Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-18

| The Democrats Of California had only
polled their old Mcclellan vote; had not
gained a vote. He said that 10 to 70
thousand Union men staid ut home
disguised, or something Of that sort.
He and others tried to turn all the
Union guns in California on the
common enemy; but no use; they
had got to quarrelling among them
selves, and u reconciliation could not be
effected. Fifteen to twenty thousand
and so Hsight WAS elected. He charac-
terized Haight as n "rotten plank
thrown out Of the Union party. The
reconstruction ball was going on, in
Congress, just the same, in spite Of Con-
uecticut and California Democratic tri-
umphs. The Connecticut election had
been carried by colonization in New
Haven. Ia the course of his speech he
described his trip to Georgetown, to see
how the negroes would vote,-to
Georgetown, where there are the oldest
looking people you ever did see. All
was quiet; negroes came along and voted
all serene, dropped in their ballots and
passed on. Not u negro in Georgetown
or Washington voted the rebel ticket.
The New York World for months, said
Stewart, tried 10 prove that the negro
was a monkey; then when the negro
was first enfranchised tried to blarney
him; but when the Democrats found the
negroes would not votet their ticket they
turned on him again, MS IN "inferior
race" etc. His argument for theme
gro's ballot was protection to the ne
gro" He then said Congress had made
a mistake in piliug on the taxes, but 1t
was all the fault Of the over
estimates Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury. He (Stewart) didn't want
the national debt paid during this gen.
Grafton, etc. The audience was not
enthusiastic; on the contrary, the APP
plause was very feeble even on the con-
~clusion of tho speakers most impas-
stoned aud best learned sentences. We
have made u jot here and there Of his
sayings, without affecting to contin-
uously sketch the speech. II is TO be
printed in full, after n careful revision
by the Senator, and is then designed TO
| supercede all that he may at any former
| time have repeated on the same subjects.
When the standard speech comes out
We will comment upon the text he
| will not go back of for several weeks or
perhaps, months. lie was denunciatory
| of Johnson, and yet mild on Andy
| relatively. He intimated that Andy had
refused to take his advice n great many
| times, when it would have been well
had it been otherwise. Charley DeLong
was in the audience, and his well known
| friends constituted II large proportion
| of the Union men present. Indeed, Of
Stewards friends, and of those who
applauded, we only recognized the
| Hillyers, Stephen Gage, Patten, (who
sa, in the body Of the hall, near the
| front seat, and who occasionally turned
| round and beamed his c~ountenance on
the folks seated in the rear Rollin NJ.
Dagrett and Joe Goodman. Out ofthe 200
or 225 present, there might have been IS
who endorsed the peculiar universal sut-
frage aud universal amnesty dogma OF
the speakers Acknowledgements more
than that number, we are quite conf
dent. From our Acquaintance with
those whom we saw present, we may
say there were fifty who could have de-
livered II much more entertaining dis
course on the subjects William assumed
to discuss, and ont of that so, including
several of the Democrats, there was a
large majority who would not have so
g%rievously violated their W history as
did William in recapitulating and de-
~nouuciug certain prominent Democratic
plans and ideas of old. Take away
from W. VI. Stewart his togs of office,
as a Senator. and in the view Of every
sensible aud discriminating person in
our communities, he would at once sink
to the degree he marked in Nevada
county California, where he wal always
considered Il rather Indifferent specimen
Of u fourth-rate lawyer.
New BUILpING.-The new building OF
the Sisters Of Charity, in Virginia, is
framed and joined, and the workmen
are beginning to shingle it. The Or
phan Asylum and the school will, when
this house is finished, be in separate
buildings.