Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-09-05
NO. 43.
a LEAF TURNED.

Let patriots rejoice and a Christian
people return thanks to God, while trail
tors and mongrels bewal and mourn with
their accustomed indecent amalgam of
stupidity and blasphemy President
johnson has at last taken active and eff
clent measures to arrest the monstrous
crime now being perpetrated against the
great American principle of free gov.
eminent, under the wicked policy Of Con-
gresslonal reconstruction. Having in
the presence of men, and calling upon
the great | Am to witness the sincerity
of his purpose, taken upon himself the
solemn obligation of an oath to preserve
and defend the Constitution of the Uni.
ted States, the paramount law of the
land, the palladium of our liberties and
the bulwark of our safety, he could no
longer remain passive aud witness the
surglng wave of military despotism dash
ing into fragments the last vestipe of
civil and political liberty among the
white race in the Southern States and
behold in silence the great work of bring
ing ruin and deep damnation upon the
whole land. He has determined that
the glorious victories achieved by the
valor and prowess of our victorious arm.
les, at the cost of so much blood and
treasure, shall not now be turned into
practical defeat, and into shame and ru.
in and disgrace, by permitting Congress
to effect permanent dissolution of the
Union, and to establish military des.
potism over ten millions of white citizens
OF our country, reducing them to most
ablect slavery and degradation, and plac-
ing over them, as their masters and rul-
ers, the semi, barbarian African race.
The legitimate fruits of the Radical
policy, as exempli6ed in the late Tenn
essee election, are such as no free people
can tolerate without jeopardizing their
dearest rights and their most sacred lib
critics. Under the Congressional plan,
through fraud and violence, usurpation
and crime, and the disfranchisement of
the whites, the kinky, curly.headed,
blubber-lipped and idiotic black Repub.
lican niggers have succeeded in foisting
upon the people of that State, as their
chief executive officer, that venerable old
scoundrel, that sublimated essence or
wicked malignity, Parson Browlow whose
heart never throbbed with patriotic i'm.
pulls; whose obtuse intellect never con-
cieved magnanimous thought; whose
conscience has become scared with red
hot diabolical hate, and who is so desti.
tute of the instincts of humanity and so
bankrupt in morals that all the angels
in Heaven, with fervent prayer and sup.
plication to the throne of Almighty God
for ages to come, could not raise him to
respectable degree of degradation.
Seeing this, the practical workings
and results Of the Congressional plan,
the President has taken the bull by the
horns and ordered Secretary Stanton,
the pliable tool of Congress and His Sa.
tanic Majesty, to turn over his portfolio
to Lieut. Gen. Grant. Grant accepts,
and enters upon the duties of the office.
johnson and Grant favor a liberal policy
for Southren reconstruction. The new
Secretary issued orders Immediately to
some Of the military satraps in the South,
resembling the orders heretofore issued
without authority Of law. He kindly
hints to them that white man has some
rights that cvcn niger is bound to re.
spect.
The nation now breathes freer, under
a confident hope that the Union will be
speedily restored, the Constitution pre-
served, and the liberties of the people Sc.
cured under the wise and benifcent pol
icy as foreshadowed by johnson and
/ Grant.
Will the Enterprise sing a psalm!-
Humboldt Register.
An Eastern paper has the following /.