Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-06-05
ANOTHER SPECIMEN M1sREPRE.
SENTATION.
The Ps-ree of Sunday morning CO,

oeen IN u wal, ana IN the second place,
he forgot that four million human beings
had been changed from q condition Of
to freedom. Those two great
ruling facts my excellent friend forgot,
evidently, when he drew up his PROPOSE
ton. He forgot that we had been in a
war, because he fails to make any pro-
vision for that security which common
sense and common prudence, the law OF
nations, and every instinct of the human
heart require should be made. He pro.
vides no guarantee. Sir, the essential
thing, at this moment, is a guarantee.
The Senator abandons that; but 1t IS be-
cause he forgets that we have been in q
war. II /, like the Senator from Connec-
ticut, could forget this terrible war, with
al! the blood and treasure that 1t has cost
US, l, too, could forget the guarantee; but
as that war Is always in my mind, the
Senator will pardon me if l insist that we
shall have guarantees.
The oversight of Senator Dixon seems
to be general among the CONSERVATIVES
What sort of a rebel speech Senator
Dixon had been making may be fairly
gathered by the following extracts there
from:
When these States are again regarded
as members Of the Union, If they accept
the terms Of re-admission proposed to
them, all loyal men at the time ought to
be permitted to vote. I viii not say that
the exception made in one clause OF the
report is not correct, that certain leaders
be d~isfranchised; but l say that to dis
franchise q whole people, to tell them that
they may send members TO Congress and
still shall o vote for them-for that is
the result of ito say. "You may be
represented, but you shall not VOTE"
seems a mockery. Under it there might
hardly be twenty voters, possibly, in a
State.
Mr.. President, why did l read the arti-
Gle from the New York Evening Posts
Not as an authority. It struck me that
the views were 80 correct and 80 sound
tina, I desired to adopt them as my own,
and I was very certain that the source
from which those ideas anne would have
great weight with the loyal people Of this
country, and properly so; that that paper
had a character for loyalty and for patriot
ism and ability and for honesty and integ-
ri,y which gave it weight; that what came
from the distinguished and venerable edi-
tor Of that paper was entitled to weight,
ever in the Senate Of the United States,
and therefore I read the article andadopted
language.
/ have only one word more to say. I
I'm extremely desirous-no man can be
more DESTROYS than I am-to unite upon
some plan which shall pacify the country,
and which shall restore and reconstruct
the Union. I had hoped this committee
would propose something which would
accomplish that. As to the plan pro-
posed, I am utterly hopeless with regard
to its producing any good effect. l may
be mistaken. l have the highest respect,
! need not say, for the members Of the
committee. I know they are patriotic ;
bu, I think they are utterly mistaken, and
l think I have the right TO say it, in all
respect TO them.
And in reply to Senator Summers re-
marks, as given BY the Ps-,cse, Senator
Dixon said-wha, i, would not have been
policy" for our honest contemporary to
publish -
Mr.. Dixon-One word in reply to the
Senator from Massachusetts,, with the con-
sent Of the Senate. The Senator says
that l have forgotten many things, and
among others the guarantees required by
the four million slaves who have been
emancipated. / desire to ask the Senator
what guarantees those persons have in the
proposition reported by the committee
| The Senator exhausted all the terms OF
| opprobrium in the English language in
denouncing q resolution which was before
the Senate some time since, and which
contained the only guarantees for the COL
ored race that is contained in this report.
The only guarantee which he says he
keeps constantly in his mind, and which !
have forgotten, contained in this report,
is that providing that if those persons are
not allowed to vote in the State in which
they reside. they shall not be counted in
the apportionnent o Representatives. The
Senate has not yet fo~rgotten-the echoes
are still ringing in this Hall-what the
Senator said in regard to that proposition.
If the English language contains any term
of reproach. if it can be coined into any
form or shape of o]pprobrium which he
did not exhaust on that subject, and some
of which my friend from Maine Mr.. Fcs-
sendenl cited as beauties of rhetoric, I am
mistaken. I think he could have gone no
further in Genouncing that very PROPOSE
ton which is the only guarantee in this
report and yet he says I have forgotten
that they require guarantees. / beg leave
to remind the Senator that he too has for
gotten his own words on that subject.
Our readers will again observe, on this
exposure, to what extremities the unscru-
pulous sheets, whose policy" consists in
denouncing the President, are driven.
Perhaps, however, they are not constrained
beyond their natural incli3ations in max
ing such false statements, founded on a
sarbled extract, as are shown in the Pc
,eec's columns. That journal did not ex-
pect to be detected in this characteristic
outrage.
SOUTHERN LossRs BY II WAR.-lt