Nebraska advertiser., 1866-07-19
Nebraska aOuertiser
JoHNr CoErIApP. EDITOR.

BRowEvILLE THURSDAY. JULY 70, 1866.
4 The issue is be:ne %squareIy made BY
be Democracy Of Nebraska, with a can
dor truly astonishing TO any one ac-
quainted with the history Of that party
during aud since The rebellion. They
are ~uhseasing in their efforts to be the
~s'Johnson Democracy yet, the mantle
Of his good name-considering the rips
andrents he has recently made in it
even if he covers the Democracy with it
in good faith, will never hide the hideous
detormj'y . that parry. The Bellevue
ume&LdAed BY ire ~ Democratic
car 4 date for Secretary Of State, says
% that the issue before the country is clear
iy.spOn the Majority and Minority Re-
port Of the Reconstruction Committee,
f, the Majority report representing the
Radicals, The Minority report tn John
son Democracy. Then says The Radicals
declare "that Congress can rightly and
. justly impose conditions upon their The
Southern Siates) restoration to their
righis." And further, he says that ''ihe
johnson party, or The O;her hand, contend
that c nyress. having no other power
over Tie people Of the South than that
given by The Constitution, can no more
stxclude their Representatives from Coz
gress. on any pFetext, than it can those
Of any Northern State"
That President Johnson has openly
taken the position above assigned to him.
matters very Little to US in Nebraska.
the fact is plain that The position of the
. Nebraska Democracy hold that no guar
raptee can be demanded preceden, TO the
admission OF rebels TO full participation
Q an. the government, while the reverse is
ms truly the position of every Union
man IN the land. No guarantee for
. the future Shall we consent 10 take
. into she halls of Congress "blOody-hend-
. ed trailUrs'' 10 help northern copper.
. heads &c again virtually enslave tie col.
.ored population of the South 10 assume
. the debt made by the war to destroy The
Union; TO impair, by free-trade and
. uther schemes, the ability of the United
O States 70 pay he National debt to re.
move all disability Of leading rebels and
LLlace them in power IN short, 10 Grip.
pie the National credit abroad and al
3 home; e%nslave the bulk Of loyal South
erners, steal The National a~rsinals, foIt,
. and treasure, and precipi ate the c5Un,
try toto a foreign war aad a civil war at
o the same time, when their chances for
success would be much greater. 4 rea "
2 d. they boast that the best days Of he
rebellion are dawning. Already does
the traitor. ToOmbs, predict. from his
home in Cuba, a day for the renewal of
the ref eliion and its success. And in
these half. way hours between war and
peace, God knows, they have good rea-
sons for claiming Andrew johnson as
with them, and his best and frmesl
friends when be stood The joint champion
OF loyalty wiki the lamen,ed Abraham
. Lincoln, are forced to give him over TO
ambition CT senliily, aud the champion
or tool Of those who hunted him down
2 during. the war aad murdered his bro
. Their, because he was such. It Is hard
TO believe. yet nearly his every action
points that way; his yetoes, his pardons,
. his speeches, his company, his message
against The Constitutional Amendment
when nothing was required from him,
his opposition to the test oalhs, his re.
pealed opposition 10 Ccngressional laws
because The South is not Represented, all
show his ambition for the favOrs If a
community who will spit upoa him when
he becoue s unsefviceable. With the
AspaoiOus mantle Of his former coed deeds
Aas he attempted TO cover his ambition,
set that man who requires more evidence
that The cloyen. foot is hid beneath lhan
bis opposition to the Amendment is we'll
ftied for the part Andrew Johnson is
now playing for the benefit of rebels.
AS well could Judas scariot have gained
the esteem Ct the Apostles as Andrew
Johnson the esteem of rebels and, al
though there be now several Peters in
high places, who deny their master-the
loyal Union parly-bOlh before and after
cock-crOw, yet they cannot love It's be.
:rayer, but will come back to the true
field with tears of repentance. As well
nigh, we admit the thief upon the jury
in has own case as admit Southern Con.
gressmen to vote in Congress upon the
Amendment, and is submission 10 the
Southern States is a greater stretch of
lenity than is recorded in history, and