The mountain Democrat., 1865-10-07

GRANGE oP FRoNT.-A few months ago
the loyalists of Placerville were in the
habit of marching through our streets
singing, vociferously and gleefulIy, "John
Browns body lies mouldering in the
DUST" etc. They made night hideous
with their noise, and questioned the 10y.
atty Of every man who refused to wor-
ship their patron saint, the notorious old
John. The San Francisco Flag, Bulletin,
and Alta, the Sacramento Union and Bee,
and other Abolition organs, urged the
people Of California to raise fund for
the benefit Of the ''martyr's" family
Old John Brown was the idol Of the Abo
li,ion party Of California for long time,
and the San Francisco Flag urged the
Union men Of PlacerviIe" to hang us
for calling him "thief, robber and muir
derer." The amiable and intelligent edi.
tor of the Flag went step further and
declared that ''the ribald scoundrel who
would venture to use such language is not
ht to live" 1t is pity the intelligent
editor of the Flag didn't know we quoted
the language, and "the ribald scoundrel
who ventured to US" it, to employ the
Flags graceful language, is Andrew
johnson, President Of the United States!
To be consistent the Flag ought to call
upon "the Union men" Of Washington to
wiring the fellows neck" for calling old
man Brown "a murderer, a robber, q
thief, and n traitor" Johnson's speech
has sealed the lips Of the loyalists Of Cal.
ifornia for the time being. They cannot
idolize Brown without damning johnson,
and they have too much respect for their
pockets to do anything so verdant-
Johnson's opinion Of old John Brown is
especially interesting at this time, and we
hope our Democratic friends will quote it
whenever they hear Abolitionists singing
their favorite song. In speech in the
U. S. Senate, soon after bis execution,
President johnson produced conclusive
testimony that old Brown, with seven
men, on the oath of May, 1856, went to
q place about eight miles above Potta-
wottamie Creek, Kansas, and called from
their beds, at the hour of midnight, Allen
Wilkinson, WIN. Sherman, VIM. P. Doyle,
VIM. Doyle, and Drury Doyle, and took
them a short distance and deliberately
murdered them, cutting their thrOats,
splitting open their skulls and cutting
of their hands Commenting upon thess
facts, in the speech above alluded to,
President johnson said:
"But the Senator (Mr. Doolittle) talks about
the schoOl in which John Brown was taught.
Why, sir, John Brown, according tn his own
confession, had entertained these ideas for
twenty years. John Brown did not 90 to Kan
sas TO gO to school. He went rs q teacher on
the oath Of May. At the mid hour nf night,
from the wife and the mother he dragged the
husband and two sons. and imbrued bis hands
in their blond. These were the doctrines be
went there to teach. He did not go there to
be taught but he wens there as teacher. -
These were his teachings. Imagine the cries
and lamentations on the one hand, and the
Shreks of the dying and mutlated on the 9th
er. think some times hear shrieks so loud,
so wild, 90 clear, that even listening angels
stOOp from heaven 10 hear. This is the man
for whom an apology 10 offered.
"And YET these things are thrown out, per.
haPs not intended, but they do operate Ms an
excuse, an apology ip the minds of many, for
the infamy, the murders, the thieving, the
q eacberous conduct OF this old man Brown /;
who was nothing more than . murderer, Q
robber, thief an traitor"