The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-01-29
EVOLUTIONARY.

"Thcsc measures, which strike at the very
TART OF those Immediately affected ~ them vio-
necessary. But for the means Of correction af
iorded by the approaching presidential and con
Would end IN ess
sixty days with the conversion of the city of
Washington into gallows yard, wherein the
senators and Representatives, while General
Grant would hang from the neck OF the colossal
copperhead that surmounts the Capitol"
We take the above from an exchange paper,
and give 1t to our readers as a specimen OF that
malignant and un.American twaddle which dis
gFaces the columns of some of our newspapers;
and though all thinking people will set 1t down
to the credit of that class of Bombdsfes Furioso
style Of journalism which is far too frequent In
this country, and will only look upon such
utterances as belonging to that kind of litera-
turc which may be denominated as Sound and
fury, signifying nothing" still It should not be
suileredto pass without rebuke.
Publishing an Independent journal as we do,
we shall not be betrayed Into any defence Of the
reconstruction measures introduced into Con-
gross, be they wise or unwise However exas-
peFated any portion of our people may be at the
action or proposed action of Congress, the rem
cdy does not lie In civil war, especially not in
such war as the writer Of the above senseless
diatri0e would have the foes of the National
Legislature inaugurate. He would repeat in
this country the scenes of anarchy and bloodshed
which characterized and dominated in France
during that fearful period known as the "reign
Of terror He would let loose upon the land the
misrule OF faction. But does he not know, and
does not all history teach, that the faction which
rules the hour and is in the ascendant to-day, 10
sure to go under to. morrow, and that the members
Of the dominant faction can under such q state
uf things, reign but for brief period, when they
must inevitably become the victims Of the oppo-
site faction, and the adherents OF those whom
they guillotined yesterday will bring themselves
and their friends to the block to-day.
Innuguratc such a condition OF things, and the
people will pray for n despotism to save them
from annihilatiOn, and the despotism will come;
and then gooG-by TO all constitutional govern
ment. The man on horseback will sway the
sceptrc, and the PROSTATE body OF the goddess Of
liberty will lie crucihcd In the mire OF the
streets Assume, for the sake of argument, that
the proposed legislation is as wicked and nnnr"s-
s!ve as this man who launches his thunder-bolts
against II assumes It 10 Be the remedy he sug-
gcsts is infinitely worse than whole ages of the
Lcspotic rule which such legislation may be pre-
,umed to install
We have no disposition to deny the right OF
revolution as a dernier resort for, under some
forms Of despotlsm, resistance to tyrants Is
obedience to GOd;" but legislation in this coun-
try-or what purports to be such-never has, and
under our theory OF government, in our judg-
acnt, ncN cF can eliminate in a state OF things
which Will afford justnable preteXt for the ac-
cCptance and practical application of such mad
,,psmas as this hairbrainei scribbler enunciates.
1--WE have weapon 1rmer set.