Lewistown Gazette

Our Country in Danger.
The new and unheard of doctrines recently enunciated by Andrew Johnson that Congress is an illegal body and constituting himself sole judge of the fruits produced by rebellion, is naturally creating a dread of the future, and unless the loyal men of the Union, whether republicans or democrats, will again speak in unmistakable language, the Southern rebels may speedily achieve that separation of the Union which they failed to acquire by war—for it cannot be disguised that if the infamous doctrines now openly sanctioned by so many once prevail, there is an end in this country to all written law. The President told the people on his late tour that he submitted his acts to them. They have spoken, and if overwhelming majorities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, are worth anything, they point out to him that the people desire the Constitutional Amendments submitted by Congress to be the basis of settlement between the Rebel and Loyal States. If he submits to this expressed will, as he ought to, we say let there be peace for what is past; but if he does not, and assumes to play the Dictator, as some of his tools allege he will, the sooner the power of that Constitution he has prated so much about is brought to bear on him, the better.
Every copperhead speaker in the State asserted before the election that the Civil Rights Bill conferred suffrage on negroes, while the republicans alleged it did no such thing. Did anybody see a nigger vote? If they did, we'll bet a hat the cops voted him, and that a cop board took the vote.