Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-28
DEMOCRACY AND THE pREs1-

DENT.
The Democratic leaders must be sadly
disappointed, and doubtless many Of them
Disguised. The Republicans in the
first place refuse to quarrel with the Presi-
dent, and thus drive him Gas the Demo-
Gratis expected) over to the Opposition
and in the second place, the President
don't seem to have any idea OF deserving
the party that elected him for one whose
sudden conversion to, his support and of,
fcious Endorsement Of his policy he must
know is without a particle Of sincerity.
But most provoking of all and v dis
gushing, after the Democrats had declared
repeatedly and SO positively that this is a
white mans Government" and against
giving the elective franchise to colored
men on any terms.-supposing as they did
that to be the President policy-he comes
down upon them like a clap of thunder
out of a clear sky, with the declaration to
the colored soldiers that-"You are my
fellow citi=sas.% and "this is your country
as well any body else's country and
with other unmistakable evidence that he
is in favor of Negro S~uffrage-to q certain
ex,ent-to giving the ballot to colOred SOL
diers, to such colored men as can read the
Constellation and acs Of the land, and to
such probably as W q certain amount Of
property and pay tax on it; in short, Of
letting ballot toRO'o taratioH. This would
give the ballot at once to several hundred
thousand negroes, and a prospect Of gain
ing it in very short time to thousands
MORE. OF course the Democrats cannot
endorse the President in this matter, with
out eating their own words before they
have become cold, which at least would
not be pleasant.
But the worst Of all-and the best Of
all-is the fact, the grand, glorious, noble
and Christian fact, that the President gives
the lie to the infamous sentiment and
Democratic party slang, that "this is a
rhits mans country and tchite mans Gov
ernment," to the exclusion of all others.
1t must be that President johnson pur-
posely sought this occasion-his recent
address to the colored soldiers-that he
might show to the world, and to this sell
fish, illiberal and ignorant party, styled
"the Democracy" that he endorsed no
such infamous doctrine. He knew that
when this Government was formed, COL
ored men participated in the noble work |;
that they fought for it and helped to gain
its independence, and that they roted at
the elections for the first President and
other officers, State and National, during
the early years of the Republic. Even in
his own State Of Tennessee, the free COL
ored man voted up to as late a period as
1886, as well as in several other Of the
slave Statcs-up TO near that time. But
whether the black man is allowed to vote
or not-how can this be exclusively a
"white mans Government" a "white
mans country" when there are five mil
lions of free people in them that are not
white-and in some of the States more
colored than white people: The declara-
ton is false in fact and infamous in senti-
ment, and we are glad that the President
has-as it was his duty-put the brand of
falsehood and infamy upon it. And if
the Democracy intend, as they profess and
promise, to support the President and his
policy, we hope soon to hear no more
about this being exclusively a white mans
Government.