Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-20
coppERHEAp DEspERATroN.

Auun9 SpcctdeAe, VI lhttSn ukEOottously ~
the agonized howhngs, rawlings and froth-
ings of a chained mad-dog, the similar
impotent fury of the Copperheads, as the
hour other final "mashing out" draws
near is gleefhl spectacle. Casting his
eyes abroad over the whole length and
breadth of the land. wherever q Copper
head Convention meets, a Copperhead
orator speaks, or Copperhead press dis
ills its venom, one obtains general and
striking view of the terrible strait of des-
peration to which the whole internal fac
ton are reduced. As a political party,
acting IN union with a platform of pr,n-
ciples and with common end in view,
Copperheadism or democracy" as it is
horribly misnamed, is no longer in the
field. 1t has such an organization no.
where on the continent, where it can as
semble convention that viii agree upon
any set Of fixed principles, arrange any
programme OF action or unite upon any
man as the embodiment Of their senti-
ments. The time for Presidential cleo
ton is drawing close at hand, and yet the
fierce Democratic" have not only nc
candidate in the field, but there is not a
man named as one upon whom there Is
the slightest possibility of agreeing. The
elements which compose the Copperhead
party are only fusible upon one point,
and that point is hatred of the Govern
ment THE United States and its legally
constituted authorities. The causes OF
that hatred are so widely different, and
that no two of these haters hate for the
same reason, and no remedy that would
suit the one would meet with the appro-
baton of any of the rest. Meat for the
one would be poison to the other, and
they wrangle and .writhe and fight and
destroy each other like frenzied rats IN Q
cage. When they cease for o while their
assaults upon each other and turn the
feeble batteries of their wrath against the
Government, it is only chaotic, inco-
herent, discordant uproar Of threats, re-
vikings and abuse, asking for nothing,
suggesting nothing. They roar and wall
and complain of the horrors and desola-
ton of the war, and paint terrible pictures
o. the sufferings of the American people.
"with nearly every household in the land
taking up the lamentation Of Jacob" Me
have We bereaved of my children: Joseph Is
not, and Simeon is not, and We will take
Benjamin away: all these things are against
me.
Thus, the Democratic Press bawls and
bellows and quotes scripture to his forty
thousand buzzard shooters" But "Jo-
seph is being thrashed by Sherman, and
BENJAMIN is JEFF Davis Secretary Of
War. Where Simeon is, we'll be id i
we know; but Beriah is all right. He is
not F" a crippled victim" he has not got .
L" manned limb" his wife unhappily is moi
widow" nor his children " orphans .
-more's the pity. His "burdensomt
taxes " would not pay for Wigfalrs rot
gut. If one could sum up all the calam-
tiles that the Copperheads of the United
States have suffered in this war, put them
all in huge cauldron and simmer them
down to a pint, it would all resolve itself
simply into = deprivation of Office. This
is the sum total of all their miseries. To
overt,rn the existing state of things and
once more seize the reins of power and the
spoils of office is now the sole object Of all
their efforts. They see no earthly way Of
comprising this, and hence the desperation
From the usual course of political parties
they have diyerged and utterly departed.
They have resorted to deep and dark con-
spiracy, and their own papers inform us
of combinations numbering hundreds OF
thousands of men ready to rise at the call
of their chieftains, and deluge the North
with blood in the name of +" Democracy"
all over the Northern States they claim
that this dark and damned plot extends,
and we have no reason to doubt that its
ramifcations reach to every portion of the
Pacific States and Territories. Every
highway robber. murderer and petty thiei
in the land, plumbers, murders and steals,
in the synonymous name of Democracy
and " JEFF Davis" and every thief and as
sassin that comes under the ban and the
iron hand of the law finds champion and
defender in every Democratic newspaper.
In the eyes of the Democracy, every felon
is martyr and hero, and every officer
of the law tyrant. 1t is part of the
great Democracy programme, planned
with the perhaps well-founded belief thai
when the Democratic tocsin shall sound
every felon in the purlieus of their cities
every highwaymen in the woods and thu
mountains, viii rally to the call. Tit
proper caution exercised by the military
authorities on this coast in forbidding the
formation of armed organizations, othel
than those under the direct supervision o
the Department, gals the democracy
and calls forth growl and threat from
Beriah. who says:
"They ask no rights or privileges in thu
community which they do not fully accord Il
every man, and will never disturb the public
peace bur as the last alternative to degrade
tion and slavery"
We well know what Beriah means by
degradation and slavery" and the loya
people of the Pacific Coast will not suffel
him and his buzzard shooters to /" disturb
the public peace on that account. HI
further says:
"Any military commander, any public off
Ger, who did not regard and treat the Demo
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