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Year: 1866

Those who clamor for tho. success of the
President S policy, go no further In their
discussions than the theory of the matter,
and indeed they go no further than the the
ory of the Congressional policy, whenever
they had occasion to contrast the two. Their
manner Of contrasting the two policies Is
somewhat thus By the President plan 1t
is sought to perfect the union of the States
by the immediate re-admission Of the Sena-
tors and members from the revolted States,
while by the plan of Congress it is proposed
to keep the insurrectionary States out OF the
Union for an indefinite period. Nothing in
fact is so far from the truth


So far as the President 5 policy is concern
ed the rebelious States might Just as well
have been represented in Congress during
the whole period of the war. 1t would have
been fully as reasonable to suppose that the
people of those States would have assisted
us in our efforts to put down the rebellion,
as it is now to say that they viii sincerely
help us to gather the fruits Of our victory
and put final end to the war and the ques
tions that produced it. It is. true that the
President has imperiously demanded and
obtained reputation of the rebel debt. But
can he or any Of his upholders say that such
rGDUQiallDH - d lu1il S6klACiAiGut va INC
question? By no means. That act was Sc
cured by coercion aud threats Of force, and
it has already been suggested, and may one
day become a living question, that such leg
islation is absolutely void and should not be
respected. But whether such suggestion
should ever be acted oa or not, the matter is
placed in the State Constitution where it
may be changed at any moment almost. 1u-
deed North Carolina has just rejected the
constitution containing this guarantee.


Grant for moment that the President 5
policy prevails. The revolted States arc
admitted to representation in Congress, in
larger humber than before, as a reward fol-
their rebellion, or in the language Of a Rich
mond paper, as the ''best fruits of the vic
tory All Federal control over the. loca
affairs of the South viii be removed. Where
then will exist the right or the power t.
Year: 1866

The nomination of General Logan for
member Of Congress at large was a most
iudici0us and pFaiseworthy act. 1t was a
deserved compliment TO General Logan
himself, who had not sought the Office. 1t
was tribute Of gratitude TO the volunteer
army which went forth from Illinois to save
the republic. 1t was an acknowledgements,
of the most graceful sort, to that portion
of the State where General Logan resides,
fer the splended manner in which it gave
its adhesion to Republican principles two
years ago. 1t is no longer possible for the
johnson party to tamper with the soldiers
of Illinois They follow the same banner
in peace that they followed in war The
Republican party sustained them in the field
and now nominates one Of their bravest and
NEST trusted fellows for the first place on
the State ticket, and another gallant and
true soldier for the second, while the nomi-
nee for the thnd place has publicly declared
the pleasure he would feel in resigning his
own position to one of the heroes of the
late war. Here IS a Soldier Ticket, which
the soldiers themselves could not improve
if they should call the roll Of every regi-
ment that went to the field from Illinois =
thicdgO Tribune
Year: 1866

GOVERNOR MoRToN's WARNING TO
YOUNG 1IEN.-Yeu are just starting in life
with the world all before you, when and
how to choose. Beware how you connect
your fortunes with deeayed and dishonored
party. aadeltJIy stained nth treason, and
upon whose tombstone the historian will
write: False to liberty, false to its country,
and false to the age in which it lived. The
Democratic party has committed crime for
which history has no pardon, and the MEM
cries of men no forgetfulness, whose colors
grow darker from age to age and for which
the execrations of mankind become more
bitter, from generation to generation
Year: 1866

The st. Louis Democrat of the 18th, is
informed that in the neighborhood of Lex
ington KY, Immediately after the election
had settled the question of rebel supremacy,
six Union soldiers were taken out BY rebels
and whipped with hickory rods. Others
were compelled to f1y from the State at once
to save their lives. The rebels openly boast
edthat they would make the State too hot
to hold any Union men, The Democrat S
informant, a General in the Union army,
had remained In the State in spite Of many
threats until the election came off, but i'm
mediately afterwards such spirit was mani
tested By the rebels that he felt it would be
folly to remain any longer He learned Of
the whipping of the soldiers from reliable
persons, with details of place and name.
He believes that within two months the
greater part of the State win be unsafe for
any Union man and that multitudeso of them
must leave the State to save their lives. In
Louisville, befoIe the election, the Courier
stated that it should publish the names of
merchants who voted the Union ticket, so
that they might be prescribed and ruined In
business. In the greater part of the State
this prescription has begun already, and a
known Union man can engage IN no kind of
business with success, and is prescribed in
society 1t was only with fear aud trembling
that man could own that he had worn the
blue uniform IN many places, and though
the reign of terror which is threatened and
may be expected has as yet begun only in
some localities, Union men all over the
State are preparing to move to more congo
nial lands.
Year: 1866

