Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-16
THINGS DoNT FRI.


preserved a character for consistency.
Some few of the "peace" organs on the
Pacific slope, have, with many wry face
and many reich of nauseation, gulped 1t
down. 1t nearly strangled the Marysyllle
Express to death, but it got it down. 1t
sits rough on their stomachs, but with the
poor devils it was "duck or no supper,
and they had to either come into the
traces or give up the ghost. Some few OF
them, of more spunk and better financial
bottom, have boldly flown the track, and
declared that they'll "jist be damned if
they'll stand it." Of these are the Los
Angeles Ne,cs and the Napa Echo. The
high privates and the blow-hards, who
have been worshipping bits of the true
cross of Old Vallandigham's martyrdom,
don't exactly know what to do about 1t,
can't see what in the devil the Convention
was about when they nominated Little
Chickahominy, can't reconcile his West
Point speech with the peace PLATFORM
can't make head nor tail of the letter OF
acceptance, in fact "can't see into the
damned thing" They are, however, &C
customed to stand up to the nomination,
don't believe in boiling, and conclude
that they will have to vote the ticket,
although it goes awfully against the
grain. Not so, however, with the New
York Secesh who are represented by the
Daily Nescs. Ben Woods crowd, and
there are too many of them in the Empire
City and State for the good Of the nation,
kick savagely against the tom-fool nomi-
nation of professedly war man upon a
straight out peace platform. They say
they cont stand It :" and when that
crowd talk they mean business. The
Ne,cs demands that the Chicago Conven-
ton shall be re-Gssem5led, and " that a man
be nominated who will endorse and carry
out the principles of the platform, or that
the platform be remodelled to fit the prin-
ciples of the candidate" George B. Nc
Clellan, with his war-speeches here and
his peace letters there, and his pudding
and milk acceptance, neither peace nor
war, won't do for the crowd, who, through
these long weary years, have howled for
"peaee!" "peace!" and the peaceable
departure of the wayward sisters. No,
no! The man whom that party will
support must be an "out and outer :"
one who will agree to call home the
half-a-milion armed hirelinss," and sell
the navy for cotton-droghers, and the
guns for old iron. He must declare that
the rebellion was not only lawful but most
proper and commendable, and that the
war for its suppression was the unjust
and unholy work of a nation
of fanatics, and a mercileSs mill
tary deSpotism. He must say, as
they have said for years, and "suffered
martyrdom" for saying, that the Union
based upon the principles of the Consti-
tuition of the United States is a govern
ment founded upon oppression Of the just
rights of the South, and to overthrow
which is not only the right but the duty
of the Southern people. He must agree
to call Convention of all the States
to do what: To agree to form another
Confederation-not Union-based upon
the fundamental principle that the foun-
dation of all free government consists in
the perpetuation of the institution of HUI
man slavery. To do this, or agree to
peaceably dissolve the Union, thereby
admitting the right of secession, and pro-
nouncing against the principle of coercing
rebelious States or fractions of States.
That this could be the only result of a
Convention of the States" is too plain a
proposition to require moments argu-
ment. Every declaration that has been
made from any authoritive source since
the breaking out of the rebellion has been
plainly and directly to this effect, and
there has never been the faintest hint that
any other terms than the full and entire
Independence of the Confederacy would
be listened to for q moment. This IS pre-
cisely what is meant by the Chicago plat
form when it talks about "Convention
of the States" and it is such principle
that the Peace Copperheads call upon the
man whom they viii support to plainly
and unequivocally subscribe. They are
not to be bamboozled by any "ifs and
butts" and talking about the d" flag wav-
ing over all the Union with its original
boundanes." Meier time. And this
little knight of the pick and shovel who
wades up out of the Chickahominy grave
yard, and goes up to West Point-to talk
"war" and Union" over the graves of
slaughtered officers of the Federal army,
is not their style Of man by more than
forty rows of apple trees. If they want
ed a war man they could have found a
thousand better men, ADLER soldiers and
smarter statesmen men who had waded
through blood up to the armpits, who
had not only planned battles, but fought
battles and won them. They would not
have selected the little, kid-gloved, ball
room hero, who never faced an armed foe
in his life. There Is many war-worn
old Democrat in the ranks of the National
Army, that knows more about war and
about politics in minute, than that little
whiffet will ever know in all his life, and
over such a one, who could point to his
fields of glory and his own honorable
scars, there could have been some sort of
fi1ore raised. But over the Grave
Digger Of the Chickahominy-poh No
SIR! The Peace Democracy, however,
did not want any soldier-Gny war man.
The clothes of such, smell of the blood of
their murdered Southern brethren
They wanted man of the Vallandigham
strpe-old Val. himself, if possible, and
if not him, then some man so near like
him in sentiment that it would be all the