Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-04-28
FOR CONGRESS AND FOR THE
PRESIDENT,

SOh ONSdE09 AMI SNQ 46S
It is a favorite theme for a sneering srti-
Gle On the part Of some Of u recently
converted. to- ~"radicalism" sheets.-the i'm.
possibility Of any candid and intelligent
Unioniss at one and the same time endors.
ing, in general terms, Congress and the
President. As It is "put-up" by the
wiseacres and, par.eScellence, newspaper
patriots Of to-day, you can no more de.
clare with consistency that you support
Congress and the President, than you can
say: ~ serve God and mammon." The
difficulty with the understanding Of the
so-called Radical" journalists, in this
regard, is this: They do not see ct to al
low any one to specify wherein he sp-
proves the Chief Magistrate, and wherein
he endorses Congress in an opinion and
course of action opposite to the Presidents
policy. If our old party friends, with
whom we really consider ourselves still
actively working in the grea. Union cause,
would only condescend to listen to the
discrimination with nick-named "Con-
sentative" Republicans render in their
account Of why and wherefore they sus-
tain a veto. and how they view certain
portions Of veto messages, as repugnant to
correct principles for the times, they might
some of them might-tone down their
denunciasory paragraphs, as their ancient
comrades in arms, and begin to see that
the altar flame Of our political church has
an equally bright reflection from oil the
windows in the building.
II there is one man in the United States
to whom more than another we owe a
deb. Of patriot gratitude for his labors on
behalf of Freedom and this free country,
that man is Henry Ward Beecher. Touch
ing this very subject prefaced, will you
hear him:
On Friday evening. March 80, he spoke
at Philadelphia, on Decentralization"
He said, in the course Of his address:
Gas to the black men voting, be thought
the citizens Of Alabama would more cheer
fully accord them the privilege than would
those Of Philadelphia. The people Of the
North asked that fifteen Southern States
be excluded for refusing to let the colored
man do tina, which they will not permit.
They were willing to have q gospel preach.
ed in missionary lands that they would
not listen to at home. Was &c fair to
stand on tho line of reconstruction and ask
that these States should be forced to do that
uhich tee refuse to Got And is it not
better to assume fundamental principles,
and get BY moral influence, what is desir-
ed, and not attempt political coercion?
"Dilasory legislation was not wise, and
yet he was free TO say we never sent so
many good men TO Congress as constituted
the present Congress. cloud and pro-
trac,ed ~applause.) But there was never q
time when so many good and wise men
made so poor a bungle. You should not
have applauded until I finished. Zap
plause.) Heretofore, the majority Of these
men had been contestants, and it was fair
to suppose they would be novices at max
ing q Government after 80 long a trial at
breaking down that made by slavery. The
kind and patient Mr.. Lincoln was cudgel-
ed and whacked by Congress, and he bore
it with a ! patient spirit, reminding him Of
some horses, who merely act when cudgel-
ed as though it was to brush Hies of.
When they commenced wkack:ng Mr..
Johnson, they found a pair Of heels through
the dash. board, and they left the wagon
and took to trees and bushes, crying,
: Beast, brute = but since then had cudgel-
ed more carefully.
HE took both sides, and teas for Mr..
Johnson and Congress also, deeming the
question to be how TO do, and not what
TO do. Reconstruction was going on In
the South, where it must after all be made;
yet it was wise to have proper laws to fall
back upon. He would not believe the
skulkers Of the South. but if a man who
had fought in the rebellion would tell him
he accepted the issue. he would take his
word for it. He respected the South more
now than he formerly did, for there was
so much brag and gasconade he thought
there could not be much fight about them.
No Northern man need be ashamed Of
their fighting qualities. The speaker said
the North seemed to stand back with
frightened countenances at the idea of the
South getting the sway of government
again. II the North, with its population
comprising two-thirds Of the whole coun-
try, its industry and ingenuity, let the
shivering remnant take possession Of the
Government, they deserved to lose it."
In this very connection, we cannot re-
frain fom copying an account Of Beecher,
as recently written from New York City
by a correspondent Of a leading New
England and strong Union paper:
"a few steps further on, beside Grace
Church, I meet Henry Ward Beecher, and
look to see If, at near view, he carries his
fifty odd years as lightly as he looks to do
in the pulpit. Yes, beloved of the gods.
they have set upon his face and in his eyes
the seal Of everlasting youth. The ex-
IRENE radicals, with whom he has been so
long identified, have anathemstized and
dropped him. They say that he has out
lived all growth and fallen far behind the
march Of the times. His face gives the lie
to these assertions. It CLOVIS with the
ever renewing life Of q heart that cannot
grow old, a heart that, in these It's first
au,umnal days, thrills with the fresh
pulses Of its spring; a heart that can never
cease to throb in unison with the grandest
issues of the hour, and never grow cold in
sympathy with its kind. There is no use
Of your talking. Mr.. Extremist; while
there is a drop Of life left in a Beecher. it
will be like life-thinking, feeling, loving
life /; not the torpid. talented, unconscious
life that half Of tho race drag from the
cradle to the grave"