FRoH THE eERxAv OF GOETHE.
Without haste without rest
Bind the motto to thy breast
Bear it with thee as spell;
Storm and sunshine guide it well;
Heed not aaBsrs thst round thee bloom,
Bear it onward to the tomb-
Haste not let no thoughtless deed,
Mar for aye the spirits speed
Ponder well and know the right,
Onward then with ali thy might;
Haste not years can ne'er atone,
For one reckless action done.
Rest net life is sweeping by,
Go and dare before you die;
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time
Glorious It's to live for aye
When these forms have pass'd away.
Haste not! rest not! calmly wait!
Meekly bear the storm Of fate!
Duty be thy polar guide
Do the right whate'er betide
Haste not! rest not conflicts past,
God shall crown thy work at last.
Year: 1866

The great point of Andrew Johnson's
''my policy is embraced in the following
sentence from his speech to the rebel John
son committee from the Philadelphia Con-
vention:


'fWe hare seen, hanging upon the verge
of the government as it were, body called
or which assumes to be the Congress OF the
United States, but in fact Congress OF only
part of the States
Year: 1866

The johnson State Committee has assessed
every national Office holder from petty post
masters up five per cent of their salaries and
perquisites for political purposes: but the:e
are few who will respond to the call. The
notorious character of the members of the
committee nearly all of them being mere
political mendieants and Micawbers, the
chances are that very little Of the money
would ever get beyond the pockets OF the
committee.
Year: 1866

The New York TriJune'S Rocky Noun
tain correspondent writes from Central City
that the coal beds discovered in that region
are Of scarcely less consequence than the
precious metal Along the eastern base Of
the range, brown coal Of good quality has
been found for distance of three hundred
miles, and the indications continue through
Montana. In one locality, at debth Of
twenty-five feet, vertical stratum was found
fourteen feet in breadth.
Year: 1866

Mr. EDITOR Your spicy little paper
still continues to be a welcome visitor in
our Massachusetts home Its contents, sad
and amusing, keep us advised of the well
fare of many friends in and about our
former home in johnson. We note the
changes that occur among them by mar
riaee removal and death, and feel anew
the force of the words, work while the
day lasts" ... ..... .......


But greater and grander news than
than those of personal or local interest,
are transpiring in these days. 1t is worth
something to live in the 10Th century.
Good men can but rejoice to see the dis
section of the great American Idol 60 on
so skillfully at Washington "sport to
you but death to US" its worshippers may
well say.


Ten years ago some people would not
believe in the total depravityof our rulers
who had turned aside from justice and
judgment, and taken brides, and bowed
down to the god of mammon, and wor-
shipped the work of their own hands >
But the incredible, unutterable appalling
atrocities that have been put forth in sup
port Of Dagon, have opened all eyes and
stopped all mouths in speechless amaze.
mcnt and horror, aad now the death to
them, and sport to u.s. comes in.


1 We behold with unmingled delight, the
worst defiant, Dragging bullies that ever
used the Kings English, SO completely
and properly whipped, that even they
Year: 1866

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY In London,
many years since, Lord Amisfeld being
out of town, his house was left in charge
of female servant. The plate was
lodged at his bankers. A letter came to
say that his lordship would be in town
on such day, and desiring that the
plate might be got ready the evening be-
fore. The servant took the letter to my
lords brother, who said there was 10
doubt of the handwriting. The banker
expressed the same certainty, and deliv-
cred the plate. The servant. being appre-
hensiye Of thieves, spoke to their butch
er who lent her stout dog. which was
shut up in the room with the plate


Next morning a man was found dead in
the room, his throat being torn out by
the dog; and, upon examination, it
proved to be my lords brother The
matter was carefully hushed up. and a
report spread that lie had gone abroad
Year: 1866

