Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-30
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ADDRESS,
To the Uuion Electora aud CAndi.
daien nf Storey G0untY.

Fellor- Citizens ;-0ne Of the most impor-
tant elections for the future of the Union
Party, is hard upon US. Heretofore its ma
iorities has been so great, that now Union
men are triAing with its strength. We are
divided and subdivided, Legion is now the
name Of the Union candidates. Our Union
Sampson has been sleeping upon the lap Of
the DelilAh of security, while the emissaries
Of disunion have bound him with cords, and
soon the cry will reach our ears, THE rebel
Philistines be upon thee, Sampson" There is
a consoling reflection, however, len TO us that
he has not as yet been shorn Of his locks
wherein his great strength lieth.
OUR True SITUATION.
Our Country, whose wise and benihcentrule
for nearly a century, has challenged both our
hope and admirati, n. and those of the OPP
pressed millions of the old world. This
Young giant with colossal proportions, his
head pillowed upon the ice bound lakes of the
north, his feet bathed in the tepid waters Of
the Mexican Gulf, with one hand holding
upon the Suns rising and the other upon its
setting, charged with the sacred mission of
demonstrating mans capacity for self.g1v
eminent; like the uplifted brazen serpent to
the bitten and poisoned Hebrew children in
the wilderness, becomes at once to the strug-
ling and eneRSizing spirit of democracy in the
despotie nations Of earth, both its healing
hope and model. Our dAr country, with all
the sacred associations and traditions of the
past, with all the hopes for ourselves and our
poSterity for the future, has now her throat
clutched by the fratricidal hand OF rebellion,
and is making superhuman exertions to pros
trate and subdue her determined enemy in
front and to successfully ward off the scant
blows of her subtle allies in the war. With
us, it is now, "Aut Carsar aut Nullus, every
or nothing. Our free country or despotism.
Division In the Union ranks is now treason
TO liberty and country.
THE UNION, Is THE PATRIOTIC PARTY.
The country is now divided into two par
ties. The friends Of the government and its
enemies. Those who would uphold it and
those who would destroy it. Between these
two there can be no loyal third party. Our
government can with propriety say, in the
language of one Of divine speech =" He that
is not for me is against me-" Unfortunately
for the safety Of our civil institutions in the
non-combatant States, the enemies of the
country are not all within rebellious Terri
tory. They lurk within our midst and came
hon-like assume the political coiors OF the
surrounding media. Like Breckenridge, the
arch-traitor, who remained in the United
States Senate to palsy the National arm, by
the syren-song Of peace discourage warike
action, and by pretended patriotic declama-
ton denounce as arbitrary and tyranical the
most praiseworthy action of the Federal Ex-
ecutiye and his advisers, while his confeder'
ates were in the field striking down with
murderous blows the brave defenders of our
country, they steal the livery Of patriots by
which they can the more successfully serve
the Confederacy and their trnitorous master,
Jefferson Davis.
In resisting armed rebellion, on the part oil
our Government, they see nothing but a
trampling upon the Constitution and pre-
meditated effort to crush out by brute force
the dearest and hottest blood-bOught rights OF
the citizens. but not one word against the
brute force and iron despotism of the Con-
federacy.
In Federal victories they can see no good
results, and deprecate war as barrier TO
peace, yet they chuckle over Federal reverses
and hope by Confederate successes TO capture
Washington, control the Government or die
tate such humiliating terms OF peace as they
may think proper. They are most loud
potic power on the part of Mr.. Lincoln that
incarcerates in National fortress the brawler
or publisher of that style of treason that dis
courayes enlistmeuts and brings the Govern
ment into public contempt, whose duty 1t is
to raise men, and the ready means to people
and support our armies, to crush out this up
rising, instigated BY American aristocrats for
the extension and perpetuation Of American
slavery. Yet they have no words Of denun'
citation or remonstrance with the Confedera.
cy, which imprisons and hangs old men and
women, young men and boys. editors and
ministers, who dare to express an admiration
for the old flag and the glorious Union II
symbols. ......-.
" Shall tongues be mute when deeds are wrought
That we'll might shame EXTREMIST hell
Shall freemep loek the indignant thought.
Shall mcrcy's bosom cease to swell;
Shall honor bleed, shall truth succumb;
Shall pen and press and soul be dumbi
No by each spot ofhaunted ground,
Where freedom weeps her children's fall;
BY Plymouths rocks by Bunker's mound
By Griswo.d's stained and shattered wall
BY Warreus ghost, by Longdon's shade;
By all the memories OF our dead;
By their enlarging SOUL that burst
The bands and letters round them set;
BY the free Pilgrims spirit nursed,
Within our inmost bosOms yet.
By all above, around, below,
Be ours the indignant answer, No :!
These subtle men are numerous among us
and as our arms become more and more vic.
torious, they graduate their speech and ad'
dress to harmonic with the advancing spirit
of the hour. Some Of those who, couple oil
years since, proudly appended their names tC
a most daringtreasonable address, and ethers
who deeply sympathized with its disloyal
sentiments, and which would at this day
secure them lodgings in public fortress,
have been placed by our Courts upon Grand
Juries, through whose influence some of the
wisest and most economical acts Though
perhaps not strictly legal) of some of our
county officers have been severely denounced
and through which our securities have be-
come comparatively worthless, and have
stricken down one Of our most honest,
efficient, capable and accommodating county
officials. Some of them have crept into our
Union political organizations, and have
secured positions upon what has been re-
garded as Union party, to name the men as
candidates for positions of honor, trust and
emolument, suitable for loyal citizens to vote
for at the approaching election. By every
species of art within their reach, they have
fostered division and Reorganization What
they have failed to accomplish openly, by
secret connivance they have secured through
the agency of misguided Union men.
They have encouraged Union men to bolt
from the Union organization. They have, in
their schemes for rebel triumph at the
polls, laid hold of the prejudices Of many ex-
cellent gentlemen against the system of pr.
mary elections. These they have denounced
as unsafe for the merchant, real estate hold
er, mill men, and taxpayers generally, and
only adopted to elevate political thieves and
stock brokers into office. They have, by a
system of indirection, through ideas Of re.
form, coupled with that Of leadership, won
over to their views honest, earnest and well
meaning Union men. Through the rallying
cry for peoples movement" with the
winning thoughts of retrenchment and re-
form for its motto, they have succeeded in
creating boiling party, leaped upon its plat
form, and by the strategy Of their Democratic
associates, are earnest in the hope that they
will reap rich harvest of secesh triumph
from the seeds OF discord so extensively
sown. In this connection / cannot resisl
the temptation to employ the graphic Ian
euage Of the greatest of dramatic poets: l
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