Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-09
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The a Constitutional Democracy " are the
a,,iIsst neople in existence. They are the
Rim Van Wrinkles Of America, who have slept
the long sleep while the republic, purified by
the Hood of patriots that have fallen on
hundred bloody fields, is marching on in the
broad avenue Of progress to the perpetual
establishment of social, civil and religious
liberty TO all mankind. The era is altogether
too fast for them and they stare upon the
situation of national affairs with the same
stuuid leer that an owl casts upon the noon
day sun. In discussing the main question Of
the day they bring up old arguments totally
inappropriate to the case and overhaul theor-
les exploded half a century ago. They cite
the fact that Washington rebelled against the
Government Of Great Britain, and reprint the
speeches made by the sainted sons Of '76, to
twist the facts OF the history Of liberty into
the logic Of treason. They seek to keep at
this late hour the lines Of party intact, to pre-
serve the identities Of political factions, and
above all to resuscitate the drowning Hydra
of civilized America-the Democratic party,
the ramrod with which Southern niger,
drivers have crammed slavery down the
threats OF Northern men until it became
nauseous gag.
They raise loud cry against the confsca-
ton of the property Of rebels, though they
know well enough that confiscation has been
a uniform punishment of treason ever since
the rule Of the patriarchs was abolished and
regularly organized governments usurped
its place. They howl over the violation of
the inalienable rights Of citizens" and vail
piteously about arbitrary and tyrannical
arrests" when every boy old enough to read
without spelling the syllables one at a. time,
knows that traitor alienates every right he
ever had when he commits the first overt act
Of treason. They groan for the good old days
when men would live up to the precepts laid
down by the Titans of Liberty Hall, but they
do not mention that the Democrats were the
inventors of system to supplant the freedom
of the ballot-box and degrade the nobility
of universal suffrage by election frauds.
They have had clean sweep in this State
in its earlier days, and rioted in the
spells of fraudulently gained Office. They
elevated to places Of trust and responsibility
men whose morality was not above that OF a
Hottentot, and whose honesty was Of type
to be found in st. Giles or Galata. They
elected to seats in Congress and bedecked
with the ermine Of the judiciary men whom
society execrates as assassins. And now
when the country is struggling to free itself
from the death-grip these vampires have fas,
tened upon it, they charge corruption and
decentralization upon those on whose shout
ders rests the herculean task of reformation
and publication of country which they
themselves have inoculated with testers of
infamy that threatened to corrode it to the
core. On they go in their headlong course
through the mire of treason and sedition,
holding out ignes .fafui to the ignorant and
unwary, misguided themselves and mislead-,
ing others into paths that must terminate, as
do the paths of all vipers and traitors, in
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