The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-22
Horror Of Horrors :

In the JOURNAL, of yesterday. we
cepiedau exuact from recent letter
of Speaker CoLFAx, in which the
future Of our country was depicted in
the most beautiful colors. 1t was as
complete an exemplifcation of the
adage, everything's lovely and the
goose hangs high" as we had met
with anywhere in our reading. Al
though not confirmed by personal
observation. it was still calculated to
arouse pleasant class of feelings, and
we were about INDUCING in pleasant
dreams of the good time coming, when
an ominous blast from the old, wheezy
National Lnteligencer froze our blood
and made each individual hair stand
on eend. We have never experienced
a more decided sensational horror
than the following article is calculated
to arouse. What must be the con-
dItion of affairs at Washington
when such hopeful and fearful an
ticipations are INDUCED in by
parties residing within its corpor-
ate limits, each of whom ought to be
equally well informed. Mr.. COLFAx
thinks the country is on the high road
to prosperity The LntelltgeisceS- is po-
sitive the clutch of usurpation is at
the throat of the ministers Of jus
-tice" Mr.. COLFAX is certain all will
come out right. The Lntelligencer
knows that bayonets are 'sharpened
and muskets charged IS
We copy the article from the Ma
tionol Hteligencer, edited by a Mr..
Snow, to show how much heat, fame
and smoke, even snow, may be made,
to emit If the following is'not fiery,
we do not know where it can be
found in cotemporaneous literature:
PEOPLE OF THE NORTH, ARE you
FREE? ARISE. AND SPEAK,
Freemen Of tie NORTH Know
: hat the clutch of usurpation is at
the throat Of your Ministers of JUS
tice; that your treacherous servants,
determined to destroy your Constitu-
ton, defended by your Chief Magis-
trate, have desperately resolved upon
the legislative branch of
your Government, entrusted to their
perfdious hands, and in order to de
molish all restraint of treason, are
about to destroy all the. departments
OF GOveFnment, even their own, and
lifting your liberties from your sover-
eign shoulders, to lay all at the feet
of a military despot. Know, people |
of the great free North, that your
chains are forged; that the bayo /
nets, as it were, are sharpened, the |
muskets charged, the orders written. |
that are to mete- out to each one of /
life he shall retain. Behold, at your |
fresides the apparition of the guard /
for midnight arrest; in your places
of worship, the armed censor of your
in your fields, at your work I
tables, on the high roads. the snaky
and 5 kulking. detective, 1istenle 7 GU /
may hear the drum, as it drops in at /
your startled ear, the palsy that thick |
ems your yet free tongue. We tell /
you that the Supreme Court is to be I
struck down, that the equal balance of |
the Three Great Departments Is sway
ing from its equilibrium; that the great
tripod of the Republic is to be broken
up; that from your political temples
your betrayers are banishing your
gods, and from the Genius of your
freedom are wrenching her inviolable
sceptre That few wretches. drunk
upon irresponsible power, loathsome
with guilt, hideous with blood, and
mad with lust, m riot in your halls
of power, ii through the degradation of /
the South, your liberties are to be
destroyed. your Constitution subvert-
ed, your Republic dissolved, and your
name dishonored among nations for
ever.
Arise, freemen, in your fiery majes-
tyl Consume with the lightning of
your powerful rebuke this develish
com bination of perfdy and greed.
Shake off the fatal incredulity which
lays you supine in the mi st peril,
and let not thefsun 60 down ere you
have shaken the earth with your
mighty tread Gather, in every ham
let in the land, from Eastport to As
toria, and send up to Heaven the
shout of yo1r Indignation The wind
ing sheet of your freedom isawoven
1nd its coffin made. Shall 1t die and
be buried?