Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-07
MeCIellan,s Timid Policy Fatal to-
Every 6,Iass saYe the AriH1ocracy.

meCIellau,s Timid Policy Fatal 10
Every Glass save the AriHtocrncy.
The timid and compromising policy which
George B. Mcclellan has always represented
finds its chief support at the North IN that
and which has never been Democratic ouly
so far as to debauch the common people, and
by every art known to demagogues to prove
that our republican form Of government Is
wretched failure, and ought to come to an
end. Politically, up to the beginning OF TINS
rebellion. these Northern enemies OF freedom
had acted only an auxiliary or subordinate
part, The Southern Shareholders, IKE
Calhoun and Davis and Yancey, nave owned
and manipulated them to their Will; Inc
slave aristocraey furnished them their brains
and principles. The Northern demaSoSue
has nearly always been tractable and content,
without murmur, to cat the messes OF dirt set
before him BY the South, SO that ne can only
share the spoils Of office, and now and then
he caressed for his charming subserHency.
The South has ruled the Democracy, and
when thew could no longer do that they broke
il up preparatory to their attempt to break up
the Onion. That they have aided IN the
nomination of Mcclellan, no reasonable man
can doubt. Letters from the South to the
public prints of the country all concur that
the rebel army is almost to man IN favor oil
his election to the Presidency; and II few
of the leading Southern prints oppose MN,
they do it because they well know that the
opposition of such as they-the richmond
ENQUIRER and Charleston Merctay-wlll bring
strength to Mcclellan at the North, while
their influence is not needed at the South.
The shareholders hate Mr.. LincOln-not for
ANYTHING personal, but for the reason that
they hate and fear his principles. They IN
cline toward Mcclellan for the reason, hrst,
his miltaE conduct has explained that he
never wished for thorough conquest OF the
rebellion. He did not desire so far to shake
the political power of the slave aristocracy,
that in the future they could not resume their
old domineering influence over the Union.
And, second, they lean to him because OF his
weakness; because Of his vanity, fexibllity,
and striking resemblance to Franklin Pierce
and James Buchanan. Such man, what
ever he may now profess asa Union man and
a patriot, the slave lords may hope to own,
and they will own him should he ever become
President.
Such a President would be as fatal to the
principles and institutions which have gov
erned America as the most absolute tyrant.
He may now think, and many Of his friends
may think the same, that il he were Presi-
dent he could save the Union. Fatal mis-
take. No Chief Magistrate can save this
Union who loves the rebels better than the
loyaliSts. He will in spite Of himself, though
he were man as firm Of will as Andrew
jackson, be forced to adhere to the one and
eschew the other party, until by war one is
made to succumb to the other. This is stern
talk, but it is nevertheless the issue. No
thing but war will humble this rebellion.
Even now, when our armies are every where
victorious, they scornfully answer all peace
propositions short Of the recognition of the
South as an independent power. No war
was ever prosecuted with more vigor than
this since Gen. Grant has had command of
our armies. Yet the enemy is insolent.
Could we reasonably hope that 4 timid man
like Mcclellan would bend or mollify that
insolence Is it not far more reasonable to
conclude that the rebel leaders, aided by their
Subservient Northern allies, would bend Nc
Clellan to their purposes and achieve viz
tual dissolution Of the Union : They care
nothing for Mcclellan except as such an in
Strument.
We assume in all solemnity that the cleo
ton of Mcclellan would be synonymous with
the division Of the country. This is the last
hope of the slave lords. With them hope all
our enemies in the Old World, jealous Of
American institutions. How would such
misfortune affect the common people, and
especially the people Of foreign birth in
American Long ago the Southern leaders
told the world that they were the enemies Of
popular franchise; that the common people
ought to be denied the right to vote; that
nhon apI 10 ko
all excluded. This idea. and not slavery,
tell US the same now. Why, then, should
any Of the common people, why should any
fOreign-born citizen vote for this monstrous
innovation? 1t would disfranchise them all,
and in less than ten years convertible Repub-
lie into a collection Of States in which half
million aristocrats would lord 1t over the des-
TIMES of forty millions, as effectually as
eighty-tve thousand shareholders now rule
over their four millions of slaves. The ques-
ton at issue is this and nothing less. But
the other day, speaking of the probability OF
the recognition Of the South on the basis Of
slavery, the Richmond Enquirer so stated it,
and adjured its readers to take notice that
such n reconstruction Of the South meant
nothing less than laboring men-"poor
whites "-were to be held firmly to their
places without hope of promotion-were in
fact to be virtually disfranchised.
The great obstacle in the way Of convinc-
ing the judgment Of the common people, is
the demagogues, and the demagogues are en-
couraged and held to their work by the slave
holders. The people are seduced by temp:a-
tons of false and hollow peace; by mis-
representations as to the effect Of emancipa-
ton upon free white labor; by eulogistic APP
peals to the ogre modern democracy, which
means slavery, and aristocracy, and disunion;
and by multiplied secret political societies
which fraternize all reasonable elements and
organize the work of the devil into compact
opposition to the true interests of the coun-
try and of mankind. We can only point out
to these misguided masses the dangers ahead
and warn them ofthe poison concealed within
the sweetened cup; and we now warn them
that to support Mcclellan is virtually to sup
port Jefferson Davis; which is, again, to in.
vite aristocratic institutions and to bid for the
speedy overthrow Of the whole system Of
American liberty.-Stockton Independent.