The Placer herald., 1867-01-26

N.TAxAr1oN AND RADIcAL1sM-The Times
n this morning says, at the present time
E'any branches of industry are being crippled
pr killed outright by the taxation to which
they are subjected" Well what Of that9
Haven't we got the negro-elephant for which
Hhe fanatics have been fighting for thirty
kyears9 Luxuries must be paid for, and those
|twho indulge in them have no right to com.
ipain. So long as the people suffer them.
Aselves to be led by the noses by the Rump
y dJacobins, who are seeking to plunge the
country into still farther difficulties and, by
increasing expenditures enlarging the bur-
dens of taxation, they deserve to be ground
\ in the dust by exorbitant drafts upon their
lindus!ry; and most assuredy they will con
a"eihue to get their deserts in this regard.
Il Radcasm is an expensive article. 1t has al,
! ready, within the last six years, cost the coun-
try a desevered Unon-a debt of three thou
, sand millions of dollars-the destruction of
three times tha. much of the Nations ma
terial weth-the lives of half million of
4 men, and mortgage Of grinding and para
4 lyzlng taxation for generations to come, upon
4 the bone, blood and muscles of the toiIing
I millions of the land Unless it be STAYED in
4 its mad career, this is but foretaste of what
is TO come. The country never was in more
' eminent peril than at the present time Usur
patton walks in the light of dav with un
blusbing front; and a tyrannica Rump, hav'
ing folded up and put away out of sight the
Constitution, sock now to strangle the SUI
preme Court, and trample into helplessness
the Executive And yet the people, agoniz
ing and exuding bloody sweat beneath the
killing burden of taxation that weighs upon
them, still shout hosanras in support Of their
oppressors- Examiner.
A PERPETUAL SESSION OF CoNoREss.-We
are threatened by the Radicals, says the
Crisis, with what the trainers Of the Cons,i
tuition never contemplated, and from which
they would have shrunk with alarm, viz a
perpetual session of Congress. Whenever =
Legislative body aims at supreme power and
the establishment Of tyranny over the State
it always commences by making its session
permanent. 1t was done by the hated Long
Parliment of England, and by the French
Convention Of 1903. The Rump at Wash
ngton, which expires on the 4th day Of
March next, and which, according to all the
precedents which have governed sience the
Constitution was adopted, would not meet
again until December following, is to be
made to convene at noon on the same day
on whicb'it is sdissolved. The meaning of this
is usurpation Of the powers of the Presi-
dent. They mean to sit in Washington and
strip him of all bis Constitutional powers,
even if they do not despose him. The Rump
through junta of its members, is to exer-
else legislative, executive and judicial pow
ers. This, we repeat, is what is intended by
a perpetual session of Congress. Thad =
Stevens Ben. Wade and Charles Sumner are
TO be our government Triumvirate-our
Robespierre Darton, and Marat. Their de
crees, regulated by Congress that never de-
bates or discusses, are to be the supreme law
of the land. The Coslitution is to be set
aside, and vile tyranny substituted in its
Dlaca