An .iutt- .Sl0rcyy Nun on Rccrn-
s,rucsion-C. l.. Shov"S, of MiIwau-
kir, one of the oldest and most CON
sistern and persistent an,i-slavrry
men of Wisconsin, said in a speech
on the Presidents veto message:


Eighteen years ago embarked in
this anti-slavcry war, on the theory
that the African, if given his per-
sonal trcedsm, could thereafter care
for himself Yet, after :his lapse OF
eighteen years and lie is free, am
me, with the assurance that he needs
all kinds of protection. That he will
walk hesitating Y i'll lis new condi-
ton, that he may stumble is proba-
Bile; but if he is to work out his own
destiny, if he is to &C hievc his own
salvation, and if he is capable Of de-
ing it, let him h, gin now and at once.
Every hours dependence on new
protector and supporter of any kind
or nature is not only a public procla-
nation Of his own inability, but it
fosters and encourages until his last
state becomes infinitely worse than
the first. five are to have bureaus
for his protection-if the nation must
be taken for his support-if we must
maintain armies for his defense, let it
be after he has himself demonstrated
his incapacity-and let US who have
fought his battles for the last twenty
years on the ground of his capacity,
not be the first to make proclamation
that it was all sham.
Year: 1866

any rate they have been Of no real valus to
the country in any instance that has reached
public notice for long time, and We hope the
example Of making them useful, ss announced
above, will be followed in all the customs dis
triots Of the country.
Year: 1866

49, - - ~
How beautiful he lies
With pouting rose bud lip


And half closed eyes.
While through their jetty fringe
You catch gleam
Blue as the skies.
Above his silken head
0ne-dimpled hand


Is bravely thrown,
The other on his breast
Is doubled as to meet


The world alone.
The darling little one,
To my fond heart


Thou art so dear
A music strain on earth
A flower of beauteous birth
My path to cheer.
But what's to come to thee,
And what wilt thou bring me,
Pleasure or pain
Baby, thy way is long,
Darling the waves are strong,


And wild the main.
Temptations must be thine,
Stern wrestlings with thy kind,
Boy, thou must meet.
Gvd shield thee in that hour,
From every evil power


Heaven guard thy feet.
Father above TO Thee,
To Thee l bend the knee


Thy aid implore:
My boy to Thee [ bring,
Take him beneath Thy wing,
L ask no more.
Year: 1866

AN ANGRY FATHER STRUCK DEAp-The
Sherbrooke (Canada) Gazette says that last
week Lawrence Doyle, who had been drink.
ing, got very angry with his son, and his ex-
element was such that he burst some of the
blood vessels of the heart and dropped dead in
an instant. Only short time before ms death
he said he did not care for God, man. or the
devil, and told his wife that she might pre


pare a coffin for his SON or for himself before
night. When under the influence OF liouor
his passion was uncomfortable. =
Year: 1866

HRAvY VERDICT The case Oh John Beisei-
gle VS.. the New York Central Railroad Com
pany was concluded in the circuit court on
Saturday by q verdict for plaintiff for $4,000
In 1856 the plaintiff was run over by q locouao-
tive at the ST Joseph street crossing of the
railroad, In the Sixth Ward. He was coming
up the street, and after waiting for q train he
stepped upon the track just in the way of an
engine backing in the opposite direction to
that which the train had gone. He lost a leg
by the accident, and was compelled to change
his avocation. suit was commenced for
damages, and taken into the circuit court
Judge Smith ordered a non- suit, and refused
10 let the case 90 to the jury, on the ground
that il did not appear that the plaintiff had
taken proper precaution to guard az ainst acci-
dent. The plaintiff went to the court of an
peals and got the decision reversed, and a new
Trial ordered. The result has been verdict as
above stated-Rochester Union, 10th.
Year: 1866

THE EXIsTENCE OF THE SUN.-It will be
most gratifying to our readers TO know that an
eminent mathematician has demolished yari.
ous theories of solar heat, and demonstrated
that for 3Q,0C0,000 years TO come the sun will
continue TO afford sufficient caloric to sustain
human life upon the sur face of the earth. This
is about as long as any OF us will be personally
Interested in the matter, and the prospect OF
our descendants being frozen to death is too re.
mote 10 cause any serious uneasiness. -a
Year: 1866

From Ebrncgs Press November Sd
The following lines by Whittier 1850 upon the
surrender of distinguished the slave
appropriate TO tie of Seward that
reproduce them:


So flllcn so lost the light withdrawn
Which he
The glory from his gray hairs gone,
Forever more.


