The Shasta courier., 1865-07-22
NUMBER 81.


The conduct of the Nation on the rece;ot of
the sad news, was the very highest trinmnb
of self lfgovernment Of which we have anv rec-
ord. We need not lnger over our creot
grlet, but be eonsoled with the thought that
though men die, principles never. Though
the joys of victory were SO suddenly succSed.
ed by sorrow, the wheels of government
moved steadily on in their appointed orbits.
and the people did not lose faith for mo.
mems in complete and ultimate triumph.
So perfect is the crushing out of this re-
belion; SO inglorious did its great head and
representative 90 out from that high position,
that at an early day led an English states
man to say. 'the had made nation" that
we have little fear there will be found any
considerable number hereafter, even of the
chiyalry, who VIII be willing to imperil their
fortunes and their lives, to found criR0line
government. Big boots and long spurs are
well In their place; but we fancy they prov
ed, on a recent occasion, no aid to a certain
old woman, feeble and decrepid, armed with
a tin pail, seeking "a spring of water whereby
the thirst of the dignitaries of the so-called
Confederate government might be quenched.
Never before have we had a practical exposi-
ton of the meaning of the phrase of man
sinking into his boots" 20, how are the
mighty fallen !" The mountain labored,
and 10 !. less than mouse was begotten So
gigantic scheme as the slave holders re-
beiliOn guilty in its very inception of purlu-
ry, robbery and treason could not terminate
otherwise than ANONYMOUSLY. Yet the
brain of man had not conceived that the
great Confederacv would seek concealment
beneath bis wife's hoops. So it was.
There is no Fourth Of July, glorious in
and fyaal,n, md cn.1it, RI
such bastard craven spirits We have them
in the iron grip If the law, and by its deci.
sion we will abide. Should Jefferson Davis,
the prince of traitors. go back to the people
he has so fearluly deceived could he meet
the widows his wicked ambition has made,
we might imagine them crowding around
him, as did the widows of Athens around
the single Athenian citizen who alone return
ed from an unfortunate expedition to the
island of Ngina, asking where are our hus-
bands; aud in their griefand rage, fall upon
him with their bodkins, p>icking him to
DEATH The mother Of patriots. amid her
tears can point to honored graves for she
gave her sons to her country in the hour of
It's peril. We must not forget those name
less graves that so thiekly dot every battle
field in this war; there patriots sleep, and
Nation : gratitude and love gsard theprecious
dust. We embalm the history of the last
four years IN the anniversary Of our Inde-
pendence. not as G dead mummy, but as a
living thought We accept the achievement
of our armies, as the legitimate result of the
progress Of free thought, and add the bloody
page to our history as an advanced step Of the
solution Of the great problem Of a free popu-
lar government. Oar government has an
inherent power that this rebellion alone has
developed. Its strength under pressure, its
endurance under trials, its elasticity amid
gloom and reverses, its power to repel the
most subtle Of all its foes-traitors fed and
nourished upon her bounty-commends it
more and more to our admiration and love.
We hail this natal day, whose principles
have been SO magnifcantly sustained, and
heroically defended on the plains of Georgia,
among the palmettos of South Carolina,
and on the sacred soil of the Old Dominion,
as an earnest of the spirit Of liberty.
Freedom, like her emaneipated sons and
daughters, shouts, ana the hills catch the
swelling anthem and speed it on over river,
lake and plain in ever increasing volnme, so
that the whole land is filed with the sound,
and it is the Sweetest and grandest music
that ever fell upon Nations car.
Long may it be before its noble harmony
shall ever he disturbed by discordant note
LJhs9 iAletl - bG BC-piC thII 10 cAlttAA LC lOuuu
another hand that shall dare to trail the
Stars and Stripes in the dust; but if there
should, let the shcrt, sharp order of Gen.
Dix be executed, shoot him ON the spot"
that traitors may learn their certain doom.
God helping, VIC will cherish the birthday
Of our Nation, as the mother cherishes her
first born, watching and guarding with jeal-
GUS vigilance the Declaration of Indepen.
derce, the gift Of our Revolutionary Fathers.
THE Tennessee House has adopted bill
excluding from franchise for fifteen years all
persons who are excluded from the benefits
of the President last amnesty proclamation,
except the eighth eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth
and fourteenth classes mentioned in said
proclamation also, all who have held office
in the rebel army above the rank of captain.
All other persons who engaged in armed re.
bellion are excluded for five years, except
such as were conscfipted, and who can prove
they were loval at the time they were forced
into the rebel army. In all other respects
the bill was substantially the same as has
already passed the Senate, and it is said the
latter will accept the House measure
THE Missouri CoNsTITUr1oN-New York
papers of the latest dates say there appears
to be no doubt that the New Constitution of
Missouri has been adopted by s. decided
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