Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-16
Work for the Hour.


from the New York Tribune. We COM
mend it to the careful pcrlsal Of otr read
ers. The suggestions are quite as impor1
tant to US as to our Eastern brethren.
Give the people thorough political cdu-
cation, and the days Of Coppcrhcad trick.
sters are numbereds
Take the whole country together, OF
our own State as sample Of it, inquire
from township to township, from neigh,
borhood to ncighborhood, and this general
proposition holds good, that two-thirds Of
those who take their politics from rcgu>
larly reading one or more newspapers,
vote on the right side, while those who
pick up what little they know of public
affairs in bar-rooms and kindred haults
of sensuality, vote the other way. Scru<
tinize closely almost any township whicii
is pretty equally divided in politics, and
you will perceive the same general truth
that two-thirds of the votes who regu-
larly take and read newspaper, vote
with the Unionists, while two.thirds OF
the households wherein no newspaper Is
taken, give their votes to the sham De-
mocracv. The young men who are es-
tcemcd studious, widely informed, extcn-
sive and habitual readers, are mainly on
the right side; while those who read little
or nothing, and the little mainly in grog-
shops, are usually Copperheads. .
If it were part of the common law OF
this country that at least one newspaper
should be taken in every family, or at
least as uniformly as the children are sent
to school, it would not be possible to elect
Vullandigham or Horatio Seymour 10
great public trust. Such men in office
are the toadstools that spring from soil
rank with popular ignorance and vice.
Just as the Rebellion could not have been
possible had the Southern masses been
educated and accustomed to read, so it
would be found so damaging and futile as
to be in effect impossible TO maintain the
position which the Democratic party now
holds with regard to slavery and the war
for the Union were the people universally
well informed with regard to public
affairs.
We are just opening the most momen-
tous year OF our country's history. With
in that year it is highly probable that the
shareholders rebellion will somehow. col
lapse and the authority Of the Federal
Government over the revolted States be
practically rcasscrtcd. Within that year
we shall decide whether slavery shall or
shall not survive the more immediate ar
rest of the deadly, parricidal blow it
aimed at the hear. Of the Republic. With
in that wear President will be chosen for
four ensuing years, who must love and
cherish suprcmcly either liberty or slave
ry-who will be the generous, admnlnS
compatriot, or al heart the foe Of those
who have so nobly opposed their breasts
to the shock of rebel assault on our Union
who will utterly abhor or dexterously
play with the idea of Reputation of our
ma ional debt-who will, i'll short, con-
tinuc and complete the work Of national
salvation from slaveholding treason, or
become the tool and plaything of the con-
spirators by whom the ruin of this Re-
public was plotted and ali but accom-
plishcd.
The work of preparation for the event
full canvass of 1864 properly commences
now. Throughout the ensuing three
months, the industrious classes have Gorc
leisure than at other seasons. Now is
the time to form or to inyigorate habits OF
reading with reference to public affairs.
Now is the time to persuade every farmer,
mechanic, teamstcr, or day-laborcr to
take at least one good newspaper, and
make himself better acquainted with the
daily progress of public affairs. Now, Is
the time to sow broadcast the seeds which
shall ripln for the harvest of next Novcm-
Der.
"AGadame," said John Randolph to
lady deeply interested in the struggles and
sutfering> of the Greeks, then breaking
their Turkish chains, "The Greeks are at
your door - So you say to every pa
triot, your work lies directly before you!
Let a concerted effort be made to place
at least one good newspaper, for the
ensuing year, in every household in the
loyal States where it will be welcomed
and read. Perhaps half of those who
now do without do so from mere heed
lessness-they only need to have their at
Ien.lOu CiIlCtl 10 tllc SupIeCls Nlulll IuOlC
will pay the trihe that cheap weekly
costs if each is solicited to do so by Il
friend in whom be has confidence. And
if there be any who can't pay for such IA
paper, they ought to be supplied by their
more fortunate ncighbors and townsmcn
without charge. Yes, even though it be
widows finmily of boys who are not to
vote thc,e eight years, they should be
supplied, with view 10 their qualiiica-
ton for the wcighty trust Of electors at
that distant day.
Unionists of every State, county, city,
township, and ncighborhood we entreat
your immediate and cooperative action
with view to supplying every family
now destitute with some good public
journal for the ensuing year, Get every
one to subscribe and pay who can be per-
suaded to do so; but if there be Others,
have them supplied somehow. Let not
thc year 1864 open upon you with this
duty still in allegiance. Let county and
township organizations aid the work so
far as possible; but let not the New year
dawn upon us till. all over the loyal
States, every family that can be persuaded
to take and read one is provided with
some good Union journal for the whole of
the year
SOME gentleman proposes subscrip-
ton of two thousand dollars, in sums of
ono dollar fnr n filud to nav 81 600 for