The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-09-26

ly showed Signs unmistakable OF disposition
, to 90 over to the enemy so to make sure
} of the votes of the reconstructed States for
our candidates next Fall we have advised
their Legislatures, composed chiefly Of our
mnlons, TO take the appointment of electors
into their own hands; and as Virginia, if
reconstructed, would Immediately follow the
) example of the adjoining Slates-Maryland
; and Kentucky-and 60 for the Democratic
, ticket by an overwhelming majority, we de:
: termined TO prevent that catastrophe, and
have decreed by act OF Congress, though
outside of the Constitution it may be, that
she, as well as Mississippi and Texas, shall
have no vote at all. We remove the disa
bilities Of every red handed rebe' who will
vote our ticket, and enforce them upon ev'
cry man who seems inclined to vote against
us. In short, the political power of the Ma
ton we are determined to retain by any and
all necessary means, whether inside or out-
side of the Constitution"
Such is the practical language of the Rad
ical leaders. And if Won ask them how they
expect to induce the people Of the North to
sustain them in these open outrages upon
the Constitution, and every principle of Re-
publican liberty, they virtually answer "We
nave a popular Union soldier as our candi
date for the Presidency, and we expect the
people to lose sight OF the principles involv-
ed in their admiration of the man. Iu addi,
ton 10 this, we have powerful arguments in
ringing the changes through our organs and
orators, upon the rebel, copperhead, sympa'
thizer, traitor to the party, etc, etc" What
but these are the means employed to secure
the ascendancy of the Radical party in the
Fall elections? And now, having subjected
the white men of the South by military CO.
elcon to the domination of their recently
emancipated slaves, less fitted to exercise the
right of suffrage than the women and half
grown children of the North, and led on 10y
adventures who seek to use them as nstru-
mens to secure offices and riches, the Radi
cal leaders fill the country with the cry,
Let US have peace" Yes, with their feet
upon the necks, and their bayonets at the
breasts of the white people of the South,
they cry, " Let us have peace" Let us have
tame submission to all the measures of our
party to secure their own ascendancy, how.
however unconstitutional, unjust aud oppres'
sive. And if any of their victims evnce a
disposition to resist usurpations and oppres
sons and seek relief, even by peaceful means,
they denounoe them as unrepentant rebels,
seeking renewal of the civil war.
Has any man, worthy to be trusted in
public life, read so little of history or studied
human nature SO unprofitabIy, as to believe
that the white people of the South are to be
pacted by being thrust out of the pale of
the Constitution, and subjected to the abso-
lutte power of their lately emaucipaed slaves!
Has ages OF oppression made Ireland love
England? Has oppression and masscre re-
oonced the Pole to the dominion of Russia
Human nature is the same everywhere. Re
duced to despair by oppression, the oppres-
sed will resort to desperate remedies. Nay,
where all hopes is lost, they will sooner rush |
upon death itself than live degraded and dis
honored lives. If there be any people in the
world who will not submit to hopeless op
preston, it is those who have been raised
under the free Institutions of the United
States Let each voter of the North ask
bimself how he would feel and what he
would do, If an usurping Congress were to
deprive him of the rights of freeman, and
subject him in life liberty and property to
the absolute control of ignorant and penni-
less negroes. AS he would answer that in.
quiry so let him act Let him not wonder
that notes such as he himself might utter
under like circumstances reach his ears oc-
casionally from the South and let him ask
himself whether he is prepared by his vote
to reproduce on this continent the conduct
of England towards Ireland, and Russia to,
wards Poland. No man of sense and intel.
ligence Can expect peace in the South so
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ton are excluded from all participation in
their own government, and exposed to be
plundered and oppressed by their late slaves,
led on by adventures from the North. They
laid down their arms in good faith ; they
gave up their slaves; they surrendered the
principles for which they had fought; they
accepted the poverty to which they were re.
duced, aud they sought only to be allowed
the privileges of free and loyal citizens under
the old flag This President Lincoln, and
President Johnson, following in bis footsteps,
desired to concede to them. The former
fell by the hands of a rebel assassin the
latter has been ferocously hunted by anoth
or class of assassins The policy of the two
Presidents was identical and yet our Radi.
Gals with singular inconsistency, defy the
dead L'Dcolh anu cruclIy tne ilVlbg JOHNSON,
Why is this? Lincoln is out Of their way,
and they would profit by his virtues John
son is lion in their path, and they would
destroy him for bis fidelity in attempting to
protect the Constitution.
What sort of peace is to be expected iu
the South 50 long as white people'are pro
scribed and negroes allowed to govern, may
be safely inferred from the condition of those
reconstructed 81 s-Louisana and Tennes
see. Their Governors and Legislatures are
calling for military aid, avowing their inca
pacity to maintain peace and enforce the
laws by the civil authorities. If this be SO,
ir is conclusive proof that Congressional re.
construction, AS means OF trapqul''zng the
South, is failure. The road TO peace is in
another direction. Let Congress retire with