Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-27
PREPARING FOR A STORM.

o sore strait, and the leaders Of that
party are in a sad quauiary. That the
sympathetic heart of the party is with
Pendleton cannot be gaiusayed, while
the dictates Of policy and the desire for
success point to the necessity Of select
ing some other. The policy men per-
ceive the im%possibility Of electing PEN
dleton, but they are much afraid that
the selection Of such a man as Chase,
on a platform which omits or abjures
all for which the party has for years
been %contending, will estrangc hosts of
the old staud-bys and breed a storm
which no soothing a allay. The signs
of the times bode stormy weather, and
the press and leaders of the party have
commenced preparing for it by pouring
oil upon the troubled waters. The Sac
ramento Reporter Of Thursday last es-
says, with an amount of industry and
earnestness worthy Of a better cause, to
trim its sails and put its craft in order.
Foreseeing that some one or other OF
the conflicting elements will howl when
tho result of the New York Convention
is made known, and anticipating male
dictions against the California doiega-
ton from some source, it strives to brace
the party for the emergency by the fol-
lowing reference to that delegation:
These men are Democrats, not Of tho fair
weather school, but have been Democrats
| through storm as well as sunshine, in adyer.
| sity az well as triumph, when it required
great moral courage to express the convictions
Of deep.seated principles, and these men will
do the duty delegated to them in 4 conscicn-
cious manner, and in q way that every true,
patriot Democrat can endorse.
In his anxiety to soothc, we fear that
the writer of the above has taken the
very course most likely to exasperate,
should Chase, Hancock or some man Of
that stripe be selected. There is no
mistake about tho stripe Of the Demo
Gratis who represent California. The
deep-seated principles" which they
entertained and which it required
"great moral courage to express" were
chiefly opposition to coercioni condem-
nation Of the war; vituperation Of
Lincoln, and especially Of his Emanci-
patton Proclamation; bitter denuncia-
ton Of the murder" Of Mrs. Surratt,
aud a systematic scofiug and j~eering at
the financial policy of the Government,
tho greenback having been the favorite
| object of their naledictions.
Should Chase, "the father of green
backs" one of the o~riginators of the
emancipation policy and trainers of the
proclamation, or Hancock, the a" strang-
Ter" Of Mrs. Surratt, and n of the
most brilliant and active Of the coercing
satraps Of Lincoln's unconstitutional
administration, be nominated on the
4th Of July, We fancy that the Reporter
will 6ud that it was injudicious, to say
the least of it, to remind those who
were Democrats through the storm, Of
the "great moral courage" which it
required of them to express their "deep-
seated " hostility to the proceedings Of
those gentlemen. 1t may transpire that
not all those who were Democrats
in the cloudy days are as wholly uu-
prejudiced and indifferent as the follow
ing represents the Reporter to be:
Knowing that the acts Of the Convention
will be the result Of tho deliberate Judgment
Of the most sterling and incorruptible Demo.
Gratis, acting AZ our representatives, we may
say, in advance, that We accept and indorsc
them without any reserve.
This, fairly interpreted, means, that
whether the Convention retracts and
forswears all that the Democracy have
been fighting for, snubs Pendleton aud
Vallandigbam and uominates Chase on
q platform consistent with Chase's past
record, on tho one hand, or persists in
and advances upon the Pendletonianism
of the past, makes 10 kind of difference,
the Reporter unhesitatingly accepts
and endorses them without reserve.
There is an owlish solemnity in the
Reporter, closing invocation, when be
says:
Each may have his ~fayorite, but this should
be sunk in the desire for the general good.
We may none Of Us have our ~fayorite men
nominated, but we all know that our favorite
principles will bs advocated BY the nominee,
and il we act sensibly. unseldshly aud united.
ly-they will succeed.
Hero is an intimation of admission
that Haight, tho Reporters pet, may not
be nominated, and that they will submit
to have him T" sunk in the desire for the
general good" then why should not
the Pendletonians or other disafected
20 and do likewise? Alike by Chase or
Peudletou, Hendricks or Hancock, the
favorite of Brick Pomeroy or Miles
O'Relly, "our favorite principles will
be advocated"
We shall see whether the Democratic
party is wholly made up of such fimsy
material as this. We believe that there
are many who have some "favorite prin-
besides q longing for the loayes
and fishes (; who were couscientiously,
bitterly and %irrevocably opposed to the
war, the emancipation Of the slaves
and the suppression of the rebellion,
and we do not believe that even their
of the Republican party will in
duce many of these to be b~amboozled
or soothered into tho support Of nomi-
who were potent instruments for
the accomplishment of results to which
they were heartily and intensely op.
posed. Nous Vtrroas.
The ARKANSAS BlLt.-Following is q
copy Of the bill which was passed over
the Presidents veto admitting Arkan-
sas into the Union: