Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-10-26

The CAPITAL DIEr.-In making an
editorial rally cry for this diet political,
the Carson Appeal gives the s%ubjoined
history of the clubs recent proceedings,
with extreme Radical comments, and a
Radical Know Nothing wind up. The
Appeal says: "At the meeting OF the
club, on the sth instant, resolutions to
the number of eight were presented by
the committee appointed for the pur-
bose Of framing q platform ; and, upon
motion, they were ordered to lie over
for one week. At the adjourned meet
ing, those resolutions were read and
acted upon. Seridtim +: the first seven OF
them were unanimously adopted. Upon
the reading of the eighth resolution,
Attorney General Clarke tits sponsor)
asked leave to withdraw it and to SUBJ
NIT a substitute in its stead. This was
agreed to Z; and, after discussion, this
substitute (which was, in purport, the
same as the original eighty was inde6-
nitely postponed, by a vote Of 80 ayes
to 22 noes. Before the result was an
nounced by the President, Mr.. Cutter of
Storey county, who took quite a con
spicuous part in the proceedings for a
nonresident, changed his vote to the
affirmative, and gave notice of a motion
to reconsider the vote whereby this sub
stitute was indefinitely postponed. After
the action upon Clarke's resolution,
Lieutenant Governor offered the follow
ing resolution, which was ordered to lie
over until this evening We believe
each organized State under the Consti-
tntion Of the United States has the SOW
erien right to determine what persons
within its limits shall enjoy the electoral
privilege and, Furthermore, we believe
this principle necessary to the prosper
ity and perpetuity Of the American sys-
tenn of Republican Government 1t is
TO be hoped that this resolution, which
ia simply q second edition revised, be-
clouded and revamped, of the substitute
resolution which was indefinitely post
poned, will share the fate with its coun-
terpart. It is open to the same obJec-
tions as that, and while il has its origin
in a lingering regard for State Rights
IL is an indirect stab at the suffrage
question, and if adopted will be
claimed as q Conservative triumph.
Another resolution which was read at
the last Club meeting, and which was
fathered, in an adaptive way, by Gen.
Edwards, and which was ordered to lie
over until this evenings meeting, is as
follows: "Abjuring all odious distinc-
tons, We declare the elective franchise
TO be a privilege emanating from the
Government to the citizens which, in
the future, should not be extended to
any class, race, sex or person not pos
sessing sufficient intelligence, integrity,
independence and patriotism to exercise
IL TOT the public good" This is another
blizzard at the franchise
question. 1t will be observed that this
resolution r%eiterates the idea that ,ha
elective franchise is o spriyileoen-n
in other words, that il is not q r;,h,
but the gracious bestowal of n con5o
scending government upon its subjects !,
Congress has e~nfranchised the Sontbsrr
blacks. They cannot, rs n general
thing, read and write, but they will po,,
straight. The North is flooded with
naturalized foreigners who cannot read
and write; and, as a general thing, thew
show their un6tness to exercise the
''privilege" o~fEoting by going the Cop
perhead ticket. We do not believe il to
be consistent for the Union party to
commit itself to q resolution which, if
its tenets should obtain, would let white
ienoramuses vote the Democratic ticket
.x.Ipda ;lt;terafe hlacka from yot-
ing the Union ticket"