The Portland daily press., 1866-02-26
The Jubilant Democracy.

Since the great and bloody defeat Of Hooker
at Charlottesville the Democracy have haa
nothing so well calculated TO elevate their
spirits as the detection OF President 'oiiiisoi''
and his confession of faith and Iorlilan hi1'o
duction to the copperhead church on Ihe I@u
inst They had burned gunpowder over MS
veto MESSAGE. and thrown up their caps from
worry low that he had headed off the radicals"
ond That the sniggers'' were likely to be left
ont in the cold, but the speech Of Thursday
last from the balcony of the White House, the
contemplation by the Executive of the men
who had sustained him, as traitors, the en-
dorsement by the President of the heathenish
doctrine of a white mans government" and
the shameful denial by implication of the
plain doctrine of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, were needed to fill the cup of Democrat
ic rejoicing, and to make their jubilation per-
feet and without alloy @
Seriously, however, who are the parties now
rejoicing over the recent Developments at
Washington? Who are the men that burn
gunpowder over the defeat of a great measure
of Congress? Who are the men that now
throw up their caps for Andrew johnson,
talk of him as second Jackson, and laud INN
as the saviour of his country?
The answer to these questions is not dill
cult to determine, and, it Is emlnently
suggestive. The men who now rejoice the
Ioudest are the same who rejoiced at the de-
feat of Burnside at Fredericksburg, of Hooker
at Charlottesville, of Pope at the I'd Bull
Run; who wore long faces when Grant was
crowding Lee in the Wilderness, before Peters
burg and Richmond, and when Lee surrender
ed. They are the same men who at Chicago
resolved the war a failure, who opposed every
measure of the war, who voted against Lin
coin, who denounced him as tyrant, who
said Andrew johnson was drunk when in
augurated, and who gave nerve to the arm OF
Booth on the fatal fourteenth of April last
They are the same men who constituted the
Golden Circles, who cried down the govern
ment credit, who appologized for treason, who
defended the right of secession, who hob
nobbed with the British minister to influence
his government to recognize the Independence
of the South, to break the blockade, and to
afford material aid to the rebels in arms. "a
More than this-every copperhead paper in
the loyal States is now in extacies. The Ban
gor Democrat-once destroyed by mob for
its treason-crowns the Presidential brow
with a laurel wreath; the Argus, which in
1881 proposed disunion as an easy and proper
solution of the difficult question before the ma
ton, fills its columns with the speeches of
Messrs. Johnson, Seward and Beecher, with
out drawback upon its alteration of their au-
thors; the AdoertiSer, which has been more
honest became more outspoken in its rebel
sympathies, blazons its columns with a dou-
Bile loaded leader, and even the New York
Negs, edited by rebel General, and the ac-
knowledged Northern organ of the Southern
traitors, is ready to crown Andrew johnson as
the best patriot--except, perhaps, JEFF. Davis
known to history. 'sa5 49,
5 This is not all. A voice comes up to us
borne on the balmy breezes of the South. No
dissent to the copperhead rejoicing is heard
from that quarter, unless it comes from those
deluded men who, thinking more of their
country than of their State, refused to bow
their heads to the rebel blast. The men who
were recently leading rebel armies, now re-
gard Andrew johnson as the God-sent man of
the age. Intelligence from Charleston shows
great jubilation there. Gov. Orr claims that
his suggestions did much to produce recent re-
suits. The papers that have been filled with
treason, the men who have fought the battles
of the rebellion, the leaders whose hands have
been clutched at the nations throat, the muir
derers of our brave boys, the assassins of the
lamented martyr President, all these are jubi-
liant; all these are in high feather, and though
Mr.. johnson spoke opprobriously Of the Da-
vises, the Toombses and the Slidells, they will
all forgive him, and rejoice that he has spok-
Ell; that if they are to hang he is willing for
the Stevenses and Summers and the Phillipes
to dangle on the other end OF the same cord.
In word, while all hitherto loyal hearts
are made sick and filled with sadness in view
of what has recently transpired, while patriots
mourn and friends of their country weep, ev-
cry rebel rejoices, every copperhead is iubilant,
and pandemonium may reasonably be presum-
ed to be decled with flags and engaged in a
hellish carnival of rejoicing.
81 The duty Of the true men of the country
was never palmer than now. True, they have
been grossly deceived, severely cheated, and
baseIy betrayed. But the cause in which they
are engaged is the cause OF right. Ii is in har-
mony with justice, with equal rights and with
true progress. False friends may betray, but
they cannot destroy this cause. 1t will tri-
lnnph, and unborn generations viii rejoice in
the blessings its consummation will secure to
them, when the names of those who seek to
destroy it shall have persisted from human re-
membrance.