Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-19

OF our citizens, in weighing the pros and
} cons of the constitutional question, and
/ will govern them in their vote, is that of
taxation of the mines and political con-
Silcrations have no more to do with it
: than their various theological views. We
, have heard strong arguments adduced on
both sides of the question, and it has been
: Il vcxcd one in our mind from the begin
ming is to which side presented the strong
/ est 'front.', and which one was based on the
Soundest policy. The Bulletin ought to b.
willing to admit the fact for after having
fought it with tirrless and persistent en-
ersy for almost two months, it now takes
the other side and yields fully as timber
a quill in its favor. 1t makes at least as
good an argument in frvor of adopting
; the Constitution with its offensive mine
taxing clause as it did against the propo-
Sition to engraft that clause into the Con-
stitution. When, therefore, arguments so
I abundant exist in favor of the adoption of
the Constitution, and when the opposition
1 to the instrument takes a position and
avails itself of argument entirely de hors
political questions, these wholesale sweep
; ing charges of Copperheadism against
! such opposcrS is not only useless but pos
itirely unjust.
/ The paper which takes the most violent
~ abusive ground, in this peculiar style
of attack. is the Carson independent,
which, if it supposes itself to be doing
any great service to the Union party in
the course it pursueS, is, we conceive,
vastly mistaken. In its issue Of last
Thursday it continues in the same strain
in which it began some days since, and
dashes into the Irish population at a most
abu$iue rate. Speaking of the Address
recently circulated and published in
the several papers of this county, by the
opponents of the Constitution, the hide
pendent says:
upon gIancing over the names subscribed
TO this paper, we notice the remarkable fact
, that at least one-third of them have an I'M
mistakablc Irish twang. There are a good
. MANY Patricks, TerranccS, MichaelS, Mer-
phys, OConners, Burks, McGurks, O'Neils,
O'Briens, CaseyS. O'Tooles, O'COnnclS, Car
nigans, Craigs, McGinniSes, etc, ETC., scat
tered through the list. Now, they may all,
for aught we know, be excellent citizens
we do not question but that they are. And
they have a right-as much as any other
class of citizens-to sign this or any other
, sort Of document. But we do know-and the
public are just as well acquainted with the
fact as we are-that the large body Of our
Irish fellow-citizens are copperheads, and
vote the copperhead ticket"
Now, the fact of finding these Irish
names on the circular in question amounts
to nothing as an argument. We will VEN
ture to say that if the editor will hunt up
the register of any Know Nothing Wig
wan in the land, he will find an equal
proportion of Irish names upon the roll
of native American citizens who COM
! posed its members. But whether the ac-
tual signers of that paper are native or
naturalized citizens, matters not; their
rights are the same, and their opinions are
entitled to equal consideration. 1t is per-
haps true that a portion Of the Irish pop
ulation do, and ever have, atpolitical cleo
tons, cast their votes for the Democratic
ticket, and that from long custom and as
sociationS they have continued that polit-
ical connexion, to the sacrifice of patriotic
principle. 1t is also true, and we are not
going to write our name "!St"'t"s"
by denying the proposition that
the Copperhead leaders in the
Territory will endcayor by every
means to defeat the Constitution on ac-
count of the proper damnation Of all
rebels and .>bel sympa,hizcrs which that
instrument com.;as. That, however, is
a question which they ''re not raise in
the canvass; and so far the issue made
is on altogether another point, the sup
porters of the measure ought to leave the
"Copperhead" question and the use of
that epithet out of the discussion. These
Irish citizens are only small proportion
of the mining population. who honestly
believe that their rights and best interests
are being invaded by this taxation clause.
Let its advocates remove that impression,
now so firmly seated and daily strength
ened by argument, by using argument in
return, and the political predictions of
the people viii be found to have but little
influence upon their votes cast at the ap-
preaching election. The Independent in
the same article from which we have
quoted further says:
ain looking over the list, now before us,
Of the names Of these men, who call upon
the people Of Nevada to spurn Constitution
| and n State Government, upon the plea that
| they would be compelled to pay paltry tax
| each towards the support of Government,
we are impressed with the belief that where
| there is one good, true, uneompromising
Union man among them, there are at least
ten copperheads, acknowledgements, Peace
Democrats, or whatever you may choose to
| call that class which, in every loyal State, is
/ throwing obstacles in the way of the Admin
istration and of the vigorous prosecution of
| the war;"
We do not kaosc how extensive the ac-
quaintance of the Carson editor is in this
section. but we are firm in our belief that,
so far from possessing that intimate knowl-
edge of the people and sentiments of the
people of Storey county as his above
quoted remarks would seem to imply, the
editor would be sadly ssput to his trumns,'