Let not the land once proud of him
Insult him now
Nor brand with deeper shame his dim
Dishonored brow.
But let its humbled sons. instead,
From lake.
long lament. for the dead,
In sadness make.
Then pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Gaze backward with averted gaze,
And hide the shame.
Year: 1866

Az, exchange thinks if California housekeep-
ers would exhibit a proper thrift in saving and
selling the rags which necessarily accumulate in
every household, newspaper men would have less
reason to complain of the high prices they arc
now forced to pay for paper. Nor would news
paper men alone be benefited. The manutac-
ture Of own paper would save TO the State
an immense amount of capital which now goes
to Eastern manufactures.
Year: 1866

A proclamation was posted about the city
yesterday offering an additional reward for
the arrest of Stephens. The sum of J, ,00Q.
will be given for such information as may
lead to his arrest, and an additional sum Of
1,OO0 to the person by whom he is arrested;
with free pardon to the informer, if he
should have been concerned in the escape of
the prisoner; also 30Ol for information
against any person BIZ whom he has been
harbored. The police are confident that he
is still hiding in Dublin, and that his ulti-
mate escape is impossible. Nothing can
exceed the keenness of the ,pursuers.-LOR-
don Times correspondent.
Year: 1866

That the States whereof the people were
lately in rebellion are integral parts of the
Union, and are entitled to representation in
Congress by men duly elected, who bear true
faith TO the Constitution and laws, and, in
order to vindicafe the maxim that taxation
without representation Is tyranny, such rep
resentaiion should be forthwith admitted.
Year: 1866

INSTINCT. A naturalist says Last
summer, while walking in my park, l obser-
we'd green woodpecker alight on the ground
some fifty PAGES before me, look round to
see if he was noticed, then lie down and
stimulate death by stretching out himself
motionless, and hanging his tongue out as
far as possible. He occasionally pulled in
his bill. He had selected place near an
ant hill. The ants, thinking him dead, would
cover his tongue to deyour him when 1t
was black with ants, he would swallow them,
and repeat his trick until his NAV copldEbOld
no more.
Year: 1866

WE direct the attention of our readers to
Mr.. Trips advertisement. He has fine
assortment of fruit and shade trees which he
will sell cheap and deliver free. Now is the
best time of year for transplanting.
Year: 1866

TUESDAY next will be the commencement
of a new year. What numberless good res
olutions will be formed on that day, only to
be broken again. May the coming year be
freighted with unbounded happiness and
prosperity to our readers. May their most
sanguine hopes and brightest anticipations be
more than realized. As good way as any
to enjoy New Years will be to attend the
ball in this place.
Year: 1866

New YEARS BALL.-The most extensive
preparations have been made for the grand
ball to be given by the citizens of Mokelumne
Hill on Monday evening next, at Leger's hal.
Should we be favored with pleasant weather
on that occasion, there is not the slightest
attended than any dance ever before given
in Calaveras county. The best of music has
been engaged. and nothing has been neg
lected by the committee of arrangements in
their preparations for the accommodation Of
those who may be present from abroad.
Year: 1866

ANOTHER SPEECH.


President johnson is not q Cundidute Jor re-


electton


A delegation from Montana Territory waited
upon MIR johnson recently. They white,
and not Indian nor negro. ln reply to their ad-
dress cong graduating him on his policy aud the
acceptableness to.the people of the principles
pressed in his Message to Congress, he said:


say again, that no man can mistake the doc.
trines of that Message. 1t is very easy for per-
sons to misrcpresent it, and to make r;ions
that this, that the other has taken place,
will take place; bu. [ think | may be permitted
to say you on this occasion that, taking all my
antccedents, going back to my advent into pub


