Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-02
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Wendell Phillips, in his Fourth Of July
speech at birmingham, Mass, dwelt as
follows on the situation Henry Will
son and Radicalism in the West. It seems
to us that he spells out a case of alleged
&" duplicity" against Stevens s Co., but
only makes a naked ~ charge" against
Senator Wilson. Read:
How, then, do we stand to-days The
great agony of the nation is to plant the
institutions Of the Rebel States on a foun-
dation durable because just. The only
durable foundation is that Of land and the
ballot. The President avowedly repudi-
ates it. The has signed Freedmen's Home
stead Bill, and Congress surrendered it.
Remember, l do not charge George Bout
well, or Thaddeus Stevens, or Charles
Sumner with surrendering it. I know
their plan, as you do. They say, 1--WE
take this, but before we stop working we
will have more" l know their meaning ;
hut the Republican party stands to-day
where, by this policy. they sacrifice the
very character and cohesion that makes it
possible they should ever fulfill their
pledge to the negro. A French author
says: The barbarian sits down on the
savannah, and eats up everything, and
then moves. He sacrifices his substance
to his appetite" Just so with the Repub-
lican party. II eats up. on the necessity
Of to-day, the very ground upon which it
stands, and its success this Summer de-
yours the possibility of It's success next
Winter. Let it go to the people and sue
coed in the Fall elections on this Congress
sional policy, and that very success which
has eaten up and devoured the possibility
of fulfilling its pledge to to the negro in
the coming Congress Of next Winter Jap
plause. for it sacrificed the high toned
conviction Of the masses. Its speakers are
obligated TO go through the canvass with
an argument which will stop their mouths
when they endeavor to fulill their pledge
another year. l know Mr.. Summers sim
ceri,y ; | know George Boutwell's SINGER
ity I know Henry Wilson's duplicity, as
well. fApplause.l know the man who,
having studied the history Of compromise
for thirty years, has learned nothing, and
made himself the fool Of the enemy to
defea, his own party in the matter Of Col
orado-making Massachusetts, herself the
tool by which the foulest insult was
offered to the record Of the war. You and
| know that of Henry Wilson. Here, the
announcement that no man could trust
him as far as he could see him would be
received with no great surprise. But of
in Indiana, on the p~rairies OF Illinois,
when a speaker stands there to-day, and
says to his audience, Don't be discour-
aged Congress has not settled on that
amendment I; it is only a tub to the whale ;
when it is rejected we are going back into
Congress, and we will pass an impartial
ballot-bill over the President; the Radi-
calls will be strong enough to do 1t" some
man in the audience says, "Where is your
Radical number ," "Why, Henry
Wilson, of NJ Massachusetts," And possibly,
at that distance, n man in ten believes
him. But we know that to call hin "a
broken reed" would be a compliment.
Yet, in the great West, the Radicalism
that is to save the Republican party after
the decentralization consequent on the dis
c~ussion Of this amendment hangs on men
like Henry Wilson. How do you know
that the Radicalism Of the prairies on
which you rely, the Radicalism of New
York, on which you lean to secure the re-
suit, after the election, may not be as
weak, as superficial, as little trustworthy,
as the Radicalism of the Senator from
Naticka Oh, no, my friends, 1t is a close
game we are play ng. 1t is a keen effort
10 hit between wind and water. 1t is an
attempt to beat the devil with his own
weapons.