Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-07
MCCLELLAN AND THE UNION


Perched on tall pole, and borne aloft
but stunted, blear-eyed specimen of that
order of animated nature upon which the
Copperheads rely for their rank and file,
we saw, in the late procession of Broom
Rangers, transparency bearing the in
scription Mcclellan and the Union"
"The Devil and Holy Water" "Satan
and Infant Baptism" or John Wesley
and the Immaculate Conception" would
have been about as congruent as that
ridiculous legend of Mcclellan and the
Union" Every Copperhead who joins
those names in the same party cry Is
either hypocritical scoundrel or long
cared ass. In establishment of our
proposition, we quote the following ex-
tract from recent editorial in the leading
paper and official organ of the Chicago
Democracy-the Richmond Enquirer:
THAT the elements of the composite party
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dent, are truly described above; and that, if
( elected, he will be compelled, from the very
/ nature Of the case, whatever his own indi-
7 vidual desires may be, to seek negotiation
! with US, and suspend the military operations,
/ IS TO many minds very clear. But we must
! still remember that to give him chance Of
! being elected at all, the invading armies must
! gain no further successes within the next
! month. tits the Confederate army which Gre
! ated a peace party at the North; Johnston and
( Beauregard planted it; Lee wateredit; and we
must give it increase; We must nOurish It
/ and cherish it, By the same method as hither-
. hitherto-that is, with the bullet and bayonet
Should the military situation be unfavorable
10 US next month, Mcclellan could not be
elected; and if he were his election could do
US no good. At present, he and his party
promise neither peace nor war; intend nei-
Their peace nor war. Janus himself did not
face both ways more steadily than the De-
mocracy; and in their hands the door of the
temple Of Janus would neither be shut nor
open; it would be ajar; and it is only we
who could either fling the door wide. or close
aud lock and seal it for generations"
/ The foregoing is official and aushoritive
and is based on the hypothesis that the
candidate is bound by the platform of the
party. That is the sensible theory, and it
would be the practice too, or Little Mac
/ want soon find grave" of somebody
else's digging. Lazarus Powell, Of Ken
rucky, went on the same theory when he
declared that:
"As a peace man who has opposed thi,
! war from the beginning, never having voted
! man OF dollar to carry it on, never will
occupy the position Of one approving Of the
! war or Of the unjust acts connected with it;
but believe that Gen. Mcclellan, as the
nominee of the Convention, should receive
! my support, and he will have tiny warm
| hearty, Jealous support"
But these "War Democrats" these
Union Democrats" these men who. in
the same breath, shout for Mcclellan ana
the Union" aver that they are for McClel-
Ian. but opposed to the platform. CThey
might as we'll try to drink brandy cock
tail and leave the bitters in the glass. }
They saythey support Mac. an the strength
of his declaration in his letter of accept
ance; that he is for "the Union at all haz-
ards" Concerning the utter nonsense of
that declaration, we cannot do better than
quote the following pertinent questions
which we find in Harper's Weekly:
"If he is for the Union at all hazards, why
I is he the candidate of all who repudIate the
| Union:
II he is for the Union at all hazards, why
is he the fellow-candidate of Mr.. Pendleton,
| who lately thanked God that she had never
voted or given dollar in support Of the war,
or in payment of abolition soldiers:
| II he is for the Union at all hazards, why
| is he the candidate Of Convention which
! declares the war failure, calls for an imme-
! diate cessation of hostilities, and asks for a
! Convention to surrender the authority to the
| Government?
! II he is for the Union at all hazards, why
has he accepted the Chicago nomination
without a word Of protest against its assump-
ton that the war is failure, and without a
syllable of dissent from its base proposition
to surrender the Government BY treating with
| rebels and offering conditions Of obedience to
the laws
II he is for the Union at all hazards, why
is he supported by every advocate Of State
rights against the sovereignty of the Union
II he is for the Union at all hazards, why
does Horatio Seymour support him, who says
that if the Union cannot be maintained with
out emancipation, the Union must go that
Slavery may be saved
II he is for the Union at all hazards, why
did the rebel Senator Semmes lately say At
Jackson, Our (the rebels) hopes for an
early peace are dependent entirely on the
success Of the Democratic party at the North
n the approaching Presidential election :
| II he is for the Union at all hazards, why
do the rebel-disuniou papers declare that the
influence Of the South, more powerful in the
shock Of battle than when throwing our mi
nority vote in an ELECTORAL college, will be
! cast in favor of Mcclellan:
II he is for the Union at all hazards, why
does the news of Union victories decrease his
chances Of an electionm
After reading the foregoing unanswer-
able questions, we are forced to deliber-
ately stignatize any man who talks about