Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-06-28
An Iure1ie1. way or Puthng II.

An Ingenious Way Of Putti1g II.
Our contemporary, the Sacramento
Union, has sometimes Q method OF stating
a question quite refreshing. Two months
ago It was in favor Of the plan Of recon-
struction attributed to the pen OF Robert
Dale Owen, and, Hrst' thrown out as .
feeler by the Reconstruction Committed.
In its issue Of Monday. II unequiyoeally
endorsed what Il calls the ''amended plan"
which 1t 10 likely the Senate will adopt.
Yet there are points in which the two
plans are dismstrically opposed. For In
stance, tho Owen plan contemplated en-
forced negro suffrage after 1875, while the
amended plan" leaves that question to
the S,ates, merely providing that repre-
sentstion shall be based for the future not
on population but voters. =.
Standing in, this exceedingly awkward
dilemma, the Union proceeds 10 inform It's
readers, with the utmost gravity, that the
fact that the Congressional majority have
abandoned their project Of upsetting the
State governments in the South, which
they averred had been erected BY usurpa.
ton; that they have admitted, after I'VE
months stormy controversy and agitation,
that the Presidents suggestion on the sub
lee, Of representation 10 the ONLY feasible
mode Of proceeding; that they have con.
fessed before the American people and the
world, that their denunciations Of the
President for the veto Of the Civil Rights
Bill were uncalled for, unjust, and mali
cious, seeing that they have since proposed
to embody It's principles in the organic
law of the land-a step for which there
could be no earthly necessity II the gem
of that bill really existed there before. to-
gether with sundry other summersaults.
bsckings and Filings, confessions and ad-
missions, is to be regarded as q ''quiet but
effective rebuke to the men who, having a
policy Of their own conception, which
they are ~endeavoring to force on the oun
try, seek to divert attention from their cast
iron, despotic course, BY attacking the
spirit and motives Of high-minded Sena.
tors and faithful Representatives."
We admit here that It may be- very
"ouiet" way Of rebuking people to de-
nounce them as traitors, and then accept
their views in the main; but we distinctly
raise a question on the subject OF "eiec-
tiveness." It may BE- doubted whether the
most efectual way in the world to censure
a man is to acknowledge the wisdom and
justice Of his course. We see nothing
here but triumph on one eide, and SUBJ
mission on the other other.
If the Union intends to call hereafter
every confession Of error; every square and
u~umistakable back down, "a democratic
and conscientious" proceeding. We do not
propose to quarrel with It's eccentricity in
that particular; only We think that for the
general convenience Of Its readers. IL ought
TO publish . glossary, setting forth the
precise ideas which Il attaches to names
and things.
We And the argument, then. standing
in this wise: Congressional majority very
conscientious and Democratic people.
They rebuke the President by adopting
his visws In the main. For this they are
entitled to credit, only they "s'n't," for
they could not help themselves. They
were forced to recede, and are simply. or
the Sacramento Union for them 10, trying
TO make q virtue Of necessity. II was
COLLECTIONS offered" on the score Of expe-
disncy by "ths people and the press."
which knocked them. The plain English
Of all this is, that the Radicals in Congress,
having come to the conclusion that there
Is no chance Of obtaining the support 81
the people in their efforts to change u
present form Of Government into q CEN
rallied despotisn, have given up the
fyht, and are about to subside.-S. F.
Aka.