Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-07-18
The New Trinity.


tnown, recognized and admired by the
American citizen. The Constitution
WAS the ligalnent which bound the States
together and guaranteed the largest Ill.
srty to the citizen. 1t was the shret-
sochor-lhe palladium fpolitie'lIrv
ileges. So long as that constitution was
hsnored aud obeyed, so long the Union
continued to exist as originally conceiv-
cd. and for just that period of time the
American citizen was master in his own
castle, and sovereign over his own acts
subject only to the laws of his own enact
ing. tits a singular fact in the political
history of our nation that just as soon ss
q party oased upon sectional principles
and ideas obtained the supremacy. chang.
e. and alterations in the constitution, Sc
riously affecting and disturbing the peace
and prosperity ofthe Uuion, entsiling
restrictions upon the liberty of the citizen,
began to disgrace the national statutes
Aud such alterations and additions have
TO such an extent invaded the original
basis of our federal Union as to, destroy
the harmony Of our system aud, horribly
nutilste and obscure the trinity honor
cd aud revered by the wise Statesmen of
the psst--that trinity lie, Constitution
Union, Liberty. During the progress Of
the war, the wrathful policy pursued by
the party in power threatened to subst'-
tuts in place Of these, the accursei triui
ty of confscstion, taxation and enamel
pstipn. One Of which having failed to
receive at the hands of its own project
srs, the necessary dedication that trinity
eollapscd-But now that the smoke Of
battle has cleared away in the Heavens
the shrill shrek of the bursting bomb
has become a sound in the far distance.
the cry Of dying agony on the CORY field
IL hushed into the stiffness of nig hit, ard
scarcely the dumb muttering of dscord
ID borne upon the breeze, clerical bigots
with intensity of hate ranking in de.
PRAYED hearts, elevate upon the pedes
tails from which our glorious trinity have
been ruthIessly hurled, new deities-
Hear one of the teachers of this now fam
gled politico-religious dogma:
We owe our victory over the rebellion to
three pnrties-God, the Yankee and the NO.
gro. Tn are the victors. Not until the
Yankee reached one hand up to Heaven and
clssred the hand of God, and the other down
to the earth and "lssped the hand OF the me-
gro, did success attend our arms.
We are then, we presume, Ia under
stand that these constitute the new trim
~ hereafter to be known and acknowedg.
cd throughout this broad land. We are
surprised that the unparalleled impu
aence of the writer of the lbnve bias
pheny, this direct insult to American
manhood, had not dictated to his deprsv
ed taste, the proprie'y of assigning to the
negro the post Of honor in his enumera-
ton. We know not whether we are to
understand that the second term is used
10 'its restricted application. If SO a
more willful perversion of the truth can
scarcely be conceived. 1t denies the
participation of the Western and North.
western men in the past bloody conflict.
II claims for New England in commune
sion With the negro, and the interposi.
sion Of Heaven, the victory over the
Southern people in the war of sections
whstsver the Yankee may be entitled TO
BY way of credit, in that particular we
feel disposed to ascribe TO the section
which be inhsbits more than this. There
3 almost every ism known and propogs'
ted in ths United States has fund ia