Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-06-29
THE RADICAL PLATFORM OF
DEATH.

Our platform OF reconstruction is known
to be-universal amnesty, impartial suf.
frage. II the two Houses will embody
this in q Constitutional Amendment and
pass i, by a two.thirds vote, we are ready
to stand or fall with it before the people.
We deem it quite probable that It might
put the merit Congress against Us. and so let
IN the seeded on THEIR OWN TERMS ; but
on so good a platform IL i safe to DIE, IN
the full assurance Of q glorious resurrection.
IN. Y. Tribune. May %.
This candid statement by the leading
Radical paper Of the Atlantic States places
the situation" in its true light before the
people. The life and continued triumph
Of the Union party, with its psinciples
carried forward as they were announced
in the Baltimore platform, is a matter Of
no moment to the extremists, who would
rather see our grand organization die out
than fail to place negro suffrage in the
Consrsssiona! platform.
Mark you: The Union party does not,
through any one Of its Conservative
members. prop9Se an abandonment Of
principle for partisan success. Rather. to
adhere to the creed on which it succeeded
at the last Presidential election, and upon
which it stood when Lee surrendered.
We defy any Of the so-called Radical"
sheets TO point to a single instance where
President Johnson has proved false to the
Baltimore platform. Time and again
has this challenge been made on the
aoor Of Congress, and nc response
fairly made. There has been great
clamor, . vast amount Of denuncia-
tory defamation ;.but no mar has been
able to demonstrate that in a single in
stance President Johnson has departed
from the rule Of the party that nominated
and elected him-the rule made and estao-
lished when the last National Union Con.
vention met. And catch-word, clap-trap
yell against Andy has been met with quiet
and simple reiutation Of all its assumed
basis in fact. "Where is Clement Z.
Clay }" has been replied to sufficiently on
the production of a letter from Senator
Henry Wilson, Of Massachusetts, Chair
man Of the United States Senate Commit.
tee on Military Affairs, asking for his
parole. Where is General Lees" has
been answered by the statement, which is
undeniable, that he is where he may be,
and had a right to be, under Gen. Grants
prescribed terms to him for surrender;
and a suggestion to arrest Lee is shown to
have called forth an indignant remark
from the Lieutenant-G General of our armies.
From the charge of a $500, oo0, 900 swim
die down to an asserted removal Of a Post
master in Piddle,onville, on "policy"
grounds, the miserable accusations Of Ste
vens s Co., against the Chief Executive Of
the Nation, have been refuted,-only serv-
ing a substantial ultimate purpose in that
they illustrated the infamous mendacity
of their respective authors.
The n. Y. Tribune led the Wing party
unto death, and it desired. at the outset
Of the war. to confess judgment in behalf
| Of the Rebels. 1t is now associated in its
confessed efforts to break up the Union
organization with sheets that had no sym.
patty with the war for the Nations pre-
servation during any period Of the great
contest. But the Tribune has q frank
style Of avowing its object and we can
definitely gather from its pages what it is
expedien, for its followers to at least par
TALLY conceal from popular view.
Observe what kind of practical sense
the Tribune exhibits: "Force through
Congress a proposition that will be beat
en-, and whose very submission to the
States will result in ruin to the Union
party and the admission Of representa-
uves from the South to Congress IN their
own terms!"
But this affords q hint of what real rea-
son induces some Of the hool- hooting
organs TO call for radical measures. They
are actually in the interests Of the Cop
perheads; and desire to be in q position
10 'show cause for $1,000 OF less.