Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-02
THE BOYS WHO WEAR THE


Union party of this county from the class
of citizens to whom the above caption re-
fers is a matter for increasing congratula-
ton. We have in our ranks many true
blue Union men, Of Irish birth, who took
their departure from falsely called DE
mocracy" on the day when the civil wal
was inaugurated; but it is well known
that a majority Of our Irish born citizens
adhered to the Democratic" party, gen.
orally under the delusion of a name. They
were slow to perceive the change that had
taken place in the National and State
creeds of that party; they could not at
once be brought to a realizing sense Of the
fact that a party that held every traitor to
our country in its ranks was a party of
treason, despite the antecedeIts that lent
glory to its name. How can WI sweep
ingly blame them for thiss when many
Of our best native-born and thoroughly
American bred men chung to "Democ-
racy," o~bstinately, until the firing on Fort
Sumter opened their eyes to the real ma
ture Of their political affiliations, and
showed the yawning abyss of treason to
which Democracy" was dragging the
Nation. 1, needed, it absolutely required
a great, startling act Of Treason in u
land to rightly illumine the understand
ings of thousands upon thousands Of
Americans who had implicitly followed
Democracy" as much under the charm
OF the word as were their Irish fellow
voters. Now, in the kind providence of
the Almighty overruler of the Destiny of
Nations, in the time of accomplished
peace by victory in behalf Of the Govern
ment and against secession, at a time when
the enemies Of free institutions hoped to
get back into place and power, there is
preparation for a patriotic uprising in Ire
land; Immediately and most intimately
connected with which are the personal,
old-home sympathies of naturalized citi-
e Of this Republic, who have organic
ed for the furtherance of the Irish cause,
and who are aided, to the extent of inter-
national consistency and privilege-made
very broad, through recent British "neu-
tralisy example,"-by the Union party's
elected Administration. And the sym
pathy and direct aid of the returned Union
soldiers of the American Republic are en-
listed in this cause. These facts are not
and can not be hid under a bushel. The
Irishmen Of our country are equal wit
nesses with us of the things whereof we
now relate.
They see the Democracy" attempting
to revive the dead of party issues, while
the Union party, represented by the Ad-
ministration in power. morss on the corks
of Britain. A Nation, not this or that
little petty Dragging BOBBY Of a brawler-
who cries nj "State," State" for a party
word-a NATION is significantly "neutral-
izing" for the success of the liberal
cause in Ireland. While democratic"
politicians are blatherskiting about this
and that fossil question, killed by the
civil wal, If ever truly live matter for dis
c~ussion, the Union Administration goes
on in acts to the help of the weak and
down-trodden against the hand of the
ancient oppressor. The very azure of our
National banners shield seems to deepen
into the color that Erin's patriotic and
liberty-loving SON adopt and adore, as
the hue of the flag of father-land, in token
and bond of the hope and expectation and
resolve of loyal Americans in and for the
nationality of Ireland. Because many
Irishmen unwittingly voted against our
own National cause, during the few years
Of civil strife which we have just passed,
we do not close our hearts or Withhold the
strength of our arms for their National
cause, in all respects kindred to ours in
justice and right. And by illustrating
this fact in present practice. in deeds Of help
to the Fenian Brotherhood, we do that, as
a party in power, which clears the vision
of our Irish born fellow citizens, and
makes them with US al~together-no more
nor again to be blinded by the lying sheets
of modern democracy" no more nor
again TO be deluded by the nero name
Democracy"
In this connection we remember, how
ever, that only two papers in all Ireland
and those two much Zone directly under
the control of British aristocrat influence
ever advocated or commended the South
ern Confederacy cause. All the other.
public journals Of Ireland were out-spoken'
and vehement in support of the Union
d~enouncing the theory of secession as
hostile to the very life Of liberty +; anathe-
matizing the leaders Of secession lauding
the Union army and its soldiers and Off
GERS /; rejoicing over every Union victory
and speaking with hope and cheer when
temporary disaster overlook our flag. o.,
praise be to God! we can and will remem-
Der that every Irish journal, with but two
notable and now. throughout Erin, de-
tested exceptions, battled for the American
Union cause with vigorous logic and in
~vective. with true sentiment Of freedom,
with overwhelming effect upon popular
Judgment IN the land Of the Shamrock.
The country of the O'Connel who placed
upon record the most burning denuncia-
ton Of slavery that was ever uttered by
mortal man has, from its hearthstones and
domestic affairs, been true to our National
u and now that those Of Erin's exiled
but here welcomed sons who have been
politically mislead into the support of
treason's party are coming to the Union
ranks in scores and hundreds each day,
we can rejoice in consciousness Of the fact
that an entire unity Of conviction and
purpose animatcs and actuates the boys