Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-07-06
RADICAL" ASSOCIATION.

question, (much less ever a thing open Tor
bid and sale) Union men Of this kind are
very glad to recognize, after this long and
bloody war. anything that looks like a
practical and consistent ~harmoniIing OF
the once real or nominally discordant
political elements. A delightful exhibit
ton Of what. we trust, we are authorized
to call Reconstrrction Reconciliation was
exhibited on the occasion Of a recent 4th
Of July celebration.
For several months pas, a sheet that is
published this side Of the Rocky Noun
,ains has been very ra~mpaseously "radi-
cal" in its talk. And the most particular
burden on its feeble voice has been denun-
citation. as "Copperheads" and even "Trai-
tors" of any person, persons or periodicals.
that did not concord with Its abuse Of the
Chief Executive Of the Nation. This and
that paper was currying favor with the
Copperheads, because it did not say that
Andy johnson was a most damnable VII
lain! So piped the journal whose locality
we indicate after its WI favorite, modest
fashion. This is not here stated in way
VT tone ofeompiaint; knowing the 'where
tore" that breeds principle in thai
journal. we do not. and have not. wonder
I'd a, Its late proceedings. A aop from
neutrality to Copperheadism may moi
bring $500. when a leap from Radical
Ism to seceshdom ought to pays
Blu, all this is preliminary. predatory.
and ye, a necessary part Of our lesson fol
rhe day. The purpose, moral purpose l.
10 congratulate concerning a new and, un
der all the circumstances herein to be re
counted, a remarkable specimen Of radical
reconstruct n reconciliation.
A person connected with the Radical
journal referred to is requested to furnish
a poem for a Fourth Of July celebration
in 1866. A Reader is engaged to utter the
blank verses that are prepared under the
invitation. (Now there was q time when
we were wont to say that there was more
respect legi,ima,ely bestowed BY an hon.
est loyal man on a rebel in arms against
nur country than a REBEL Copperhead who
remained in the North and traduced our
institutions and sought secesh triumph.
through party nan9uvres in the free
States. Such was a popular declaration
among sincere Union men-t~o and more
years ago. The Reader selected by the
! conductor Of the Neutrality-suspicious. paper
filings all its forcible feebleness on radical
programmes-is an individual who was re-
moved from a District Court Bench in
! California for "violation Of his oath OF Of
dee. and his duty and obligations as a
Judge, by publicly using sediious and
reasonable language Of and concerning
he Constitution and Government Of the
United States, and aiding and abetting,
and giving comfort to the enemies Of said
i SODsIlIuCOu anu ooNStuunSh@ lNo"
as it is insisted in the paper referred to
that he who is not a radical is q cop.
perhead and a traitor, etc., there is a vast
amount Of reconciling, reconstruction sig
uifcance in the selection descri bed.)
Here is some Of the blank verse-speak-
ing of the American empire:
And never In all time
Did ediace stand on a haze 80 good,
Or fabric rise up In q shape 50 fair,
Or structure grow unto u form 20 grand.
The individual who was selected by the
radical Poet to pronounce the above, wa
expelled from the Bench. in California, for
having proposed in a public bar-room in
Mokelumne Hill. 81 the Goth day Of Aug
ust. 1851, the following toast: Here is
to the Stars and Stripes ; as to the Con-
.~titution there is none-the Constitution
has gone TO hell"
In the Poem the Reader thus recites
with reference to the slave States:
ITS counterpart stood r-ared by servitude,
Foul from the principle on which 10 raised,
Weak from the languor Of unwilling hands.
And from the never dying sweat Of bondage
lnherirlng the s-eds OF swift decay.
Its b.oDl foundation Of eternal truth.
by what thereon was built, became = lie
And nockery."
On the first day Of March, 1852. the
chosen reciter is proven to have publicly
,houted in Mokelumne Hill: my Court
has adjourned and I am now of the
Bench; my mother vas born in the
South, and I am a rebel and ! don't care
= damn who knows it." The same indi.
vidusl. not far from the same time and
place as above, publicly toasted as fol
lows: Here's to the perpetuation Of the
southern Confederacy and the sovereignty
Of JED. Davis ; and may his name be per.
pe,us,ed in the anne light as that Of the
immortal Washington" Candy" is a
"traitor" cause they toast him at q public
dinner in Mobile! o logic Of SANDER
now illuminated y But, again:
And Liberty
The grace that made Us righteous over all,
That stamped our coin with holiness, and
wrought
spell Of sdaethy around our fas.
On the 26rh day Of June, 1851. the Re-
otter said to a young man with whom he
vas riding.-pointing to the American
a~ag-"Taat.s on old tOoman's rag, and
ought to be tom doicn :"
The record from which have been ex.
1 FrAAR.l ~ NR
gwen is known to almost. every man on
the Paci6c Coast; and hence. the har-
monies" exempliaed, illustrated. etc. II
will not surprise Union men to learn tina,
the Reciter. a, last accounts. was q de.
nouncer Of President johnson.
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