Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-09-18
The New Rebellion.

The peril of the Republic would be with
out remedy if Andrew johnson were not
the leader of the new rebellion, and if he
were not followed by the Copperheads of
the North, who, after encouraging the slave
holders to make war on the loud promise of
continuous physical support, hid their era
ven teads from the storm they had raised.
There are two sources of certain safety IN
the omlnous partnership between johnson
and Jeremiah 5. Black-between the Cop
perheads and the man they first denounced
for his honest patriotism, then for his dread
full exposure on the 4th of March, 1865, and
only applauded when he turned his back
upon those who had honored and excused
him, and took to his embrace the enemies
of his country and the slanderers of himself
These are, that such a partnership mast
ante the aohote bodyofHe Republican party,
North aud South, into q compact and .tiery
mass, buvying all dirisioas and bdntshing
alt despair, and also that 1t must adBsOnish
the recent rebels Of the danger of trusting to
the same couaseis that Led then, into THEN.
first crime
I And thus it is, that great as is the peril
of the Republic, its speedy rescue and last
ing safety will be secured, because the au-
thors of the new rebellion are Andrew
johnson and the Northern Copperheads.
There Is not an honorable or untainted
name identified with the new conspiracy. 1t
attracts all that is suspicious and treasona-
BILE 1t repels all that is patriotic and true.
Even the weak Republicans who allowed
themselves to be seduced by johnson early
promises and believed. or affected to be-
lieve, that under the thin mist of these
promises all was not deadly decay, turn with
scorn from an association so repulsiye Ray
mond, of the New York Times, is now
among the loudest to denounce the crime Of
his yesterdays idol and Seward himself
remains in the Cabinet, as we are told, only
to ward off the blows of the Presidential
madman. Every tried soldier has been per-
secuted into becoming the fee of that wicked
despot; and from Grant, in the War Office,
to the humblest private who followed Sher-
idan, Thomas and Sickles, the feeling is
cherished that Andrew johnson is the enc
my of the soldiers who saved the Republic,
and the apologist of the traitors who at
tempted to destroy it.
And Is there anything in this view of the
case. or in any other aspect of it, to turn a
Republican against his party or to convert
him to the new rebellion? When Andrew
johnson is forcing back the weak and timid
into the ranks, aud censtraining the ablest
military chieftans to declare him the enemy
OF the Republic, the great organization that
has never faltered should be inspired by a
new impulse, and strengthened by a new
resolution. The issues before the people
are the same that gave victory to our arms
in the recent war; and the defeat of the
Republican party is simply the restoration
of the men who begun the rebellion The
exultation of the Copperheads over recent
political successes, should rouse the Repub-
licans to increased efforts. precisely as the
defeat of the Union army at Bull Run
awoke the whole country to gigantic prepar-
ations and ultimate triumph.