Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-25

were in the field. Ask any schoolboy
who was the meanest sneak of a-Cop-
perhead during the war, and be will
hesitate between the names Of Clement
T. vallandigham and Horatio Seymour.
LIE, i. never be said that such a sneak
and traitor as Horatio Seymour can be
elevated TO the highest place in the
nation v Q the head of our great, good
aud noble standard bearer who led our
armies on to victory, Ulysses S. Grant.
In this fight let US vote not
as . party, but as q grand army of the
nation, and let the Republicans vote as
ono corps in that grand army. l appeal
to you, citizens of Nevada, you who
adopted a State government when you
were hardly able to sustain it, merely
that you might have o voice in Senate
and Congress in the affairs of the ma
ton, to look we'll to whom you send
there again. See that their record is
clear, and that they are true to the best
interests Of the country at large /; the
whole country and its people. am going
now to California to assist all / can in
carrying that Golden State for the true
loyal Union party, and it will be car
ried, triumphantly, too, as will be seen
when the result Of the coming Presi-
Dental election shall be announced to
the world.
After three cheers for Mr.. Gorham,
aud " Yankee Doodle" by the band, Mr.,
Fitch was introduced, amid loud and
enthusiastic cheers.
Mr.. Fitch said he was always glad to
meet the people Of " slippery Gulch."
Gold Hill was always sound. The De-
mocracy do not talk now about the war
being q failure, but all their harping IS
upon reconstruction, radical ~reconstruc-
ton. When the war was brought to II
close, all was chaos as far as the gov
ernments Of the seeded States were
concerned. The Republican party set
at once to work to organize govern
ments for them, and presented q plan.
The Democrats at once proposed oppo-
si,ion to that and all other plans, except
that the old Constitutions Of those
States should be Internationally re-
stored to them, with Ill their
former powers and local enactments.
They would not allow that Congress
should have any ruling voice in those
governments, yet when our own State
Of Nevada applied for admission no OBJ
lection was made to Congress regulating
the conditions Of that admission and
the qualifications Of the voters in the
new State. He took the ground that
when those States seeded they simply
went back into their normal territorial
condition and, therefore, should be nc
eordiugly treated as all territories are
treated. The adjusting power was
most certainly vested in the people and
Government Of the United States, and
what was more clearly for the general
public welfare than TO restore order out
Of chaos and as 500 as practicable give
to those States good forms Of govern
ment? Such powers were delegated to
them by that Constitution which our
Democratic friends spell with a n.
Another point for consideration in the
powers Of Congress is this: IL they had
the power to give the black man the
right to fight for his liberty and his
Government, have they not the right to
vote? We have made some promises to
the black man that we have got to full
fill, even as he fulfilled his to us during
the great fight. We have made also
financial promises that we have got to
fulfill; We must ~repudiate none of our
promises or engagements. And now,
in this matter Of reconstruction, he did
not believe in the idea of giving the
ruling power into the hands Of the De-
mocracy, not that he would say that
all Democrats were secessionists, but
it is an indisputable fact that
all secessionists are Democrats.
Relative to the Democratic howlings
against Chinese suffrage, he stated that
under the old treaty with China, Chi
nese were fully allowed to become citi-
zens of the United States if they chose,
and this treaty was made BY a Demo-
cratic administration, and under the
new treaty made by the Republican ad-
miuistration this privilege was revoked.
In regard to the financial affairs OF the
Government, the agony Of mind OF our
Democratic friends about those bonds
which after all are o to be paid under
about twenty years, reminded him OF
the young lady who wept so sadly and
pathetically over the idea that she might
some day get married and have a
baby, and when it grew big enough 1t
might crawl into the fire and get burned
to death. The issue now before us is
the coming Presidential election. 1t is
an issue between loyalty and disloyalty,
and it is recorded in the great book Of
the future, among the coming events,
that loyalty, right and justice will tri-
umph in the contest. Let every true
American do his duty and Of the final
result no one can doubt.
The meeting closed at II o'clock with
three cheers for Mr.. Fitch, three for
Mr.. Gorham, and three more for Grant
and Colfax.