Year: 1866

verify believe that the coming October and
November State elections will mark the begin
ming of the end Of the radical faction-their
short lived re ign Of misrule, folly and fanati-
cism.


| Dangerous Language Of the Radical Press
Caution 20 the President.


The Tribune and other radical Jacobin journals
are 80 exasperated at the President, that they do
not hesitate to use the most violent, threaten
ing and dangerous language. They endeavor
10 influence the passions of the unthinking and
wicked partisans Of their faction by calling him
traitor" and other vile names They re-echo
the infamous sentiments uttered by Stevens,


Wade, and other leaders in Congress, the
former Of whom pointed to the fate Of Charles
| the First as warning to him, intimating that


his life might also be taken by those he
dared to defy. All this arises from revenge


and the basest motives. His whole his
tory is an ample and q standing refuta-
ton Of their base charges and gross
epithes. His patriotism is as unimpeachable
rs was that Of Washington himself Who can
put his finger on one unpatriotic act Of Andrew
Johnsen's long public careers No one. Yet
be is denounced % . traitor by the radical
leaders and radical press. 1t is his very
patriOtism-his endeavor to restore the country
to peace and harmony that arouses the vim.
dictiveness Of disappointed faction. With
the broad views of statesman and In the
humane spirit Of Christianity he labors TO heal
the wounds caused by our terrible civil war,
| while the faction which denounces him would
perpenste discord and destroy the country
for its own base partisan purposes. This, and
this only, is the sum Of his offence and the
cause of radical abuse.


We call attention to these facts just now
because the spontaneous outburst of popular
sentiment with which the President has been
received on his journey to Chicago has in
tensifed the hatred Of his enemies and the
danger in the devilish spirit of animosity
manifested toward him.


History affords numerous examples Of the
fearful consequences of violent party feeling.
Religious fanaticism has produced It's victims
in all ages; but political fanaticism, or the
spirit Of faction. which is the same thing, has
probably been more intolerant and cruel


Without going into recapiIulation of all the
historical facts bearing upon this subject, we
may advert to the great French Revolution
rs eminently illustrative. The unprece-
dcnted horrors of that period arose
from u difference Of political views, in
tensiaed by faction. For an abstract idea
that, TOO, when there was little real diff
ference-and from ambition and love Of power,
human life was sacrificed with as little concern


as butchers slaughter animals. Such periods
produce a state Of dreadful decentralization.
Crimes unhcard Of at other times are com
nhitted. sort Of mania seizes the minds Of
weak and desperate men. We have q striking


example Of this in the murder of the good
President Lincoln. He was denounced in the
South "a monster. and rewards were offered
in the Southern States for his assassination.
Certain desperate individuals on this side, who
sympathized with the rebel cause. worked


themselves mp 70 state OF mania on this
assassination idea. The minds OF Wilkes Booth
aud his associate criminals were 40 imbued by
II that they could not resist the impulse to
murder even though the death OF the President
could only do harm to the cause they had es-
poused. Such was the fascination OF crime-if
we may use such term--over the weak minds
Of those who were governed by faction and
the inHammatory language of the factonsts
The proprietor OF the HERALD was denounced
In . similar manner In which Prcsi-
dent Lincoln was and President Johnson is, Tor
advocating q vigorous prosecution OF the war.
The North American Rcrie,c has stated in one
of its articles that the violent anti-war party
in 1862 talked OF taking his life. We read In
ancient history thai Erostratas, from similar
mania, fired the temple Of Diana at Ephesus
Numerous instances of . like character could
be quoted 10 show the dangers Of such vio-
lent and inscriptions party IS our radicals
show themselves to be.


The moral necessarily to be drawn from this
Is that the President and the friends who sur.
round him ought TO be careful TO avoid possible
danger on their journey from men who might
be stimulated to violence by the infiammatory
language Of the radical press and leaders.
Those who use that language may not
contemplate any criminal purpose themselves,
but II Is calculated TO operate upon weak
minds. Such gross and denunciatory language
never fails to nnd lodgment In the minds Of
g certain class Of weak people who make them
selves the instruments Of faction or political
fanaticism. without any premeditation or
concert on the part OF the leaders their words
NAV have the same effect In creating that sort