Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-19
Anosflen Of Democracy.

Whoever undertakes the task of writing
history of American Democracy, IN connec-
ton with the history Of the most prominent
APOSTLES of our partisan Democracy, will be
under the necessity Of combating with and
explaining away certain curious anomalies.
He will FIRST explain that a Democracy is
Government by the People a form OF
Governmental which the supreme power Is
lodged in the hands OF the people collective
ly :" and that Democrat Is " one who ad-
heres to a Government by the people, or
favors the extension Of the right OF suffrage
to all classes of men," that, in fact, Demo-
cracy is the substance Of principle which
recognizes and asserts the political equality
Of all men, irrespective Of wealth, education
and other adventurous circumstances From
this he will naturally drift into consldera-
ton of those men who have been classed as
the great leaders Of Democracy in America
Jefferson, Madison, Calhoun, Davis, and
so on. He will also naturally examine IN
those communities where these great lights
resided, and where they exercised the most
influence on society and local legislation.
He will then find that South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and Virginia, in the order named,
have been, according to partisan designation,
the most ultra Democratic States, and that
South Carolina especially has been the only
State that has invariably been Democratic.
Proceeding in his Investigations, he Will
find that the works and practice OF the Apos-
ties of Democracy have invariably tended TO
an olioarchal aristocracy and that those
States and communities which have been
most constant and true In their devotion to
Democracy, have in fact been more anti
Democratic than Great Britain. He will
find that in the intensely Democratic State
of South Carolina large portion Of the Tree
white people We're not allowed either to vote
or hold Office, and that none Of them were
allowed will in the election Of President.
Still pursuing his subject, he will discover
that those men most noted as the Leaders Of
American partisan Democracy, and those
States most constant to so-called Democratic
principles, were the first to rebel and take
up arms against the principle that the peo-
pie shall rule.
In short, our suppositious political writer
will, before he gets half through his subject,
make the important discovery that Demo-
etaey, as preached and praeticed by the apos-
Ties OF American Democracy, is Just no De-
mocraey at all /; that, on the contrary, it is
an onSarchy, a concentrated aristocracy,-
ne VIII further discover that, by the use Of
magic name, these apostles Of Democracy
nave succeeded In hoodwinking and deceiy-
ing large numbers Of people to such an ex-
tent as TO persuade them to engage in open
warfare ior the destruction OF the principles
which they undoubtedly revere and cherish.
II will be interesting to see how the poli.
teal historian will explain all these things !;
how he will harmonic the practice Of Amer
lean apostles Of Democracy with the princi-
pies Of true Democracy; and how he will
explain the fact that thousands Of people
were found foolish enough to attempt to de-
stroy that which they most cherished and
reySred.-Sae. Bee.