Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-29
THE CHICAGO CONTENTION.


This morning the great nackerel-hash,
lobscouce, dunderfunk Convention OF the
Copperheads should have met In Chicago.
The Forty Thousand Buzzard Shooters Of
California will be represented by high
old delegation, headed by John B, Weller,
the Mexican killer, who will, Of course,
inform the assembled Knights OF the
Golden Circle, that shoulder to shoulder
I marched with our adopted citizens over
the bloody fields of Mexieo-o-o!" All
the Knights with great acclaim, will shout
{" Bully, Bully, Bully for old John B.
Weller, the Mexican-killer," and we
wouldn't wonder if they nominated him
for Vice President. Wewish they would.
It is rather mixed, however, inasmuch as
that nomination generally follows that of
President, and the probabilities lean to-
wards Kilkenny row that will explode
the whole concern before Presidential
candidate is nominated. The heterogene-
Gus mass that assemblies there to-day have
but one common sentiment, and that is
hatred of the Nation and the National
Administration. Their causes of hatred
are so various, and their plans for over
throwing the Administration are so an
tasonistc, that it is moral impossibiity
that any one man should embody within
himself the sentiments and policy of ten
per cent. OF the Convention. The Reese
River RsveiAe of Thursday last had o
very good article upon the subject, which
accords with our views so completely that
we extract from it. 1t says:
We beg Grant, or Lee, to hurry up matters
Sherman and Hood will please take notice
that we are growing impatient at their leth'
arpy-and that we cannot wait long for some
striking feat of arms. 1t is really cruel in
these gentlemen. They are utterly wanting
in humanity. They appear to be minding
their own affairs with an utter disregard, an
inexcusable neglect, Of the fact that the Chi
caoo Convention will in few days hold it'
session. Convention whose gathering wa:
postponed for the express purpose of giving
these warriors chance Of developing a STATE
of things on which the party might take 1t:
stand, and perhaps be elevated to power
Should the rebel generals succeed in inAictine
a serious defeat upon the Federals, then the
Administration policy would be failure, ant
it would be unfit to guide the nation in suct
a crisis. II, on the other hand, the Lieuten'
ant General should take Richmond, straight
way he would become the hero of the time
the very man to govern the people-at any
rate, by his nomination, the Lincoln camp
would be disconnected, and probably thrown
into a state of panic-thus the people nigh
be divided, and would make no election o
President, in which case the choice woulc
devolye upon the House OF Representatives
This would, indeed, be triumph for the Chi
! cago plotterS. Lincoln is their great stumb
| ling block The 4" rail-splitter ~" the awk
ward ape 1.-THE low buHoon must be go
rid of. For somehow or other, in spite Of hi
defects of body, and mind, his depravity, ant
| inferiority, he has managed to win the re
speci of Europe and the confidence of thu
| North, and when he received the unanimou
vote of the Baltimore Convention, "by tn
most skillful manipulation" people insisted
upon considering it as an augury of the con
tinuanee Of the war, and the final failure o
the rebellion. Such an obstinate and tena
cious fact as this, one so hostile to all hopes
| of the success Of treason to the country
must in some way be removed, and what opeI
warfare cannot accomplish, craft may succeed
in eHecring. Hence the course pursued b,
the leaders Of the party about to assemble il
the Garden City, and hence their presen
dilemma. Without fixed political principles
they are like swarm of bees on the rampage
| One error or failure of the Government, o
one ray of hope to thwart or annoy it, au'
pounce-down will they come, and gather
thick and dark, about the opportunity. The.
! are objects Of pity quite as much as Of scorn
They are the enemies of Liberty, and tn
world shall vet recognize them by the it'll
with which they are already branded-trait