Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-07
The Chicago Nominations.

The Californian, the best literary journal
on the Pacific Coast, thus discourses Of the
Chicago nominations:
The Democratic Convention at Chicago
has resulted. as was predicted it would from
the FIRST, in the nomination Of Gen. McClel-
Ian for the Presidency. George H. Prndle
ton, of Ohio, was nominated as Vice PreSi-
dent, but this office is one which is not taken
much into account in making up the book.
1t is on the head Of the ticket that the fight
is TO be made, and with it the battle will turn.
The platform on which Gen. McClellan's feet
are placed is called peace platform, but to
our thinking there is not plank nor the
piece OF a plank in it that can float the candi-
date any nearer the White House than he
WAS when he stood on the Virginia Peninsula.
1t will be hard to persuade the people Of the
North "that the war has lasted long enough"
simply because every tick Of the telegraph
and every whisper that comes from the battle
tields tells them it has not. The war was not
Inaugur Ited for Il summer-day's sport; 1t was
undertaken for a serious purpose. When
that purpose is accomplished it will have
lasted long enough; until it be, its existence
has been Of too brief duration though it had
begun in the year 1870 and this we're the
close of the century. There is something
more than mere struggle for supremacy III
arms involved in this present contest; the
vindication OF a principle is aimed at. The
world has always questioned whether re-
publican form Of government possessed in
itself the elements Of that cohesive power
necessary to make government lasting. 1t
was claimed that government based on the
voice Of the people would tutter and fall when
that people became d!suuited in their coun-
sells; that republican government Is thread
of silk which can be cut at pleasure by dis
satisfied minority, while monarchial rule is Il
band of iron, so far as national unity is con-
cerued-a chain which individuals cannot
shake off at pleasure.
Our yeoinen exchanged their plough-shares
for swords to teach the world useful lesson
to make it plain to Hapsburg, Braganz,
and Guelph that a Presidents chair stands
IN a foundation as firm as kings throne !;
to show TO nations that ruler whom them
selves elect Is hedged by as much divinity
md clothed with as much right to govern Is
could be possessed by the descendant of any
man upon whose head their remote ancestry
chose to place a crown; to show the world,
in short, that compact entered into by the
people Of nation establishing form of
government is as binding as any traditional
tenets OF allegiance that can be handed down
from the dusty shelves Of antiquity. When
this truth is fairly established the Democratic
proposition that " this war has lasted long
enough" can be accepted, but until then ali
appeals to the people based upon it must fall
on unheeding ears. This is not the time to
confess that all the blood and treasure poured
nut so lavishly in yindication of great prin
ciple has been split in vain, and propositions
of peace, if any are to be made, must come
from those who first loosed the red thunder
bolts of war.
A better nomination than the Chicago
Convention has made that Convention could
| not pussibly have effected. Gen. Mcclellan
stands well with his party, for the simple
reason that they know very little abuu, him
politically. He is an excellent exponent and
representative Of the Pence policy, because
| even when at the head of one of the finest
armies the world ever saw he did not make
the war. He evidently thought that from
the first moment Of being appointed to COIN
mand, that "this war has lasted long
enough :" he was moderate at Manassas,
peaccable on the Peninsula, courteous at
| Centerville, not especially active at Antie-
tam. That he will display much more force
in the coming political campaign than he did
| in his past military ones, we do not imagine
or believe. Before it is half over he will pro-
badly conclude that the thing has lasted long
enough. His chances for election can be
summed up in the compass of cipher, for
even where he competent to the Presidency,
he is the exponent of doctrine which the
nation will not listen to. There is mourn
ing in nearly every home in the land, and it
will be hard to persuade our people that their
hearthstones have been made desolate in
vain, and that it is right now to adopt pol
| icy which the unanimous national voice re-
jected in the beginning. 1t will be found
hard to persuade even those who are loud
est in an.icipa;ions Of McClellan's election
to oack him with their betting books, though
the long odds are laid against him. There is
money in the market looking for Investment,
and better one than FIVE to three on the de-
feat Of the Peace Psrty's ticket could not be
asked for.