The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-01-30
THE LITTLE rOINGS OF MIR. DOC
LITTLE AND OTHER PARASITES
OF "MY POLICY"

to Mr.. Doolittle. He has managed t.
illustrate the vacuity and negative ma
ture of Conservatism as no othe
man ever did before. He has contrivet
to find and occupy that unreal and i'm
material vacuum which is the void iy.
ing between the only two great living
issues of the day, and actually stand
upon it He is as a man suspended
midway between the powers of gravita-
able in the neutral air of infinite space
We had, by accident, the other day, a
copy of the New York Day Book. We
are sorry that it got mislaid. 1t is the
next in ability, among the Copperhead
sheets to Brick Pomroy's paper. Black
guard ability, we mean. The copy re
ferred to, had an article on poor Doc
little that was scarifying. 1t denounced
him as being even worse than the mon
grels-the new name for Rsdicals-and
attacked him and his position with merci
less inrective. Such is the shock which
L" my policy" gets from the other ex-
treme pole of the magnet. 1t is kicked
and cuffed and spit upon by earnest
Radicals and outspokeu rebels alike.
Nondescripts are never popular. Neu
trails may have no active enemies bu,
they are certain to have no friends.
Standing where Doolittle does, and
attempting to give q color and consis-
tency to "my policy" by making, as
near as may be, an equitable mixture of
Copperheadism aud Republicanism, his
ia . most unenviable attitude. His al
most super-human devotionto " com
promise - course has left him and his
alone and unsympathised with. He
may find out at last the thsnklessness
of attempting the impossible. But the
fact is, his preposterous propositions
arc the legitimate fruits of the Johnson
ian " policy"
The fact is, the Presidents tumble,
his " policy" as he has chosen to call
it, is only kept alive by its authors Ut
ter and persistent contempt of logic.
He repuiiates, al will, history and bind
ing obligations and he calls each hour
his own, oblivious to the past. When
hs appointed provisional Governors, or
when he refused to ratify Sherman's
treaty, rather, he admitted the entire
premises upon which tie Congress has
acted in passing its reconstruction meas /
ures. The President debarred himself
entirely and forever from the exercise =;
ola logical basis for his present attitude, {
when he set up governments for the
Confederate States and prescribed any ]
terms thereto. Yet he did deny, in the {
most unmeasured terms, the right of
Congress to exact any terms from those
communities-ands sticks to that posi-
ton every time he gets chance to write ,
a message or g proclamation. But his
Man Friday, Doolittle, kicks the Presi- b
Dental fat entirely into the FIRE by his
proposed amendments to the reconstruc- n
tion Acts. He thereby admits the right .
full control of Congress over the political &
condition of the revolted States. To :,
be sure, be only reiterates what the q
claimed to be within the power
Of the Government when he appointed d
bis Provisional Governors ; but he does S
20, unfortunately for the logical consis-
Iency of the case, after both he and his fir
Mentor have renounced the right to the b
use of such powers by anybody but re- re-
hose " Sovereign States themselves. fe
No wonder the Day Book spurns so &C. Il
centric and indefensible course. The Il
fact is, that unless Congress impeaches =;
johnson or appoints a guardian for him, ca
no will break his neck over 81
'ome of his own pitfalls. His h;
coarse is ever SO much more tn
hazardous than that of Cortez when sc
hat rash Spaniard burnt his ships. pc
Burned, and they could not fall into the pe