Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-15

Inc present party Gazing ltSelI DelnOtEaIlC
serves only to remind one of those great con-
vulsions in the material or moral world, when
from the general wreck and crash there re-
mains but the debris of former existences,
all strewn in indistinguishable confusion
around and about-the mere vestiges of for
mer worlds and organizations-the mere me-
mentoes of former greatness, vanished and
gone forever. or how many was it once the
pride to vaunt that they were Democrats
Democrats to the acknowledgements
"dyed in the WOOL" and Democrats even
from their mothers womb and the milk they
drew from their mothers breast. 10 such
base uses has Democracy come at last that
those who always opposed Democrats and
Democracy as it has been known in the party
annals of America, take delicious pleasure
in calling them democrats and the Demo-
cracy," and allow that they are Democrats
and the Democracy indeed" They point at
them as they pass, with the finger of scorn,
and say these are Democrats" and "this
is Democracy" even as the Wings of the
the Revolution were wont to point at the to-
ries Of that day, when the United States had
achieved their independence. Democracy in
its true sense means "the rights Of man,
and as it has been exemplifed in the party
annals of the pastS is associated with many
glorious recUllections, and much of national
glory, allowed, it is true, with imperfections
incident to all things human, but, after all,
thing not to be ashamed of. But slack and
alas, look at the thing calling itself Demo-
cracy, to-day! What and where are its prin-
ciples, and who are it's followers? Why,
Federalists, Wings, Known othings, Aris-
tocrats in large proportion, Monarchists,
and the fag ends of all the isms" that have
ever figured in politics; and, to cap the
whole, now comes Fremont, John Cochrane,
Wendell Phillips-the "woolly horse and
all. The Democrats now assume pat
ronizing air towards Fremont and the Grad
ical Democracy" even as the Devil recon-
mended Eve to eat of the apple Of
the tree of life. But what do these
Democrats agree in? In nothing but one
thing-that is, "Good Lord or good Devil,
save, oh ! save the Niger No two OF these
Democrats agree in anything but that. Some
say the States are absolutely sovereign and
independent, and the General Government
was and is but the agent Of the State soYer-
eighties, and the States have vested right
to secede when and how they please. And
these fellows insist that the Constitution
guarantees slavery in the States That is to
say, the Government Of the United States,
which has not a particle of sovereignty,
guarantees to a State which has sovereignty
a certain right, to-wit the right of slavery;
which is very much like John Smith guaran-
teeing that England should observe its present
treaty stipulations with France and other
sovereign powers. Another set thinks that
u State has not exactly the right to secedc,
but then the States are sovereign, and can do
pretty much as they please. The States, be-
ing sovereign, are under no obligations to
anybody, and if they kick up bloody row,
WHY, things are so constituted that the States
are responsible for nothing, but they insist
upon holding the General Government,
which they say has no more authority than
John Smith or any other man, responsible
for everything. They hold that the seeded
States are in the Union, in contemplation OF
law, and that the rights Of those States and
the people thereof shall be and remain unim-
paired, and condemn war, subjugation, coer-
cion, etc., as unconstitutional, and pile noun
tains of wrath upon the Administration
therefor. But not n word have they to say
against JEFF. Davis and his proceedings-not
a single word. They talk BY the mile about
a petty order Of Beast Butler, but few hun
bred thousand OF the most atrociouS, cold
blooded, savage and iuhuman murders and
assassinations of men, women and children,
committed under the patronage Of jeff. Davis,
and BY his direct advice and instigation, they
never say a word about, and thus indirectly
approve Of it, and thus approving of it, are
accessories after the fact This is the charac-
ter of the present Democracy. Their usual
assertion is, "thcy have nothing to do with
JEFF. Davis ;" but how is it, if these States in
rebellion are legally in the Union, they have
nothing to do with the atrocities committed
BY JEFF. Davis in those States: They seem
to have everything TO do il niger in those
States is used by the Administration against
JEFF. Davis. Then they will talk you deaf
and dumb and blind about "impaired rights"
The grand chorus of the whole latter-day
Democracy is Good Lord good devil, save
the Niger r"-OrouilLe Record.