Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-29
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the word, and the adjective wita HhtsA
they usually prefix it, i, wCald eesHi that
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well. There are few men at The present
hour, marshalled on the sidesfthe Union,
who will take any serious ofense at being
called Abohtionists; !" and If it affords
the Copperheads any satisfaction to put
the everlasting /" damned" Ffpse the
word they are perfectly at libeEfy to use
the adjective. It is somewhat interesting
to observe with what calmness and equa-
nimity men hear that terrible epithet ap'
piled to themselves now-a-days, and even
use it themselves, as self-descriptive, who
four years since would have resented it as
foul insult. This leads us into brief
speculation upon the causes which have
led to this revulsion of feeling upon the
subject of Abolitionism. Four years ago,
the only party il the field which occu.
pied position affirmatively hostile to the
institution of slavery, was the Republican
party. The Abolition party, proper, never
had sufficient strength in any single State
in the Union to entitle it to rank among
the political parties of the country. The
Republican party was not an Abolition
party, for it did not propose to interfere
with the institution Of slavery in those
States where it existed BY local legislation.
Nevertheless that party did take such
affirmative and persistent ground against
the extension of the institution, and agi-
,ated the question to such a degree as. was
deemed. BY the more conservative portion
of the people of the North, dangerous to
the harmony of the nation, and contrary
to that spirit of comfy and concession
which had been the sole cement OF the
Union since its formation. Among those
who regarded the agitation Of the slavery
question at that time as pregnant with
danger TO the Union, none were more
firmly fixed in their opinions, and conse-
auently more earnest in their opposition
10 the then Republican party than those
who have at this time the editorial con-
duct of the News. This is fact which
will be readily substantiated by all our
acquaintance. To-day, in common with
hundreds of thousands of American citi-
gems who then stood shoulder to shoulder
with US in opposition to the Republican
party. we occupy, upon that question OF
slavery. a position an hundred fold more
radical than was assumed By the Repub-
lican party That party simply opposed
the extension Of the institution, beyond its
then existing boundaries; the Union party
of to-day are for crushing out the foul
element of discord and disunion wherever
it may exist. In short, the Union party
of 1864 is an Abolition" party. And
WHY The reason is summed up in few
words written by General Ulysses
5. Grant, who with the armies
of the Nation under his command
has done and is doing more for the FINAL
and efec,ual abolition of slavery than all
the Garrisoas. PhilipsRs- Kellys and their
psalm-s,nsing crew of fanatics could
have accomplished in FIVE hupdred years,
if the South had behaved itself. General
Grant in his letter to Mr.. Washburne.
written from the field in August, 1868,
says:
at has became patent to my mind that
the North and South can never live at peace
with each other except as one nation, and
that without Slavery"
There Is the whole secret in a nutshell,
why the hundreds of thousands Of men
who opposed Mr.. Lincoln in 1860, and
are supporting him to-day are, not only
in favor of but determined upon the abo-
Etion Of slavery within the limits of the
United States. ut has become patent to
tkeir,mind that the North and South
can never live at peace with each other
except as one nation and that W ithout
Slavery" That's exactly what is the
matter. We have endured already three
and a half years Of such war as the
modern world never saw, and he who is
asked the cause of this bloodshed must
answer" slavery" Can any sane man
suppose that with all the deadly animosi-
" engendered BY this war. peace can
ever resume It's sway over the land with
the cause still remaining We imagine
not. The stupid cry that Aboliuonism
Yas the cause of the war" is so baseless,
So tctally unsupported by a single fact,
that b hardly, at this late day deserves
reply. Abolition neither commenced the
war, nor had it the power to commence
that or anything else. If by "Aboli-
.tionism'' in that connection is meant the
Republican pa,ry, it is false. for the South
bid. ou.nfitted a score of acts OF open
Acsdlity before the Republican party came
into .-power. II it. be urged that these
were merely acts of precaution against
the acts Of the incomingi Administration,
it is false, because the Supreme Court of
the. E9itedStat and the United States
-sena,&Nere adverse in sentiment to the
Republican party and must have remain
ed so dnring Mr.. Lincoln's Administra-
uonx No The whole cry was a pre-
text and the war was begun at the South
At the precise time when it was done. be-
cause there, sat upon the Presidential