lie life, and continuing down to the present
time, the great cardinal principles set forth in
ing guide. After having gone SO far, it Is too
late for me to turn and take different direc-
tion. They will be my guide from this time
onward, and those who understand them may
know where shall always be found when prin-
ciple is involved Here let me say to you, in
order to disabuse the public mind, as far as tits
possible for an individual to do 50, that my pub
lie career is well nigh done. The sand OF my
political glass has well nigh run out. -
II were disposed to refer to myself, | might
trace my back the log cabin; then
alderman and mayor in village; then through
both branches of the State Legislature; then
for ten consecutive years in the national House
I of Representatives; then through the Guberna-
tional chair to the Senate of the United States;
then provisional Governor, with slight partici
patton in military affairs; then Vice President,
and now in the position | occupy before you.
Aud now, in this position If can be instrument
tai in restoring tlfe government Of the United
States, in restoring to them their true position
in the Union, these States whose relations to
the National Government have for time been
interrupted BY one of the most gigantic rebel
lions that ever occurred in the world, so that
We can proclaim once more that we a united
people, shall feel that the measure OF my am
biion has been filed, and filed to oveIfowing.
And at this point, if there be any who are anx-
ious or jealous of honor and position, shall
be prepared to make them as polite bow as
know how, and thank them to take the place |
have occupied, for my mission will have been
fulfilled. In saying this, in performance of my
duty aud III response TO the encouragement you
I have given me, feel that am liz condition
not to be arrogant; not to feel impervious or
supercillious, feel that can afford to do right,
and SO feeling, God being willing, | intend to
do right; and, as far 10 me lies, / futend to ad-
minister this Government upon the principles
that he did at the foundation of it | can in
form all asprants who are trying to form their
combinations for the future, who want to make
one organization for one purpose and another,
Year: 1866

a great deal less of him than you did Of your
! master? -
/ Douglass-Not I.


!, The President We'll, I know such was the


case with large majority of you in those sec
/ lions Where such is the case, we know there


Is an enmlty, we Know there is hate. The
poor white man, on the other hand, was opposed
to the slave and his master, for the colored man
and his master combined kept him in slavery


by depriving him of fair participation in the


labor and productions of the rich land of the
! country. Don't you know that when a coEored


man is going to hunt master they call it,
Tor the next year, they will prefer living with
man who owned slaves rather than with one


who did not [ know the fact at all events.


Douglass Because they treated him better


The President-They did not consider it
quite as respectable there tQ. hire to a man who
did~not own negroes as to hire to one who did


glass.--Because he would not be treated
as we'll.


The President.-Then that is another arsu-
ment in favor of what / am going to say. 1t
shows that the eolored man appreciated the
STAKEHOLDER more highly than be did the man
who did not own slaves hence the enmity be-
tween the colored man and the non Shareholders
The white man was permitted to vote before the
Government was derived from him He is
part and parcel Of the political machinery -
Now, by rebellion or revolution, aud when you
come back to the objects of this war, you find
that the abolition Of slavery was not one of the
objects. Congress and the President himself
declared that it was waged on our part in order
to suppress the rebellion. The abolition Of sla-
very has come as an incident to the Suppression
of great rebellion. AS an incident, and as an
accordant, we should give it the proper direc-
tiOn The cOlOred man went into this rebellion
aslave; by the operation Of the rebellion he
came out freedman, equal to freedman in
any other portion of the country. There, then,
is u great deal done for him on this point. The
non stakeholder, who was forced into the rebel


ion and was as loyal as those who lived beyond
the limit Of the State, was carried into it, and
his property, and in number of instances. the
the lives Of such were sacrificed, and he who
has survived has come out OF it with nothing
gained but great deal lost Now upon prin-
ciple of justice, should they be placed in con-
dtion different from what they were before p
On the one hand, one has lost great DEAL and
in political point of view, scarcely stands
where he did before. Now we are talking about
what We are going to argue We have got at
the hate that existed between the two races
The query comes up whether these two races,
situated as they were before, without prepara
ton, without time for passion and excitement to
be appeased, and without time for the slightest
improvement. wlelher the one should be turned
loose upon the other, and be thrown together at
the ballot-bo with the cnmity aei hate exist
ing between them The query comes up, will
we not then commence war Of races | think
understand the thing. Especially is this
the case when you force it upon people
without their consent.