Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1866-08-11
NUMBER 81.



When Secretary Seward and President johnson
discovered that my policy" was overwhelmed
! and condemned by over two-thirds of each House
of the loyal Congress, they appealed from Con-
! gr<ss to the people and fhe press. The
app+al was heard, duly considered and decided
against the appellants by the almost unanimous
] Judgment of that Court, Notwithstanding the in
Aueuce of the Federal Executive brought to bear
1 upon. the State elections. From these elections
Congress was strengthened and reassured, and
the intrienes of the White House clique for the
/ destruction of the Republican party fell flat
Presidential vefoes have lost alltheir power, and
Stewards spite and ambition are pinned to the
wall There is discord in the Cabinet. The
Secretaries are divided in opinion ms to "my
policy :" the honester and sncerer sort are with
Congress, the sore-heads and those who still be-
lieve in ard desire the resurrection OF the Dem
ocratic party are with the President. 1t is clear
that something must be lonesome new turn
mast be taken, and that quickly, or the good
sense of the loyal part of the Nation VIII per-
manentIy settle down in support OF Congress
An appeaI is taken from the people and press to
a National Union Convention" 1t is IN the
nature of what that sklful politician and adrot
stranger Of popular sentiment, Louis Napoleon
has named pie6iscfum. That is, processing one
principle il aims ut another ana directly OPP
posite one After the coup d'etdt, it became
necessary out of decent respect for the opin-
I
to confirm nv vote of the people, the right ana
title of Emperor assumed by Louis Napoleon
This right and title were assumed py nun anu
his unscrupulous adherents as already amrmeu
bv the sentiment of the French people ana thoneh
they well knew this assumption to be false, II ne
came necessary to deceive the nation ana Tue
world by trumping up at least show OF acqui-
cscence The self-styled Emperor could rely
with all confidence the military the press
was almost unanimously opposed t" nm. TIC
let loose his soldiers and chained or brloed the
press The army was scattered all over the de-
partments in every large city, from the Straits
of Dover to the Pyrennees and from the Lake OF
Geneva to the Bay of Biscay. The political
managers instructed everywhere to make
the army vote first and to threaten the enemies
of the Empire This vote and the threats of the
soldiers, we'll piled with liquor, inundated the
citizens, and the pleJiscttum was grand sue
! cess but it was also Il grand fasehood. 1t for
ced France to speak against her real convictions,
which were in favor of the republic ms pro-
posed Philadelphia Convention has been planned
by its projectors in just the same spirit OF Napo-
| leon S plcbisc,fum The President and his lead
ing Secretary knew very well, from the voice OF
the press and the votes of the people in the Loyal
States which have recently held elections, that
their policy is condemned by nine-tenths of those
who saved the country; but they desire by
political fraud to force the people into false
position. The managers selected are all either
creatures of. the President men who labor
night and day for the destruction of the Union
party as they labored night and day from 1861
to 1865 for the destruction of the Union.
The motives set forth in the call for this Con-
vention plausible enough, but like the light
given out from the eye CT a serpent charming its
prey. they shine only to deceive and destroy
The Convention is not intended as truthful
representative body of the friends of the Union,
but as a whitcwashing arrangement OF treason
and an apology for rebellion hence AL the States
i clad
from the REPRESENTATION in Congress. are invited
By the managers to send delegates to Phliadel-
phia. If the men who support the Congressional
plan of reconstruction stand aloof and take no
part in it, of course the friends of the President
will have it all their own way aud their resoiu-
tions will favor his plans. Should the ffends oi
Congress participate and Send delegates, what
with the Southern delegates and Northern Cop
pcrheads. they would he in a bare majority and
he very fact of their meeting the South IN such
a Convention would carry with II all over the
country a color of the right OF the Southern
States TO representation III Congress.
Between these two myers and crossfres S-w-
ard johnson. the rebels and Copperheatls have
skilifulIv managed to place the tnion-R pub
lcan PARTY. Oar own belief Is that 1t would
he the besl for the parry aud the country TO have
accepted the Issue. meet the consplraiors III Con-
veniion ANA ovcrwheIm them But rs that eau
not Eow be douc, The next best thing Is to mar
shall ali the Republican forces in every loyal
State and stand firmly upon the Congress. ional
platform What is first and most especially
needed is the ratification of the Constitutional
Amendments Ly thrce-tourtGs of The States IA
the MON. 70 this end, we hope that Congress
Will very soon take Il long recess say from the
iirst Of August t. The lnidde o! NoYcIn;, .rW..en
each nyal uieincr may 90 home among bis con
st;iucu,s and explain to them in person The ,rdc
situation Gf parties and Of the country NrcIn-
not hcnnrahly meet fraud by fraud, bit We may