The Shasta courier., 1868-09-19
Batteries Unmasked.

Those who wish the earliest practicable
| restoration of national tranquility ought to
! know exactly the hopes which the action of
the Democratic Convention awakened, and
the expectations with which Seymour and
Blair are supported. A few extracts will
show.
| Mr.. Vance, in Richmond, asserts that
What the Confederacy fought for would
be won by the election of Seymour and
Blair"
Mr.. Wade Hampton says that when the
war ended lie sheathed his sword because his
State commanded it. He had supposed that
things would be settled as he wished. But
Unfortunately, things had taken a diff
ferent turn than that hoped for by the sup
porters of truth, justice, and the Constitu-
tion f; and now the spectacle presented in the
halls of legislation, by those who undertake
to govern the destinies of the two races, was
lamentable indeed. As anxious as he was
to secure peace and prosperity, he never
could consent to attempt itpn SO false, gross,
and outrageous platform as that of the Re-
construction particularly when he saw
the seats of Hayne, M'Dufie, and Calhoun,
in the Senate of the United States, filled by
such men as Sawyer and renegade Tom Rob-
ertson. Kisses and groans for Tom Robert
| son. - He wanted restoration on the basis
of truth, harmony, and justice and he firm
ly believed we would have it in November
by the triumph of the Democratic party
He had been told by no less distinguished
person than Vallandigham that Ohio was GER
tain for Seymour and shrewd political
thinkers of New York and Pennsylvania we're
equally confident of the same result in those
States. The people were thoroughly aroused,
and in November the result of it would be
more rapid travelling of carpet-baggers from
the South than was ever before known in the
history of this country"
Mr.. Weems, in the Georgia Convention,
took the ground that the rebellion ,cas ,car
for the Constitution Of the United States, and
that the hope of constitutional liberty re-
quires the return to power of Jefferson Davis,
Breckenridge, Toombs, Cobb, and the other
rebel leaders. OF the war he said:
The Southern people we're all in favor of
that war. There was some division among
them in reference to the expediency of sep
arate State action, and with regard to the
time when the contest ought to commence
But when the first cannon doomed from Fort
Moultrie the hearts of our whole people were
united, and all divisions disappeared. We
waged that war for the Constitution But the
South was for while overwhelmed. And the
Radicals pretended that they have made
peace. | tell you it is not so. They may cry,
'peace peace y but there is no peace. Free
government is ignored, commerce is crippled,
agriculture is postrate, civilization itself is
put back and there will be neither eace
nor prosperity again until the cause of con-
stitutional liberty, for which we contended
during the war, shall be at last triumphant.
For this Is necessary that in the coming elec-
ton the Democratic party shall succeed
The party which at present rules the country
has exhibited a spectacle of fraud, hypocrisy,
mendacity unparalleled in the annals nf the
world. a Negro, Caligula. Marat, Ro-
bespierre. would have shrunk from perpe-
trating the outrages they have perpetrated.
And they do it, too, in the name of what they
call 'the best Government the world ever
knew !"
Of the Fourteenth Amendment he said
Every one who voted for that amendment
is marked man henceforth, and will receive
the infamy he deserves. Why did the Rad
icals in Congress get up that amendment i?
Principally for the purpose of keeping out
of Office such noble gentlemen and true pa
triots as Howell Cobb, A. II. Stephens, Rob
ert Toomes, B. IL. Hill, John c. Breckin.
ridge, and Jefferson Davis They knew that
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Washington the miscreauts who are now hold
ing power would shrink away abashed at
their presence ~
One who was present says that "as Mr.
Weems named each of the patriots in the
above list there was storm of cheers but
when he mentioned the name of Jefferson
Davis the hall at once became the scene of a
wild and tumultuous uproar. Both delegates
and spectators jumped to their feet, as if in
excitement Uncomfortable. Hats and hand
kerchiefs were waved and shaken fercely
above their heads, and yels, and shouts, and
cheers and wild stamping for the space of
two minutes. shook the hall. Well might
an old Unionist who sat beside me whisper,
1T is 1860 over again y"
Mr.. j. NJ. Ramsey said in the same Con-
vention:
g The people of Georgia have always been
loyal to the Constitution. When they thou sht
that instrument was endangered they with
drew from the Union, as they had right to
do. But the Government at Washington
commenced to wage war upon them From
| that hour the Constitution was overthrown
We have aroused in our might once more uu-
der the leadership of Seymour and Blair, to
raise the Constitution from the dust. Georgia
has passed through fiery ordeal Some of
| ner chiluren, during the war she was COM
PEELED to wage, deserted her and Joined her
enemies. Let them be, like Arnold, forever
accursed. We have seen our soldiers fall.
our cities in flames, our citizens torn from
peaceful homes. We looked upon it unmoved
and unblanched But we can bear it no
longer. We will now, at all hazards, re-
cover our lost liberties, and restore the State.
We are in the midst of a great revolution,
which may end peacefully at the ballot box !;
but II not, then the true men of the South
will rally once more around their now folded
banner, and will try the issue at the cartridge
box. Loud and enthusiastic applause. +
Remember the ancestors from whom YOU
sprung. There are men in the North who
are now truly with you, and who will, in
such conflict, if necessary, lead your bat.
talions. We did not make the other war
1t was forced upon US. We simply stood for
the rights for which our fathers bled, And
we will stand there again, come peace o. war |!
Loud applause. |"
Howell Cobb, In recent speech in Georgia.
speaks of Ex-Governor Brown, who is one of
those who have honorably accepted the re-
suit of the war, which Mr. Cobb. one of its
original insitigators, has not, as follows:
Are not the people of Georgia right in
assigning him the status which he has taken
for himself? If niggers are good enough for
georgia, It is that kind of Georgia that he is.