Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-10
SUBMISSION TO THE WILL OF
THE MAJORITY"

The Constitution of last evening, with
all the grace that one could well muster
under the aggravated circumstances ad-
mits the utter route of its party, 1t not
having elected a single candidate in the
whole State. and says:
"To the majority of the people we bow
with respectful submission. AS true De eI
crat, we recognize and we obey the VIII o'
that majority as pronounced IN cOhsIisu
tional manner. Such is the duty OF every
citizen, and no political adversary shai ever
say that we neglected ours.
That is all very good, very proper and
as the editor says, is the duty OF every
"true Democrat" We shall be glad to
find that the profession is sincere, and that
the editor speaks the sentiments and in
tentions of the party whom it pretends to
represent. There was, however, so little
of "true Democracy" in the doctrines OF
that party, and in the sentiments avowed
by its leaders, that we regard the pre-
tended submission to the will Of the ma
ioritv," with an eye of the most lively sus-
picion. We have heard too many threats,
both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
of what dreadful scenes would be enacted
if the Chicago nominees were defeated.
The Knights Of the Golden Circle, the
Order of American Knights, the Sons OF
Liberty and the Mcclellan Minute men,
were not organized upon the basis OF
peaceful submission TO the will Of the
majority. constitutionally expressed.
Those reasonable clans are scattered all
through the loyal States, and their object
is armed recolution. That fact has been
| established by competent testimony. Theft
organs in California show it in the tone OF
every political article. Wehave before us
COPY of one of those incendiary rags-the
Amador Dispatch-the editor Of which
should be summarily hanged to his own
door-post. Tha. paper says:
"IfLincoln should be reelected nothing short
of Almighty power can prevent the Democ-
racy of the Eastern and Western States ris-
ing in revolution. In such an event the
sword which was sheathed by Washington at
Yorktown, would be again drawn, and seas
of blood would flow. The spirit that ami
mated our ancestors is not vet extinct in their
defendants. They have only partially smoth-
cred it until they could make an appeal to the
ballot-box.
We have read studiously for months
past the chief organs of the so-called De-
mocratic party, those published on both
slopes of the continent; and we find a
remarkable unanimitS of sentiment among
them. Their invocations TO the Democ-
racy to rally to the polls and carry their
point, constitutiOnally, if possible, have
ever ended with dark threats as to the
consequences thar would follow defeat.
From what we have gathered from our
studies, we are forced to the belief that the
extract we have quoted from the Dispatch
is truer exposition of the sentiments and
intents of the defeated party, than the
submissive paragraph we clip from the
Constitution.
We have this to say to Union men {:
Be not deceived by any fair pretensions.
Continue to regard the Copperhead party
(who, although defeated, are still alive and
TOO numerous) as trcacherous, willy and
dangerous foe. Regard their dark threats
OF revolution as not entirely idle, and the
intention as by no means abandoned. Be
vigilans and ready at moments warning
to use the means you have at hand, to
crush at the first motion the threatened
drawing of the sword of Washington"