The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-03
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and revolutionary party. Ofcourso It
is in general unquiet, violent and ag-
gressive, disturbing the national tran
guilty wheneveran opportunity is pre-
sented, keeping the public mind con-
tinually agitatcd, and rctarding our
material prosperity to degree scarce
ly realized by the people. Even be-
fore it broke into open rebellion it had.
raclied the country by continued me-
mace, and when at last it struck with
a bloody hand at the national existence
it seemed to us almost as desirable re-
lief from the uncertainty and anxiety
which had preceded the outbreak.
And if this bad party thus exhibit
ed tendencies Of a violent and rcvolu-
tionary character, it was an additional
reproach that the revolutionary ac-
tion was always in the wrong direction
not by any means in unison with
the superior enlightenment of the nine
teenth century, but in direct antagon-
ism with liberal and just ideas. Thus
did it encourage and buttress human
slavery until the foul institution was 50
swollen with folly and presumption
that it assumed to govern the country
with an absolute sway, and being curb
ed in that design only to a moderate
degree cssayed to destroy by force of
arms the government itself,
Surely we had a right to expect
that when the extreme issue was joined
and the armies of the Democracy were
defeated in the fisid to which they had
invited our loyal soldiers, the mis-
chioyous and fatal controversy might
be considered ended, and that all men
might harmonic in cutivating the
arts of peace, and developing the re-
sources Of this noble country. But,
contrary to this reasonable expectation
we find rebellion again cndeavoring to
raise its snaky head, and its northern
allies once more appealing to the bad
passions and violent impulses of the
more reckless among its partisans. As
/ if the combativc propcnsitics and has
ty temper Of Andrew johnson were
not of themselves sufficient to give US
abundant trouble, we see Democrats
whose position as editors or legislators
should hold them back from any fur
therhcitement to reasonable action,
advising this man of violence to ap-
peal at once to the sword, and forcibly
revolutionizc the government by cx-
pelling Congress from the halls of leg-
islation or, to adopt the deliberate
words of Judge Woodward, not utter
ed in the heat and hurry Of current de-
bate, but deliberately written down for
express publication, to use the army
and navy to "make an end ofimpcach-
ment and impeachers."
By no means is this imprudent ut
terance OF man who by this time
ought be statesman instead Of par.
tisan an exceptional case, as all ouu
readers are well aware. Democratic
editors and speakers continually in
dulge in the menaces, and to the
extent of their ability prepare the way
for future trouble They openly ad-
vocatc notification of the laws by the
President whenever he chooses to as
sumo that these are unconstitutional !;
and as every other executive officer
who has sworn to support the Consti-
tuition might with equal show of right
refuse to enforce the laws, it is needless
to portray the confusion and anarchy
which must inevitably follow. Vainly
do the anarchs plead that former
Presidents have also nullied legal
statutes. 1t was grievous departure
from duty to have done so, and by no
means exonerates their successors who
venture to tread in the same perilous
path.
When we note these exhortations to
renewed rebellion, and remember that
johnson himself officially declared
that he was only dissuaded from nullify-
ingall the Congressional reconstruction
laws by fears of another civil war
(meaning thereby fear that he could
not reckon upon our loyal soldiery to
support his revolutionary designs, we
may calculate more accurately the
dangers from which we have but
narrowly esceped, and the absolute
necessity now existing to keep the
nullitying party out of power. That
party still retains its baleful principle
Of State sovereignty and the right of
secession. They are SO imbued With
ideas inimical to the right of man,
that they would readily endow the
President with absolute power if only
he would aid them in frustrating the
extension ofuniversal suffrage. They
continually urge the present incumbent
Of that high office to strike blow for
absolute despotism, and thus they keep
the country in constant apprehension
of wide spread convulsion. Most TRULY
and emphatically may we declare that
this modern Democracy, which bellies
the name, is the fearful Pandora's box
whence issue more than q moiety of
the ills which afilict the country
North American.
WENDELL PHILLIPS in his speech
before the Anti-SIavery Society Thurs
day said: 81 would rather trust
General Grant in the White House
without a platform than Chief JUS