Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-08
TRoUp1Es OF THE pEMooRAcY.


While the war was in progress and the
rebels had an army in the field the De-
mocracy was a unit. East and West the
party denounced the Administration and
the war, and apologized for the rebels,
who could never be conquered. But the
stubborn Government would not down at
the bidding of that party, and finally the
rebels were conquered. Their subjugation
destroyed the only bond of union in the
Democratic party, and it is now hopelessly
adrift. There is no longer a common
principle binding it together like hooks Of
steel, and in the confusion the party in
some parts of the country is still holding
to the dead issues of the past while in
others it has dropped them all, and picked
up the cast-of garments of Republicans.
In one State they still denounce arbitrary
arrests and Provisional Governments in
the South. while in others, the Presidents
measures are approved in bulk-Military
Governments, arrests, military commits
sions, the suspension of the night Of habeas
corpus, and the abolition of slavery are all
commended by the men who were de-
nouncing them as the greatest of villainies
twelve months ago. Unable longer to
denounce the war as a failure, the party is
trying to gather up some of the lost oppor-
t~unities of the past, and to make good by
professions of loyalty the damage done by
their actions in encouraging the rebels to
fight on. The soldiers having succeeded
il defeating the enemy, are now to be
petted as heroes and patriots by those who
twelve months since denounced them as
hirelings, Lincoln dogs, and murderers.
Such is the trouble of the Democracy on
account of its opposition to the war and
denunciations of the Government and the
Union army. 1t is eating its record and
acknowledging that it was a party in the
interest of rebels South and traitors North.
But new questions have grown u of
the war, and one of the greatest difficult
ties Of the party is to come to an under
standing on them. One Of these ques-
tons is that of the payment of the national
debt. Some in the West arc in favor Of
repudiating it, which is consistent with
their action during the war in opposingit,
but very inconsistent with the endorse
ment of President Johnson since its end.
In Ohio the campaign is being pushed
with the avowed purpose of breaking the
national faith, and disregarding the Gov
eminent by forcing it to repudiate its OBJ
legations. So far as heard from the In
diana Democrats approve the issue, and
their organs work in behalf Of repudia-
ton. But in some parts of the country
the leaders see that this will not do, and
they take an opposite course. The Mas
sachusetts Democratic Convention has just
resolved that the National debt must be
paid, while the ticket Of the same party in
New York is composed almost entirely Of
Republicans. In both States President
Johnson is heartily endorsed. But the
greatest trouble of the party is the very
sorrowful fact that, Notwithstanding they
have trimmed their curse to suit every
locality, approving in n State what they
d~enounce in another, they have been
beaten in the elections this year far worse
than they were last year. This is what
hurts. If they are to deny themselves,
eat all they said last year, approve the
policy of the tyrant and boor Andy john
son, and take all sides of all questions for
success, and then be beaten worse than
ever, they have reason to feel Respondent ;
and we are very glad to say that we have
no encouragement to offer them. The de-
feats they have suffered are nothing to
those yet in store for them; for the name
of the party is a stencil in the nostrils Of
the loyal people. ....