The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-02-09

power only throug h the forms of the Fede-
raj Constitution against the will of two
thirds of the American people, and yet, in
his desire to conciliate the Abolition luna.
| tics, he violates his oath, and rules over
half the sovereign States Of the Union by
bayonets alonel If be we're elected by a
majority, there would be some plausibiity
in his course, for he might say, "Though
l disregard the forms, l represent the wiU
of the majority, and thus, however ir-
regular, / am faithful to the principles of
Repubicanism.' But he represents the
will of a miserable minority, and thus
tramples on the fundamental principles of
Democracy, aud violates his oath to adj
minister the Constitution as be himself
understands it, aud all this crime, this
faithlessness to the liberty, prosperity and
manhood Of the working classes, this trea.
son to the majority principle, and this per-
jury is for what? Why, to enable the
Abolitiouiss TO reconstruct" SO that
they can permanently govern the country
and save themselves from the wrath of the
majority.
They iotend to exclude the southern
delegations aud continue the military rule
of the South until they force the south
ern people to make voters of the negroes,
and then they trust that the negro vote
will neutrallzs the naturalized vote of
the North, and with the national banks,
the mighty debt, the religious and social
Influences all consolidated in one mighty
array against the bound aud HELPLESS
masses, ground down ty taxation even
greater than that which has made ten mill
lions OF slaves in England, the "Union"
they think will he safe and themselves Sc
cure. Aud it is Andrew johnson whom
they expect will be their instrument for
the accomplishment of this end-a man
sprung from the ranks of labor, who will
become the tool of the vilest oligarchy the
world ever saw combination of bond
holders and Aboltionists for ruling over
the masses True, they have no clear
ideas or defined scheme in view thew
are driven 90 by the necessities of the
case to degrade and mauscle the masses,
for otherwise instinct teaches them that
there will be terrible reckoning in the
future, and they believe that the niggcrs
aud the debt are the powers that will save
tbem--the negro vote and the bondocra-
cy that will weigh down Democracy for
ever. And there is plausibility in the
scheme, if the laboring classes of this
country could become so degraded as to
affiliate with negrces-Democracy would
soon kick The beam, and when to this is
added the tremendous weight of four bill
lions of public debt, why there would be
vastly, immeasurably less hope for the
masses than in Russia or the most degra-
dtd people in Europe.
But it will fail--awfully fail-the most
tremendous failure Of human ambition,
policies and crime that this world ever
saw--a failure so awful, that its leaders
Will wish they never had been born, and
IN vain will call on the mountains to fall
on them and hide them from the wrath of
an infuriated people. 1t will be the old
lesson over again-the agencies of wrong,
by an inexorable necessity, become the in
ssruments Of retribution. The negroes of
the South will never be voters, for long
before that can happeo, conflict of race,
discriminating free negroism and the cause
OF free negroism, is inevitable, and the
public debt, with the great agricultural
md producing half of the country bligbted
and blasted by free labor" is about as
likely to be paid as the debt of the Cont
mental Congress or the "bonds" of the
Emperor So'ouque.
Now, if MIR. johnson escapes from
The catastrophe impending, the road will
soon be opened for him. The representa-
lives of the southern States excluded from
Congress, he has only to withdraw the
pressure from the South and permit So
,iety to restore itself. That is all. lie
need not act save as negatively, simply
his military forces, and obcying
bis constitutional oath, refuse to send
troops into any State unless called upon to
ID SO by the State authorities, as the Con-
stitution directs. If he will do this-if
be will simply fulfil his constitutional
duties, he will save his country and
become immortal but if he fails, and con-
sinues the abject tool of the Abolitionists
Tor degrading the producing classes to II
evel with negrodom, it were better he
never had been born.