Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-10-06
NOMINATING SPEECH.

was a very appropriate and elegant tribute
to the candidate for Congress from Storey
county, we have solicited and obtained for
publication a repor, Of the same, which is
printed in this issue Of the News. We
commend its reading, as it expresses in
beautiful phrases the sentiments Of the
vast majority Of the Union men Of Storey:
Mr.. President. and Gentlemen Of the
Convention ! rise with exceeding diff
dence, feeling my incapacity TO do ade-
qua,e justice to the duty I am about to
undertake. Il other respects, sir, 1t would
be one Of the most pleasing tasks 1t has
ever been my province to perform.
l desire TO place in nomination for Con-
gressional honors, 4 gentleman, TO many OF
you familiar-to SOM of you unknown
and ask your support to make him the
nominee Of this Convention, as your
standard. bearer. for the peoples sutfrages
in the present campaign-a campaign so
~eyentful in its character, fraught as it is
with so great moment 10 the Republic and
pregnant with those momentous issues on
which hang the fate and future liberties Of
its people.
In making this demand on you, gentle
men of the Convention, l conceive you
may well pause and ask. What claims
TO this high distincton-what merit for
50 distinguished a preferment at the hands
Of this Convention and these loyal people
of a State born in the darkest night Of
revolution, can he have, whose claims l
may thus urge upon you?"
Really, gentlemen of the Convention. l
hardly know at what point to begin, or
where to end, in stating his just merits for
your consideration. To those who know
him we'll l need not say one word-to
those who do not. l will say this:
In the darkest hour of the nations peril;
when disaster sometimes frowned on our
advancing columns when traitors were
marching with defiant tread to the very
gates Of the National Capital; when deep
gloom sat as the pail Of night over the
loyal masses Of the land; and despair Of sur
viving liberty on the American continent
seemed in feeble breasts and stout hearts
coucentrating-at such a moment, when
the National head bowed down in the ag-
ouy Of seeming despair when the treason
stained Knights Of the Golden Circle, with
naughty arrogance, were denouncing our
Government a failure. and our flag Q 6t
emblem to trail in the dust when defiant
Broom Rangers, with i~nsolent tread, swept
over the State, and with their polluting
touch desecrated the free air Of the noun
taln-built city Of Virginia-Sir, in those
sad hours there came a voice TO cheer the
responding and to encourage the dropping
spirits Of the loyslist in my mountain
home-s voice earnest-deep-with all
the fullness Of honest purpose-a voice
clothed with
Words tina; brcathed and thoughts that burned"
giving hope, and cheer, and comfort, and
encouragement and at the sound Of that
voice, each true man grasped the other
more firmly by the hand; each clasped
the other more closely TO his bosom; past
animosities were forgotten and swallowed
up in the melting appeals from the elo-
quent tongue and earnest heart Of him
who is here to-day as Storey county's IA
vorite for Congress-Colonel CHARLES A.
SNMNEhs ISACaha HPAoAsO AN NAASIAs
Yes, sir, the name Of Charley Sumner,
whatever may be the personal ~prejudices
Of some-that NAME, sir, the name Of
Charley" as WI Familiarity call him at
home. ,cas, and is a legion Of strength to
the Union cause and the Union party.
Applause. Tha, name, sir, was the tai
ismau, the beacon-light, the tcotehrorG
around which we rallied and gathered in
our national peril aud national gloom.
Applause. And, sirs, every club-room,
and every hall where loyal men assembled
in Storey county during the dark days Of
revolution, with their dumb e%loquence,
will bear me witness, that they have re-
sounded with the three times three
cheers for the flag and the Union for
Grant, and Sherman, and Sheridan, and
the victorious legions who followed in
their march, melted BY the earnest pathos
and undying eloQuence of Charles A.
Sumner. [Applsuse.l And when the
unwritten truths Of history-silently, but
surely and indelably written in the hearts
Of meu-shall unfold their ample page in
behalf of liberty and freedom to man,
there, in letters OF living light" will
stand forth in shining lustre. the name,
the simple but honest name, Of Charley
Sumner, of Storey county [applause
there will it stand. as the friend of the OPP
pressed Of every land and there sir, will
II be found welded in deepest sympathy
and affection with the down-trodden sons
Of the land of O'Connell and of Emmett, in
their struggles for the emancipation Of Ire
land from British thraldom and misrule.
Applause.
Such is the man whose claims l ask
you to endorse. Such is the short and
simple story Of his career as a common
private Of the Nation!in the Union ranks,
while the old Ship Of State was weather.
ing the tempest-tossed sea Of treason and
rebellion and now, that the storm has
partially subsided-with the Old Vessel
still rocking and Keeling in mid-ocean-
we ask for his past services, that you shall
give him q small captaincy, that he may
take up the chart already prepared by the
present Congress, and pointing his com-
pass by its direction, help guide her into
the great harbor Of human liberty, where
she may anchor in safety for all coming
time. [Applause.l
We who know him best ask this on be-
half of Storey County {; W ask it on be-
half Of the people Of the State, to whom,
and for whom. he will become a faithful
representative /; and we here pledge you,
that we will become responsible that he
never proves recreant to his trust, nor dis
honors the position if you see proper to
confer it upon him. Applause and cheers.
COURAGE IN EVERYDAY LIFE.-Have
the courage to do without that which you
do not need, however much your eyes
may covet II.
Have the courage to show your respect
for honesty. in whatever guise il appears;