Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-26
ARp1TRARY ARRESTS.

the Mexican-killer. These arbitrary ar
rests, bastiles and loathsome dungeons are
a big thing for the CopperheadS. Inc
Alien and Sedition Laws OF old 'ohn
Adams administration were not deuce
high in the hands of his opponents coln-
pared with the tyranny of Lincoln IN the
hands of the Copperheads. For the iast
three years they have shrieked and sroaneo
over this horrible despotism, and nave
waited and longed for the hour when Ut
the ballot-box they might sweep away
and forever the last vestige Of the terrible
Abolition reign. The time came al last
and they assembled at Chicago to make
their nomination OF President whose
administration should be the embodiment
of those principles of perfect human I'D
er,y for which they had sighed and prayed
for wears, and a bitter rebuke to the
denominations of the past. There at that
conyocation of oppressed and outraged
patriots, was poured forth the Vials Oh
wrath, indignation and whitening condem-
nation, long corked up and wired down.
Tha, free speech" which, as they de-
clared, had been so long denied them, was
INDUCED in to an extent that fully COM
pensated for long years of forced silence.
Some of the eloquent sayings there uttered
have been published. They are various
in tone, and multifarious i'll epithet and
metaphor; but they all tend to one point,
and that point the tyranny of Lincoln
and the necessity of change from his
despotism to freer form of government.
Fastidious Union men designated most OF
their expressions treasonable-but let
that pass. They talked themselves hoarse,
and then sat them down to make plat
form. That platform we have all read.
1t is short, and has but two planks. One
is Remuneration of the Administration for
its tyranny" the other is submission
TO the rebellion and dissolution of the
Union. When it became necessary to Sc
lect candidate to represent this hatred oil
tyranny, this adherence of BastileS, this
horror of loathsome dungeons, who of all
men on earth did they nominate: Who
but George B. Mcclellan, some time CON-
mander-in-chief of the Army of the Poto-
mac: George B. Mcclellan, who, while
occupying that position, made, on his
own hook, an order for the arrest Of the
entire Legislature of the sovereign State
of Maryland; from which order we make
the following brief but forcible extract;
When they meet on the 18th, you will
please have everything prepared to arrest the
whole party, and be sure that none escape
lift is successfully carried out, it will &C
far towards breaking the backbone Of the re-
bellion. It will probably be well to have q
special train quietly prepared to take the
prisoners to Annapolis. leave this exceed
inyly important affair to your tact and dis
cretion-the absolute necessity Of secresy anC
success.
At the first glance, the man up tret
would consider the selection Of the man
who wrote that order as~the champion tc
overthrow the "despotism of which
they complain. rather inconsistent. One
would suppose that Bastiles, arbitrary ar
rests, and loathsome dungeons would be
distinctive feature of his reign. But it
appears that the supposition of the man in
the tree would be erroneous. Time:
change, and men change with Them and
the Copperheads at Chicago knew theii
man, and the changes that time had made
in the mans circumstances and the mans
sentiments. The changes of the form Of
the clay in the hands of the potter are
rapid and startling, but not more so than
those which have been developed in the
Hero of Chickahomy under the skillful
manipulations of the crafty traitors of the
North. Soft clay is that microscopic hero
and fearfully and wonderfully have they
moulded him; and now, from the IRON
handed despot that he was when he held
despotic power, he has become the> cham
pion and standard bearer of the very party
whom he used that power to Cypress.
Oh, consistency! thy name is not Copper.
head; neither is it George B. Mcclellan
BRooM-RANGERs.-The Broom Ranger;