Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-29
ON THE FENcEp

must we all and each be. The closed
lips, though sealed with special care, will
not avail for the warranted indifference OF
any man to the issues of the day. 1t will
be known throughout the community if
any merchant or master mechanic affect a
discreet quiet in this campaign. And
how mean it is, not to take your position
in this canvass. The battle on the field is
ours; won with a glorious line of deeds
and unequaled exhibition of skillful valor'
As we value our home interests, we must
| keep Nevada true to the Union party,
now in Federal power. All the higher
order Of selfish incentives-so to speak
suggest and urge unqualified fealty to the
Union party from those who are and ex-
pect to remain residents of this young
State. Now, too, there is little or moth
ing to be gained by a suppression of
Union sentiment on the part of a loyal
man. If such a thing be possible, as a
genuine Union man who is willing to
smother out struggling sentiment for trade,
or that he may claim a wholesale personal
popularity, he need not remain the con-
temptible human anomaly of the country.
The democratic" party is reduced,
| shorn down to the secesh element; with
inconsiderable exception or qualification.
The lights" of that organization, who
must hold forth and shine during the next
month"; any democratic demonstration
is made at all are the lean, flicker
ing tallow candles Of secessionism,
out and out. The concert voice OF
| deceived masses of men will no longer
hurrah for the owl screeches Of "Consti-
tutional Democrats" The party Of dis
union is played out, on its inerasable
creeds of treason. Nothing is more palp-
able than this to the mind of ordinary
sagacity. For a man who was a square
Union man last year to assert that there Is
no farther need for his interfering in
politics." is 10 expose a lamentable igno-
rance in regard to the exigencies of the
times, as well as take from his past the
talent of credit once accorded to him. More
| than ever, many fold more than ever, is
the necessity now of energetic cooperation
in his proper political party Of every citizen
who loves his country, who hates slavery,
who hopes for a glorious future to the
Republic. Blind indeed is he who can
not read this assertion-as a home truth
for himself and his neighbor. Further
more, it ought to be added in this connec-
ton, the public of America, everywhere on
this continent, have come to a sovereign
contempt for all species of the political
human being dubbed milk and water"
Either hot or cold you must be, or the
people will spew we out of their-ballot-
box. 1t is eminently right that this
should be the case to-day. In times when
there was a really quiet dispute about
tariffs and internal improvements, the ex-
cuse for apathy N public questions was
comparatively respectable. And ques-
tons have been discussed, during the life
of our Republic, on and about which
COMPOUNDED confusion reigned supreme.
Two men OF the same party would
honestly disagree as to the purport
of certain platforms and party pro.
n~unciamentos. Men of fair intelligence
stood arrayed in partisan hostility
who actually agreed in sentiment, and the
SAM creed was uttered by statesmen who
totally differed, in point Of fact, on main
and vital propositions therein referred to
and supposed to be bounded. Not so
now. Far from IT. Clear and sharp to
cutting keenness are the radical distnc-
tons OF party forms and preferences. The
last Chicago platform is the last of the
available Democratic Deceptions." No
more successful shouting for ideas and
propositions they do moi entertain. The
LIE is written as a type of Democratic
dogmas, for all time to come. Because such
a plank is inserted in their platform, is no
basis whatever for reasoning that it will
hold up a voter who sets his suffrage action
upon it. Language to conceal IDEAS"
or language adapted to c~unningly convey
different and respectively agreeable ideas
to separate classes Of men,-she writing of
this sort of speech is the old consummate
but now exposed and exploded trick of
chivalry Democracy. No apology, then,
for affecting misrepresentation or misun-
d~erstanding of party positions in this
campaign. AS Right and Wrong are ar
rayed in the tribunal of each intelligent
mans conscience, so stand over against
each other before the world, the parties Of
to-day. Choosing, you choose advisedly
and without hazard of moral mistake /:
refusing to make a practical choice you
receive and merit the contempt of the or
canized enemies ever Of free Government,
now called Democrats :" and you are
thus infinitely beneath the contempt Of
the supporters of free institutions. If
Copperheads deserve and receive our hate
as the sworn and avowed aiders and abet-
tors Of treason, the dodger is below the
moral touch of a white heat execraton
that goes probing downward to find his
miserable soul. o! up with the banner
of Freedom, and out with the saluting
cheer of a freeman, and be of that mighty
host doing great and successful battle for
this generation in a cause of Truth-in
L~iberty,-the grandest, most enrolling,
most beautiful of national political en-
deavors.