Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-10-03

The Revelation Thseasened BY
Presadens J0hnsOD.
President Johnson,-or citisen johnson, A.
he sometimes calls himself,-in one of his
muItitudinous repetitions of his recent railroad
harrsngus, varied little from his usual text,
and aid:
BY your suffrage Ne shall have another civil
var. Il will NOT be between the North and
the South but an internecine war. Then ask
you to CINE forward and prevent such deplor-
able lesult, by standing up for the Constitution
Of your county,"
1t would be, perhaps, charitable to suppose
that Mr.. Johnson was in such a condition as
not TO know what he said; yet it would be
hardly wise prudent to look upon this Ut
terance. as not having all the significance such
. declaration can fairly claim to have, when
spoken by the Chief Magistrate of the nation.
Let 10 consider it's significance.
The President prop hesies,-and from an Of
fetal of his rank suca prophecy Is q threat
civil war, " unless the course of Congress is ar
rested" Congress is chosen by the people,
some of it by the people whom Mr.. Johnson
vas addressing. Every member OF it has
right TO bis seat, whether President Johnson
likes him or not the same right to it that MIR.
Johnson has to occupy the executive Office
For what these members my do 10 their Off
eial capacity, they can only be called to account
by the House to which they belong, and by
their respective constituencies. But Mr.. J Ohm
son Gays, in many words, if the people do
not Gail them to account, and either arrest their
course or put new men in their places, there
il to be civil war 10 other words, if the peo-
pie approve of the congressional plan of re-
construction, there is to be bloody revolution.
Who will inaugurate this WARP
There 10 only one way in which it can be
precipisAted-for q defeated party would never
commence such a6ght, since the terrible lesson
taught by the late war, except with executive
sid-and that is BY President Johason's aid
and encouragement. II Mr.. John son knew the
force Of the language he used, be has publicly
announced. that, if the present Congress is re-
elected, and its course is not arrested, he, the
President of the United States, will commence
. civil var. This is but natural sequence OF
that other discourse, wherein he spoke Of the
nstiona legislature ss " hanging on the verge
Of the government" and assuming to be the
Congress of the United States"
Just what method Mr.. Johnson will resort
to, to carry his threat into execution, is not yet
apparent. There are two methods open to
his choice. He can attempt by force to thrust
southern representatives and senators into Con-
gress, or he can encourage disorderly men
north and south to resist the laws passed by this
body changing on the verge of the government"
promising them impunity in such resistance.
Either Of these courses might, and probably
would, result in civil war. But if he should
become 20 mad in his political treason as
to attempt either of these usurpations, he
will only invite bis own speedy and utter
overthrow. The north vas not so united at
the Inauguration of President Lincoln, in favor
Of him and his policy. a. it is to day in favor of
II least a. much as Congress demands Of the
South. A new rebellion, even with its head at
the White House, would arouse northern
storm, beside which the uprising after Sumter
would be but gentle breeze; and clemency
would not be an early mistake 10 suppressing
this presidential treason, nor need the leader Of
this promised rsbellio, expect that the treat
ment Of Jeff Davis would be . precedent which
the people would then follow. Poor Pierce
prophesied before the Shareholders uprising,
that treason then would have sympathizers at
the north, and blood would 6ow in New Eng
land a. veil a at the South. But when the
storm came, and the millions of northern free
nent on their march to the gulf, be hid his Iii
minshed head, and was glad to cover himself
with obscurity from the scorn of an outraged
people. And this new prophet Of L" internecine
var will find. il the civil war he threat tens
should break upon the nation, that, like poor
Pierce. he has terribly misjudged the northern
people.
But when the people forewarned, they
viii be foresTmed, and by their stesdiness, firm
ness, and resoIute determination to stand by
Congress and the Unionists of the South, they
will render Mr.. yohnson's threats of, as well
his efforts to stir up, another rebellion, i'm
potent for evil. The Presidents journey
through the country, his incorporate speeches.
his gross disregard Of all the deeencies and
prophecies Of official life, bis outrageous ss-
ssults upon = CO ordinate dep rtment of the
government, and finally bis threats of usurpa-
ton and civil war, have SO thoroughly aroused
the people, that the fall elections will arrest"
him and not Congress, and make plain. even
to his dull apprehension and immense conceit,
that tailor, alderman, and President, as be has
been, be 10 not yet king, but only Chief Mag
istrate in . republic in which the people rule,
and mean to rule, either with him as President,
or with some one else in his office who under
stands it, duties better.
Parry Tri0mphS.
"What the Democratic party would do if
fully reinstated iu poverty what definite &C
ton it would damage the future of the nation
those Who dread it most might not be able