Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-10-19
IN POLITICS.

PATIENCE IN fOL1I1OS
Those who have watched mos. closely
the great struggle in which the country
has been engaged during the past few
years, are beginning to feel that the great
es, danger for the future is from the i'm
Of those who take part in public
affairs on all sides. It is really wonderful
to look back and see what has been &C.
complished-how we have raised and dis
banded armies, created a National debt
and are now paying it of, swept away
forever, and got the colored man
to work fairly and on a better system, re-
paired the railroads and tslsgraphs, and
r~e-established intercourse and harmony
in such a degree that we have had t,co
Conventions in which representatives
from the North and South have exchanged
views fraternally on National affairs.
And yet no party seems to think that
things are moving fast enough in the d.
rsction they desire, and If any one halt or
hesitate, or manifest the slightest unwill-
ingness to be drawn into wholesale en-
dorsement or reservations, his heels are
trodden upon by both parties. The con-
sentative men Of the South feel the ha,si-
ness OF those who would force on them
universal suffrage by men who canno.
either read or write and who for ages
have been in slavery and many at the
North complain Of the South for being in
too great haste to get back into their old
seats IN Congress without ssipulations.
II, turning aside from the discussion Of
such questions, we look at what has been
done and is doing, and even at the points
which both the recent Conventions tacitly
or explicitly or agreed upon as settled by
all parties, we shall find SO much en-
braced as to leave no doubt that our chief
need is patience. and that what remains
will be settled BY time beyond all dispute.
Great events move slowly. National
life has a sort Of immortality Of its own,
and on this account the law is, and ever
must be, that the greatest real progress is
that silent growth which is noiseless and
least disturbing Of things already settled.
How long it takes for a scientific truth to
evolve itself! but, once established, the
world never goes back from ii, and all the
future progress Of science is built upon it.
And so it is with'the great political truths
and facts Of history. Once in a while a
revolution occurs or the fate Of a nation
seems to turn on a battle or a hero. But
even then it is because circumstances were
ripe, and the specific event wa not cause,
but, at most. the occasion. The progress
Of a nation like ours does not hang upon
the lips OF one or two orators. It is the
growth Of time and great principles of
popular liberty and sovereignty the
working together Of the most diversified
forms Of industry, and Of the physical,
intellectual and moral engines Of a whole
nation, laboring as never such large masses
laborsd before in time. Things all the
time seem going to destruction, and yet
they recsify and balance one another, most
strangely, to him who marks them care
fully.
Let all our politicians, men OF what
ever stripe, learn patience. 1t is q noble
virtue, in direct obedience to the word
Of Him who fainteth not, neither is
weary in well-doing, for in due season
we shall reap If we faint not. To give
way to wrath. to abuse n another, to
wrangle and quarrel, are unworthy the
citizens Of a great republic like ours, so
unequivocally prosperous as we are now
becoming. It was when the South moved
in a hurry that she committed the most
immense folly, as well as wrong, a nation
ever was guilty Of. Truth loses nothing
by a patient advocacy, while causes where
truth and error are mixed lose only their
dross and nothing worth preserving.
Indeed. patience is the best proof Of
faith in the recsitude Of our designs and
plans. He who seeks to obtain snap
judgment for his cause does so because he
cannot trust to the deliberate verdict Of
time and an impartial jury. A sslf-pos-
sessed faith in the success Of reason and
right views is what we all chiefly need at
this time.
This disposition in a people secures
peace, while all oyer-impetuosity tends to
strife, anarchy, civil wal aud despotism.
Exalted as we now are to a position in
which the wealth and the population Of
all nations are flowing into country,
in which u power is respected abroad,
and our citizens have all their energies
rewarded at home, nobody and nothing
can harm US but ourselves. We have
only to rise high enough to look at all
matters in a truly national point Of view,
and to act upon the scale Of ages for the
duration of our Government and nation,
keeping the reins steady while q benef-
cent Providence guides our onward course.
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