The Shasta courier., 1866-06-02
The Revolutionists at Work.

fault OF the Democratic newspapers, which
now TEEN with reasonable and ncendiary
articles to an even greater extent than when
secession first became the subject of discus
sion. 1t would seem that thew must have
received from some high quarter assurances
OF encouragement and protection. or they
would not be thus insoent That they are
in high favor at Washington is fully estab
lished by the impunty they enjoy. and the
cordial manner in which the civilities of the
White House are extended TO them. With
half the appreciation and sympathy they
have lately had showered upon them. the
rebels would five years ago have marched
into New York or Philadelphia, and would
have found plenty of sympathizing allies to
open. the gates of the citadel for their ad
mission. What are we to think when in
newspaper published in Washington. pro
Tossing to be Union in sentiment, we find
such paragraphs as the following:
= We do not wish to see the second advent
of Cromwell of England or of Napoleon of
France practiced upon the radical destruc-
tionlsts in this Congress but what has been
may be, and will be agan. if Presi lent
Johnson is thwarted in his good intentions.
The President must he sustained.
What President Johnson's good inten-
tions' are we may conjecture from the char
acter of his associates. The writer of the
paragraph quoted. Thomas b. Florence, is
on terms of closest intimacy with the Chief
Magistrate, and is said to speak by authority.
He here does not merely intimate a posSiblh
", He distinctly threatens that if both
Houses of Congress do not falsfy their re-
cord by turning about and espousing the
Presidents policy, the latter will place him
self at the head of a body of soldiers and
forcibly expel the obnoxious members. This
could not be accomplished without bloodshed,
and thus American citizens would bow their
heads under humiliation deeper than the
first They have already seen the head of
the nation stricken down by tie band of an
assassin after a price had been set upon
his life by a dog who is at present walking
the streets of Southern cities unmolested
they would color with Indignation on learn
ing that the blood of republican law givers
had staine., for the first time the floors of
those legislative halls n which the eloquence
of Clay and Webster, and host of equally
distinguished statesmen, once resounded. =
Should such catastrophe indeed occur, the
entire loyal North would fy 10 arms. and
amid the cracking embers of our once peace-
fu homes and the clash and din of weapons
inangurated. Iihe adoption of violent
measures could have no other result. The
repetition of the scenes Of disorder which
attended the announcement of the rebellion
would prove that the American people are
incapable of appreciating the blessings of a
free and enlightened system. and wond de,
monstrate the necessity for an absolute and
powerful form of Government. Whichever
1aI ha ha tba
same If, in following out the Johnsouian
policy, which justifies the retention Of power
at any price, the President should depose
the present Union authorities and install a
Government of his own, his office would be
converted by the act into a Dictatorship,
and the inestimable privilege of American
freemen, the vote by ballot, wouid be vir-
tually abrogated. The present authorities
were elected by the people. Deprive them
forcibly Of their offices, and where is our
boasted freedom
That Andrew johnson contemplated go
ing to such an extreme we now feel assured
He has evidently studied closely in the his
tory of the coup d'etat, and is following with
alacrity in the footsteps Of Louis Napoleon.
That great ruler was a Jealous republican,
the most obedient servant of the people,
until by fraud and chcancry he had ac
quired the control of the soldiery. He then
gave Paris the barricades and proclaimed
himself Emperor What a commentary this
upon the " divine rights of kings.''
In the event above indicated, the triumph
of the Federals must Of necessity he follow.
ed by provisional government and the end
of all who shall foresee? The dilemma in
which the nation is once more invol, ed pro.
ceeds solely from the mistaken leniency with
which the authors Of tn. rebellion were
treated at the termination Of the war. Had
the leaders been summarily punished and
disloyalists peremptorilv excluded from
political rights in the disaffected States. the
Union would now have been at rest, and we
should not have been RECALLED with such
choice effusons as the ensuing. in the Detroit
Free Press-and surely no Southern trea.
sonable journal ever equaled it in venom:
. Let it not be forg gotten that in the emer-
gency that now exists, and in its not i'm
possible elimination under the insane con-
troll of the radical faction in Congress- Ger
tain action on their part might lead to civil
war. Let it not be forgotten that civil war
is not war of sections, but of parties that
it is not States that are in hostility to each
other. but the people in each State, and in
each county and town. Such a war will
not be fought at distance by men who are
first taxed to pay its expenses, and then sent
to do the fighting by those who can safely sit
in their chairs in the Congress of the United
States and direct the fighting, but it will be
fought here at home, in every town and
hamlet, and God help the weakest, for of
all wars known in history, none are so un
relenting as these civil strfes, where brother
fights brother. and father opposes son."
In other words, annul the legislation of
the past and give us such laws as Andrew
lst shall order you to give. or submit to the
alternative of civil war. Vote hereafter the
democratic" ticket, inscribed with the
names of such candidates as may be, pre-
scribed for you by your political masters, or
fly your homes and firesides for ever. 1t has
been rightly said that the party represented
by johnson was always one of violence and
disorganization, and now that the great
struggle is over, it reveals its old instincts
by the exhibition of the same turbulent and
revolutionary spirit out of which the rebel
lion grew.
Unless we are mistaken in the character
of the loyal masses at the n rth, the en-
deavor to override the majority is destined to
signal failure.-Bee.
COMING OuT OF THE HOLE IT WENT IN AT.
A writer in Blackwood's Magazine, who
processes to have been Il Confederate officer.
tells story in the last number of that mag
azine which sounds somewhat Munchausen-