The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-06-15
MOVING INTO POSITION.

MOVING INTO POSITION.
The Democracy have put the ball in
motion by a call from the Chairman of
the Central Committee for Convention
at Helena on the 18th of July. to put in
nomination a candidate for Delegate to
Congress, one Territorial Treasurer, one
Territorial Auditor, and one Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction. Fifty
three delegates are apPortioned, giving
two delegates to each member of the
House of Representatives, as provided
by the apportionment act of the second
Legislature, thus taking as a ground
work for their operations the enactments
of a bogus institution, perfectly consis-
tent with the appeal the Gazette makes
when it urges harmony and concerted
action, by such fight of political fancy
and mental ALTERATION as the following !:
d" We take this occasion TO say that a
Democrat is the same in New York,
Massachusetts,, Missouri, Iowa. Califor-
mia, Oregon or Texas-on land and sea,
in prosperity or adversely, and it is their
heaven-decreed duty TO wrest the power
of government from those who have
desecrated and changed the principles
established by our ancestors, from free
Republican Government to a Military
Despotism." Now, we take occasion to
say that such an assertion is sheer non
sense, because they are divided in the
outset upon the question of impartial
suffrage, upon the question of loyalty,
upon the question of tariff, and the duty
of the Southern people under the Re
construction Act. To say that they are
the same in prosperity and adversely !"
is an objectionable insult and injury to
the broken-hearted demagogues of the
party who have been rejected in the ap-
plication for offices, ard as to Democrat
on water" we have yet to meet the
first one reduced TO that extremity of
humiliation. The assertion that the
principles of government have been
changed is an insipid fling at the found
ers of the Government. ,The eternal
principles of truth are immutable as Del
ty, and it was striving hard for rheto-
rical point where truth was sacrificed to
malice. They are very fearful that Re
publicans in disguise are lurking in
the camp, and pathetic appeal is made
that everybody will stand by the nomi-
nations, Afraid somebody will be an
independent candidate" are you not,
and your influence is not in favor of his
nomination. 1t looks very much as
though every Democrat with aspirations
for Congress. who could raise the stamps,
has emigrated TO Montana, and the Ga
zctts has its hands full in the epdeavor
to harmonic the thirty conflicting ele-
ments likely to meet in Helena in July.
The equality of races, the equality of
the country-a principle enunciated by
jefferson, as the cornerstone of Ameri-
can Liberty, is a nauseous stencil in the
nostrils of latter day Democracy-ride
the UCkEttGt. how SELFISH ana DtlltLnD2
the smothered anathema against the
party who "concoct measures to put
white men on a level with negroes and
Cinnamon" when compared with the
liberal, humane address of the National
Union Committee, the most crSditable
appeal ever made by a political party
We have never seen it otherwise than
that those who were so nervously fear
ful of being dragged doacH to an equality
with another of their race, would have
to Climb in the opposite direction to meet
them on equality. Americans do not
recognize " the divine right of Kings"
and she day has gone by when supercil-
Housness can arrogate to itself the CON
centrated virtues Of humanity, and
+" thank Heaven that they are not as
other men are" without reaping the re-
ward which has already been meeted
out to it where it bore it's legitimate