Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-22
To the Voter. of the stare or Nsvsa..

| November next, is the most important which has
ever occurred in the history Of the Republic and
its consequences, whether of good or evil, as the
people of the loyal States may elect are deslined
to b. felt through all the countless ages. Of tho
future. The contest is not for the supremacy Of
party-not for the success of any Of the prinei.
ciples which, like ripples upon the deep ocean Of
unity aud brotherhood, playfully disturbed the
political surface in the past-not for the reeogni.
tion OF any portion of the conflicting polieies Of
party, which in the days of peace served rather
to unite than to divide an enlightened andenyled
people, claiming common history, common
destiny, and u common God The stfuRrle. "
well throughout the North as beyond the MisslS.
sppi and the james, is between those who love
their country and would peril all to save 1t, md
h the synpathizers with treason, who are laboring
Tor the destruction of the Government of then
fathers, or of the land which gave them protection
from the tyranny Of another hemisphere which
left them homeless. The former are Represented
by the Union party-the latter by what Is known
Us the Peace Democratic party. whose platform
was drafted under the eye and auspices of trea-s
son, whose aim is q recognition Of the independ.
ence OF the Southern Confederacy, and whose
leader stands convicted OF having saved the rebel
capital by the deliberate sacrifice of thirty thous-l
and patriots in the swamps of the Chickahomlny. /
Fellor-citi:eRs, rhich ticket soil you rotei
The platform of the socalled Democratic party
is the voice Of cowardice, treason and enmity 10,
the Federal Government and u libel upon the do
termination and patriotism of the North. It was
dictated in spirit of dislUyalty and adopted byi
the representatives of u party whose leaders are
Southern Secesslonists and northern abettors of
the rebellion II is special plea for the seeded
South, and It's aVowed purpose is the destruction
of. the Union or its restoration upon a basis hu.
initiating and dishOnorable 10 the Government,
aud fruitful of ceaseeSS discord and revolution In
the future Is the loyal North, which has armed
and sent its manhood TO the field, whose richest
~ haa IL.
made them sacred whose homes are hung In
sable, and whose hearts are heavy with the mem.
ory Of the dead-is the loyal North prepared 10
withdraw its armies from the center Of the South,
reached through the carnage OF hundred bloody
telds, TO abandon cause so nearly won, and In
which many noble hearts have bled TO admit
itself vanquished when Inal victory is within Its
grasp, TO pay 10 European creditors the monstrouS
debt Of the Confedcracy TO return 10 bondage the
war.emancipated slave who has stood sentinel
around the camp-tires of freedom, or 10 recognize
the independence Of the rebeous Statesl Ifnot
then is the Chicago platform un infamous false
hood which the honor OF the North demands TO
be refuted in tones OF thunder on the 9Th of No
vember next IL is the proclamation of ma.
tured conspiracy against the peace and we'll being
of loyal people, and the once veneraied name OF
Democracy is detiled by the touch of treason
The platform of the Union party, framed in
spirit of patriotism is but the echo of that all
pervading sentiment which is TO rebuild the
broken arches of the Republic and plant the rose
IN fields made dcsolate by the track of war.
FeIlopciti:eRs, ehich ticket niH you rotey
Let no loSal man BE- led from his allegiance to
the Government by blindly following the bann er
OF party. There are but two parties now, nor
there be third until peace sits again upon
the thresholds of mourning people, and but
single issue divides them-those who Rrr for the
Government and those who are against il. There
is bnt one way by which an honorable peace can
WlNa
treason until it kneels in submission, disarmed
and defenseless, beneath the flag 1t has betrayed
Either must this be done, or the independence Of
the south be recognized. There is no middle
course-nC process OF coDciation or compromise
| by which the South can be saved from Submis-
| sion and the Government saved from dishonor.
What do the leaders of that party styling Itself
| Democratic propose 10 do To elect peace
| Congress, peace President on a peace platform,
| and then accept such terms Of peace as may be
dictated by the Confederacy; aud all this Is 10 be
| accomplished in the name Of Democracy. What
is there in the Democracy OF to-day to remind the
disciple of Jefferson and jackson Of the Democ-
| racy OF the pastl Do its champions, with treas.
