Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-06-19
POLITICAL CONSISTENCY.

orable Placerville speech-that he never
tried to be consistent. This was in re-
ply to a charge about his democracy
because he sided with the Douglas
wing, which his aecussrs declared was
not democratic" Rightly interpreted,
Brodsrick stated by the quoted remark
that he would not be bound under a
name Of consistency as against the real
condition Of parties and their plastormed
principles. He was for what he con-
ceiyed, at the time, TO be politically
RIGHT; and even if there were a sacra-
mental. authority on tho side Of Blu
chanan Regular" Democracy, he did
not intend to be held under it, in VIC
lence to his conscience. Or, even if
there had been expressions from him,
not in keeping with his present position,
in the new emergencies and light, he
did not fear any self-negating force from
them.
We have often said that, never will
We challenge any n of our citizens on
his political record who was Out,pOke"
for the Union during the war, unless
one attempts to make = comparison TO
the detriment Of another, when the i'm
pugning party did not himself come out
Of the Republican ranks. The really
legitimate, consistent" componeuts Of
the Union party, were (lst) the Repub-
licans and (2d) the Douglas Democrats.
Breckenridge Democrats" who became
Union men undoubtedly, if honest, eI-
perienced a converting power. The latter
may be quite as sincere as any Of the
founders of the Republican orgauiza-
tion; though the ommon supposition
is that the majority of that class who
joined the Union party did so for the
sake Of office, or that they might be
on the strongest side, politically.
There is a true and noble "consissency'
eIempli6ed by the Southern Union
men who became such in spite Of their
thorough belief in the propriety and
even divine appreciation of the institu-
ton Of slavery. From under the cloud
Of war, they came TO q correct view Of
the Nervousness of that system. This
has been the case almost without excep-
ton. But at the beginning Of war, they
held the Union Of these States above
THAR regard for the Domestic l%nstitu-
ton" For the Union, they left father
and mother, parted from brother and
sister ; sometimes were aliepated from
wife and children.
We notice in the list Of the new Cali
fornia Union State Central Committee
the name Of a man, who in '62 ran for
County Judge in n Of the interior
counties of California, on the "Demo-
cratic" ticket, and during the canvass
announced from the stump that the
South did right in seeding, were entire
" justified, and that an unholy war wa,
being prosecuted by the North against
. people in the South who were strug-
Cling to maintain a proper cause This
committeeman would not appear to have
a consistent" record; yet, is not his
history more creditable than that of the
All-sides of the wartime? We think so.
His record, however, is not an enviable
one, we should say; because many will
insist on inferring that he changed his
base from motives not the most credit
able. But he certainly is more entitled
to respect than the political Nondsscripts
and All-sides of the wartime.
If you desire to know, for q GER
tainty, as to whether s man who has
been living since 1861 oil this coast is a
person Of consistent war record, mark
: whether he is continually INDUCING in
~highfalutin holiss Of expression, about
t"immortsl principles" etc. and is claim
ing to be excessively ''free and equal on
Lsehalf Of the Creator and his children.
III such 10 his indulgence, you can
safely rely upon it, that he is a political
hummer; and will pray or swear as the
It'd seems to him, to flow. Such will
always be heard dspouucing persons
tina { have been really consistent in their
political life; and such will halt for a
few moments every day, on q SLOUGH
from a bethel to a free lunch, to deliv-
er u1sudlin gsbble about Immortal
principles" You notice those who
were political Cowboy during the
war, and who now affect the extreme Of
Radichlisml Il is a matter of fact, that
the dirtiest OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
side, who peddlod their Immortal pria-
ciples'' during the war, are now assun-
ing the, airs Of great gods, and declaim-
ing /: s'Every man or paper that is not
in favor Of negro and MongOlian equal
ity with the whites is 'Copperhesd."
"Larff as you may; it is even so. The
poor creatures. You shouldn't laugh
at them. They don't like to be con-
temptuo usly laughed at.