The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-03-13
RevoIutlonary Tendencies.

ident, which his veto and recent speeches.
have producer. Had the parties the
power it is net d~ificultto say what would
be the fate Of the President.
The Westiiche Post, the radical Ger
man organ of st. Louis, closes a lengthy
article on the political situation, by de-
claring that we are living in a revolution
airy time, and that revolutionary meas
ures must be resorted to, to head off the
President. After a statement of what it
thinks President johnson and his sup
porters are aiming at, it says:
against all that there is but one rem
edy. The German Convention meeting
last Monday in the. Workman's Hall, at
Chicago, discovered it with its correct in
stinct, and freely and openly announced
it to the world: that Congress must de-
clare itself permanent.
"This is a revolutionary measure, but
we are living in a revolutionary time
The second part of the insurrection has
commenced; the President himself has
raised the flag of rebellion. In such
times extraordinary measures have to be
applied, and if the people are wanting in
courage, if the leaders have not the me-
~cessary courage, then the consequences
will be terrible, and then q tragedy will
be disclosed to the world such as it never
witnessed before.
"Can this REVOLUTION be prevented?
Yes, it car. IF Congress will ouly indict
the President, we can escape all those
evils and give to the country peace again
Should Congress not do this, then the
South is victorious, and open civil war is
only a question Of time"
In pretty much the same strain spoke
the strolling negro lecturer, Fred Doug
lass, at Chicago, last week, to a "large
aud enthusiastic" audience. Since Chief
Justice Chase introduced him to a Wash
ington audience, as one of the "ablest
and most intelligent men Of our country,
and among our foremost orators" and
subsequently, dined with him, Douglass
has been putting on extra airs,an thinks
he is diviaely commissioned "to set the
people right" as be told the President
he intended to Go. In his Chicago lee
ture he said:
"But the Government had been triec
by treason, rebellion and assassination
and yet remained to be tried by a traitor
lblacker than Jefferson Davis. TSensa
ton Yet despite the hell black trea'
i SON yonder at Washington, the Govern
ment stood and would stand. His faitl
: was in the omDipotence Of truth, the en-
!. liehtcned Judgment of the loyal people
and the Congress of the United States
tTApplause. x <
dHe saw with sorrow the .eagernes'
with which some so called Republicans
!, we're clasping the red hands Of traitors
] aud the eagerness with which others wer
asking the country to forget these deed
of traitors, and to forget the services 0
their friends. He did it because the.
) were in a terrible crisis, where a blood
baptism might come. He was csrtaii
they we're on the edge Of a chasm, deepe
and more terrible than the one they ha
|. escaped. They were being %wantonly be
trayed into the hands Of their enemies
g There were two walls yet between ther
9 and the catastrophe-one Congress, an
d the other the people"
!. The Red Republican Germans OF Chi
cago, at their meeting, last week, passe
the following resolutions:
"Resolced, That the House of Repre-
+ sentatives is asked to take measures /;
o once to cause the impeachment of tn
!. President for his many unconstitution'
acts.
eResolred, That Congress continue
session until March, 1857, in order
e prevent any coup d etat,' should such
attempted by the would-be Napoleon, an
to prevent the abuse Of the immense pa
ronage in behalf Of the new Confedera
party.
There is more revolution and imp
i dence in that, than in the utterances
= the negro, and is dictated by the san
spirit that inaugurated the late depleTab
: war; and which, if INDUCED in, as it HI
a. been manifesting itself since the vet
may lead to another civil strife more tie
A. rible than that through which We ha
%ofIjust passed.
It takes, however an instructor
ar things divine to concentrate bitterne'
be and pour out abuse in its yilest form.
he The Boston clergy have been trying the
ba tongues on the and foul mout
they disclose. We give a specimen fre
~ one of them, Rev. D. A. WATSON. II
'et D. D. took for his text Feel. <, Is, "W
to thee, o land, when thy King is a chile
nd Among other things he said;
"Let us build a monument to Bened
Arnold; let US lose no time in doing h
Justice, for, although the carrion SINE
on i'll beside the rose, yet its smell! becon
ip- like the rose when compared with asaf
tis ida. Let US say Saint Judas and Patr
~ Arnold, for this last betrayal has a chi
acter and place to which the others w
mere nothing, for it was done not OF
IN without c~ompunctien, but--so far as
* chief actor was eoncerned--with a te
"a ing that he was doing good. No Y
8; ever reaches its worst till it m witt
feeling of virtue in it.
aJudas was a bungler; he should hi
for gone into the synagogue with the price
lis. himself ~jingling in his pocket, andthal
ed God that he was net as other men:
was a fool, and. went and hanged hims'
u but don't let us be toe hard on him,
en-, didn't live in the nineteenth century
Ind Your perfectly virtuous traitor it ia
: time to form. Andrew johnson is Id
=. coward. ar else he would not cry out 7