Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-06-09
NUMBER %.
The Revolutionists at Work.

Ii DO not nave thrust upon uS ~ sSeS1A]
edition of the civil war it will not be the fault
of the Democratic newspapers, which now TEEN
with reasonable and incendiary articles 10 an
even greater extent than when secession hrst be-
came the subject of discussion. 1t would seem
that they must have received from some high
quarter assurances of encouragement and pro-
lection. or they would not be thus insolent--
That they are in high favor at Washington is
fully established by the impunity they ENJOY,
the cordial manner in which the civilitics of the
White House are extended to them With hall
the appreciation and sympathy they have lately
had showered upon them, the rebels would nve
years ago have marched into New York or PhIla-
delphia, and would have found plenty OF sym
pathizing allies to open the gates of the citadel
for their admission What are we TO think
when in newspaper published in Washington,
protesting TO be Union in sentiment, we md
such paragraphs as the following:
awe do not wish to advent Of Cromwell OF
England Napoleon of France practiced the radical
desruconss this Congress but what has been may be-
and again. If President johnson is thwarted In his
good Intentions The President must be sustained
What President Johnson's /" good intentions
may njecture from the character OF MS
| associates. The writer of the paragraph quoted,
Thomas B. Florence, is on terms OF closest IN
timacy with the Chief Magistrate: and is said 10
speak by authority. He here does not merely
intimate a possibility. lie distinctly threatens
that if both Houses of Congress do not falslfy
their record by turning about and esponsing the
Presidents policy, the latter will place himseif
at the head of body of soldiers and forclbly e&-
pei the obnoxious members. This could not be
accomplished without bloodshed, and thus loyal
American citizens would bow their heads under
a humiliation deeper than the first. They have
already seen the head of the nation stricken
! down by the hand of assassin after a price
| had been set upon his life by n dog who is at
present walking the streets of Southern cities
unmolested they would color with Indignation
on learning that the blood of republican law
gvers had stained for the first time the floors OF
those legislative halls in which tie eloquencc of
Clay and Webster, and host of equally distin-
guished statesmen, once resounded. Should
such catastrophe indeed occur, the entire loyal
North would fly TO arms, and amid the cracking
embers of our once peaceful homes and the clash
and din of weapons the first Provisional Govern
ment would be inaugurated. The adoption of
violent measures could have 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
npprecating the blessings of free and enlight-
/ cned system, and would demonstrate the neces-
sty for absolute and powerful form of Gov
ernment. Whichever party succeeded, the re-
suit would be the same. If, in following out the
Johnsonan policy, which justifes the retention
of power at any price, the President should de-
pose the present Union authorities and install
Government of his own, his Office would be con-
verted by the act into Dictatorship, and the in
estimable privilege of American ireemen, the
vote by ballot, would be virtually abrogated.
The present authorities were elected by the peo-
pie. Deprive them forcibly of their offices, and
where is our boasted freedom?
That Andrew johnson contemplated going to
such extreme feel assured He has
evidently studied closely the history of the coup
detat, and is following with alacrity in the foot
steps of Louis Napoleon. That great ruler was
a zealous republican, the most obedient servant
of the people, until by fraud and chicanery he
had acquired the control of the soldiery. He
then gave Paris the barricades and proclaimed
himself Emperor. What commentary this mp
on the divine right of kings -
In the event above indicated the triumph Of
the Federals must of necessity be followed by Al
provisional government, and the end of all who
shall foresee? The dilemma in which the nation
is more involved proceeds solely from the
mistaken lenency with which the authors of the
rebellion were treated at the termination of the
war. Had the leaders been summa rily punished
and disloyalists peremptorily excluded FROM po
litcal rights in the disaffccted States, the Union
would now have been at rest and we should not
have been RECALLED with such choice eifnsions
the ensuing, in the Detroit Free frcxs-and sure
ly no Southern reasonable journal equalled
it in venom
be forgotten emergency that now
exists and in its impossible under tile in
the radical Congress certain action
on their part might lead to civil war Lei not he vtten
that civil is of sections parties
is not States that in hostility each other but the peo
pie in each State. and in each county and
will not be f,nght distance by who
pay ITS expenses. and then the fighting by
who 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 aud hamlet and God help the
weakest for Of all known in history
enng these civil strifcs where brother lights brother
and father opposes SON."
In other words, annul the legislation of the
past and give snch laws Andrew st shall
! order you to give, submit TO the alternative
of civil war. Vote hereafter the 9 Democratic
ticket, inscribed with the names OF such cand-
dates as may be prescribed for you by your po-
litical masters or fly yonr homes and 6resIdes
forever 1t has been rightly said that the party
represented by Johnson was always one O. sio-
! lence and disoroanzation and now that the
great struggle is over, it reveals its old instincts
/ by the exhibition of the same turo"lenl ana
revolutionary spirit out of which the rebellion
grew. ,ror,..oro of ,h.
1oyoI masses at the North, the endeavor to over
ride the majority is destined to signal failure.
r,v Red Bluff Independent broadly inslnuates
| :. A -. charoe) that Superintendent SWEET,