Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-27
FEN FEN1ANs, IF You CAN, JOHN
RULL. AND NM. COPPERHEAD.

long since, " Master Mitchell" is its-our
cutoff, stop-advantage word in the game
Of marbles wa (" FEM That is the word
John Bulls boys might well prefix to the
name of the Irish patriotic organization,
as above. Though the Fenians is said not
to be in n sense a secret society. the
public does not know certainly all its aims
and objects. But, in general, we under
stand its intent, and there seems to be no
attempt whatever to conceal its active op-
erations of the present. Indeed, the chief
matter for surprise spoken Of among all
newspaper reading men and women is,
this Orders open and above-boardl pre-
paration for hostilities against England.
The instiSating, aiding, cooperating con-
duct of the Society in this country with
the parties who are drilling for warlike
service in Ireland, on behalf Of the Irish
cause, affords matter for important politi-
cal comment. The probability seems to
be that in and through this very move
ment in the United States, the great mass
Of Irish voters who have heretofore sus-
tanned the Democratic party, in tradi.
tional sympathy with the mere name. are
to be associated hereafter in ardent sup
port of the Administration and the Union
party. 1t is impossible for our Govern
ment to get into a war-so to speak
with England at once, IN the score of her
pratical outRstings, but it is evident that
Andy Johnson and VIM. H. Seward are
doing "the next best thing" in the way
of humiliating Great Britain's rulers and
giving them to understand the universal
American sentiment toward them and their
supporters. Now, it was terribly annoy
ing to us-it must be confessed-the very
helpful neutrality" of belligerent-ac-
knowledging England during u civil
war Excessively tantalizing to the loyal
mind, as well as really and substantially
encouraging to rebellion, and therefore
baleful to our temper and demoralizing to
our hope. But never better opportunity
to r~etaliate In kind. and with usurious in
terest of aggravation. And. thank God,
our Government, as administered, is not
slow to improve the occasion thus provi-
dentially presented.
We can congratulate ourselves as Union
party men on this turn in affairs. In ad'
dition to the enlightenment Of many
democratic" understandings, BY the
victories of the Nation, We have a new ele-
ment of positive proselyting power brought
forward for the securement Of the con-
tinued success of the Union organization.
And not only in New York and Chicago
and Washington, but here in Gold Hill
and Virginia, the Irish understand this
matter A.; and we are in our next election
to feel the force Of their conversions on
this very issue. They see the support the
Union Administration Is lending to the
efforts of the Fenian brotherhood, and
they can not be blinded to the advantage
they will gain by Immediately throwing
their political strength entire for the party
which placed and now sustains the roll Of
Andy Johnson.
1t has long been a well known fact thai
Seward was a true friend of the Irish pat.
riotic cause. and the positions taken by al
the leading and prominent lights Of the
Union party in Congressional and otheI
high Offices during the past four years
has ensured their hearty sympathy witt
the up-springing liberating organization
in Erin's Isle. While JEFF. Davis had hi.
Ministers at the Court Of St. James sup
plicating on Bonded knees for "recogni'
ton" of his "Confederacy," the Union
party statesmen in the Senate Of the
United States and in the National House
Of Representatives, were giving expression
to determined sentiments Of hostility, ultra
and uncompromising toward the British
throne. Had the " C~onfederncy OF
Davis proved a success, farewell to the
hopes of Irish patriots. Failing. the tri'
umph Of that body of patriots becomes tht
expressed hope of the party that has sus'
tanned the loyal eau in America. Irish
men who reflect upon the history of event:
during the last four years, and who notice
what our Government is now doing in aid
of the Fenian organization, understand
and appreciate this fact. ~."rlus. =
1t is a somewhat sorrowful sight tc
witness the recognition Of this state o
the case, reluctantly given by Intelligent
Copperheads. They see that the word
" Democracy" has indeed lost, and lost
almost wholly, its once potent charm.
They witness the turning Of the tide oil
foreign, and especially Irish vote, entirely
from their ranks. They endeavor to keep
up a clamor, as if noisy vociferation would
deceive some or many into a belief in their
confidence as to n hold upon Irish votes
but. alas. it is to them all vanity and vex-
alton of throat and spirit. The Irishmen
of Storey county are leaving the rotten
hulk democracy by the good ship load.
It's a political emigration from the swamps
of Copperheadism. The C~opperhead Su-
perintendents of certain mines may be
deluded with the idea Of their coercIng
authority on election day. But the assur-
ances they sound in the ears of Copper
head leaders will be broken to the hope
thus engendered or fostered. The Fenian
Society is a patriotic society. From its
very base Of organization it could have no
legitimate political contact with Copper
headism. The latter did entertain the ex-
pec,a,ion Of organized. compac, aid from
this Irish fraternity but its teachings
have been directly pointing to a eommun-
ion of its members with the Union party
at such a junction as the present. Hurrah
for the Fenians!