Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-10-06
Who are the Loyalists 2

to the everlasting gratitude of every body.
We and the rest of US who believed in the
forcible suppression of the rebellion, had
been plodding along, for the last five years,
in the belief that the supporters and defend
ers of the government against armed treason
were the loyaiists of the nation, and the 9TH
ers-such as rebels, and Copperheads. their
abbettors-who opposed the national au-
thorlty, and who caused the death of nearly
half a million of the "boys in blue" and
saddled us with debt of thousands of mil
lions of dollars were not loyal, to put it in its
miidest term-but were rather what some of
US have been provoked to call rebels and
traitors. If those misguided individuals who
have heretofore arrogated to themselves the
title Of Unionists, and have been in the bad
and wicked habit of thinking and calling
''grsy backs and their supporters, aiders
and abettors by disloyal names. do not now
repent of the error of their ways. and make
the amende honorable, it will not be through
ignorance of their sins, but from perverse
determination not to receive the light of the
new gospel of political truths which has been
preached to them by our patriotic President
and his SCARED veteran Secretary of State.
That we may have clear understanding of
what loyalty now consists, as defined by Ex-
ecutive authority. let US examine into the
matter. Our distinguished Secretary of State
in speech delivered by him at indianapolis,
the capital of the State of Indiana, affirmed
that the South is all loyal, and that the North
is now the diseased portion of the country.
If he is correct, then it is the first duty of
every man who wishes to be true and loyal
man, and a sincere lover of his country, to
bring himself up to the Southern standard of
loyalty, and even perhaps hang somebody as
an evidence of the faith in him, as they do
down South. Says Seward in that speech:
You of Indiana have now become border
State. Before and during the war the bor-
der States were all on the south side of the
Ohio and west of the Mississippi river. The
result Of the war is that the Southern States
are to be henceforth loyal to the Union,
while prejudice and passion still tend to make
the Northern States unfraternal and Jealous;
hence the border States now are the States
that lie north of and adjoin the Ohio, and
east of and adjoin the Mississippi river. You
have it in your power to mediate between the
extremes. that party may never go so far as
to excite the passions of the people and
bring on renewal of civil war;" And again
In his speech to the good people of Kentucky
delivered at Louisville, he told them that
Zone reflection had particularly suggested
itself to him during his tour from the Capt.
tai through the State of Maryland, and that
one generally called the keystone State. and
the great States of New York and Michigan,
and through part of Illinois to St. Louis,
in the State of Missouri, and again through
the southern parts of Illinois and Indiana to
the city of Louisville. He had found that
while in the Northern States there was great
difference on the subject of restoratation of
the Union; in the State of Kentucky, and
he might with equal propriety say in all the
Southern States there was an entire unanim-
ity of opinion in favor of the union of these
States
We had run with the idea that men pref.
udices were about the last things to be erad-
icated from them, and that the Northern
mind was somewhat possessed with preju-
dice against the Southern mode of showing
loyalty, and did not like the Southern idea
of now shooting, stabbing, clubbing and
hanging all those citizens in the South who
stood up for the Union during the rebellion.
and thus tainted themselves with disloyalty
to the Confederacy-in short. "making the
South too hot to hold them" But perhaps
we have been wrong all this time. for if the
South. which has been prejudiced against the
Union for fifty years. and for that time.
according to Seward, had been maturing the
plans and ideas which resulted in the war,
has had her prejudices all knocked out of her
so thoroughly that now she is the only si-
mon-pure loyal section of the country. per-
haps we. by little wholesome drubbing may
have the scales of our coat of prejudice
knocked off of US, and become in time re-
generated people. Perhaps if the President.
who has been fighting treason down South
SO successfully for the last five years that he
has converted to loyalty every mothers son
of the old line traitors down there, were to
take US in hand in the Northern end of the
circle he could do something for US. Under
his tuition we might commence by changing
Wendell Phillips and Thad. Stevens in
Grand Convention, and then finish up in a
local way by putting through in each neigh
borhooi all the "boys" who used to be "in
blue" who did not support the Confederacy
during the rebellion. The only drawback to
such a programme is that Johnson's and
Stewards loyalty in the North might become
as personally inconvenient and expensive as
the old kind of loyalty is down South, and
the "boys in blue" confound them, might
turn round and lick US.
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