Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-16
ry,a AND THAT.

..,.,us;ons and workings sustained BY
,bu.e of individuals. Call such a style of
propassndism or PROSECUTING by its most
charitable nsme-say that it is an attempt
10 spread truth and convert humanity by
a negative ~process-and you still have it
unrelieved Of the charge Of being a very
inadequate mode Of making or retaining
for any special line Of policy. On
the contrary, how many good causes have
been temporarily destroyed by the I'M
abuse heaped upon its, perhaps,
innocent, conscientious opposers, or even
its wilful defamerss And it is conceded,
in the sober reflections Of all enlightened,
honest men, that every good, public pro-
ject is more or less retarded by the indis-
criminate abuse which sons Of its cham
pions choose to heap upon the heads Of its
enemies. The worlds moral judgment is
in this name exccllently viudicated, as
against the school Of contemners, who say
the people have neither candor nor sagaci,y.
They judge correctly in the end; but no.
thing so terribly prejudices their mind az
unwarranted severity Of censure or criti-
cism on individuals who espouse the I'M
popular side Of a discussion.
1t is equally true-and there is so broad
a distinction in the premises that no n
can mistake the contrast and the identities
that a habitual compromise with wrong.
or with parties against whose opinions or
line Of conduct to which you avow, in
general phrase, your hostility. impairs
credi, and ruins the entire moral force Of
the mos, worthy of arguments, where the
custom of the author is understood.
We are led to make these remarks by
the course pursued on the part Of certain
Union newspapers. relative to President
johnson and Secretary Seward. The for
mer has been denounced beyond all prece-
dent, and accused Of intentions and acts
which there is as yet no basis to alleSe
against or impute to him. On the other
hand, Secretary Seward, the "stealthy
diplomatiss," as one Eastern journal has
ventured TO denominate him, has gone al
most scot free of condemnatory word or
syllable. The storm Of invective directed
against Andy has injured the Union party.
There is no doubt Of that. His action
could be criticised with as much emphasis
without aspersing his motives or ascribing
to him disreputable private habits. 1t is
notable. and worthy Of congrasulation,
that those who became so suddenly his
personal traducers have seen ft-nearly
all of them-to take the back track on
such a railway to party ruin. To use a
very homely but expressive phrase-the
denunciations Union newspapers INDUCED
IN toward Andy Johnson were "nuts and
cheese" to the Copperhead leaders-(and
LEADERS " are about all tina, is left Of the
old Democracy" the wheel and swing
horses being on the other 'bus.) They
have been c~huckling at the misapplication
Of the scourge, the lashing Of johnson,
when Secretary Seward was the guilty
craftsman. if the guilt Of political treachery
attaches to any person in the Administra-
ton Cabinet. There exists a great reason
for reluctance to lame the real offender /;
the circumstances of Stewards recent at
tempted assassination are ever present to
the mind and rebuke even q thought of
harsh criticism. Yet it ought to be here
repeated-what Seward himself says
that the Premier is responsible for the diff
ference 'twixs Congress and the Executive,
on the general question of admitting Rep
re~sentatives and Senators to seats in the
National Councils. And SO we are COM
PEELED to deem it becoming in us to say
that Seward has always been a compro-
miser where q big trick could be per-
formed which seemed likely to be a sue
cess in the line Of political strategy. And
since he has deliberately invited blame
for the threatened breach in the Union
party, let him receive the title he
covets. And when the whirlwind Of
yituperation against Andy shall have
passed entirely away, we believe. as we
hope. VIM. H. Seward will be held up to
popular scorn for the endeavor he has
made to demoralize and break up the or
ganiza,ion which kept US a nation"
We recently received a letter from the
mos, able and distinguished politician in
California. in which he says: Uncle
Billy Seward could not carry off q ma
jority. or ever a considerable number,
from the Union representatives in Con-
gress though it must have required
much Of an effort for some Of them to
break loose from his thrall." As the emf
uent author of the above sentence was
himself once a student in Stewards law
Office, at Auburn. New York, the force
his remark il entitled to will be duly ap.
precia,ed, without a nearer designation Of
his person.
"Uncle Billy" must feel considerable
ehagrin, by this time, at the lamentable
failure Of the job he and Thurlow Weed
put up. for the splitting of the Union
party. and the fusins Of their supposed
half Of the same with the Copperhead
remnants and the out and out secesh of
the land. The best laid plans Of men and
mice oft gang ~awry-isn's it so, William
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