The Shasta courier., 1866-05-12
A New Kink in the Conspiracy.

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Political affairs at the capital of the ma
ton are assuming widely different guise
from that they have usually worn. Nomin-
ally, our elections are controlled by the hen
e~t indication of public opinion t the ballot
box, and public questions are decided bv
the will Of the majority but the modern ra .
| of Presidents have established n new pre-
cedent, and the appeal to the knife, the
rife and the burning brand is the resource
Of the defeated party. A threat to deluge
the country in blood is the usual crowning
argument Of the new school of political con
structionists, who are encouraged in their
incendiary views by certain class of men
at the Narth-writing, evidently. from
Southern point of view--in the h pc of OBJ
tanning future advancement. If ever time
should arrive when civil war inyades the
smiling fields and peaceful fresides of the
Northern States. it will be the fault of the
authors of such paragraphs as the following.
which we find in late copy of the New
York Times: While most of the proro.
sitiuns are just and sound, the leading pur-
pose Of the report on Reconstruction, namely.
the election of the next President bv diri-
ded Union, is monstrously unjust. unwise
and impracticable. and if persisted in bv
Congress, riH lead to disastrous consequen.
ces." Tne Times speaks as though it was
really persuaded that the rebelicus States
had been kept out of the Union by the Gov
ernment. when precisely the opposite is the
case. We had supposed the $ leading pur
pose of the Committee to be the wedding
out of traitors. SO that the Southern States
might be brought once more into fraternal
relations with the Uniln on an equal foot
ing with the North. That the Union is
nomnally divided" is not the fault of the
North it is quite clear. Should the South.
ern politicians persist in their muish con-
duct, disastrous consequence mary, in
deed. result for them for Government. ex-
ercislng its supreme authority, backed bv
all the true loyal people of the country, may
seize upon the fomentors of disturbance
drive them into lasting exile, and supply
the South with officials concerning whose
loyalty there can be no question. Mean
while, the new game OF party ostracism goes
on quite briskly, and official heads are fall
ing rapidly under the guillotine, while the
Senate steadily pursues its policy of sus-
pending or rejecting the Presidents appoint
ments. 1t is the will of one man, and he an
old pro-slavery sympathzer, against the
voice of the nation
We are walking over a slumberinc volcano.
Signs and portents have be n of hourly oc
currence, yet the people are Indifferent
Among other journals the San Jose Mer
curry is fearless and out-spoken, protesting
its inability to see wherein II leader whose
whole aim appears to be to reconstruct the
Union upon Southern foundation, and who
dehoupces as ''curs" the representative
men of the great loyal North differs from
JEFF. Davis. Lee, or = his old friend Breck.
mrdge." The earnestness with which. as II
Southern Breckinridge Democrat. he de-
spised the North and its opnirns before the
rebellion is called to mind, and the Tennes-
eean swagger of his coneiuct duly reprobat.
ed. The Mercury is one of the few news
papers in the land that dares tell the truth =
letter from u friend mt Washington Le-
clares that
. The worst is not yet come. The deepest
treachery which was ever yet attemnted has
been plotted and is in process of being car.
ried out here by the man whom the people
lave chosen. and his guilty confederates.-
Am ne the latter, too. are to be numbered
many of those who, bad they died before
his disgrace, might have born fair reputa
lions to their graves. The country will be
startled soon by still greater evidenc. of
ohepracy 10 deleat the popular Will, after
hat will had been educated to right Mt the
'everest national cost. We shall see wheti
sr the devil shall rule or the devils be ruin
ID. have faith, though the days are dark
hat right. perhaps aticr another blooay trial,
will triumph. But l tell you if the worst
'hall come, and civil war again shall rear
IS terrible front before us, ii sciU not be end.
I'd until .1inished."
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
Way the nation heed the warnings already
given, and be prepared to meet the new
Bee.