Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-31
THE coNrRNTED spEcrAroR.

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demand that he shall fully show hls hand.
The supporter of the Government of the
United States and the enemy of the ma
tons foes, has no hesitation in ANNOUNCE
ing his principles, and does not sail under
the neutral flag of "No-Party." A news
paper publisher Who fears to assert his po-
htical sentiments, and to give political
complexion to his journal, should avoid
allusion to political subjects. The Spec
tator man Is politician by nature and oy
force of the custom of his lifetime, and ne
has found himself, despite his "No-Party
cloak, dabbling in matters that render his
mask a useless incumbrance. He wrote
an article the other day upon the ICON
stitutional Amendment" which, although
cloaked with a thin garb of loyalty,
showed his sentiments and sympathies as
plainly as though the Chicago Platform
had been displayed at the head of his col
umns. We drew aside the thin veil which
was hung over his copperheadism, and
talked to him like a father. The
Spectator man did MT like it, and we had
no idea that he would when we wrote 1t.
We had only one object in view in review
ing his article, and that was to entice the
copperhead out of his hole; and we eff
fected that object to the complete fulfil
ment of our expectations. Out he came,
head and tail up, and exhibited himself
fully to the gaze of those who had hereto
fore supposed the Spectator to be that I'M
possible thing, "no-party paper. In
the article referred to, he expressed de-
lishtful and enviable contentment with
the vote of New Jersey and Delaware
upon the Constitutional Amendment; a
contentment that was not shared in by
patriots to any considerable extent; and
saw therein grandeur and sublimity
which we venture to say is invisible to the
eye of any American citizen who voted
the Union ticket at the last general cleo
ton. We repudiated the sublimity of the
officiating course of the New Jersey Leg
stature and the Spectator man crawls out
into the sunshine and shows fight for that
delectable State, in a manner that shows
the real sentiments that he has been mask
ing under his "no-party disguise. In
making few extracts from our article, he,
very unfairly and with deliberate intent to
misrepresent us, mutilates sentences. For
that we care but little, however. In the
course of his article, which is lengthy
one. and the only editorial in that number
of the paper, he does exactly, and all that
we wanted him to do. The following
panegyric upon New Jersey. labels him
for exactly what he is-a virulent copper
head, trying to make living in a loyal
community under false pretences. Here
he it:
New Jersey is an adhering State Of the
Union, but has the misfortune to be Demo
cT1IlC, White Tie -NctIo OCIOhAo W Va O"hS
another political party. New Jersey is the
only State out of debt-the only State that
furnishes its quota of men for the war with
out draft-but she is Democratic and, &C.
cording to the NetcS, is "a by-word and
scotfng," "despised" and "rotten egg.
From our no-party stand point, we viewed
the action of New Jersey, with that OF other
States, as "grand sublime" considering the
strife in which the nation is engaged. We
still think she is noble and patriotic little
State, and that Jersey blue" is true
blue" to those whose minds are unclouded
by partisan prejudice. Some might regret
her disposition Of the amendment, but no in
telligent patriot should denounce State, as
true to the Union. as New Jersey has always
shown herself to be. We had not intended
to refer at such length to this subject; but
hope if it does not serve the reader to 'point
a moral or adorn a tale" may illustrate the
grand and sublime difference" between a
patriotic and contented spectator, and pat
riotict but discontinued partisan, whom
Shakespeare mentioned as "a scurVy Politi-
cian."
That's the way that New Jersey looks
to man "from a no-party stand point"
Such being the aspect of New Jersey from
a "no-party stand point" it is very easy
to locate the stand-point.> 1t is some
where to the southwark of Mason and
Dixon's line; and the only source Of re-
greet is that the body of the spectator is not
at the standpoint from which his mental
vision took that squint at New Jersey.
It may be credit to New Jersey that
while the other States of the Union have
burdened themselves with heavy war
debts to aid the Government IN crushing
the rebellion, New Jersey is the only
State out of debt" The finances of that
State have always been IN a fourishing
condition. Her State prison and the head
money which she has levied for the past
thirty years upon travellers have been her
chief sources of revenue, and she has
been out of debt for the same reason
that the Emperor Norton doesn't owe any
very large bills to the merchants and bank
ers of San Francisco. That question, how
ever, has nothing to do with this case;
and we should not have referred to it if
the editor of the Spectator (who is probably
a Jerseyman, or ought to beg had not
raised the point. It was the action of
New Jersey upon this Constitutional
amendment, that excited the admiration
of the Spectator +; it was that which he con-
sidered sublime" New Jersey /" has the
misfortune to be Democratic y; she is the
only free State that voted for Mcclellan;
and she is the only free State, which Is
ashamed of its freedom, and which bows
itself in the dust before the tottering throne
of JEFF. Davis and reaches forth her hand
to save and perpetuate an institution re-
Pudiated throughout Christendom, and