Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-18
TOMORROW.

speakers stand, and on the streets among
all classes of the people of the Territory,
is TO be settled definitely tomorrow.
| wranglins, arguments, contentious, spec
ulations and recriminations will have per-
formed their work and come to an end.
The discrimination at which each citizen
shall have arrived, viii be sealed beyond
recall by the decisive deposit of his vote
at the ballot-box. The decision thus to
be made Is one of far greater solemnity
and importance than seems to be attached
to it by the mass of the community. The
course pursued by the leaders of the OPP
position from the day of the Union Con-
vention of Storey county, is such as to
give malignant and vindictive character
to the discussion of the question. The
personal character and motives of men
have been put in issue; and amid these
vituperations and recriminatons; these
accusations and defenses, the people have
intcrmingled and have taken part to an
extent that has almost driven out of sight
and thought the real question and issue to
be decihed. 1t is no: as to whether one
certain coterie of politicians are wiser or
better than another class; whether this
Judge has been corrupt, or that lawyer
has " stocked eonvention;" not whether
this editor has been bribed, or that aspi-
| rant was cheated of his nomination, that
the people are called upon to decide by
their votes tomorrow. The question IS,
| whether another State shall be added to
the Federal Union, and the right arm of
the nation nerved and strengthened by
the presence, voice and vote of three more
loyal representatives of sovereign people.
1t is whether the thousands of freemen
inhabiting this Territory of Nevada sha i
remain as foreigners, tongue-ded and
mute at time when every true Ameri-
cans voice should be heard, or whether
We shall burst these letters and stand
forth in our rightful character as a part
and portion of the people of these United
States Is there a man among US that
feels that the change of his residence from
one side to another of an imaginary
boundary line, has rightfully and justly
changed his status from that of citizen to
that of subjects Right or wrong, such
was the effect Of that migration. From
the condition of freemen and citizens, with
a voice to be heard, and an influence to
be felt in the councils of the nation, We,
under the laws of the United States,
passed into the position of colonists, and
transferred the custody of our thoughts,
and the adjudication of our rights into
the hands of Government, in the affairs
of which we have no more voice than the
felon in his prison. or the dead in the
tomb. The Chinese wood-cutter and the
jackass that packs his burden are the
political equals Of the citizens of the
Territory of Nevsds so far as re-
CARDS voice or vote in matters of
national policy. These political letters
were voluntarily assumed by this people ;
but the power to shake off the shackles
was and is extended by the General
Government whenever the people shall
see fit to exercise their prerogatiye. 1t is
a condition of things ursuited to the dis
position of freemen, and when the propo-
sition, untrammeled by petty personal
piques and ambitions, was submitted to
the people, they voted with an almost
unanimous voice to assume the position
to which they had been born and reared
and accustomed. There has at the eleventh
hour arisen among US faction, who ask
the people to reconsider the determination
expressed so emphatically but a few
] months since. 1t is asked of this people
that they waive those rights and privi-
leses which they have been taught from
their infancy to esteem as the proudesi
and highest boon of civilized man, the
right "to choose their own rulers and
make their own laws" And these men
give the people REASONS J" They set
PRICE upon citizenship they tell the
people that to become citizens of Sover-
eign State viii COST THEM SOMETHING
And they soy to them, Remain in youl
present condition Of political serfdom,
waive the paltry right to speak, and ACT
and think concerning the affairs of your
country, and at the end of the year you
will have saved from THREE to FIVE DOL
LARS PER NASi!!" To this damnable,
soul-shaming, wretehed cry has the ear
gument' Of the opponents of the Consh-
tuition narrowed itself, and even that fact
they utterly fail to establish by any
method of reasoning or calculation. We
are not assuming to teach the people.
That which We state requires no geat
amount of learning or research to ascer-
tain. The facts stare every man in the
face who can read; every man who has
eyes to see and ears to hear, and ordinary
endowment of common sense to enable
him to reason upon that which he sees
and hears. We merely seek to arouse the
people to a sense of the importance of the
question that to-morow's vote viii de-
eide; and to urge them, forgetting and
'discarding every petty, paltry, personal
| issue, to do and perform the duty that is