The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1866-09-19
What about another War?

to the people and their representatives
in Congress, have been occasionally
limiting, pretty broadly, too, that i
they arc not permitted to have their
|. WY, another civil war will be the re-
suit Of their disappointment. They
have talked moro plainly on this sub
iect since Andrew Johnson has for
sakcn the party that put him in power
and joined the party who denounced
hinl, at the time he was inaugur"ted
Vice President, as "a traitor to his
section" u "boorish tailor" and "
"drunken sot."
Because the President holds the
sword Of the nation, and is tho COM
| mander.iu.chicf OF the armies Of the
United States, they have figured it up
that King Auly can call on Grant aud
Sherman and Farragut to bring the
army and navy to Washington next
winter, and either compel Congress
to admit the Representatives OF the
rebel States, or assemble the copper
head members Of the North and rebel
ones Of the South, and, recognizing
them as the legal Congress, dispense
or ;mprison the so.called "Radical "
members at tue point Of the bayonot.
Then Andy will be allowed to 20 on,
without opposition, to illustrate his
policy OF making treason and trail
tors" (unionism aud unionists, North
and South) "odious )" sand if there
be but five thousand loyal men rcb'
cls who have taken the oath ofallcSi-
aucc dozen times and broken it, such
as those at Now Orleans and Mem.
phis) "they shall restore and rulo the
State"
1t would DO well enough for those
sanguine politicians, hungcring for
the loayes and fishes Of office, to run
over their figures again, and see il
they have not omitted an important
calculation against them.
1t 10 true that Andrew johnson
holds the sword, but Congress alone
can furnish the sinews Of war. 1t is
true that the President commands the
army when furnished through the
; Governors ofthc States and it will be
u long time before single Governor
Of a loyal State, North. or on the Dor.
der, will furnish \ man to aid Andy
johnson, the drunken Vice President
(who, through tho assistance of;hc as
sassin Booth, has become prcsidcnt,)
in putting down the loyal Congress
which has bravely stood by the Gov.
crnment during the fiery ordeal
through which it has just passed.
DmJ Congress needs an a1myJ@r
It's protection, q mtllion # men can
! he y0issd on short notice, to March "
UaSdi"ytontor thatp"'pose, heuc|ed
| by The loyul Gore7nors Of tic loyal
States ct'thi$ Uniom-and ifthis cop
perhcad, rebel, and bread anu butter
crew, are calculating Oh commanding
tho services of such men aS Grant and
Sherman and Crook and Sheridan and
the "boys in blue" to put down the
! men whose loyalty has been tried in
| the fire and is q matter of history
who have sustained them while they
were in the field, risking their lives
for the preservation Of the Union
just to please the rebels whom hey
fought, and the coppcrhcads who re-
fused to vote a man or q dollar to sus.
tain them, they arc cgrcgiously de-
ccivcd-Graut and Sherman may not
say much now, but let such an order
be issued commanding them to dis.
pcrsc the loyal peoples representa-.
tivcs, the scales will soon fall from the
eyes Of taosc men WHO are now de.
ceivins themselves as to Andy John
sous power and ;.;lucncc il the ma.
ton.
The Union men Of this nation Go not
want another civil war. They would
do any thing consistently to avoid it.
Their Representatives in Congress do
not desire O repetition Of the late
bloody instruction, and to avoid it,
have deliLcrated long and carefully on
the momentous questions which have