Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-10-17
The Beginning of the End.

Inc radicals have not made a popular
move in the last two years. At the end
of the war for the "Union,' the gullibil
ity of the people began to subside The
claptrap, high sounding appeals to the pa.
triotism and fears of American cit zen.
ceased 10 have their wanted effect Fus
tian and cant about Union and the the.
eesslty policy" of Congress began to be
discerned as only species of the dismal.
est quackery-c'oaking nefarious des gus
upon the landmarks of American hbery
They have played their last trump. They
can no longer wink at the fact that the
people have lost faith in the immaculate
hOnesty Of q Congress that innoyated and
encrcached until the fimsy vail of soph-
istry could no longer conceal its base in.
tentions. 1t was perhaps natural for
constituencies to believe in and uphold
their own representatives. The neccssi.
ties OF the time were exacting and posi-
bly, compulsory. But there in an end to
everything The radical leaders presnn.
ing on the ease with which they have
led the people to submit to, il not adupt
the necessity" e1travagqncies Of the late
Struggle have gone too far. They stan
com mitted too strongly to back down =
Nay, it is even doubtful if the Senate
would obey the behests of the Nonhern
States, should these last in the next Con
gressional election fill the Lover House
with different minded set of repre-, enta.
tives. That august holy is evidently
stuffed full Of the notion that it compris
90 toll the talents" nf Tho - -.
possesses all the elements of uncompro
missing radicalism In it are the leaders
and chiefs ofthe pending crusade against
the established polity oftwo generations.
prophets and orators of the new faith
Yet is plain that their day of supremacy
is fast drawing to an ignoble close. So
long as they could work upon the passions
and pockets of the people, in the great
labor Of saving the Union, they were
firmly supported, but their enthusiasm.
or rather their intemerate propensity to
legislate clean beyond the bounds of rea
son and decency, has at last opened the
eyes even of the radical North. The ey.
licences are thickening, that that loval
section will not much longer be nose Of
wax in the hands of Washington Chal..
tans, whose ohly ambition seems to be, to
reach the uttermostverge of political tom.
foolery. "They have been weighed in
the balances and found wanting" The
hand writing on the wall is visible in
California, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Il
were useless to speculate on the future
prospects ofthese "doghood" champions "
AS we said above, the radicals have not
made popular move ia two years. 1t
is impossible that they can. The people
are sick of negro suffrage, high taxes and
high handed nsurpations in the teeth of
the Constitution. Radicalism eonp,s
retrograde. Sumner &Co. would rather
suffer martyrdom than be guilty of such
conduct. Its mission is onward, to an
utopia of indiscriuinatp political and SD.
cial equality. On this platform they
have fought and on it, they will die So
be IT. and God speed the day. Nothing
can now save radicalism. Nmhing, the
party calling itself Republican. Til,
doctrine of necessity can never ong take
Precedence If tie doctrine of right-
Dissolution is approaching. Ire thun.
der ct the storm can be heard from Maine
TO California. It's too late to try other
and more seductive articles. a be,uil.
ed and qnnck.led people. that for six
dreary Years have been charities and
rnddPrlpRs on n son nf trnuhio oro a, l..