Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-28
MONTGOMERY BLAIR.

that of just Legislature.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR.
This eminent Southerner, and truly
loyal citizen Qate Postmaster GeneraD,
was at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 9th
of Octorber. The Union men of that city
held public meeting, at which Mr.. Blair
made a speech, which is described in the
Louisville Press, as follows:
Mr.. Blair made one of the most pointed
and convincing speeches we have ever list
ened to, appealing to great facts Of our po-
litical history, which are familiar to all, in
support of his position. He contrasted the
course of General Jackson, in 1882, when
South Carolina threatened notification and
rebellion, with that of James Buchanan,
under somewhat similar circumstances.
Mr.. Blair said he believed that neither Cen
eral Mcclellan nor any Of the better spirits
Of the Democracy, imbued with the ancient
instincts Of that party, comprehend the real
designs of the chiefs controlling at Chicago,
and affiliated in feeling with the conspirators
at the South. In his mind the managers Of
that Convention (Which still exist and was
nerpetuated and converted into a revolution
ary club by the resolutions passed at the in
stance of Mr.. WickliHe, an original Calhoun
man. are animated by the principle and sus-
tanned by the influence that gave birth to the
Hartford Convention. 1t was the inherited
British principle of aristocracy that imbued
the Essex Junto in New England with the
spirit of disunion, and gave birth to the Hart
ford Convention. It is the same principle
which Mr. Calhoun nurtured and prepared
for rebellion, wearing the mask OF Democ-
racy, to assimilate it with kindred allies Of
the North, obliged there to disguise the for
eisn influence operating on them under a
favored name. The John Henry conspiracy,
exposed to Mr.. Jefferson by John Quincy
Adams, was prelude to the Hartford Con-
yention conspiracy for the dissolution Of the
Union, which Great Britain waged the war Of
1912 to accomplish. England has seen for q
century what France, her ally, under the
ente,t cordial, now sees, q menace to their
anti-Republican government, in the growing
prosperity and glory Of the grand American
National Commonwealth. To break it up
into little States, conflicting among them
selves, and reduced to dependencies on Euro
pean potentates, is the cherished object now,
as it has ever been, of the British Cabinet.
This embodiment of the ambition Of the aris-
tocracy of the little Isle has constantly in its
eve the predictions of great English mind.
Westward the Star Of Empire takes its
course"
A century has created population here
equal to that of Great Britain. A century
more will make our continent TEEN with
progeny of the Anglo-Saxon race quadru-
pling that Of the little spot in the ocean on
which it originated. Our commerce, now
nearly equal to that of the Power that claims
the sovereignty of the sea, will, from the
resources derived from the agriculture and
manufactures Of continent richer IN soil
and fructifed BY our industry, intelligence
and enterprise, that cannot long have rival
on earth, must soon develop maritime
strength which will break that trident which
has so long held the world in awe. We
cannot blame, then, that forecast OF q power
which having its throne in little spot in the
ocean, casts jealous eye towards that
kindred race building up vast and CONSOLE
dated system Of Republican freedom on a
continent, and shooting its roots through
every portion of its colossal domain, to drink
of the streams that pervade it, and pour its
products over both oceans. To break such
power into fragments is settled policy with
the British aristocracy, and, indeed, with
monarchists everywhere. Hence, France and
England have cherished the rebellion Of the
slave and military oligarchy against our
Union and free institutions, and doubtless
gave it that secret encouragement, while in
embryo, which has been more signally mani
tested since its birth. At the first stage the
joint counsels Of England, France and Spain,
seized the opportunity to plant European
dynasty on the flank Of our Republic in
Mexico.
This is an earnest Of the policy which will
be pursued by foreign potentates toward us
if our distractions shall eventuate in dis
union and throw our States into the reyolu-
tionary chaos which put Mexico into their
power. They would even now have been
openly associated in the war Of the Southern
conspirators against the Government, as they
are in fact its support by furnishing the
material for carrying it on, if they were not
sensible that open hostilities against nation
to which their subjects look with hope might
propagate revolutionary movements at home,
while it would tend to unite the American
people, who would have revealed in a foreign
invasion the real nature of the military des-
potism now enforced and endured in the
South under the false pretence Of war for
independence and the right of 4 people to
govern themselves. This is the syren song
BY which the honest men Of the Democracy
North and South are deluded to assist in
turning their happy system Of confederated
liberty into a monstrous litter of brutal
military despotism, constituting together
mass Of military anarchy similar to that
which has darkened all the bright prospects
OF the republican governments to the south
Of US which built their institutions upon the
model Of ours.
The time will come when the scope Of the
Chicago Convention which received its in
structions and aliment from the British and
rebel conclave in Canada, whence Yallan-
digham came to lead its counsels, will be
understood even by those whose ambition
now makes them its victims, and they will
look with adherence at the black treason into
which they have been inveigled, and unless
they are redeemed from it BY the approaching
election and give in adhesion to the war for
the Government, their fate Is written in that
Of the traitors at Hartford.