Year: 1866

PoLITIcAL PRosPEcTs.-As the bitter hostility
of sentiment among the reconstructed rebels OF
the South becomes more and more understood,
and their design to join hands with the Copper
heads of the North, and secure control of the
National Government becomes more palpable
and manifest the Union people all over the land
become more and more awake to their danger.
From the South, and from the North, there is
but one expression of opinion among patriotic
men. All agree that stern necessity forbids the
rebel States from taking any part in the Govern
ment, unless upon conditions such as will render
them powerless for mischief, and such are the
conditions embodied in the Constitutional Amend
ments. 1t is demonstrated in every possible way
that the great mass of the rebels not only have
not repented of their treason but that they glory
in it, claiming that they have done right, and
that the best recommendation that one can have
for Office, is zeaous service in the rebel army.
They want political power-representation in
Congress-for no other purpose but to destroy
the Government. By union with the still baser
traitors, the Copperheads of the North they
would be able to accomplish their purpose
They boldly own that they would repudiate the
National debt, recognize the Confederate bonds,
and pay the former owners for their slaves
Having thus bankrupted the nation, and elected
a no coercion President like Buchanan, their
separation from the Union would be accom-
plishcd fact.


The people see this, and see it more plainly
every day. Hence, the cavalier treatment Of
President johnson on his grand electioneerng
tour Hence the 1000 majority in Vermont:
and the 35, 900 in Maine just given in support of
Congress. The people are not to be fooled by
theories. They know the unquestioned fact that
Johnson's chief supporters are the Southern
rebels and Northern Coppcrhcads-and they know
that such men mean no good, however plausibly
they may talk They have fought them for four
wears as the worst enemies of the country, and
see no earthly reason for now regarding them as
ANYTHING else In this they right, both upon
instinct and reason, and will continue to oppose
them while they have country left to defend
Every Congressional election that is held this
Fall, will prove that President Johnson's plans,
and those of the rebels who have affiliated with
him. are understood too well to meet with the
popular endorsement. His intended magnanimity
has been wholly misunderstood if indeed he
really intended to make the rebels loyal by
favoring them, for they at this moment all
over the South, more proscrptive, intolerant and
rebellous, than at any time during the war;
They lack arms and money, and the lack of these
is the only thing that keeps them from open war


The above is from the Napa Register, able
Union journal which until few weeks ago bat
tied in behalf of the Presidents policy. No one
who reads the above be mistaken in the
present position of the Register. There is nc
want of encouraging political prospects now.
Horace Greeley says through the Tribune that the
Republicans will carry New York in November,
and adds -" Friends without trust New York


Though sorey tried, she has not yet failed when
you needed her. She will stand by you now by
a decided and invincble majority" The country
has confidence in Greeleys political assertions
and prophecies, and the burst-up of Johnsonism
in New York, as related in the last Eastern dis
patches, places New York fairly and squarly in
the line of States which are to confirm the ac-
ton of the last Congress in the coming election