The Placer herald., 1866-09-15
Make Way for the Bullies.

elect ions of this fall will result in an agere.
gate majority for the Radicals Of some 3oo,-
900. thus descants upon what necessarily
must follow. 1t says:
ut will mean that the nsurgent States
are to be reconstructed as Union States,
made accessible to every American Citizen
and covered with ever guarantee Of security
in the enjoyment of civil rights. twill sig.
nifty th't all Healing, intelligent conscious
traitors must cultivate repentance in private
or quit the country. 1t will mean that
somebody must be tried and punished for
treason. 1t will mean the ratification of the
constitutional amendment proposed at the
last session OF Congress, either by the pres
ent Governments in The insurgent States, or
BY Others created by enabling Acts. It may
mean that Andrew johnson shal be mpeacb-
ed for usurpaion and gross abuse Of the
power intrusted to his hands, as terribly de.
fined in the Indictment presented in the
Southern Union Convention. From this
verdict there is no appeal except to revolu-
tion. And upon the submission or the re-
volt Of the fairly defeated Executive next
winter depends The decision of the question
OF peace or war"
Here is plain, square declaration, that
everything desired by the Radicals must be
compiled with, or they will resort to arms to
force it, and this too without any regard to
the legality or right Of the proposition. Ii
is The language Of The bully, be will have it
90 because he is The stronger. The high
wayman demands your money on the same
prnciple-you are in his power, and if you
resist hw you create the fight aud the blood
10 upon your hands and not his. But this is
undoubtedly the theory Of the radicals. 1t is
shown they plotted all through the last ses-
sion Of Congress to bring about more blood
shed, and not one of them denies it, or at.
aempts any apology.
The President says that all the States have
right to be represented in Congress-that
there shall be no taxation without reprsseu-
tation.
In saying this be only reerates what is
declared In the Declaration Of Independence
OF l776, and is fully guaranteed by the Con-
stitu,ion of the United States, and if New
England should vote en- n,dsse to the contra
ry, it would not alter the great inherent
truth. The Union, aud The rest Of the Rad
icals, declare this shall not be because they
desire il different
The President says the war was made to
secure the Union of all the States under the
Constitution; that the war has ended successl
fully, and the union Of all The States under the
Constitution does exist. Every body knows
that such was declared to be The oli4ct Of
The war-deared so, by resolution of Con-
gress, and by all the newspapers and public
speakers who supported the war policy. We
know too that the South has been vanqush
ed, that it has conceded it, and endeavors to
give every honorable test Of its determine
ton to abide the issue. These are facts that
all the votes in the world could not alter
Yet, they declare these States shall not be
regarded as States of the Union but as con
quered provinces, subject to such re organi-
za.ion either as territories, incipent States
OF otherwise, as they may in the fulness OF
their power will.
lbey make great outcry about the lber
~ OF the people being endangered by the
restoration OF the Southern States to their
status in the Government under the Consti
tuition, until their conditions precedent are
established, but on examination their condi
Nons amount to nothing less than disfranchi
sing n'oe-lenlhs Of the white people thereof
and giving the negroes the ballot in order
that The Radical party may have their sup
port In maintaining them in continued pow
sr. In short, they insist upon thu complete
enfranchisement of the negro, IN the polit.
ical slavery of the whites.
Thus they raise issues with the President
about facts Of which there can be no denial
and about political rights concerning which
there never has been question, and they
cay that unless one branch of the Govern
nent-the Exeeuiye-succumbs to another
-Congress-lbe will resort to the sword
It was IN this way they bulied Lincoln, dri.
4'og h'm from point 10 point. causing bin
10 c"ncede to-day what he declared on yes
teFoay ne mad not the power aud could not
40. Emboldened by their success with him
tney now attempt it upon johnson. and bis
nrmness IN resisting their unlawful demands
10 declared treason, he is threatened with
impeachment and the country with civil war
because they, forsooth, conceive ,hey havs
the power.
They need not wait for the results of eec.
tione, they can murder him now; and if there
10 to be no regard to law or the fixed and
settled rules of government, one mode of dis
posing OF him is as good as another.
AZ for persons who differ in politica
views with them, cultivating repentance il
quiet or leaving the country, we have thi
to cay: People are not going TO leave tn,
country at their bidding; it is much thu
bone OF one citizen as it is of another; ant