Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-03
1.-THE SITUATION"

right to lay hold on the promise Of
representation in the Federal Legisla-
ture. But the probabilities are that the
Southern States will, without excep-
ton, frame and offer for endorsement
constitutions such as are indicated in
the Reconstruction Act.
There are some who regard negro
suffrage as the n thing needful for the
entire and immediate political regenera-
ton of the South. Honest old aboli-
tionists demand it, but not usually with
the Panacsa proclamation. 1t is left
for the latter day Radicals to insist that
negro suffrage is the one thing needful,
and to ask for its adoption by Federal
statute. There are two points on this
programme We wish to notice. In the
first place as to the promise of Re-habili-
tation. If the Southern States do
adopt constitutions entirely in con-
formity with the sracings of the "Recon-
struction Law" will they be recon-
structed at once, re admitted to repre-
sentation, when Congress again meets?
We confess that We doubt the DISPOSE
ton or intention Of the extreme Radi-
calls to admit any Southern Representa-
tives, until more tests are raised.
statute-hardened presented to the South,
and complied with. In this we may DO
mistaken. We only judge from the
hints that have been given BY the
Radical leaders. In the second place,
the ballot is named "a protection" to
the black man in the South. Stewart
harps upon this. What constitutes self
governmental protection in a ballot is
not, certainly the mere power or
privilege of casting it. We may
'~'slect" abuses tomorrow, being igno-
ami or deceived. The ballot, as q
weapon Of ,elf-defense (if you please),
requires moro intelligence in its use
than is required to handle any other i'm
plement Of warfare. Give the negro
the ballot in the South to-day, and to-
morrow adopt, there, Impartial suf.
frags" constitutions, and the next day
withdraw the military force, and how
will the negro vote? Who will rule 2
II maltreated ~ q slave, will the negro
not be bullied as . voter? If he is ig-
nsrant will he not bs deceivsd2 "NoV"
Then the negro is vastly shrewdsr than
the white race, or an average. 1.-THE
logic of the Radicals rum on the asser-
ton, practically, Of the moral superior
ity of the blacks to the whites.) Shall
we not hear by and by, when the South
ern States have adopted negro suffrage,
that the military must not be with
drawn, AZ the blacks will be coerced
when voting if tho troops leave and the
Federal police direct, is taken away.
| You will surely hear this by and by.
If the Southern States do moi speedily
adopt the constitutions required, there
is to be con6scation. We are told this
very clearly by the St. Louis Democrat,
Washington Chronicle, Forney's Pre'',
Sacramento Union; and Bill Stewart
says SO. Well, did you ever think what
c~onfscation "means?" Confscation,
in the South at least, signifies this, of
detail: A vast army Of "apprising'
and distributing ofice-holders; e1-
temporized tribunals of 'justice" whose
decisions will generally be for plaintiff
or defendant, as "the Court knows it.
self" and the opening Of almost inuu-
mersbls and interminable suits for adju-
dieation in the regular Federal Courts.
| Did Beecher illuminate against the
Treasury agents in the South, two years
ago? What would he hayeto sayin 1870,
If q few thousand Con6scation Agents
were seated in authority throughout the
| South? And con6scation from the white
man to eudow black men, most Of whom
aided the rebellion, and Of whom the
best that can be said is that they were
not conscious of their own interests and
able to move for them, owing to intel
lsetual obtusensss and imbecility.
In California the contest is warming
up fercely. Evidently there is to DO a
close run between Gorham and Haight;
but We do not doubt tho success Of the
Union ticket. Bidwell has refused to
aecsp. or decline" the nomination ten
dersd him which is to say, he accepts
it. A report tina, he had furnished a
letter Of declination to General Evans,
is denied by a correspondent Of the
Sacramento Union, who writes from the
squssh-rine shades Of Chico.
Senator Stewart is c~anvassing Cali
fornia for the Union ticket. He has
formally announced himself q candidate
for the United States Senste-s.body in
which he has been supposed to occupy
a seat for . year or two past. The null
tiplicity of his positions, on the main
reconstruction question, are too numer-
ous to mention At this time. Stewart
claims that 10 is sure Of q reelection,
a. he says he is to be aided by the
Dutch Flat Railroad Company and by
all ether rich corporations on tho coast.
The Enterprise has already announced
that il has beea procured as his organ
for the canvass, which definitely indi'
Gates that william will lose the Storey
primaries. The leading candidate Of
the prsssnt time is H. G. Blasdsl, who
will succeed if the mine TAI is enforced.