Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-29
SPEECH OF Gov. NYE.
Delivered before the second Ward
Union Club Of Virginia, Tuesday
EHeninR. Semi. 9th, SCI.


What means their nightly meetings and
their daily working for the Union cause?
will tell you: it means victory! 1t is written
by the finger Of Time, and it is recorded by
T the Recording Angel that the Union party
shall be successful in the coming election,
and over the rebellion. congratulate
you, gentlemen, that our General Sheridan is
doing so much in Virginia towards winning
this joint victory. He is a much better Peace
Commissioner than any that our Democratic
friends could send. He is obtaining peace
the only legitimate 'way-the best way-and
the only practicable way. The peace he OBJ
tains will be lasting one, and the only way
| to obtain sure and lasting one is to conquer
| it, as he is doing. A gentleman from this
city, Governor Beebe, believe, he calls him
| self, came all the way to Carson the other
night, as he said, to annihilate speech had
made-a great effort to accomplish small
effect, think. He there said the Demo-
! cratic party stood between the Constitution
| and the people like the Assyrian hosts. l
think the illustration an apt one, for II you
recollect, when they arose in the morning,
behold they were all dead men ! have
| seen more than half of the presidential cam
| paigns Of this nation, but l have never seen
one where the duty Of the Union men was
called into such important action as al the
| present time. The exigencies OF the times
demand thoughtful elaboration and earnest
F, inquiry as to how they can best serve their
| country in this her hour OF need. When TINS
| rebellion first broke out the voice OF party
was hushed all oversthe land, and men OF all
parties Joined together TO tender their SER
vices to sustain the government and the honor
of the old flag. The loyal masses say it
should be so now, but some faint-hearted
| people have ceased to oct; while others, more
| ambitious, have thrown the ire-brand of party
issues into the midst OF the people. But,
gentlemen, they tell us that to have peace we
must have u Democratic reign. Mr.. McCon-
| nell attempted to- tell me'the other night what
| was Democrat, but beg to differ with the
gentleman. Ny mother taught me in my
! childhood days that Democracy consisted IN
| fighting the battles OF the oppressed whenever
| the occasion was rresented. Twas taughtby
! her that he was the best Democrat who yield
| ed the most support to the Government.
| Thomas Jefferson taught this, and General
Jackson. illustrated it by his ACTIONS. Not
| all that profess to be Democrats are such,
| for the Scripture saith, " Not every one that
crieth unto me, Lord! Lord but he that
knoweth my will and doeth it shall enter the
| kingdom" I said, when the rebellion
Il
the government. They. offered them
! selves and their eosterity, and swore allegi-
ance and fidelity to the glorious old flag.
! But now we are met by the cry OF "uncon-
stitutionality." I have heard many OF our
modern democrats expatiate on the "uncon-
stitutional" acts Of Lincoln, but have not
heard one word of the wrongs inflicted by
JEFF. Davis and his rebel crew. These men
view with microscopic glass the acts Of MIR.
| Lincoln to find the smallest flaw, but never
| say a word about those OF their Southern
| brethren who trampled under foot the Consti-
! tuition, spurned its protection and tore down
| and trailed in the dust the glorious old flag.
| Tell me, We democratic friend, If there is one
| here, land l hope to God there is, for my
! mission is "not to call the righteous but sill
| ners to repentance, why your thunders are
| not hurled against the usurper who has at.
tempted to tear down the fairest fabric OF
government ever reared with human hands
| Tell me, would you take patriot to the Gnu
! brace of the old imbecIe or may be traitor
! Buchanan? OF to the arms OF the puny
/ Franklin Pierce: or would YOU take him
even TO the time when the republic was
| shaken to its foundation, and three men out
| of four YOU met in Washington were traitors,
! and JEFF. Davis had there in every department
OF the government as many spies as his cause
needed. They tell me no! but to the en-
brace of Mcclellan. Now think Mr.. Nc
Clellan is a clever fellow, but he can't make
| a good general. He never gets what all pu.
gilists so greatly prize, his second WIND.
! Like a fat baby, no can only take three steps
! and then he falls down, and says he is demon
| allied. His embrace would truly be about as
refreshing as that of Buchanan. Who would
compose his Cabinet: Why Vallandigham
| would be his chief cook and oottle-washer.
And who is he : That man who in stamping
the State Of Ohio arrayed 400 men in two
counties in arms against the military power
of the government. He was arrested BY
order of General Burnside, and fairly tried
by court martial on two charges, for discoLr-
aging enlistments, and for encouraging de.
sertions. He was tried, found guilty, and
sentenced to be sent to work on the Dry Tor
| tugas during the continuance OF the war.
The proceedings in his case were examined
BY an old democratic Judge, Judge Leyett,
and they were pronounced by him to be
"legal, right, and just" President Lincoln
compassionately changed the sentence to
Punishment to the enemy's lines, and now all
the CopperheadS eSclaim against the tyranny
of Lincoln. When Vallandigham went South
his friends would not receive him, but sent
him to Canada, the Botany Bay OF all traitors,
thus illustrating the Scriptures, he came to
his own and his own received him not.
They now say he was martyr. have care
fully examined the proceedings Of our previous
wars on the legality Of arrests made BY the au-
thority of the government, those OF the war
of the Revolution, of 1872, and Of the Next
can war, General Washington in the first
ordered the arrest Of Peter Van Schoick, one
of those excessively neutral persons who
Lean little to the other side, Jacob Delaney,
and six others, and they were arrested and
confined in the Westchester county Jail as
being persons dangerous to public safety OF
the State and of the Republic. When Jack
son went to New Orleans in the war of 1872,
a Frenchman whose name l forget violated
the laws Of war, and Jackson had him ar
rested, and when Judge Hall, who was
| good type of a wooden democrat issued
writ of :" HabeGs Corpus" in order to procure
his release, the old General put the French
man, Judge Hall, habeds corpus and all in
| iail. | myself have seen State after State
| instruct their representatives to vote to re-
fund to the "Old Hero" the fine imposed on
| him in CONSEQUENCE. He was democrat
and none will deny it. Further, Mr.. Cop
perhead, Governor Rutledge of South Caro-
| lima, land no one will deny that Governor
of South Carolina was democrat) in l7I6
arrested s men who were dangerous to the
safety of the State Of South Carolina espe-
cially, and of the Republic generally" and
put them in jail. All gentlemen this pre-
tense Of tyranny is all humbug. Every gov,
eminent has two powers inherent in its very
| nature, these are the power to resist rebel
lion, and to repel invasion. No loyal man
fears being arrested for disloyalty; it is only
| those who Know they deserve it. l have
a respect for a spy;he risks his life to save
his friends; still no one complains if he is
caught and hanged, but these sneaking spies
that are too cowardly to join their friends and
take the chances of war, detest. Such a
man is Fernando Wood. greater traitor
than JEFF. Davis. Why he could give JEFF.
Davis six points in a game Of seven up Of
treason, and beat him at it. / know he tele-
| graphed to r. NJ. Toombs that he was sor-
~ he could not control the New York police,
and that arms shipped to Georgia had been
seized, but If he had the power he would
send them as many arms as they wanted"
Oh! what. a patriot, Wood and what ty-
rant, Lincoln! Webster defines tyranny to
be, the exercise of an arbitrary and despotic
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