Year: 1866

I'm and Out oil ConSrcSs..Ine northern


Uprising.


The war betweel President johnson and
the national legislature has apparently come
10 n stand stlll-looking very much as
though a truce had been declared. Wewis!.
we could safely assume this to be the case,
but under all this unnatural quietudc we
can plainly discern the elements which. if
they were not held in subjection, would un.
doubtedly lead to a repetition of the terrible
calamity which befel the country toward the
cIose IF Bnchanan's administration. In
Washington, the friends and enemies Of the
Union meet as on neutral ground, and de-
testatiom of the Government and friendship
for and reliance upon Andrew johnson are
openly expressed in the same breath. Hap.
PLY Tor the nation. the schemes of the fac
tious minority headed by the President have
been met and defeated ut every step, and the
prevailing quiescence, instead of indicating
encouragement on the part of the agitators,
merely shows that they are secretly concoct-
ing fresh series of measures for the over.
throw OF our domestic institutions The
reasonable presses, after brief respite,
have resumed their diatribes against the
Union but they gable too much, and in
the course of their arguments unwittingly ex-
pose the plans of the authors of the viest
conspiracy that has ever been hatched for
the subjugation Of republican institutions
The treason of the South was hideous evil.
but it was confined to the South. and after
the ordinances of secession had been declar-
ed there was no hypocrisy or deceit in con.
nection with the proceedings of the Cnnfed-
crates. their conduct being open and above.
board, and their expression of determina.
tion to destroy the Union unhesitatingly
declared. Such course relieves Congress
of n great burthen of perplexity, for by it
We know who are our enemies and what their
purposes, and are enabled to take measures
to counteract them.


This party calling itself National. ostensi-
bly, represented in the person of Mr.. John
son, but in reality controlled and " worked
by Val iigham-whom we make bold
to rechristen the Jefferson Davis of the
North-relies upon a revulsion in Northern
sentiment upon which it hopes to be able to
ride into power. and is ready to apply force
in case there should be prospect of its be.
ing defeated at the ballot box an institu-
tion which appears to have lost all its charms
for the malcontents since it became apparent
that they could no longer manipulate it to
suit their own predictions. The columns
of that choice bouquet of incendiary and se-
ditious sentiments, the Richmond Examiner.
are now habitually referred to for some evil
dence throwing light upon the proceedings of
the Northern Confederates, and the reference
is rarely unsatisfactory. In recent num-
ber we find the following specimen. in an
editorial discussing the 14th amendment to
the Constitution, which it characterizes os


6 An insult to the South and to the under
standing of every rational and patriotic man.
Still the measure passed the Senate by a
lnrge vote. Men like Mr.. Morgan of New
York, from whom better things might have
been hoped, voted for it. 1t will probably
pass the House by large vote. but we have
no fears that three fourths of the States can
be got to approve it. Before half the num-
ber are secured we hope to see the Radicals
hurled Fl ON power by a popular uprising in
the M tr.hern States"


Any one who doubts that this uprising is
still contemplated and that Andrew John
son still hopes to be able to march into the
halls of Congress at the head of an armed
soldierly as Oliver Cromwell did, and dis
persc the assembled members at a nod. must
be willfully blind to what is passing around
him. Inspired by such renegades as the
aforesaid VaIlandigham. they relied implic.
lilly upon Northern traitors to rise against
the hosts of truth and justice. and in their
calculations the assistance which might pos
siblv be derived from the Fenians figured
conspicuously. Even that hope. frail as it
was. is annihilated, and there is not Fe-
nian this day that does not breathe the ut
most animosity for Andrew johnson for his
interference to prevent the attempted inva.
sion of Canada The war of rebellion has
l,aon a,,lv 1.
seemed almost superhuman. and at an enor-
nous cost of blood and treasure, and it is
not very likely that the victors are going to
fall back upon their laurels and allow a
sympathlzing crew who slunk away and hid
themselves when the battle ragged most fierce
ly, to usurp the manifold fruits of their toll
and exertinn. Congress has vet a great deal
of work before it ere it may safely assume
that the crisis is past To that erd it is ear
nestly laboring to establish in permanence
for the thoroughly loyal people, a policy
which they will unanimously accept and as
unanimously support. This alone can give
safety to still divided and distracted peo
pie. The unconditional Union sentiment OF
the country having been thus far successful
in its determination that the leaders of the
conspiracy at the South, the men who have
trampled upon the sacred emblem of our
nationally, shall hereafter take no part in
the control Of the public affairs, enough may
now be gathered to render it certain that the
revolutionary classes North as well as South
even with the President TO aid them. will be
unable to place the Government in the hands
of traitors and sympathizers with treason
This 8 Northern uprising" was the last hope
of the foiled and vanquished Secessionsts
They had exhausted every other resource,
and fondly trusted that in the Democratic
party of the North they would find the aid
necessary to the accomplishment of their in
fernal schemes. But they reckoned without
their host. The Union sentiment Of the ma
ton is rs consolidated and reliable to-day as
when our patriot soldiers rallied round the
standard mt the summons of our second
Washington. Let any covert traitor take
but step to inaugurate second edition of
the rebellion and his doom is sealed, and that
of his party as well.


COMING DowN-There is such thing as
coming down handsomely. AT the Virginia
University Commencement General Fitzhugh
Leo was asked to say something, when he
said this: