The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-07-03
The aprUrtIunment viii be as follows
NATURALIZATION AND DESPoT-
gSVE.

Under the above classical clap.trap
caption tLp Gdzetsoyesterlay addressed
It's readers, probably. the most su-
premr'y ridiculous column OF nonsense
that ever appeared in that paper. Il
APPEARS thas at the ratification meeting
in San Francisco. after the nomination
90; Grant and Colfax, the following reso-
Iutioas were unanimously adopted, and
AL the radical newspapers of Califor-
MIA endorse them" We should say
thry would.
Resolved, That the citizens of San Fran
cisco, In mass meeting assembled, endorse
and ratify the nominations OF Grant and
Colfux-the Chiefs of the Camp and the
Council ChambeT-beCauSe we believe them
% be honest and capable, faithful to the Con-
stItution and the laws, in favor of liberty
aul not license, of a nation and not q mere
combination of States and because, having
been tried and true In the past, we believe
they will always be so ia the future.
Resolved. That We cordially endorse the
platform uf the Union Republican Conven-
tion at Chicago, and that We will omit 10
cxeFtiou % secure t,sr success Of its pTincl-
pies and clndidates.
Itrequires ar eye as keen as a snake
To discover the lurking danger iii those
seemingly fair resolutions, yet tits dis
covered The Gazstte sees it. What
matter that the EraHs55,er pointed IL
outg The Gazette says. they declare
against independent States, and for a
nation an Emperor;a King 4 Sui
tan;a Military Dictator Court and No
biiity spies and informers, Pro-Con-
suls and armies Jannisaries or Pra-to-
rian cohorts, etc, etc" From all these
evils, Good Lord deliver us. It's terrible;
the Gazette says SO, and although it is
not quite as clear as mud precisely
what is going to happen, it is past per-
adventure that the radicals after the
next election intend TO change the
form of government TO Military des-
potism or strong government of some
kind entirely different from the one we
have so long lived and prOspered un-
der" Il Is pretty generally conceded
That If you admit testimony and would
be lust. YOU must take all there is not
only the truth but the whole truth.
How any violent changeis to take place
while Grant and Colfax are faithful to
the constitution and the laws is not so
apparent. The strong government OF
some kind or other" will be established,
The vipers of treason and state rights
nre only stunned not killed The elec-
ton of Grant and ColiaX Will brulse
their heads agains. the adamant, and
IRON the ides of November, 6S, we can
date the death of danger, and the gov
ernment will lie truly strong, for It's en-
emies will. have perished by the hands
OF the people. Ii is the old sort OF States
Rights that is breaking out again on the
G1zrfte. Did not Jackson teach you
one lesson on that, and the late war
another Have you forgotten the ar
ticles of confederation which made q
q" nation" of the colonies and that the
preamble to the constitution declares sit
is ordnined TO form a more perfect
Union" Do you forget that Union sig
nifes :he joining of two or more
things into one that il is a consolida
tiOnI Do you forget that it was " the
United Colonies that were 10 be 'sfree
and independent and not each sepa-
rately The whole constitution is 8
bond OF nationality between the States
the war has adiudgedit right, and the
people will sustain il with ballots as
they have with bullets. You can add
this paper to those who endorse the
above resolutions.