Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-14
An Example and Lesson,

Vermont was in no hurry to come into the
Union; she is in no hurry TO let any Of the
States 90 out of it. She has ever proved true
to the Union, the Constitution, and the laws.
In the Revolution she was true to the right;
she is right in the times Of the present
Rebellion. She has furnished her full
quota Of soldiers for our armies, and nine
teen-tuentieths Of them were undoubtedly
supporters Of the war and the Admins
tration. Her people have felt the burthens
of taxation, her sons have fallen on the bat
tle-held, died in hospital, have been buried
in unknown graves, or come back to their
homes sick, and wounded, and crippled, and
there is scarce a family which does not
mourn for some martyr to the Rebellion,
scarce a house whose door knob has not
been yelled with the solemn Grape. Yet
how have the people Of Vermont answered
politically at the State election which has
recently transpireds 1t was held on Tues
day last, the very next day after (by procla-
nation Of the Presidency the DRAFT was TO
be enforced to fill up the quota Of five
hundred thousand men called for. That
proclamation was demand from the Ad-
ministration upon the people Of Vermont
for something like eight thousand more Of
her sons, to endure all the fatigues and de-
privations of march and camp, all the risks
Of disease and battle. But nevertheless, the
voters of Vermont walked up to the ballot
boxes and voted sQuarely for the Union
Administration candidates, giving larger
majority than before, re-electing their MEM
beers of Congress by overwhelming MAORI
ties, electing none but Union men TO the State
Senate, and not over twenty Democratic
Representatives out Of two hundred and
thirty-nine members. If Vermont, partak-
ing with her sister States fully Of all the
i - a. fha
mistakes, if any, of the Administration, as
keenly as any, thus answers to the call Of
the Copperheads to divide the Northern
strength and defeat Mr.. Lincoln, in order
TO aid the South in its dying struggles for
independence and slavery-for that is sim
ply the spirit Of the Copperheads calling
themselves democrats" and the object
that most Of them desire, next to Office
what should be the reply Of the voters OF
California who love the Government and de-
sire the restoration of the Union !: None Of
the evils Of the war, except taxation, have
fallen upon them. They have no dread OF
the draft, and there is not one reason why
any man really Union at heart should vote
against Mr.. Lincoln. The choice Is between
him who will never agree to division of the
Union, and the candidate of a party who de-
clare for peace and are determined to have 1t
upon any terms. Will not the voters Of this
State follow the example of Vermont and
give still greater majority than heretofore,
for the party that believes in the perpetuity
of our institutions, the Union Of the States
and the unity of therace The CopPerheads
men professedly Unionists have made
common cause with the Seeessionists, and
are fighting as determinedly, through press
and speech, for the Confederate cause, as are
the soldiers Of Lee or Hood. What Union
man can make his bed in such company =
Cal.