Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-06
0Radioals Of Radicals.o

We find the following in the Washing
ton correspondence Of the Alta Califor-
MO:
A new party il beginning to develope
itselfin Congress. They call themselves
Radicals Of Radicals. They entered in
to public life at the commencement Of
the Fortieth Congress, and already have
furnished evidence that they do not be-
lieye that Senator Sumner, Senator
Wade, Representative Thad. Stevens,
and men Of that stamp, are sufficiently
up to the times-Conservative Radicals,
90 to speak, who are about to halt when
the people intoxicated with rapid motion
are demanding ar increased velocity,
and who on that account are bound to
be left behind and thrown aside. Mr..
Drake, the newly elected Senator from
Missouri, is the leader Of tae Radical
Radical party in the Senate. He goes
in for everything you ever heard Of, and
a little more. In the debate on the re-
construction Of the Military Reconstruc-
ton bill he made q desperate fight TO
secure the right Of secret ballot in the
South forever. Roscoe Conkling called
his attention to the fact that the Supreme
Court had already decided that condi-
tions precedent Of this kind were not
binding on States after they had been
admitted ; but that did not leave him
without q remedy. Mr.. Drake, in case
Of . State repeating the secret ballot
after once conceding it, would be in
favor of expelliug the Senators and Rep
rsseutstives of that State from Congress.
The announcement Of these doctrines
made those immorable Conservatives.
wm. P. Fessenden, Henry Wilson, John
Sherman, and others, cape with aston.
ishment, which was not lessened when
Mr.. Drake capped the climax by declar-
ing himself a Radical Of Radicals"
II must DO said Of him that throughout
tho whole Of his political life he has
been the advocate Of extreme views.
At the commencement Of the war he
wal heartily in favor of driving the
"LineoIn h~irelings'' from the State Of
Missouri, but it was subsequently found
I believe, that tho advice he gave on
that occasion was impracticable, this
fact it must become apparent to the
duliest apprehension, that Mr.. Drake 10
entitled to his designation of Radical Of
Radicals. His fellow Radicals of Radi-
calls in the House arc Of the Same stripe.
Stokes, of Tennessee, nee wrote about
the "tyrant Lincoln and the patriot Da-
Wis" Butler, we all know, voted for
JEFF. Davis in the Charleston Conven-
ton for President Of the United States,
and Logan wag put under arrest at the
commencement Of the war for disloyalty.
This statement l give on the authority
of the St. Louis Republican. In 1861,
he wrote . letter to . friend from Wash
ington in which he said, "There 10 no
use talking about coercion to make the
States conn back. They may DO rub
dued, but never made to stay in the
Union, unless some safe compromise 10
made by tho Republicans. They talk OF
war; this would be the everlasting over
throw Of all our institutions, resulting
only in deIpotism." From these eI-
tracts I think There will be no great diff
6culty in arriving at what Radicals OF
Radicals means. It is 8 designation
which certainly implies energy ofno Or
binary chsrscter-sn energy that knows
NO such word as fail; that has hardihood
enough to essay rebellion and then es-
pouse loyalty when it became apparent
that loyalty was likely to win, and
which is always in the advance whether
the nation 10 advancing or retrograding.
They arc the sort of mon who are bound
to win-if not in one way, then in an
other. Whether they are going to run
the Fortieth Congress or not, time alone
will tell. That they have the wish to
do 20 has long been admitted.