Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-29
Gam AFFORD NO p1FFER.

les: on SUING eniuBos many pointsi VIC
can or might afford to differ, as Union
men. But while you can spy out some
obscure or contingent issue,-.snot yet
really involved in any practical considers
ton and question, there may be read a
dozen parts Of the right and the propriety
as recent events have demonstrated the
right and propriety to be. We gravely
suspect that this talk Of differences, that
can be afforded or tolerated, Is likely to
degenerate for the benefit Of those who
would white away, if they could, all the
vital principles and alLthe corresponding
intention to act, that have been maintain.
ed up to the fullest physical triumph.
Let US not be overcome or misled by com-
promising and demoralizing Probabilities.
When a man warns with you into a dis
pute on q mooted subject of the times, do
not be struck or soothed Immediately out
Of your position if your last and better
arguments are retorted with : Well, that
is a matter we can all afford to differ
about" 1t is evident your opponent
don't intend to yield his views, and your
judgment should not be opiated out Of
adherence to and active propagation OF
support of an essential political truth or
rule of action by this Democratic dodge
Of take-a-drink and let-it-all-pass. To
confess our whole thought in regard to
this there is very little Of renowned issue
IN u country to-day respecting which
patriots can " afford to differ" The mos,
unle,tered can scarcely have failed to. set
the object Of the struggle, as contemplated
from either side, and to know that all Of
free life for the Nation depends upon
carrying out the policy Of the past and
present Administration to a thoroughly
established Governmental basis. Those
can not now be legitimate questions fol
discussion, one answer TO which describes
the very crime for which so many rebels
are holding up their hands for par
don. Before consent is given, publicly
and generally, from ourselves, that such
or such q topic is one allowing fair
disagreement, it should be inquired, first.
if the subject be really embraced in TIT
detachable catalogue of the hour-wheth-
er it be not q foreign or a dead subject;
second, If the subject has risen out Of the
civil contest, or been covered by it, and
whether its settlement in one particular
way be not necessary to the perfect organ
iza,ion Of right against wrong; third, if i
be not a subject which the experience OF
the past four or FIVE years has demon.
strated must be settled now, at once, and
forever. upon the foundation the war itself
has laids Frivolous and impertinenr
questions will be raised, and because We
can afford to differ on such, it will b.
attempted to argue proper differences on
all are admissible.
The worms that have feasted on the
carcass Of Democracy will crawl out Of
the shroud and grave, and change to but,
terales, and seek to Autter in the Union
parlors. They should be driven III
they will lay the old style Of eggs, n
foul and ruin the tapestry Of the cham.
bers Of Liberty. It cannot be "aforded"
that they be domiciled in the houses oil
those whom they would destroy. These
vermin have musical organs, and they
will now sing through their noses, yam
kee Doodle" The Star-Spangled Ban
uer" and Hail Columbia" and make
believe they ought to be encouraged on the
premises, to the exclusion Of canaries and
lap-dogs. They will metamorphose
through the whole creeping gamet' Of
their Statute Of Limitations, and infest the
cushions and carpeted stools of the Union
church militant in the character Of Aeas,
and so on up the scale to the dignity of
Uranium and bed bugs. Must not suffer
these creatures to get a nest-hole; they
must be destroyed with caustic and anguin-
tenn and corrosive sublimate so 500 as
they make their appearance in q respect
able dwelling. ~
Brother citizens: we tell you that we
cannot afford to differ in any manner so
as to let the enemy of our liberal institu-
tons obtain any power or authority what
soever. And if we deal nationally with
each other and con~scientiously toward
ourselves and toward God, we shall never
seriously differ until the whole land shall
be regenerated and disenthralled. We,
loyalists, are yet on the war path "Eter-
nal vigilance is the price of liberty"