Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-17
The Political Parties and their


The Anti-Administratio party in this
State is situated good deal like jeff Davis
army in the field, il has got its last man. As
under the election law it is not allowable "to
rob the cradle and the grave" if a true count
could be had to-day it would be possible, al
lowing for losses BY death and assertions, to
predict accurately the vote that the McClel-
Ian electors will receive in November. There
is no earthly reason to suppose that the reb-
els are any more ready now to make peace
upon any other basis than that Of the con-
fessed inability of the North to subdue them,
than they were when the war began. They
would keep the peace while in the Union
only on the condition Of supremacy in Con-
1ress and Cabinet. After three years fight
ing and constant reiterations of their con-
tempt Of Northern doctrines on the subject
Of labor and human rights they are not going
to come in and take back seat. The whole
talk of an armistice by Northern Democrats
is but a trap to catch votes. They knew it
could not result in peace except as it might
demoralize and debauch the North into max
ing dishonorable terms which would let 1t
out of the war disgraced and contemplate at
home and abroad.
On the other hand, many who year ago
sympathized with the South have been salts
fed by the events of the year that there is no
hope now for any permanent peace except IN
the entire triumph of one party and the sub
iuQation of the other. What looked doubtful
a wear ago is clear and obvious now. The
steady advance of our armies, the grand
achievements of our navies, have reduced the
area Of a rebel territory till there is substan-
tally nothing but the Carolinas and part Of
Virginia left The rebels claim Texas and
parts of other Gulf States, which, though not
ours again, still are of no more service to
them than a paper claim to Madagascar
would be. When you hang man 1t is not
absolutely necessary that the rope surround
all parts Of his body like drag net and the
rebellion in Georgia is as completely beyond
the power of mischief, with Atlanta in our
possession, as the convicted murderer is when
he bangles ut the end Of rope that girds his
neck alone. Whatever the length Of time it
NAV take to end the war gracefully, the re-
bellion has already got blow on the Uranium
which no surgery will ever cure it Of. Our
affairs can often be studied adyantageously,
as reflected in the foreign mirror, though it
has a trick Of distortion always to our disad-
vantage. When Napoleon announces, as he
lately did, that France will never recognize
the Confederacy until it has proven its ability
to maintain independence, be sure that Ma
poleon sees no signs of such ability, and from
the other side the water our affairs look as
promising as they do to loyal men on this.
Now deserters are not wont to run from
the winning side. The tide of desertion sets
North, not South; andas.the present politi-
cal campaign RACES it will not surprise US at
all to see many Democrats stealing into the
Union ranks, where they will be well treated
and not required to fight unless they feel like
it; but Of Union men deserving to the head
quarters while McClellan's flag waves over
peace men and war men, Copperheads and
Secessiouists huddled on one common plat
form, we expect to see very little. True,
there may be now and then a new name en-
tered on their roll call, but we must distin-
Ruish between deserters and conscripts, be-
tween new converts and old attaches, who at
this last scene Of the last act put on the
stage clothes Of actors who have gone home
and are cheered by the groundlings as fresh
arrivals on the boards.
The people Of the North have not changed;
the same principles that dragged them into
the war will urge them to 60 on with it till
the object of the war is attained. The gen.
tleman who has so ably presided over their
cause is their candidate for reelection, and
without any reasonable doubt they will re-
elect him. His policy, and views, and plans
they know. His 6Imness and unhinching tena-
city Of purpose once adopted and his hon
esty they know. Mcclellan they do not
know. The platform on which he is nomi-
mated says one thing, the letter in which he
accepts says two utterly inconsistent things.
He is for Union at all hazards" yet accepts
the peace platform. He believes in fighting
it out and in compromises. Such principles
are oil and water in the same vessel-they
cannot mix. The earnest North will not
desert known definite adopted policy that
Is producing its expected results swiftly and
inevitably, and man who embodies that
policy, for policy that reads both ways, pro-
fesses with equal zeal inconsistent doctrines,
and lifts up as its exponent a man who,
though long before the public, is, as to his
sentiments and faith, to this day mystery
and riddle. There is as much danger that
the Army of the Potomac will desert from
victorious Grant to the ll-fed, rebellious,
mutinous crew under Lee, as that Mr.. Lin
coin will be deserted BY any portion Of those
who have hitherto heartily sustained his adj
Manifestation, TO herd with the speckled tribes
that are compelled for lack Of a candidate
who suits them to vote for McClellan.-S. r..
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