Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-01
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There is a species of art which con-
sis,s in the effect produced by the union
of opposites. Thus, youth and age are
brought together, or Beauty and Beast,
or we are shown a picture Of midnight,
riven by q thunderbolt. Effects SO pro-
duced are often striking, but those who
produce them are often morbid and af-
fected, and sometimes. morbid only.
Such a picture was designed to be ex-
hibited in the famous Philadelphia Con-
yeution, when Massachusetts, and South
Carolina were fguratively spoken of as
entering the Convention arm 10 arm
This was a picture in water %colors, how
ever; and the occasion is thought to
have brought Andrew johnson in con-
tact with more unwhiskied water than
he had seen in many years. But Tam
many Hall was recently converted into
q grand gallery for the exhibition of this
sort of tableaux. We regret that some
of the intended contrasts proved to be
no contrasts at all. But the spectacle
of Hancock and Forrest would have
been edifying. We place no sort Of
stress upon the union Of Horatio Sey-
mour and Wade Hampton on that occa-
sion. They were in perfect sympathy
during the war, and have an object in
common to-day. Tom Ewing and For
rest hob-a.nobbing did not strike US as
particularly uncommon. ". B. Frank
lin, q General in the Union army, and
Barksdale, Of the rebel line, met and
mingled without u combining medium.
Seriously, the exhibition was a dead
failure. In reviewing its scenes we feel
no more establishment at the meeting
and mingling of Union and rebel officers
than we should were some travelling
chemist to demonstrate the affinity Of
salt for water.
It is IN old trick Of the Democracy
to distrust nature and lean upon art.
They-the leaders, that is-are like the
middle.aged women Of fashion, who,
when dressed and presentable, have no
more truth about them than their
avowed Leceits. This thing, known as
the Democratic party, is nothing with
out its paints and powders, its false
hair, false teeth, and padded corpus.
Its leaders plume themselves upon ig-
noring all things unpleasant, and pride
themselves upon their skill in covering
up the hideous gaps in the garment Of
Consistency. They do not appear to
understand that naming n dog an ele-
plant cannot TURF a dog into IN ele-
plant, or that calling black white does
not make it so. No more do they un-
derstand that the determination of Ham
cock and Hampton, Barksdale and Brick
Pomeroy, Forrest and Horatio Seymour,
in Tammany Hall, does not mean the
determination Of Southern hlsehood
and Northern patriotism. The meeting
of these men is simply a meeting Of old
chums, separated, physically, for n few
years by the stress Of war, but always
a unit in sentiment, in object and in
policy. The intelligent people will not
need to be told that Horatio Seymour,
egging on the mob Of 1868, and Wade
Hampton and y. B. Forrest, leading q
rebel regiment each upon the Union
lines, are one and the same in all essen
tials. Yet We hear a great noise over
the appearance of these dirty rebels in
Democratic Convention. Why, they
might as we'll have been in the Chicago
Convention of 1864, but for the difficult
" of rejoiuing their rebel regiments.
They have not changed in sentiment,
or in purpose, from that day to
this. They sought to destroy free gov
eminent by force of arms then, and
failed. They seek to achieve that work
now, but through the Democratic party.
And the Democratic party, always ser
vile, is the willing instrument Of these
%unrepentant and malignant traitors.
Did we believe it possible that these
fellows could so deceive the people as to
secure by votes what they could not win
BY the bayonet, our confidence in popu-
lar government would fail US entirely.
But that cannot be. Not even the lead
ers Of the Democracy can deceive them
| selves, much less the masses who Gre
ated and sustained the armies of the
Union during the four years trial by
battle.
Every man who reflects upon the
spectacle presented by the meeting and
commiugliug Of tho New York Conven-
ton must, VIC think, see that there is
warm work before us. Grant again
faces Lee, and the campaign of the
Wilderness is to be made again. And
rs the fate of the nation hung upon the
fidelity of the people to the Government
then, so does it now. The case will
bear to be strongly put. 1t cannot be
too strongly put, indeed. With the
purse and the sword in the hands Of the
Democracy, and the Democracy the
slaves of the rebels, how long could the
nation bear up and away from anarchy I
How mistakenly we congratulated our.
selves upon "the end Of the war !"
A PLEASURE TRIP.-Yesterday three
wagons and q buggy, containing men