Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-04-12
NEW PARTIES.

COuAA!- 1S-S - q oOay "a 4ePASoSubo-
tives, indeed. In Congress and in the State
Legislatures, which votes and talks in
favor Of human slavery, jeers at negroes,
insults the Government and virtually JUS
titles the rebellion. But these individuals
do not form great political party. They
ere merely faction a band of adventure
ers; the rowing, marauding remains Of
an army, holding together until they can
advantageously ally themselves to some
other organized and effective force. Sim
gle individuals like Long aud Pendleton
can not claim the name of Democratic for
a political body with which Griswold.
Ganson, and Odell, for instance, do not
oct. The position Of these latter gentle-
men shows that the late Democratic party
no longer exists. The name will belong
hereafter to those leaders who are most
skillful in perceiving the principles upon
which party can be rallied.
Ofthe parties that existed when the war
began the name Democratic alone re-
mains. The Constitutional Union party
survives only in John Bell drinking sue
cess to the rebellion in bad whisky. The
Republican party, as such. has secured its
great object of limiting the extension Of
slavery. The necessities Of the case, in
nation waging civil war, divide US all
into two bodies, those who support the
Administration in its war policy, and
those who do not. But the old party
lines do not separate US. The party of
the Administration is composed of men
as different as the late Edward Everett,
General Butler, John A. Griswold, Thur
low Weed. and Charles Sumner, who
were respectively leaders Of the Bell
Everett. the breckenridge, the Douglas
parties, and both wings Of the Republican
party, before the war. We are at the end
of parties. Upon what grounds are they
to be reconstructed:
There are various speculations upon this
point. but they all seem to Us to be pre-
mature. Parties in free Government di-
vide upon the policy Of administration.
But until the administration Of the Gov
eminent is secure, it is too early to dis
cuss policies. There may be differences
as to the means of securing the authority
of the Administration. That is to say,
the friends of the war may differ as to how
it may be made most effective. But that
is not division into political parties.
Nor is it easy to infer from the previous
history Of the country what the division
will be. The political struggle of this
country from the beginning mas been that
between the Southern policy and the es-
,ential principles Of the Government. But
now that the latter have triumphed abso-
.utely. and have destroyed the foundation
Of that policy, there must be entirely new
ssues. These are likely to arise, in the
srstplace, from the peculiar structure Of
'ur Government; and. in the second,
rom the methods necessary to carry it on.
The relative rights and powers Of the
States and the nation. and tie fundamen-
al question of protection and free-trade,
ire the probable grounds of future party
liyision. .. ......
The Evening Post, one of the Oldest
ashioned Democratic organs in the coun-
~, is Of opinion that if the proposition
Il universal free-trade as the permanent
rational policy had been made to the
ebel agents in Hampton Roads, 1t would
lave seriously tempted Mr.. Hunter. an
I'D free-trader. But however probable it
nay be that this question may hereafter
iivide the country politically, it would
certainly have been an extraordinary sug-
,estion from the President to the rebels.
Nobody knows better than the Post, thar
there is the utmost radical difference upon
that very point among loyal men, and all
that the President could have said would
be no more than an expression of the
probability that there would be a large
party hereafter. But whether
free-trade would be adopted as perma-
nent national policy, the President could
no more tell than Mr.. Hunter. If he had
chosen to indulge in political speculation
Of that kind the President might have
added, that, in his opinion also, the doc
trine of supreme State Sovereignty would
bs effectually exploded. But such topics
would hardly have been timely or judi.
cious. What the President could officially
do, was one thing. What Mr.. Lincoln
the popular decision upon vital
point of difference might be, was quite
another.
In the present situation Of the country
there are no grounds upon which to con-
struct great parties; bat there was never
more favorable moment for the discussion
of the causes which have brought US to
this condition. that we may not only win
victories but secure their fruits. The great
fruit will be the establishment of the Gov.
eminent upon its original principles.
When that is accomplished. parties win
naturally arise. a. . zas.T~yrss-s
ONE OF THE Hooxs.-The Richmond
Wing says: .f.--.v
"Le. Us look up. There is hope in
North Carolina. The people Of the Old
North State are brave and tenacious
people. They will teach Sherman a
wholesome lesson. The clans are muster