Year: 1867

Andrew johnson, whose compl city in the
| murder of the martyr Abraham Lincoln has
never yet been satisfactorily disproved. is
now engaged in laying the foundation of
another rebellion. The object of interest 10
him now is the political possession of Cali.
| fornia. and through the influence that result
will exert. to succeed in capturing Oregon
and Nevada. There can be no denial of the
| fact that for months his emissares have been
busily engaged in this State, through the
press and otherwise, in manufacturing public.
opinion and laying the foundation of that
disaffection which at one time threatened the
integrity of the Union party. but which is
now happily removed by the disclosures
which have been made by the orators of the
organization, and through the columns of its
loyal press. With California, Oregon and
Nevada Johnsonized, an immense power
would be placed in his hands for evil. and
those who are at all acquainted with the
treachcry. bitterness and vindictiveness of
his disposition. very well know how potently
be would use it. We are not writing now in
support of Gorham, or in antagonism to
Haight. but we are pleading for the safety of
the State, for the peace and happiness of the
people on this far off portion of the continent.
and for the perpetuity and mantainance of
the principles for which millions died on the
field of battle, and in the support Of which
Lincoln was foully murdered by an assassin
in the very presence of his f;lmily. We
appeal to Union men throughout the length
and breadth of this great State to present an
unbroken front in this important contest, not
only as against traitors at home. who have
abandoned the organization from motives of
self interest, but as against that still greater
traitor who occupies the Presidential chair Of
the Nation, Andrew johnson, who is chatting
and fretting that his cherished scheme of
another Shareholders rebellion is so long de
layed. He has no sympathy in common
with the people of the great Nation, over
which a bloody and malignant deed permits
him to preside, but with the miserable and
forlorn traitor, James Buchanan, who often
expressed the desire to be the last President
of the United States, he desires in his rage,
like Samson, to pull down the temple of
liberty of free people, forgetting that he,
too would be engulphed in the ruins. The
Country was never in greater peril and
danger than now, and in the dispossession of
the patriotic Secretary of War, Edwin M.
Stanton, of the seals of Office. the clearest
indication is given of what his intention are
1t is true Grant has been temporarily placed
in power; but yet the plotis no clearer, but
is. on the contrary, darker and deeper
Grants caution, reticence bravery and de-
yotion to the Country may be equal to the
thwarting of the vile Vaccinations of the
traitot President, but in our Judgment the
cloven foot will exhibit Itself where least ex-
pected.


When we say that the peace, property and
safety of the entire country depend upon the
success of the Union organization in the
State of California, it is not drawing upon
the Imagination it is not fancy sketch,
limned for the qualification of the ignorant;


it is not an attempt at word painting, but it
is God truth, forced upon us by the honest
convictions of our soul, and which the high
est impulses of n public duty urge US to
enunciate. The eyes of every loyal man in
the nation are turned towards California in
this contest on the eastern slope of our
lovey Y country the anxiety is even greater, if
such state of affairs were possible, than
with us. The widow and the orphan of the
soldier dead, the manned and bruised in the
battles of the country, the pale, emacjated
and sick from the prison pens OF JEFF. Davis
government, watch with the most intense in
terest the result here, to know whether all
that they have undergone and suffered is tn
be buried in a Copperhead triumph in Cali
fornia. No excuse can be offered to the
loyal men of the North, East, West, and
Southwest, if this coast is given up to the
tender mercies of Secessionists and that
press and that man who dares to insult their
fidelity andpatriotism by thrusting into their
faces histories of miserable and degraded
local fights, personal hate, disappointed ard
lmpotent rage, as a palliation for the act
will have the insult thrown back into their
faces with all the contempt that patriots and
honest men can express. The voice Of the
nation demands that the loyal men of the
State of California shall be equal to this
great emergency; demands that they shall
rebuke treason, treachery and sin at home
and abroad demands that the hopes and
spirits of the soldiers of the republic shall
be renvigorated by loyal expression here,
and that the hopes. aims and ambition Of the
Presidential traitors shall be dashed to the
earth, in still retaining the State Of Califor-
MIA, the Youngest, the loveliest, and the
truest. where the patriots of the land have
been accustomed to look for her as their
guide since the hour that Fort Sumter whs
fired upol and the traitor Wigfall trampIed
the American flag in the dust.-S. f. SPIRIT
Of the Times