The Shasta courier., 1864-09-03
The Rebels and their Friends.

From the inception Of the war for the dis
ruption of the Union, the rebels have based
their expectations of success, not alone on
the prowess of their armies, but also on the
assistance they calculated on receiving from
abroad, and the aid and comfort of ther Cop
perhead allies at home. If they were mista-
ken when they imagined that cotton famine
across the Atlantic would enlist England and
France in the iniquitous war they had in
augurated, they certainly have not been de-
ceived in the aid they expected from the
bogus Democracy; for with zeal equaled
only by that of the Richmond jupta, these
allies of the rebels have labored to throw OBJ
stacles in the way of the Administration, aud
to battle the Government in its measures to
suppress the rebellion. Aware of the I'M
portance Of having the strength of our armies
concentrated in the rebellious States. and the
vigilance of the Government directed to vital
points in the Confederacy, they have indus
triously sought to foment dissensions and
bring about collision between the Federal
authorities and some of the Northern States,
for the evident purpose of dividing our mil
itary force, and increasing the area over
which the vigilance of the Government must
be extended, well knowing that success in
this direction would stimulate the tagging
energies and infuse new hope into the heart
of the enemy. They have busted themselves
over the arrest of babbling demagogues, who
have abused the leniency of the Government
by belching forth treason, but have uttered
no words of sympathy for the thousands ar.
bitrarily arrested in the South for no other
offense than fealty to the Republic. They
have opposed coercion on the part of our own
Government, but have remained quiet over
the attempt of the Confederate armies to co
cree us to assent to the heresy of secession
They shout for &c the Constitution as it is and
the Union as it was" in order, by such ad
captandum phrases, to impose on the credu
lous, while they play into the hands of those
who have framed the Montgomery Constitu.
tion, and fight to dismember the country and
establish another power within our borders
They have opposed the Con6scation Acts Of
Congress, but very carefully have avoided
reference to the rebels, who at one blow
confscated over two hundred millions of dol
lars due from them to the people of the North,
or to denounce the subsequent merciless con-
fscation by the Confederates of the estates Of
all those in the South suspected of devotion
to " the Union as it was" They raise false
issues, and magnify matters of minor consid-
Grafton, to influence the public mind against
the Administration, but never attempt to
incense the peoble against the Confederacy
which winks at the starvation of their pris
oners and countenances the inhuman massn-
ere of our soldiers. They have retarded
enlistments, connived at desertions, and in
the spirit of Nero fddling while Rome was
burning, have been Indifferent when danger
threatened the capital of the Nation.
Such has been part of the policy of the
aiders and abettors of the Davis confederacy.
So well have they performed their part Of
the programme, that the rebel press approves
their course. The Richmond EXAMINER
referring to them, says that '' to give the
Democrats the least chance of success Grant
must be defeated and the invasion must col
lapse and die out, and therefore it is the in
terest of the Democrats to do their very ut
r,iosr to reakeu the Federal armv and dis
credit the Federal finances" Exactly so.-
But they will fail in the future as they have
failed in the past, for the Government tina
has checkmated the Johnstons, the Lees, the
Wigfalls and Quattlebums of the Confedera
cy, will see that Grant is not defeated, and
be able, with Argus eyed vigilance, to watch
the strategy of the aiders and abettors of the
armed hosts of secession.