Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-01
oRmsRY COUNTY LETTER
CARSON, Oct. 81, 1865.

CARSON, Oct. 81, 1860.
EDITOR GOLD HILL News From all
parts of the State cheering news TO
hand almost daily Of the prospects of our
glorious Union party and cause, and more
especially from those counties in which
our candidate for Congress, Hon. D.. K.
Ashley, has dealt, in proper person, his
deathly blows upon the heads of the "ser-
penis" But the most cheering news
comes from Lander county; for since Mas
ter Mitchell exhibited his physique in that
"corner of the moral vineyard" men Of
sense, discernment and veracity give it as
their deliberate judgment that Ashley will
have not less than two hundred majority
in that county, and that the entire Union
ticket will be elected by over n hundred
and fifty majority. The good work goes
bravely on in this, Douglas, Washoe and
Esmeralda counties.
Wherever good Union light is made to
shine, the mass of the voters spurn mod
ern Democracy, and wherever the platform
OF the Sage-brush Coppcrhead party is
properly ventilated and its hideousness
exposed. men swear eternal hatred to those
who hate the great and good Government
which has just been saved from a prema-
ture destruction.
But 1 see the sugc-brush, patriotic, mod
ern Democracy have hit upon q new idea
for getting the votes Of war men. They
say that Grant, Sherman, Farragut and
others of our glory-clad Generals and
officers of the army and navy ,rcre Demo-
Gratis before tie t0ar. l grant it, and 1
presume they would be now, if there
were any respectable Democratic party
to belong to. But the fact is, the Dem
ocratic party left them; left them
in a d~isreputable manner, for disrepu-
table purposes, and they would not
follow, but fold the Democracy that if
they were determined to war against the
Government, they would fight them; and
they did fight them too, and whipped
them. Grant and Sherman Democrats |!
No. They are not such Democrats as we
have in the sage-brush, nor such as they
have around the feet of the Gamalicl Of
Democracy - c. l.. Vallandigham, Of
Buckeye, late of "his own, who received
him not" I will tell the sa~ge-bruSh De-
mocracy who uere Democrats before the
war broke out, were such during its
bloody continuance. and who are yet.
And I will first name old Pub. Func.,
milk-and .bread-poultice Buchanan. who
drew the rebellion to a head, at the White
House, then Democratic doggery, in
Washington. Yes, while President, and
ever since, he was and is n perfect paragon
of Democracy. Then there was John b.
Floyd, who died firm in Democratic faith,
and practice too. Next, for his pungent,
memorable, undiminished and unextin.
guishable Democracy, l will write down
John C. Breckenridge, of the dark and
bloody ground. Coming nearer home, I
may mention the Thorntons, the Smiths,
the Sanders, the Showalters and others,
of the Pacific Coast, who, "by their
works, showed their Democratic faith"
ard proved beyond the cavil of a doubt,
by combinations strong as proofs of
Holy Writ" that, while in Northern
limits, they were consistent, Constitu-
tional Peace Democrats, and when in
Southern lines, for " wal to the knife, and
the knife to the hilt." And then, in our
own State. the names are LEGION" OF
those who have ever maintained their
jewel of consistency, by calling Grant,
Sherman, and the long list of war-worn,
veteran heroes, officers and soldiers,
'Lincoln:s hirelings," abolition des-
pots" "Negro-worshipping usurpers,""
&C., sc. Tint kind Of blubber won't do.
Union men will not bite at it; for they
knOtc the sage-brush Copperhead- Confed-
crate Democracy are as bdterly opposed
to the Government, as ever they were.
Then again, how clever the late DEM
ocratic State Convention magnanimously
buried all the past issues. Mastery stroke
of policy! But they left a small portion
of the "pesky" contraband sticking out.
That is a pity, for heard a poor, grief
stricken Copperhead, the other day, de-
precating the threatened approach of
niger equality, and depicting the horrors
Of miscegcnation, in a most ~frightful
mood. Mas, POGO tempo.
Ais WELL.