Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-03-08
DOUGLASS ON THE STUMP.

Democrat, and would occupy a whole
page Of the NEws. We have room only
for the following extracts, scarcely a
word of which but is known to be the
truth
l am in favor Of sbolishing the Office
of the Vice President. Let US have no
more Vice Presidents. tCheers. We
have had bad luck with them. Laugh
teri We don't need them. There is
| no more need Of electing a Vice Presi-
dent at the same time we elect q Presi-
| dent than there is need Of electing q
second wife when we have got n al
ready. Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof" The argument against
the Vice Presidency is to me very con-
| elusive. 1t may be briefly stated thus
| The Presidency Of the United States,
like the crown Of a monarchy, is a
tempting bauble. 1t is a very desirable
thing. Men are men. Ambition is am
bition the world over. History is con-
stantly repeating itself. There is not a
single crown in Europe that has not
some time been stained with innocent
| blood-not one. For the crown, men
have murdered their friends who have
dined at the table with them: for the
crown, men have sent the assassin to
the cells of their own brothers and their
own sisters, and plunged the dagger
into their own warm, red blood. For
the crown all Of crimes have
been committed. The Presidency is
equally q tempting bauble in this coun-
try. ! am not for placing that tempta-
tion so near any man as it is placed
when we elect a Vice President. am
not for electing q man to the Presiden-
tisl chair, and then putting a man be-
hind him with his ambition all leading
that way-with his desires, his thoughts
all directed upon that chair, with o
knowledge, at the same time, that only
the Presidents life stands between him
and the object of his ambition. | an
not for placing a man behind the Presi-
\ dent, within striking distance Of him,
whose interests, whose ambition, whose
every inclination is to be subserved by
his getting that chair. The wall of
assassination is too thin to be placed
between a man and the Presidency of
| the United States. GCheers.1 Let your
| Vice President be unknown to himself
and unknown to the people. Let him
| be in the mass till there is need for him.
Don't plump him right upon the Presi-
dent. Your President is unsafe while
the shadow Of the Vice President falls
upon the Presidential chair. How easy
it would be to procure the death Of any
man where there are such temptations
as that offered. A clique, a clan, a
ring, usually forms about the Vice Pres
dent.
How would you administer the Gov
e.nment if you were President? WIZ
would you send to the Court Of st.
James? Who would you send to the
Court of France? Who would you ap-
point Postmaster General? Who would
YOU appoint Collector Of the port of New
Orleans, or New York, or Of St. Louis ?
What would you do If you were Presi-
dentr" 81 would do so and So" at
suits US to a dot" Laughter and ap-
plause.1 The President dies, and in
steps the Vice President. He is remind
ed at once of his old pledges, and he be-
gins to try to redeem them by turning
against the party who elected him. It
is q remarkable fact that in no instance
has any Vice President followed out the
policy of the President that he was
elected with. Elected on the same ticket,
on the same platform, at the same time,
al the instant the President is taken of
the Vice President has reversed the ma
chinery Of the policy on which he was
elected in every instance.
General Harrison was the first man
suspected Of entertaining opinions I'M
favorable TO slavery. He died in a
? month. He was succeeded by whom
By John Tyler-one Of the most violent
propagandists Of slavery that ever trod
this continent. Where was the Wing
party that elected him? Nowhere.
Where was the policy on which he wa
elected? Nowhere.
General Taylor, though q slaveholding
man, and an honest man towards his
constituents and the people Of the coun-
try, the moment it was ascertained he
was in favor Of admitting California as
a free State, if she saw fit to come with
q constitution of that character, and was
opposed to paying ten millions Of dol
lars to Texas on account Of the claim on
New Mexico, there were means at hand
to kill him. He died, and was followed
by whom? By a vile sycophant who
spit on the policy Of his predecessor,
and put himself in the service Of the
very men whom that President Q
offended. Well, they tried to murder
ever James Buchanan [laughter in Or
der that he should be followed BY q
younger, stronger traitor than himself.
They put Mr.. Breckenridge behind him,
and when he went down to Washington
they carried him to the National Hotel,
and helped him to q large dose OF
poison. 1Laughter.1 But in that in
stance the poison met its match. Great
laughter.1 Who doubts that James
Buchanan wal poisoned2 It wat noto-
rious at the time, and no doubt poison
cd for a purpose.
To-day, to-day We mourn, the nation
has to mourn, that the nation has a
President, made President by the bullet
of An assassin. I do not say that be
knew that his noble predecessor was TO
be murdered. I do not say that he had
any hand in it; but this / do say, with
out fear Of contradiction, that the men
who murdered Abraham Lincoln knew
Andrew johnson as We know him now.
[Great ~applause.1 Lot US have done
with these vice-presidents. The nation
can easily call a man to fill the Presi-
Dental Chair in case Of death; besides,
he is not half 80 likely to die. Laugh
teri II is a little remarkable, too,
that whilst Presidents die, Vice-Presi-
dents never die. [Laughtsr.l There
is nobody behind them.