Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-03
LOOK OUT FOR A CoPPERHEAD
TRICK.

Under this caption the Cgion Of this morn
ing has an article which demands the atten-
ton Of all Union men of Storey County. 1t
says:
We learn from authority. which we believe to
be excellent that it Is the intention % the Cop
psrheais in this county TO keep entirely quiet
until the day before the election. AMI then 20 pre-
sent ticket of candidates for delegates TO the
Constitutional Convention. with the hope Of elect
ing at least portion Of i by specIrs OF strategy
often successful in other localities. DissensiUn
among the Union men j. 10 be tnstered Is much
AS possible in the meantime nothing is to be said
or done publicly until after the | mon and Enter
Prise 20 20 press on Saturday night. and on sun
day afternoon ticket will be gotten mp, compo-
sed OF a few of the regular nominees, few indie
perden, candidates, and few Peace Democrats
This ticket will be variously labelled rs Regular
Caiou Ticket" Hard Currency Ticket, Anti
Cireenback Ticket etc. etc. and placed n the
hands of those who influence Democratic
votes The Copperhcad vote will be cast for IL
in a BODY and u is expected 10 obtain enough
votes from Union men to secure It's election
Some calculation i also made on the apathy of
the voters, and the supposed dissemination OF
Union men TO labor for the election of a ticket
whose success will seem 10 them fOregOne con
clusiou In view Of this plor-af whose existence
we have abundant proof-we trust that Union
men will reconcile their differences and show an
unbrOken front 10 the enemy u the polls. The
professed Union men who will permit the use OF
their names as candidates. when they are certain
10 aid the Copperheads and jeopardize the Union
ticket by so doing. should be, and will be, read
out Of the party ut once. Il would be u disgrace
IL one Copperhead should be sent 70 the Constitu-
tional Convention from this county, and no such
misfortune need happen II we act with ordinary
sagacity and industry
We have been, all along, suspicious that
the Copperheads were up to some sort Of
devilment, but have received no hints to di-
rect those suspicious towards any particular
line Of policy likely to be pursued by that
faction at the coming election. They were
tolerably thick about here at the last election,
but were not in sufficient numbers to
make any open show Of opposition in the
way Of separate ticket. The Constitu-
ton, as presented BY its trainers, was gall
and wormwood to the tory gang; and
they voted against it to man. They were
too crafty to base their opposition TO it upon
the real ground of its hostility to treason and
treason sympathizers. They, therefore, took
advantage OF the opposition which was raised
against it by Union men, whose antagon!sm
was based upon entirely different grounds.
There were great numbers Of men, loyal be-
yond question, who believed that it was not
for the best interests Of the people Of the
Territory TO change their present form of
government, and assume the increased ex-
pense Of State Government, with so sparse
a population and 50 limited an assessment
roll. Others opposed the Constitution be-
cause of the clause including mines among
the taxable property of the Territory, believ-
ing that construction might be put upon the
clause which would be too onerons to be
borne. These constituted the great proper
ton Of the tremendous majority bT which
the Constitution was defeated. \ third class
was composed OF those who, while belonging
to the Union party, were "left out in the
cold" by the nominating conventions. These
men and their friends, although favorable to
the proposition for 4 State Government, and
approving the Constitution itself, were OPP
posed to the creation Of State which they
and their friends could not be allowed to con-
troll at the outset. These three classes Of
citizens formed 4 party of such strength,
when united, that they could easily have de-
feated the Constitution without any assist
ance from the COpperheads; and they, be-
sides, furnished pretexts enough for that
wretched crew to join the opposition, with
out showing the eleven foot Of their disloy-
alty. By this combination Of the factions,
whose reasons for opposition were so dissimi-
lar, the Constitution went to the wall. That
contest was decided nearly four months ago;
and since that time the "snaik" faction have
fairly swarmed into this Territory. On each
warm forenoon, they writhe in and out among
each other in Shiny mass along the whole OF
the sunny side of street. The student
of political zoology, can there suit himself
with a snake to his fancy. They are there
to be seen, of every age, and of every hue OF
copper, from those of bran new tea-kettle,
down through the emerald verdigris to dark
and rusty corrosion. Dead and damned po-
itically in their old California stamping
ground, they have erawled over the Sierras
to sun themselves on its eastern slope
They have not, however, lost all that crafty
political shrewdness which once made them
mighty men in the land. They are, more
over, most of them dead broke. A weary
term of years out Of Office, has made the
grass mighty short, and things are getting.
desperate. They mast have Office or they
are gone in. The approaching Constitutional
Convention opens the only door, visible for
them TO obtain a seat in the councils and a
finger in the pie of government. Under such
circumstances, it is natural to expect that
they should make desperate struggle. That
they will endeayor to do so is beyond doubt
Their plan of operations is Swallowed forth
in the article we have quoted from our CO.
temporary. Let Union men be on their