Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-20
CHANGE OF EASE

ing the war against those eminent Chris.
tan philanthropists Lee and Davis, cup.
on the highest principles known to civil
ization," his strong suit was his frequent
and mastery changes of base. So big 6
thing and so often of recurrence wert
these "changes of base" that the phrase
became household word wherever the
name and fame Of the microscopic Napo-
leon were known. Such was the glory
that surrounded his military changes Of
base, that since he has "laid down the
shovel and the hoe" his favorite nipple
ments of "the highest character of wal
known to civilization" and taken up the
pen, the weapon that in his hand /:
mighier than the sword, (not saying
much for the pen,) he has carried his old
time strategy into his new field Of opera
ton. His acceptance of the Traitors
nomination was, to the full, as decided 9
change of base from his position of three
months previous, as ever he performed II
shifting his army from the " highest char
acter" of graye-diggers in the Chickahomi-
ny swamps, to the civilization" Of
throwing up trenches somewhere else
From a frightful war ague, Staying his
heaps upon heaps with the jaw of an ass
at West Point, in June, he is transformed
into an hermophrodite Angel Of Peace
and compromise. We suppose that he
has, at all events, for under no other con-
dition of mind could he have consented to
have stepped upon the Chicago platform
as the candidate of the Copperheads. Ii
is difficult, indeed, from anything that the
man has said, to form any estimate Of
what his real sentiments are. He does
not, to be sure, accept the platform with
its acknowledgment of the Southern Con-
federacy, neither does he directly and
emphatically stamp it under foot, as he
would be impelled to do, were he actuated
BY the sentiments expressed in his war
speech at West Point. Take his asser-
tons, all together, as a mass, he is nobody
and nothing; but his act of acceptance
would seem to give him the character of
peace man. The "War Democrats" who
still have some vague and indefinite idea
that the rebellion ought to be crushed out
by some mode of warfare, which will not
require armies and navies and money and
bloodshed, still see in Mcclellan, the un.
approachable General, who is the sole
possessor of the hidden art of such a
bloodless, inexpensive, yet most effec-
tive system of warfare. They
scorn the "peace" idea of the plat
form and its acknowledgment of the
Southern Confederacy; they want the
war to go on until the rebellion is sub
dued, but they are opposed to the bloody
and expensive style of warfare as con-
Quoted by the present government. Ex-
actly hOao little mac. proposes to carry hi:
old war professions into practical effect
they do not profess to see; but they be-
Ieve him to be still upon his mysterious
war-path, and go in for him with blind
and con6ding faith. Their position seem:
hard to define, but it appears to be self
satisfactory. For some reason or Other
this position seems to have suddenly beer
adopted by majority of the leaders o.
the Copperhead party in this vicinity
Two weeks ago the whole cry was 70,
unconditional peace" a complete pros
tration of the nation at the feet of the re-
bellion. The nomination of Mcclellan, 6
formerly protested war-man, upon the
peace platform, was such a palpable alb
surdity that to preserve any appearance
of consistency in supporting him, an en-
tire "change of base" became with thu
aforetime peace-spouters an apparent ne
cessity. As consequence, we find the
secession lawyers of Virginia (who art
the whole head and front and brains o.
the Copperhead party, and who for month:
past have been Southern Confederacy
men, changing their tune completely, ane
declaring themselves "for the Union a.
the one condition of peace" We know
that they &c lie unto the Holy Ghost
when they say this, but it Is the only po'
sition they can consistently assume while
supporting Mcclellan and feigning to be-
ieve him honest in his patriotic declara'
tons. The "ehange of base" is only
temporary, and for a specific purpose
They know full well that if Mac is elected
he will be compelled to carry out the
peace programme, or that his administra'
ton of affairs would be suddenly closed
with dose of poison, and the, reins o.
government placed in the hands of Pen
dleton, who is as strongly on the peact
platform as JEFF. Davis could desire. Tht
pretenses of these suddenly converted
secessionists are too shallow and transpar'
emit to deceive. The Copperhead party
must be regarded in its true light OF
secession party, and the war democracy
must not be lured by the pale ignHs tataa'
that CLEANS above grave-yards in thu
swamps of the Chickahominy.
Hoes DELIGHT. - This fashionable
watering place for all the aristocratic hog
of Gold Hill, directly opposite our sane
tum window, is still maintained by thu
town authorities, regardless of expense