The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-11-08
THE WRECKS.

eft there When Lee gave up his
sword to Grant, the loyal people OF the
United States, wearied with war and
turmoil, hoped that final and lasting
peace had come upon the land. Booth S
fatal pistol shot came like a clap of
thunder out of clear sky and the
country was struck with grief and woe
- with a binding stroke of lightning.
When hope succeeded this fell disaster
il concentrated upon Andrew johnson.
he eyes of trusting people were d.
.scted toward him as to the strong,
courageous man who would hold the
elm of State true to Liberty, Justice
and Union. On the 22nd of February
1856, cloud rose over the White
House, small, but black and threaten
.ug Alarm seized upon those who
,,ood upon the watch towers, and a
sense of impending danger spread
throughout the North. Step by step,
n quick succession, the President
.iienated himself from his personal and
political friends Seward and Doolittle
AID their fellows gave aid aud encour-
i gement to treason, and the whirlwind
Of political agitation gathered strength.
Rebellion, recently crushed, felt new
courage and the PROSTATE Democracy
rose agaia to its feet. As events pro-
crossed, Andrew Johnson proved him
self the fierce Anarch of the storm. Re-
padiating his promise to be the Moses
Of the Freedmen, he became relent-
.ess Pharaoh at tLa head Of the Copper
head hosts.
Now, looking along the beach where
OF are. strewn the broken fragments
which the great political tornado that
eliminated on Tuesday last has tossed
Up from the surging breakers, look to
where lie scattered aad shattered the
remnants of " Ny Policy" Can any
.uin, with hand, never so cunning,
gather them again together into CO.
..e-ent mass? Was ever fabric of
-.olitician' ) brain SO utterly demolished?
lad there, among the splintered debris
.: his work, lies Andrew johnson,
,rosrrale, crushed, past all possibility
Of reconstruction 10 political life aud
activity, as much as i. lie had not saved
,insell, by fraud and corruption, from
...e Impeachment which threatened
In, irieudless and puwerless in his
!:umy Beside him are tie disseVered
.enaius-o: the Wuishy Ring which be
s.sved 80 we'll, aud which, in tarn
s,ood at his back when be was a--sign d
!.e:ure ia offended Senate.
SsiIl recognizable among the poor
c4us are Seward, Doolittle. Dixon,
Ciase, and SEINE faint traces of the
Philadelphia Couvention-an utterly
..ok.u, all awaiting an inevitable po-
l.iical oblvion-all lost, past the pos
billy oil retention.
Ashore amidst inextrcabie breakers,
abandoned by its crew ana nearly for
s,Sen by its officers, certain TO crumble
i, pieces upon the first ebbing of the
de, lies the pirate ship = Dem ocracy, y
80 nlsts all gone, its rudder unshipped ,
i .i,ure head broken and ghas;lv, all
- imbers strained, its guns spiked,
10 copper still clinging to It in un-
; ,htly shredsr a complete an! total
",eck
Far ont in the good haven of Peace,
LIS safely at her moorings the good
snip of Srate-scarred a, little by the
orm, but perfect in her beauty, Sc
care ia her anchorage, her brave and
c,unlless crew jubilan, and strong,
ccady for a voyage of Pros oerity and
proof against mutiny from thin and
assault from without. Let US leave
tie fallen and the wrecked 10 the ten
der sheltering Of such charities as they
nl.y ini, aud rejoice 10 the calmaess
sai serenity which have come TO prom
ise Us security, tranquility aud peace