Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-09-22
THEIR R VOTE.


vote for the first time in November for
President Of The United States is large.
Thcy may be supposed to be unbiased,
not generally held by party pride aud
apparent consistency, but ready to take
the side of patriotism and Of justice.
We ask such to look at the question
calmly, with reference to the highest in
tersst of the country, and also with re-
gard to their own fair fame in the fu-
ture. Let US remember that one party
is that which met the storm of rebellion
brarely and firmly. The record is re-
cent. It organized the forces of the
Union for the national defecsei it
raised the money for maintaining armies
10 tho field F.; it employed all the re-
sources of the Government to save the
Union ; in success and disaster 1t
pressed steadily on to the final victory.
If the war had failed, the odium would
have attached to it. The glory Of the
victory is distinctly its own. That
party abolished slavery aud relieved the
nation from its curse and its disgrace.
It put colored soldiers into the field,
and thus crippled the foe and enlarged
our armies. The same party has led
back to their relations to the Union
seven Of tho ten States tainted by re-
bellion, and has brought them back
without a s~ervile, hostile population,
With labor and education free, and with
institutions resting on the consent oil
all classes Of the governed.
The other party has opposed all the
measures of the Government for self.
preservation ; it carped at taxation and
resisted the draft, without which the
war could not have been prosecuted ; ii
gave its sympathies and its p~rophesies
to those who were in arms against the
Government it struggled persistently
to prevent the abolition Of slavery
although in it lay the strength Of the
rebellion. The same party opposed the
addition to our armies Of the fighting
material out Of a population Of -four
millions. 1t has protested against q re-
construction based on tho principle:
and policy which won the victory over
the rebellion. The Union party fought
tho war and organized tho peace. The
opposing party, falsely called Demo
cratic, never enlisted heartily in the
war, denounced all the strong measures
essential to success, and now threaten:
to violate the conditions of peace form
ally established, and ripened into quie'
aud order and beneicent prosperity.
Beaten in its opposition to coercion
its leaders fell back to carping at wal
taxes. 1t shed blood to prevent the
draft. When taxes and the draft were
acquiesced in, it waged bitter conflict
in behalf of slavery. Slavery persisted
and its arguments were turned against
negro soldiers.
Between these two parties, n strik'
ing difference exists. In every cast
from tho beginning Of the wal
to the present hour, the progress o
events has justified the course Of thu
Union party, in its great measure anG
10 every case they have exposed the hol
lovness and Of tho preteu'
sionu of the sham Democracy. Step BY
step the country has approved Of the
Union policy, and constantly the De-
moeracy have been compelled substan'
TALLY to confess that its p~rophesies were
wrong, its attitude false, 10 pretension'
q bluuder and q crime.
This party has selected candidate:
who consistently represent the measured
and principles advanced and the impla'
cable hostility manifested BY the Demo
cratic party to the Union cause during
the sanguinary struggle for national
existence.