The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-07-08
THE ENEMY'S POSITION.


bewilderment. What is being done
within the walls of Tammany is not in
response to any exhibition of popular
will not out of a patriotic necessity !;
not for anything more admirable than
an intense desire of certain conspiring
politicians to map out such a plan of
campaign as gives the greatest promise
of a successful contest against the will!
and purposes of loyal public. Having
no just leading principle as a guide,
they are striving to master perple1ities
through the employment of no better
means than the guess work of perverse
schemers wholly uncertain of the eff
feet that would be produced By direct
delivery of their more forciole ,enets,
and equally doubtful Of the policy of
an opposite enunciation of statements,
they refrain from firing in such direc
tons as nigh. have damaging effect
upon their opponents through a dread
of the results that might be apparent
among their friends This is natural
for there can be no candor of expression
where no sterling honesty of purpose
exists no frank, manly declaration of
principle where there is no higher mo-
tive than the impure and despicable
IF IL lot inb
forward, patriotic utterances from the
lips of habitual devotees to the arts of
the dsmagogue. The telegraph gives
Us what purports to be an outline of the
Democratic platform. This may or may
not be sketch of the platform to be
adopted. But it might well be; for
such of its utteraBces as do not convey
& double meaning are mere platitudes
The party which has made such long,
loud and indecent declarations in favor
of 81. a white mans government can
not assent to a concurrence in the logic
of the times through evasions and equi-
vocations; no respectable opponents of
the Reconstruction policy of Congress
will attempt to signify their opposition
through inuendoes and epithets +; and
party which entertains an honest con-
viction of the righteousness of the doc
trine of State Rights will not seek to
give that belief expression through
vague hints and equivocal resolutions
The Democracy are not ashamed Of their
evil purposes-none but shameless poll
ticiaus would stand where they debut
they dread every conceivable catastrophe
worse than defeat. Their self respect ,
10 the assurance of undertaking eff q
froutery; but whatever responsiveness 6
here may be in the exhibition of that
attribute it had better be con. /
lsrved than that they should abandon t
wen the assumption Of decent
aspect for the opinions of mankind
y going without their party to huckster
way their nomination for the Presiden- ,,
y for the price of so wretched sort Of \
as is thought to attach 70 e
Salmon P. Chase. Should the Chief Il
Justice come forth from Tammany bear Il
ug tho Democratic banner be will 10 e
bic to look down upon . level even r,
over than the depth of political prosti- "
ution where he grovels. He will see II
'sueath and around him, self descended
ato utter debauchery, the quickened r;
insings of that boastful multitude of p
lars, proHigates and defamers of their d.
ouutry who, when they dared so to in- CT
ult . patient, struggling, bleeding peo- Ii
10, declared false the principles which te
ave him Consequence and position, and h,
18th loud moutbiugs and bitter oaths ia
suouneed the war ~ an unconstitu-
onal aggression upon the Southern pc
tatss, hsspsd the foulest abuse upon :,
Srsaan Liseoln, plotted in secret in