Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-07
The Armed Conspiracy in the wcsr.

The Order Of the Sons Of Liberty What
of it, Iudeed what Of it, to people as ac-
custoned to every form Of secret association,
that the vanity Of office-holding, the love OF
mystery, the cowardice Of discontented poll
tics, the organization Of henevolence upon
plans supposed to derive strength from the
dark, and to be made attractive through
the shelter Of the invisible? The Sons Of
Liberty chaps in Starched, white cotton
morse collars; in blue, and red, and yellow
oaper-muslin aprons, pleasantly depicted with
Skulls and bones, With the inevitable square
of the carpenter, the unavoidable cnmpass,
and the eternal symbol Of the line and plum
met-chi!dren of larger growth-you don't
propose to disturb their play, do you? Play!
Vallandizham play, eh? The political franz
ers Of the Chicago platform play, eh The
Democratic leaders in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio,
Delaware. Missouri, New York, Kentucky,
Pennsylvania, Maryland-they play with pa
per muslin and starched cotton Oh you
Americans who have no conception Of the
comnlete openness of Republican Gcven-
meut 10 conspiracy and violence, because
Won never see the force by which it coheres
and is maintained, how little thought have
YOU that under cover Of an association seem
inoly no more hostile, 20 more unlawful,
than was the dark-lantern fraternity OF the
Know. Nothings, the reDels at Richmond
have conspired with the rebels III the west
and the North, to seize the arsenais IN ONO,
Indiana. Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky,
10 lberate and arm the rebel prisoners, TO
throw those States open 10 invasion ana occu-
pancy by rebel armies, to hand them over
,n,nscled and helpless to the South, and OF
n,raIvze the Federal Government and the
IoyaIiv NJ the nation, by sudden and over
u6eIminu iank attack upon the region whence
we draw our food entirely, and largely re-
,rn;t oar brirades! This parricidal crime
was m. business Of the Sons n Liberty.
element T.. Yallandigharn, the guiding spirit
NJ th. Chicago Convention, and the man who
seconded the nomination OF Mcclellan, IL the
Commander-in-C Chief Of the order, ana the
Goyenmrnt, conscious Of Its strength IN the
affections and cournge OF the people permits
him 10 90 at large, and make spesehes urging
NcCielfan's election to the fresioency;
:. Suppression Of the liberty OF speech
Why, there is not such spectacle IN tne
history Of politics or ssatesmensniP as 1he
freedom OF this traitor IN TINS moh'h VI oc'
toher. OH the soil of ONO,
'ogsi, a. ,bs sworn testimony evoked in open
,onr, as 10 the bloody purposes of this gi-
80, trooson, arming in the dark through
s s ~. west, and working, with passwords
Out ous .u;ns -. nm to the nations throat. Read
auu sp5 b tben reflect that the man whose fin:
~, moves this conspiracy, and whose final
" 80. y.s N hurst it upon his country, is the
U,%" Ur;n,. minister to McClellans political for
p-an5 then he is at this moment stump
;ua. ;ua western State in behalf of McCiellan's
election. o,r .sn,s NJ the
.-;",;n.Iity of this ark-lantern conspiracy
Sr .ha .bocked sense Of the audacious trea-
,O .on Of of the villain who leads it, and Of hi,
sar .ou " emitted @ praised and carressed sup,
opt, t ~ Z candidate for the Presidency Of the
REni,e5 states, we can find no words. The
s.,;o,, o that votes for Vallandigham's candi'
Az. as is a nation that has already perished.-
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