Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-23

dict will be rendered. on MS Souteo az nv
distant day, by that jury of countrymen
and peers before whom he may plead his
cause against all g~ainsayers.
The attempt has been made, on the part
of certain journals, to dragon Congress
into acquiescence in all the schemes OF Ste
yeus and his peculiar cabinet. Congress
men have not, by such papers, been in
formed as to the real state Of public senti-
ment nor have the special views OF the
conductors Of those sheets been indepen-
IDENTIFY urged, on argumentative or horta'
tory appeul-as they had a very proper
right to present and press them. But bald
bounding declarations have been made as
for instance: "Nine-tenths Of the Union
party think and desire so, etc.," when the
fact was quite different. The tim'd and
the time-serving were temporarily alarmed
n, this. But now the reaction is com.
m~encing. Senators and Representatives
from the Eastern States have, most OF
Them, visited their homes since the first
blast was blown on the refrain as above.
Many in Congress have been enlightened
as to general views, by personal conversa-
tons with their household friends. And
many in Congressional authority, by let
tiers from their places of residence, written
by men whose sober judgments they must
respect, have seen that Congress was not
advised by the people to pursue an ultra
course of policy. 1t has brought to the
prominent notice and reflection OF Sena-
tors and Representatives. that those edi-
tors who were most fierce in d~iatribing
agains. the President, on every possible
chance for Billingsgate expectoration,
were, in numerous instances, disappointed
applicants for Federal offices, and in the
majority Of instance, their sheets did not
hoist or heartily support a true blue Union
ticket during the war. Then they begin
to look at the platform of the party who
elected them ; witnessing how far, in q
time Of Peace, they have been told, in
threatening tones, to abandon the creed
Of their acceptance on the day Of nomina-
ton and election, and go not forward but
backwards on the pathway Of Liberty and
Union, the zone and inseparable." Hence.
the propositions of the Reconstruction
Committee ignore, repudiate, virtually
stigmatize as unjust, as well as unwise,
many Of the dunghill decreetals which
rabid mouthed "radical" sheets pro-
nouuced necessary, in the organic or sta.
tutory law, to the Nations welfare, and to
each Senator's and Coneressman's r~e-elec-
ton. Congress is now evidently Vt
the opinion, that so long as they adopt, or
sincerely attempt a plan for accomplishing
the great end Of e-Union, in harmony
and good order, theirs is the business of
arranging the details Of the plan /; and
least Of all, consulting the journals whose
| proprietors are discarded Federal Office
seekers at Andy Johnson's door. or luke
warm loyalists during the civil war that
tried the soul Of every Union man. So it
is, in our humble opinion, that the farce
in the action Of the Federal representa-
| tives, on Reconstruction matters, has been
brought about by a belief on their part
that they were once deceived BY a tumult,
and a determination thence and now
springing to adopt q fair, uncomp,omi-
sing, but not unmerciful system of Ma
,ional reorganization. Out Of the candor
and thoroughly informed convictions OF
to-day. and not out of the madness OF
pasetimes, will proceed the definitely set
tied policy that is to re-estblish and re-
| generate the American Republic.