Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-30
The nemocrafic PnrfY.

What is there left of what was once, the
proud Democratic partyi Nothing but
the name. Welded to slavery It rsdncca
its platform to one principle, and that un-
equivocal and deter mined support Of nc
gro bondage, as something holier and bet
ter than Anything else m this world. Ono
by one its old and honCrcd principles were
abandoned BY the leaders, ii 5rder that
the whole power and influence 81 the pif't
might be concentrated upon this single
idea. The men WHO thus dcbnuched tfat
once great party played for vg,t stake:
the naturalization of the "Pecu'sl ihS,i-
tution'-but they lost, and the result fss
been the total destruction of the parif
amid the waves of treason, and secession
which have swept over the land. Mn
may still cling to their idea Is ther viii
may boast Of their 4" Democracy -5ut
that party is dead, stone dead and rofcr
long ago. The true sentiment OF De
mocncv was long since strangled ~
Southern o,igarchs; who substituted in IT.
place the dark brat Of their adop'iol';;
christening it by Tie hondred tiarue which
they stole from the peoples fayorite: All
who saw the murder and bccdme con-.
4inced Of the cheat washed their hands OF
completely by leaving the party and array
ing themselves among is accusers. But
those who were too blind to see, or seeing;
TOO fanatical or corrupt to change, still
cling to the empty shadow: We know
what this Democratic party once wits 1t
symbolized everything that would pro;
mote the welfare and happiness of the
people, and hence the masses Sa.Hefcd and
clung with tcnacity to its standard. But
what docs it mean now: : 1t means Slarery
an institution accurscd Of God and man,
as Robt. ]. Walker says-firSt, hast End all
the time it means that dcformed and>
brutal sectfonalism is higher and holier
than patriotism; it means that the "in,ti-
tuition" is more worth preserving than
Union and liberty: Tie very frtea Of the
Democratic party being a pro-slavery;
party is one Of ttie strangcst absurdities OF
this day and generation, for true dcmocra-
cy is the very essence of freedom. But 1t
takes no great effort to prove the bastardy
Of this Coppcrhead party, which has stolen
the good naase Of Democracy. 1t should
be Judged by its own practices, and mt
iority of the American people have so
Judged and set their seal of condemnation
upon it forever; Prejudice against the
negro is tic staple commodity that it uses
to secure adherents to its infamous cause;
prejudice of race and color, the lowest,
most unrcasoning and unworthy argu-
mcnt of diseased and dcbascd minds.
But arguments Of this character are now
futile with Intelligent minds. Ii is plainly
seer that it is rot the StGtHS cf. the negro
which is at stake in the mighty throcs
through which the American Union Is.
passing, but the future of the millions of
our own race who seek security III "lifc,
liberty and the pursuit tf happifess." :"
Those rilhons are not willing to sirrcn-
der the shaping Of their destiny into the
hands cf a few Thousand ariStocratic slave
owners, or their aespicablc Northern
tools. The peculiar Democracy of the
South has been rcpudiated Mt, the polls;
and as it has rebelled against the popular
verdict, it must needs be whipped in'o
subsection on the battle field. If there is
real, live Democratic party in the coun-
try, it is composed of those who stand By
the Union of their fathers who sustain
the laws and the regularly constituted
authorities of the Nation, and who believe
that the preservation and defense of these.
is moro valuable than :.e perpetufttion or
slavery.-Sierra Democrat: