Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-20
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Everybody who knows Forbes Of the
Humboldt Register, o: who knows any
thing about him, knows that he is one Of
those old hard-shell Democrats in whose
eye, in days of peace, all other political
creeds were rank heresy. His democracy
is as firm as ever, and there is no article
of the democratic faith to which he does
not subscribe with the same earnesmess
as ever. The man who would impugn
Forbes democracy would touch him in q
tender spot. We wish that every Demo-
crat in the Territory who thinks that
Comprehension is Democracy, could read
an article in the last number of the Regis
ter, entitled Freedom Of Opinion" We
have no doubt that there are. to-day, en-
rolled in the ranks of the Copperheads
land who will on next Saturday night
carry BROOM men who are really pat
riotic at heart: but who have, allowed
themselves to be cheated, and have cheat
ed themselves into the opinion, that by
voting the. Copperhead ticket they are re-
naming true to the time-honored prin-
ciples of Democracy, and are serving the
best interests of the country. They have
looked upon one face of the Chicago Janus,
and they read there in Peace on the
basis of restored Union" Feelings and
predictions warp the Judgment OF the
wisest and best OF men, and looking
through the medium of their old demo-
cratic predictions, they see, with the eye
of hope, consummation, which an I'M
clouded vision would show them was
chimerical and impossible. We have
talked with suchRnd left them in wonder.
This democrat" appears to be mono
mania with some men, and we wonder
sometimes whether the final catastrophe
which the Union men are trying to avert,
would awake them from their fearful de-
fusion. 1t is not expected that in throw
ing the weight of their votes and influence
in support of the nation in this dark hour,
Democrats are TO forego their fixed, con-
scientious, lifelong principles upon those
questions of governmental policy which
once constituted the distinction between
the democratic and other parties. Neither
IS it required nor is it necessary that they
should give complete assent and endorse
ment to each and every act Of the Admin
istration and measure of the party in
power. 1t is upon this point that the old
democratic Forbes speaks in his article,
He says: 81. .-.- .. $50 Co..
Suppose we do not like Lincoln; never
voted for him; would not hive nominated
him at Baltimore, If we could have made the
choice but, being for the war, as the only
honorable, proper, and even as the only DOS
sible mode of settling our national troubles.
we support him, and contenn the bogus war
candidate on the treacherous peace platform,
We know many who are similarly situated.
We regret our want Of space to publish
the entire article; but the above brief ex-
tract is sufficient to show its drift, and
contains within itself sufficient food tor
reflection for those Democrats who think
that the Union ticket is treason to Demo-
crazy, and thar they with hearts beating
for the Union and hoping for /" Peace on
the basis of restored Union can con-
sistently walk side by side. next Saturday
night. withNehe avowed friends Of JEFF,
Davis, shouting for. Mcclellan and ---l
carrying BROOM - '''-.'7 ''''.. "a. a.,