The Shasta courier., 1866-03-03
Written for the Courier.
The President and Congress.

"Tbe President is in harmony with all the
States that were in rebellion Wm. ii.
,Serard's late Speech.
There appears to be some significance ID
those few words. When properly weighed
in the light Of the past. it may well alarm
eyery friend of the Uni,n. The mind is
quickly led to inquire whence the Importance
that is attached to that harmony? But a
little back of that lies very important con-
sideration. Is there not manifestly more So
icitude to secure a harmony of views and
action between the President and the late
rebellious people of the South, than to secure
the co operation of the loyal States and their
Congress of we'll tried patriots? The answer
to this is found in the Presidents last har-
rangue to a set of noisy Copperheads, when
he defes the whole loyal people-ther Sen
ate and House of Representatives. the
government The fact is that now, as in
times past, those unpurged rebels must be
conciliated and allowed to have their own
way, at whatever cost to those on whom rests
the chief burden of the government. That
they possess . moral and civil excellence to
entitle the President to throw off his allegi
ance to the government and people that
elected him, and call around him advisers
whose hate of the Union has not had time to
cool, may be doubted by every true lover of
his country. In this remark | make no diff
florence between the Copperheads fthe North
and the unwashed traitors of the Sonth, who
were Only little more active in the attempt
to overthrow the Government.
Should these bloody handed traitors from
the States lately in rebellion be admitted
into Congress, it requires no extraordinary
discernment to see that union with their
Northern allies would be formed, and they
would proceed at once to sweep away the
fruits eff our brilliant victories. r asoning
thus, it is clear that all Government troops
would be Withdrawn from those States, and
late rebel soldiers would take their place. for
the double purpose of bringing the freedmen
into subjection to their former masters and
driving Northern men from the South, and
also to keep alive the martial spirit and drill
of the militia, so as to be prepared for com
ing events, the shadows of which are being
cast before them.
The important question is, shall the Gov
ernment keep its pledges to those colored
troops who were such a power in the day of
battle? Stall the freedmen be pro tected in
the enjoyment of the benefits of the great
Proclamation? They will not, they cannot
be, if the Presidents plan is adopted with
out new Commander in Chief who will
allow the Lieutenant General to suppress the
rebellious spirit as it spreads itself through
the Southern papers, and also carry out the
letter and spirit of emancipation.
There is earnest desire that Congress
should remain firm in its resistance to every
effort to bring back into the Government the
spirit of unsubdued rebellion Congress is
as well qualified to Judge of the temper of
those delegates who are standing at the
doors of Congress- shivering in the cold,
and only waiting to crack their whips over
Northern freemen again, as is Southern
President, who seems desirous of second
term at the expense of all the blood and
treasure of the late terrible war. E.