Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-09-10
REASONS FOR SUPPORTING
GRANT

ton to the Baltimore American, gives his
reasons for coming out in support of
Grant. Mr.. Carlisle has never been q
party man. He is Of the opinion that
partisan politics have been the bane Of
the nation. He thinks the Democratic
party became sectionalized after tue
death Of Andrew jackson. In regard
to the Virginia Convention which passed
the ordinance of secession, he says, that
if u dozen members of the convention
had held firm, the ordinance would not
have been passed. He boldly denounced
the heresy of secession in that body, and
he was "the first in Congress to de-
nouuce the policy of Congress that was
subsequently, adopted, when it was first
foreshadowed by Mr.. Stevens and
others. He was opposed to radicali'm.
Hear what he says OIL this point
So great was my opposition to the ultrai.m
OF Congressional legislation, and so sim
CeTe my COuNlShlOaSt hhAs ehA
abate the one or surrender the other, l gave
up INV place in the Senate, and for a time
Lost the confidence Of my Union friends. l
had hoped and expected that the action OF
the New York Convention would have enti-
tied its nominees to the support OF the con-
sentative Union men. Had its members
pledged themselves to the maintenance OF tho
rights Of local self-goyernment in the States,
a. secured BY the Constitution, and nomi-
mated as their Presidential candidate a man
! Of undoubted Unionism. who believed in the
| right of the Government to protect itself and
| enforce its lawful authority, l should have
| voted for its nominees. This was not done.
na ,h. contrary, IL 10 my opinion that Hon
bricks was defeated because he is not q be-
lever in the right Of secession. The war
| record Of Hancock defeated him. Mr.. VAL
l~andigham's patriotism nominated Seymour
and crushed the aspirations Of the Chief
Justice. The friends OF the "lost cause
triumnhed over the Unionism Of the conven-
ton, and the strife Of the battle field is to be
| renewed, TO be fought out at the ballot.box.
As much as I am opposed to the Radical
legislation Of the past six years, l am more
| opposed to disunion. So long as we are one
people vicious legislation may be corrected,
even constitutional amendments may be
abolished, and constitutional liberty pre-
served; but once divided into separate States
under different Governments, liberty and
prosperity, peace INC good government are
lost forever. Grant viii receive no support
from secessionists or their sympathizers /;
they are all to be found in the ranks Of the
party supporting Seymour. The conserva-
tism Of Republicanism nominated Grant.
The radicalism Of Democracy nominated
Seymour.
Here, then, we have the moving cause
for Mr. Carlisle's support Of General
Grant. He regards Grant as the expo
nent Of the true conservatism Of the
country, and Seymour the exponent OF
its most dangerous radicalism. He SUBJ
sta ntially charges that the success Of
Mr.. Seymour would be the success Of
the disunion sentiment. He prefers to
advocate the election of II man who be-
lieves in the right Of the Government
to protect itself and enforce its lawful
authority. Seymour he regards ms a
man of the James Buchanan type, who
thinks that the Government Of the
United States cannot use force against
the people of a seeded State to compel
obedience to its lawful authority. He
makes the following significant obser-
walton
II the Supreme Court shall decide, as the
| Democracy hold it will decide next winter,
the reconstruction legislation Of Congress
unconstitutional, il will doubtless be for the
reason among others that the State has the
| right, free from Congressional interference
or Executive dictation, to form for itself its
own Constitution, provided it be republican
in form. II this shall be so, the governments
| created by the constitutions Of the seeded
States, under the laws Of Congress, are null
lities and have no legal existence the gov
ernments created under Executive dictation
must share the same fate, and these States
will be RENTED back to the governments
created by the constitutions adopted BY each
after the passage Of their several ordinances
| of secession and the reputation Of their
| allegiance to the Constitution Of the United
States.
In such II contingency, with Seymour
at the head Of affairs, Mr.. Carlisle
thinks disuuiou will be IN accomplished
fact, and the war will have been fought
in vain. To guard against such a Ca
lamity he supports General Grant for
the Presidency.