Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-02
THE ISSUE.

The Union party, now happily in power
in this country, are in favor Of a uniform
qualification for voters, aud Of keeping
the late rebel States where they are-under
surveillance and military jurisdiction, until
they show, in an unmistakable form, that
they. recognize, approve and ratify the
total extinction and prohibition Of slavery;
and until they also recognize their former
slaves as freemen. The copperhead organs
declare this infamous and outrageous.
They assert that if Congress refuse admis-
sion to the representatives of the people
recently engaged in rebellion, that such
action will be I" intolerable" to the South.
and "it will be equally intolerable in the
North, and unless it be abandoned, a re-
bellion of such huge proportions, as to be
a revolution will be the result"
The Constitution declares that each
House of Congress shall be the exclusive
judge Of the election returns and quali6-
cations of its own members. This power
has been exercised from the foundation of
the Government. In It's exercise repre-
sentatives have been excluded even to the
extent of leaving a State without any
representation. The Union party have
a majority in both branches of Con.
gress; that party, with entire unanimity
propose to exercise this power with that
severity which the condition Of the coun-
try demands, and which the bloody re-
bellion has made necessary.
We doubt very much whether the
House of Representatives will admit
Roger A. Pryor OF Robert E. Lee to seats
in tina, body if they be elected by the peo-
pie of Virginia, nor do we believe that
the Senate will admit Jefferson Davis,
John Slidell or Howell Cobb, should those
individuals be elected to that body by the
sovereign States of Georgia, Mississippi
and Louisiana; the Union party in
Congress intend to keep that kind of loyal
men out of Congress, nor will it admit to
that body any person who does not come
under circumstance that demonstrate be-
yond all question that the political power
Of those States has been taken away from
rebels, and placed irrevocably in the hands
Of loyal men.
If this be done, the Copperheads pro.
| claim another rebellion as inevitable. Who
is to rebels The men who have Just been
conquered and forced into a submission to
the Union they sought to destroy? They
probably have had as much Of rebellion as
they will need during the present genera
ton. Will the northern Copperhead'
who mourn so ~piteously over the execu-
! ton of four Of their number. and who are
praying so earnestlyfor the life oftheir CHIEF
now in Fortress Monroe, submit: Who
are they that will rebel if the respective
Houses OF Congress IN the exercise OF their
constitutional power should judge that
traitors individually and traitors collec-
lively, who repudiate the political rights
granted by a national act, of four millions
Of freemen, are not fit men to be entrusted
with the legislation Of the Union:
The experience Of the last four years
ought to convey a lesson to these men
who threaten rebellion, and ne commend
to the democracy the policy Of President
Johnson towards the rebels Of Tennessee
as an illustration Of what may be expected
of HIM, should they adopt the advice Of
their organs; and put on the uniform Of
rebels and take up ths arms of traitors.