Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-28
Mo PRACTICAL DIFFERENCE
"S WILL REALLY EXIST.

1ne CllCl1uuL ~ oeAA
ming up all the assumed differences be-
tween Congress and the President, says
tina. "the Presidents restoration policy
differs in no respect from the Radical plan,
except in not offering to bargain universal
amnesty for universal suffrage" The
italics are the Commercials. It calls upon
Congress to "adopt some practical meas.
ures, instead Of carping at the Presidents
policy" This statement and this appeal,
coming from an old time, ~unwavering and
powerful Republican journal Of the West,
are copied into leading journals Of the
Atlantic States, with commentator.
They are not merely endorsed; they are
used as text for extended argument in
favor Of q n h%armonizing policy"
The influence Of this upon Congress 10
manifest already; and that there is to be an
agreement on "some practical measures"
for restoration" between Congress and
the President, is now the general belief OF
the American people. The Copperheads,
who but a shor, time since, were hilarious
over the anticipated split in the Union
party, are now entirely silent in L" GRIEF"
at their miscalculations; and the "Radi.
cal" sheet whose conductors are first
spoken Of as devoid Of all principle, are
guashiug their teeth in rage and despair.
The difference which really exists, or did
exist, between the President and Con-
gress is found. on candid analysis, to be
Of such a nature, that to insist upon it to
the disruption or injury Of our party, BY
placing the disagreement in an tissue" on
the platforms, is obviously only the at
tempt Of journals which care not at all for
the party's success, or who are, as the
RsrsiRe expresses it, Trojan horses"
within the organization. Papers that
never raised a Union ticket during the
war, that were always on the "sell' to the
cops at the beginning ofeach campaign, that
could not command any pricefrom those TO
whom they offered their advocacy, from
Knights Of the Golden Circle to whom
they directed their bids, have been telling
their readers tina, the difference between
the President and Congress was an elm
passable gulf" etc. The Comm@rcialsays
Examine every Congressional plan that
has been presented, and in no respects do
they differ, practically, from the Presi.
dents requirements Of declaring null and
void the secession ordinances, repudiating
the rebel debt, protecting the persons and
property Of the Freedmen, and electins
loyal Representatives, except in adding,
as the ,ina 9Ha non Of recognition. negro
suffrage"
So is the folly Of dissenuon in the party
made clear to the people. Shall the Union
party be divided on the question Of "ne-
gro suffrage;" How absurd seems the
endeavor to raise this issue, for instance,
in Nevada: Can there be but n mo-
tive, and that an altogether despicable in
cenuve, to essay q division in our ranks
on such ground Of contest:
All this is ~supposing that any n Of
these Congressional plans" has been or
is to be adopted BY Congress. Not so.
The report Of the Reconstruction Com
mit,ee leaves the once "sine qua non" out
of the programme altogether. At the
end of the session, therefore, we contend
supported by such able reviewers Of the
situation as the editors Of the Commercial,
the n. Y. Post, and Springfield Republican
there will be nc practical difference"
between the long avowed Restoration
policy Of the President and the finally
adopted policy Of the Federal Represen-
~tatives. The indications from Washing
ton are daily more emphatic to this con-
c~lusion; and the humiliation Of the would
be ~disorganizing sheet, claiming to be in
our party, in Nevada, is proporsionally
deepening.