Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-09-29
Lost

johnson, Seward, Raymond & Co. have
played desperate game and lost. Tie die
Is cast. The mighty voice of the people has
not yet pronounced their doom, but it Is as
inevitable as fate. From the loyal North.
irom the East to the West, from ocean to
ocean, from every State whose citizens few
TO arms and focked by hundreds of thou
sands to the support of the standard of their
country when it was assailed by the traitors
OF the South, comes voice of warning as
plain as the ''hand writing on the WALL"
which traitors. whether in the White House
or out of it. will do well to heed. 1t is the
voice OF American sovereigns. men; who for
four years fought an asrocious rebellion
against the best government on the face Of
the globe. and now that they have conquered.
will not consent to De bound hand and foot
and given over to the tender mercies of their
lmplacab,e foes. They will resist the ad-
vance of treason as firmly at the ballot box
as they did On the field of battle. The maud
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persuasiveness of Seward and the treasona-
BILE sophistry of Raymond, have utterly failed
to change the infexibility of purpose of Union
men. and that trio of political intriguers.
who thought to ride into place and power
upon the ruins of the Union party. have
found that they had entirely miscalculated
either their own influence or the patriotism
of the people. The most blinded adherent
to Johnson's policy cannot fail to perceive
the utter hopelessness of his cause. 1t is true
elections have yet been held in only two
States; but the result can be as plainly seen
now as it can after the votes are counted.-
The emphatic tone of the loyal Press. the re-
Gel ton which johnson met outside of Cop.
perhead cities during his recent tour, the
marshaling of the hosts of freenen who have
80 steadfastly stood by the country during its
baptism of blood, all portend the scathing
rebuke which the people will administer to
these place-hunting re, reants at the Fall cleo
tions. The principal actors in the political
drama already hear the mutterings of the
coming storm and are trimming their sails to
meet it. The n. Y. Times, the organ of the
johnson party, and which is edited by Ray
mond, has recently come out in favor of the
Constitutional Amendment What is the
cause of this sudden change? Raymond,
who is Member of Congress, has fought the
Amendment from its first introduction into
the House down to the present time. The
New York Herald, another Copperhead
sheet. has also taken queer turn and ad-
rises Johnson to dismiss his Cabinet, because
''it does not represent the views CT the pop
ular majority There is some more potent
reason for this sudden change Of front by the
leaders of the Johnson party than their or
gans assign. Johnson and his confreres are
fully aware that '.my policy" will be scorn
fully repudiated, and thatt the party which
favors the admission of Representatives whose
hands are still red with the blood of martyrs
who fell fighting for the maintenance of free
government. will be overwhelmed with de-
feat whenever and wherever the loyal masses
exercise the right of suffrage. They have
played high and lost, and their only object
now is to escape the utter annihilation which
threatens them.