Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-06-13
The Party of Pledges.

States for the purpose Of haranguing ne
gro audiences. AT one of these Literary
banquets, we learn that Wilson urged
his colored hearers to remain true to the
only party that had observed their pledg.
ed faith to their race. This we concede
may be true, for it would be dcing VIC.
lence to our feelings to deny that radical
traitors were false to every pledge they
have made. Shoulditappear thatbad faith
characterizes the conduct ofthe destruction
lists toward the colored people, then they
have surely been false in everything else
True to the negro they may be, but false
to all else. False to the white man.
traitors to the government of our fathers,
and false to their VOWS to Heaven. Up.
on the breaking out of the late terrible
sectional war, the republican party
through their representative men. under
their solemn oaths, pledged the faith of
themselves and the government under
their control, to the people of the South
and OF the world, that the war should be
conducted only for the preservation of
the nation from disintegration, and not
for the purpose of interfering in any
manner, with the established rights and
privileges Of sections Of the Union. The
Executive power also so.emnly asserted
the same. The Prime Minister gave
forth the same gladstone sound. Ii war
must come, let it be for the best cause.
and on the most plausible ground. The
whole North received the announcement
with satisfaction. The armies we're fill.
ed up and marshalled for the bloody fray
upon this ground, and with this distinct
understanding. Tosay that this plight
ed faith had been violated BY the party
ofdestructionists now controlling nation
al affairs, would be almost waste Of
time, since the present generation know
the facts. 1t was solamuly asserted that
the secdeing States were integral mem
bers of the American Union, and upon
this basis was the war power founded
To-day every principle Of consistency,
honor aud good faith is disregarded and
these States are treated as subiugated
provinces, which could not be, if they
were never out of the Union. 1t seems
from present Developments that all these
pledges were but canting hypocrisy, and
ingenious yet hateful falsehood. The
only pledge to which they claim to be
true, is the one made secretly to them
selves, and may be to the negroes, for
certain it is that it was never made pub
licly at the inception of the bloody strug.
gle. False in one thing, false in all
things, is a maxim we think correctyap.
piled in this case. True to their pledges
to the colored people, the radical party
may be, but if so, it will be because the
colored people are true to the radical par
ty. The integrity of the party is of
conditional nature. 1t will depend al
ways upon contingency. We think the
cherished view and object of the party
in power, the only pledge they are SOL
EMMY bound to maintain, and with pow
er, money and influence, they are determ-
ined to accomplish, has not yet been
trusted to the public keeping 1t is kept
with scrupulous care locked up in their
own cOwardly, blackened and traitorous
hearts. We firmly believe, judging
from therecord of, the past.that destruc.
ton Of the form Of government is de-
signed, and one established where aris
tocracy and bondocracy will control. This
may be accomplished in many ways. No