The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-07-30
PEACE OR WAR .!

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Democratic Platform, re-echoing Frank
Blair's sentiments. This antithesis j:
q demonstration of the attitude of the
tive parties in nutshell. In late
speech delivered in the United States
Senate, Senator Morton Of Indiana al.
luded to the present Democratic attitude
as follows:
General Blair. whatever you may say o!
him, is a bold, outspoken man. and he spoke
the sentiments of that convention. He says.
Upon these sentiments want N stand be-
fore the convention;" and upon those senti-
Irents he was nominated. Therefore, | say
that the language of the Democratic conven-
ton at New York to the whole country is,
war; resistance BY force of arms to Congress
sional legislation the overthrow by force of
arms of the governments that have been
erected in the rebel States under the laws
enacted bv Congress; the continuance of this
rebellion: continuance of this struggle, in a
somewhat different form. but still the same
struggle, contendng for the same principle.
Ii is now announced formally. not at Mont
comery, not at Richmond, but at New York.
The country need not be at any loss 20 under
stand the character of the contest upon which
we are entering. 1t is not one of peace and
acquiescence, of consolidation whereby the
ravages Of war may be repaired; but it is a
new declaration of war, a new announcement
Of the rebellion under somewhat different
circumstances, but under circumstances for
midable, dangerous. and solemn. Let the
country look the struggle in the face.
This states the case clearly and IN
mistakab'y; and the country uW .slook
the struggle in the face"
The situation of the two great parties
which are contending for the mastery in
this Republic presents an interesting
spectacle to the student of politics. In
1860 the struggle was between Free
Soilism on the one hand, and the SUI
premacy of the slave interest on the
other. The Republican party, while its
germ was pure and simple a bolitionism,
denied being an exponent of the radical
pzecepts of the Abolitionists. The Dem
ocsatic party of the North, while being
the creature Of the slave power, lacked
either the inclination or the moral cour-
age to make an earnest -reiteration of
the disloyal threats of the disunionists
of the South. Each party hesitaied to
arrow the radical principles which were
tie real, vital motives of its existence.
There has been a great and remarkable !
progression since 1860. Looking at the |
Republican party as it now exists, we
find it standing firmly by the principles
which came first to be agitated by Wm.
Lloyd Garrison. 1t has progressed,
steadily, to the logical conclusion to-
ward which its frs, steps necessarily
led it. In 1868 the Emancipation Proc
lamatou of President Lincoln commit
ted Republicanism TO j bolitionism. In
1864 the Democracy, at Chicago, follow
ing the logic of their teachings, accept
ed secession. In 1868, still true to the
spirit of enlightened progress, the Re-
publican party gives formal endorsement
to the legislation enacted by Congress in
practical support of actual abolition
and in the same year We find the Demo-
cratic party, at last, fully identifying
itself with the rebellion. Both parties ,
have come at length to make oren ac- &
acknowledgement of the premises from |
which they started. The National Union {
republican Party recognizes the great c
results Of the war, and seeks to convert i
hem &c the best and most humane uses /
II the Government. The Democracy, Il
'afaed by civil rule: throws off all dis h
,uises aud declares itself ready to ac- '
'ept the last resort-war-as the only [
'ossible means Of averting to tLeir p
allies the fate of " Lost I
'auss." Tie irresistible logic of events C
Tas never more startlingIy e1emplifed o
han by the present attitude of the two 8
arties-the one progressed to the posi- Il
on Of the AboIitiouisls, and the other p
to the standpoint OF the o
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