The Shasta courier., 1866-09-22
The Malignity of Traitors and Their Ul-
innate Fate.

The peculiar policy pursued by Andrew
johnson is raridly producing its legitimate
results, and these results bear a striking
similarity to those produced by the favorlte
doctrine of Jefferson Davis, Toombs, Yancy,
Wigfall and Rhett. Under the spell of this
evil Presidential magician, the fallen spirit
of secession is reviving-its dumb oracles are
beginning to speak in the familiar language
of yore-and the PROSTATE idol of Slavery is
being lifted up and re-enthroned by the
hands of the old worshippers at the shrine OF
the ebon god. Indeed, the traitorous len
nesseean, who seems ambitious of emulating
the original knights of the Golden Circle
has succeeded in tanning the flames OF South,
ern passion and barbaric hate to such heights
as would have delighted the treason plotting
souls of the founders of the " Confederate
Government" in the days when they were
preparing to lay the chief corner stone OF
that ephemeral structure which rested on the
unstable foundation of human bondage.
Again the South is closing her doors
against free speech and liberty of the press
and essaying to arrest the tide of freedom and
progress The old system of violence is re
vived, and the ancient code of lynch and mob
law is reinstated with more than primal au-
thority. Citizens who honestly believe that
free labor system would best promote the inter-
ests of their State, meet in convention for the
purpose of giving public expression to their
opinions, and are dispersed and murdered by
a mob led by rebel municipal authorities, and
journals that dare publish accounts of the
affair are compelled to suspend publication,
and their conductors save their lives only by
flying to a United States garrison for protec,
ton. Distinguished men, whose only crime
consists in having remained loyal to the Ma
tional Government and flag throughout the
long night of rebellion, are ostracised, and
forbidden to speak of the wants and necessi
ties of their native States on pain of DEATH
Others are hunted down and shot like wild
animals, or hung upon trees like criminals
and their bodies left as prey for carrion birds.
Peaceable men who love the old Union sane
tilted by the prayers and blessings of Wash
ington and his compatriots, lie down to rest
with their families at night, and the morning
dawns upon their lifeless remains, and smok-
ing embers only denote the SPOT where their
habitations stood. Law is openly defed,
justice is stifed. loyalty is a crime, and
violence and death are holding high carnival,
while exultant treason tramples upon the
most sacred rights guaranteed to American
citizens.
For this state of affairs in the South, An
drew johnson, more than any other living
man, is responsible but neither he nor all
his wicked coadjutors can reverse or break
down the deliberate opinions and convictions
of the great mass of the people in regard to
the momentous issues between Freedom and
Slavery-Union and Disunion. Under the
smiles of Executive favor the malignant Co.
horts of treason may again rally and briefly
hold sway in those States cursed by
their majorities, but the advancing tide of
loyalty and civilization will ultimately sweep
them from the land they disgrace and have
sought to destroy. A few more Union mar
tyrs may be slain on account of their faith,
but never again will these disunion conspira-
tors be permitted to gain possession of the
rens of the National Government, or restore
their olgarchal institutions in the South
Their power is forever broken in this nation,
and the time will come W hen the liberal ideas
and free institutions of the great North and
West will entirely obliterate their influence
in the Republic.