Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-27
The crand Result,

we no nOl GAuAl bAAS
election of Yesterday as the success OF one
party over another-far from it-but as
another evidence of the ability OF the
American people to govern themselves
and to maintain popular institutions on
this continent. For the first time In the
history of mankind, nation was calleu
mon to express its will, through the forms
Of popular election, in regard to the
conduct of a civil war; and assuredly
there was something sublime in the calm
ness and determination with which 1t re-
solved to bear the heavy burdens OF the
crisis rather than surrender the prlnclpie
Of its institutions. In the face OF an ad-
ministrative management that many did
not like, in the face of several heavy con-
scriptions of troops, in the face OF an ac-
cumulating debt and severe taxation
and against all the Vaccinations OF enc
mics abroad, who swept the seas with
their corsairs, the people have said. Let
the war go on until the supremacy OF the
Constitution and laws shall be completely
indicated.
This imposing display of the feeling OF
the nation, which shows that seYen-elShths
of the people are resolute i'll the support
of the Union, ought to have an lmme-
diate and beneficial effect upon the mlnd
of the indictments. 1t ought to convince
every man who is not insane that there
can be and will be no peace on this cont,
nent except under some form OF national
union. Even the Opposition here, who
so vigorously supported the claims OF
General Mcclellan, did so on the grounds
of his fervent love of the Union, which
under his methods of management than
they were likely to be under those of MIR.
Lincoln. 1t was necessary to take THIS
ground in order to conciliate the popular
sentiment, and to get him anything like a
wide and efficient support. Had he re-
NAMED uneQuivocally upon the Chicago
platform, had he not in some degree sever
ed himself from his adherents of peace
proclivities, and inclined to men of known
and consistent Union attachments, he
would have been defeated still more over
whelmingly. The people will have no.
thing to do with candidates whom they
do not suppose to be devoted to the
maintenance of the integrity of the nation,
now and forever.
On foreign nations this demonstration
of the unfllnching zeal of the North for
steady prosecution of the war must also
have its effect. 1t cannot but persuade
the rulers of both England and France,
who have been disposed to feed the hopes
of the rebels while the least prospect Of
success remained, that there is hope no
longer. They must now say to the ennis
saries and agents of the rebel government:
You have made gallant struggle, you
have fought heroic battles, you have en-
dured privations and sufferings like mar
tyrs, and we have sympathized with you
throughout; but you have been unable
to succeed in your aims the North, with
its superior wealth, population, endur-
ance, and activity, is too strong for you {;
and YOU have nothing to gain henceforth,
but needless protraction of the war, the
multiplication of sorrows and miserles,
and the deepening of ruin already almost
universal. If you are wise men-men not
crazy from pride, arrogance, and the love
of power-you will submit to the inevi-
table decree of destiny" We should not
be at all surprised if this were the Ian
guage at once assumed by the more dis
corning, who know from their own
experience that falling cause is always
better surrendered than fought out to a
pitch of desperation and madness.
If General Mcclellan had been success
full in this political contest we should
have taken him at his word as Union
man, and lent ready support to his every
measure looking towards confirmation
of our national unity. We should have
endeavored to strengthen his arms against
that faction Of his friends who are looking
in another direction. We shall now ex-
pect as much from his friends in regard to
Mr.. Lincoln. Let us have no more of
these miserable party disputes-of this
most miserable party spirit. Our country
demands our united efforts. Let us join,
then, in the determination to prosecute
the war with all our energies, and by
every military means in our possession.
But in order to show that our aim is not
war but peace, let us, with every renewed
effort of our arms, stretch forth new over
lures of reconstruction to the misguided
multitudes of the South who are follow
ing the igaus fatWWS of secession into
thicker darkness and deeper bogs Of misery
and ruin.-N, Y. Post, Nor. 8.