Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1865-06-03
Eloquent Extract.

In his Grafton at the Sumter jubilee Henry
nounces the leaders of the rebellion. He speaks
the sentiment of the nation
charge the whole guilt of this war upon the
ambitions, educated, plotting political leaders of
the South. Applause. They have shed this
ocean of blood. They have desoated the South
They have poured poverty through all her towns
and cities. They have bewidered the magma
ton of the people with phantasms, and led them
to believe that they were fighting for their homes
and liberty. whose homes were unthreatened,
and whose liberty was in no jeopardy
These arrogant instigators of civil war have
renewed the plague of Egypt, not that the OPP
pressed might go free, but that the free might be
oppressed. day will come when God will re-
veal judgment, and arraign at His bar these
mighty miscreants and then every orphan that
their bloody game has made, and every widow
that sits sOrrowlng, and every manned and
wounded sufferer, and every bereaved heart in
all the wide regions of this land, will raise up
and come before the Lord to lay upon these chief
culprits of modern history their awful witness.
And from a thousand battle-feds shall rise up
armies of airy witnesses, who with the memory
of their awful suferings shall confront these
mscreants with shrieks of fierce accusation and
every pale and starved prisoner shall raise his
skinny hand in judgment. Blood shall call out
vengeance, and tears shall plead for Justice, and
grief shall silently beckon, and love, heartsmit-
ten, shall wall for justice. Good men and angels
will cry out, - How long, Lord, how long, wilt
thou not ayenge ?"
And then, these gultiest and most remorseess
traitors, these high and cultured men, with might
and wisdom, used for the destruction of their
country these most accused and detested of all
criminals that have drenched continent in need
less blood and moved the foundation of times
with hideous crimes and cruelty, caught up in
black clouds. full Of voices of vengeance and
lurid with punishment shall be whirled aloft
and plunged downward forever and forever in an
endless retribution while God shall say, q Thus
shall ii be to all who betray their country; - and
all in Heaven and upon the earth will say q A.
men - Voices: Amen Amen :
/ President JOHNSON AND AssAssINATIoN.-The
public will be glad to learn that efficient precau-
tons constantly taken to prevent the assas-
sination of President Johnson. These are pro-
vided however by the authorities, and not sug-
gested by the Executive. Scntnels surround the
White House, and trusty soldiers within the
building guard every approach to the President
and prevent the access of any one not well known
until Mr.. johnson issues the order for his admit
lance. There can be no doubt of the propriety
of these precautions. Secretary Seward freely
declares that himself and the whole Government
have been criminal in high degree in not taking
more effectual measures for the preservation OF
Mr. Lincoln 5 life. 1t is not probable that the
mistake will be made again The motive for
Mr. Johnson murder is even stronger than was
that for Mr.. Lincoln s-because unless the new
Executive is put out of the way, the murder OF
of his predecessor only reacts upon the conspir-
ators and their accused cause. To-day the
Government is stronger-far stronger than it was
before the assassination. The people more
united than ever before and the hatred of the
rebellion is wider and more intense On the
other hand. nobody doubts that Mr.. Johnson will
temper justice with far less of mercy than his
predecessor. His hand will be heavy upon the
leaders in the attempt to assassinate the Nation.
Herein we see an additional motive for producing
his death if possible. They have everything to
fear from the man who believes that mercy at
the expense of justice is a crime.-Nec York
Correspondence Of Bulletin.