Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-10-13
How They weakenl

nave 10 swallow. For bravado. and in tn
hope OF driving their opponents into the con
cess'on' for the sake of peace. of the dispute,
point they are themselves driven into makinI
declarations of what they piu and what the,
'o'" NOT do. in certain given cases. all @
which they are compelled to back upon wher
their opponents persist in maintaining ths
right and refuse to yield to intimidation. 1
would seem that mcn of ordinary common
sense and pride of manhood ought to consid.
er the position in which they are placed and
not take an attitude which they know they
cannot maintain. and which simply makes
them ridiculous when they have to back ou,
ut 1t. Of the truth of the above we could
ask no better example than the proceedings
of the bread and Dutternut Philadelphla
Convention of the l4th of August last. and
the action of some of its Northern members
since. taken with what seems likely to be the
course OF the others from the Southern wing
of the carrion bird which was reconstructed
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mortal Nasby aid its other friends to be the
full Aedged American Eagle, but which has
proved to be the Great American Buzzard.
Already. Raymond, of the New York Times,
who wrote the platform and address of that
Convention, has had to repudiate both, and
now is out in favor of the election of the Un-
ion candidates in the State of New York,
and in favor of the Congressional plan of re-
construction, and the Amendment to the
Constitution. which that Convention thought
imposed terms upon the chivalric South '.too
degrading and humiliating to be entertained
by freeman for single Instant" and Vir-
gina, the mother of Presidents. and in truth
the representative of all that is noble as well
as chivairic in the South, has begun to trim
her sails, and now tolerates "the inaugura-
ton of a movement looking to the adoption
by her legislature, at its next session, of the
Constitutional Amendment" The President
and the South had again been taken in by
the Northern dough- faces. as before the.war,
and made to believe that by bribes on the
one hand, and threats of renewal of civil
war on the other, they would be able to scare
enough weak-kneed and mercenary Union
votes to carry the Fall elections against the
Union party. Hence the great bread and
butternut Convention, and the Presidential
political expedition through the Northern
and Western States. of which the people
have just witnessed the failure. The Union
lists of the North were not to be bribed-
neither were they to be cowed into a surren-
der of the principles which have preserved
US nation. Maine and Vermont answered,
last month to the summons to surrender, BY
increasing their Union majorities, and Penn
sylvania, Ohio. and the other Urion States
which held their elections this week, are
equally indomitable in their faith in free in
stitutions. The politicians, whose hearts
were not in the Union cause. could not ap-
preeiate and understand the sentiments and
feelings of the Union-loving masses, and
while they believed truly that the loyal peo-
Pile wanted peace, they made the egregious
mistake of taking it for granted that we were
so sick of war as to be ready to make any
sacrifice of principle to avoid further blood
shed. They mistook the magnanimity of the
people for pusillanimity. and the castles of
Southern arrogance and Northern servility
which they have built thereon, are tumbling
from their foundations of sand, and are being
washed away by the great tide of glorious
"Radicalism" which is sweeping over the
country. The Northern sycophants of pow
er are having the scales knocked from off
their eyes, and already they see men as trees
walking, and can read the hand writing upon
the wall and can interpret its dreadful mean
ing. The revolutionists, North and South,
begin to see that the people know their own
business, and are determined that it shall be
properly attended to by their servants; that
the7oyal people of this nation have no fear {
Il aitors. and no compromises to make with
them, and that whoever persists in standing
in the way of the rightful solution of our ma
tional difficulties will be swept away by the
torrent of popular will. We shall h,ar no
more, from A. II. Stephens and his ilk, of
the South standing. with her arms folded, on
her dignity and Constitutional rights, and
that she has no more concessions to make,
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they will have to go and do, lest worse
thing befall them. They will now see that
if they refuse the proffers of peace rendered
to them by the Congress of the people. they
will be given over to Territorial Governments
until such time as they are fit for free instl-
tutions., The last man to see all fhis will be
the President; and he will only see it when
he is arraigned at the bar of the Senate for
his official crimes against our peace and lb-
critics. 1t is to be expected that his crew of
corrupt Office holders will make strenuous
efforts to prevent his impeachment and con-
viction. for with his official head off goes
theirs also !; and the adoption of the Consti-
tutional Amendment and the admission of
the Southern Representatives into Congress
will be the only means left them of saving
Johnson's and their places and thus those
hated Amendments are soon to become their
pet measures of safety. and the South will
hasten to do what she has been told and has
herself said 1t would not disgrace her to do.
and she will stand humiliate like a gamester
who has been detected cheating at cards.
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