| swelling i'll the heart and dying ON the lips IN
| slander Of the Administration, ever talk OF the
| principles Of that party with which they mantle1
| their diSoyalry Do they proclaim aguinSt banks
| and high tariffs against internal improvements
! and popular sovereignty In the empty name oi
| Democracy, which many Of them years ago ab-
yured in the secret councils Of Know Nothingism,
| they denounce the Administration and the war
for the preservation Of the Union and seek 10 lure
| the unthinkIug from their fealty by the magic OF
| simple word. Abandoned upon the inaugura'
| ton Of the rebellion by the great and good man
| who gave il character and direction in the past,
| the party has been seized upon and converted into
| an apology for crime aud an instrument of revo-
luton. Its principles scOrned or forgotten by
the Conspirators who irreverenlly invoke Its name
] Of Dnhif nj d4a
ecra,ed by the homage ofthe Goddess worshippers
! who kneel beside its affairs. In its high places
| where once sat the great teachers OF Democracy,
now crouch the covering apologists OF anarchy
| and disunion and its halls which in the past
echoed the .eloquence OF the patriots of the Re-
| public, now ring with the shouts of lawlessness
| and dsloyalty. And this is the phantom invoked
| from the grave OF party by the spirit of treason
! which leads the van Of dsafecton in the North
| and beckons the loyal devotee of Democracy to
| betrayal of his country.
Fellop.citi:cas, pkich ticket Hill you vote'
Your sutfrages must be given to Mcclellan
! the Chicago platform and national dishonor or
! to Lincoln, the triumph of the Federal arms and
| the establishment OF an honorable and lasting
| peace Calmly viewing the vital issues OF the
| canvass, can you doubt the awful consequences
| OF Peace Democratic victory in November
! Can you hesitate in the performance OF what
| every loyal man must recognize as duty TO his
| country. The consequences Of such triumph
| foreshadowed by the disloyal aims and utterapces
\ of the men who control the party, cannot be con-
/ templated without a shudder. The voice OF the
South, still rebellious and In arms, would direct
| the councils of the Government and dictate the
| terms of a reconstruction. An armistice would
be declared to which the loyal North would not
\ consent and a betrayed and outraged people
would rise in arms against their rulers, and civil
war and anarchy would desolate the land and
| give independence TO the revolted South. This Is
the reasonable hope OF Yallandigham, Cox,
! Wood, voorhees, and Pendletou-this Ia the re-
suit for which the Chicago platform was formed
| But why expose the purposes OF such party !
| Why discuss the manifest results of the triumph
! Of such causeH They are plain to the appre
hension of every mind not dead to reflection, not
impervious to the suggestions Of reason not ire.
yocably welded TO prejudice and error Let US
I hope that the time is past when men may be ar.
| rayed In enmity to the Government by the decla-
! ration of deuagogues that the Constitution has
| been violated and trampled upon by the Admin.
istration," and tnat the struggle for existence in
which the nation Is now engaged is an abolition
| war for the destruction of slavery" Such an
appeal to the prejudces of the unrehecting ID as
criminal as II is false and malicious. In the Ian
| guage of Jefferson Davis, slavery has nothing
| 10 do with the rebellion" 1t is u war between
| Northern muscle and Southern aristocraey, and
! slavery was made the excuse for its Inauguration
| For thirty years the Southern mind had been
|
| publican President was the pretext not the
| cause of the rebellion. For the avowed purpose
of severing all political connection with the toll
| ing millions Of the North, the slavehold!ng sris
tocrecy Of the South drew the sword of revolution
and trampled in the dust the sacred flag of our
| fathers They flung their shouts OF defiance
across the Potomac and the Mississippi and
flaunted the banner ofrevolt In the face Of loyal
people. Then, like mighty uphssvsl of the
solid earth, rose the study, toilstained millions
Of the North For moment they stood in 81.
lenee, scarcely crediting the reality Of the cry of
" disunon" waited 10 their ears on every South.
ern breeze; then swords in countless thousands
glittered in the light, and like the vengeance of
God swept southwark the conquenng hosts of
fresmen. The result Is before u.s. Hundreds Of
| Thousands have periShed by the way, but the
| armies of the Republic have planted the old flag
| again in the heart of the Confederacy, and Trea-
son lies writbing in the agonies of dissolution.
Another effort, and the whole field will be ours,
We must sare The eoHRtry let tie fate of slavery Be
phat ii may To this end the peace party Of the
North must be defeated in November.
FeLioo.citi:eHs, tohieh tieker ,CaI you uotel
What would be the results Of triumph Of the
Peace Democracy In Nevada7 In the Secession
programme, arranged at Richmond in the begin.
ming Of the rebellion, the Pacific States and Terri.
tories were mapped as portions of the Southern