platf rm
requires Us to abandon the constitution, abon-
don the principles Of concession and compro-
mise on which our government rests, and 60
into q crusade for the establishment OF new
Union. new government, an unknown Struc
ture existing only in the dreams Of enthusiasts,
to be founded on the ruins Of the best and
nob!est structure which was ever erected by
human hands The other platform, the con
servative idea proposes to save the Old StTuc-
tcre in all its glory. marred somewhat by the
terrible experience through which it will have
passed. but substantially the same Union of
which Washington aud his companions were
the founders On this platform every patriotic
American can stand. ought to stand, must
stand if we would win that success for which
we strive.
"1he wild folly which for more than a year
: was permitted to cry treason treason at eve
ry voice raised fer the constitution has been
hashed The accusation Of dis!oyaty hurled
, at the men who stool firm for the old Union
has recoiled on those whe were insidicusy
plotting TO destroy it. The eyes of the whole
country are now fixed on the conservative men
, for help advice. guidance Al confidence IN
radical men ard radiea, measures Is gene
! The are known to be utter failures. They
have sacrificed Too much blood ana treasure
r The people are becoming Of one mind. What
an intense relief would the whole community
feel to day if il were known that some trusty
f conservative was 10 be President OF the Uuited
5 States by some constitutional succession to
morrow, Acting under the advice of such
, men. the people will preserve the present
, administration Sin power patiently bearing
2 with lis iufrmites protesting firmly against
its errors and in the right time will restore the
? Constitution to conservative protection. Then
j viii begin again the story Of American great
ness"
. It Is strange. but it has actually come 10