Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-24
A MOST CONVENIENT a1MLEr
HOLE.


guished English savan, a profound phi
losopher, Professor in one Of the leading
Universities, Doctor Of Laws and Bach
elor Of Arts, once spent several hours
in contemplation Of a tanners sign,
which consisted of a calls tail dangling
from q knot-hole. But none Of his ex-
teusive and varied readings, nor any
thing derived from observation and ex-
perience, furnished him with any suti-
cient clue to the mystery of how the
calf got through the knot-hole. Equal
ly mysterious and iuexplicsble was
it to that profound thinker, George III.
King Of England, how tho apple got in
side the uubroken and seamless pastry
Of the dumping.
The Sacramento Reporter Of Sunday
last has forced a vivid recollection OF
the wise pundit and sage King. But
unlike the cases referred to, the obese
Ex-Governor, present railroad Commits
sioner, editor of the Reporter and Dele
gate to the July Convention, has deter
mined to leave no room for future phi
losophic speculation as to how his pleth-
oric form got through an abolition gim-
let-hole. To that end, with an absence
of all disguise remindful of the inge-
nuousnes Of Heller and the Fakir Of
Ava, all Of the paraphernalia Of the OPP
Grafton are pseliminarily exposed to
public gaze. Here is the marvel Of ro-
tuud corpuleucy which is to pass
through, and here is the enthusiastically
small hole through which it is to pass.
But observed The body is susceptible
Of limitless attenuatiou-thus! The
hole is capable Of boundless expansion
thus! Presto! A caudal pendant
~lut,srs in the shifting breeze-behold
tits done!
Referring to the telegraphic report of
the universal suffrage and universal
amnesty platform proposed BY Chief
Justice Chase, the Reporter thus eIpa-
tiates
But the platform outlined, not regarding it
as emanating from any authoritative body or
person, expresses in general, Democratic
doctrines. It's frat article, indorsing, or rec
ommcnding universal suffrage according to
Democratic principles, but leaving the ques-
ton to the States themselves under the Con.
stitution Of the United States, will have the
objection that it touches upon the subject Of
suffrage at all. As the article says, it is a
question for the States themselves, and such,
we think, will be the expression Of the plat.
form. The principle Of allowing each State,
Mississippi, Maine, or any other, to adopt n
white, qualified, or universal suffrage rs they
please, has always been the Democratic creed.
Some Southern States may be willing to grant
the right Of suffrage to educated, orderly and
property-holding negroes, as IN encourage
ment, but universal negro suffrage is their
abhorrance.
Is it q fact or " an abolition lie" that
the predecessor Of the present Chief
Justice once officially declared that ga
negro had no rights that a white man
was bound to respect? Did tho Dem
ocratic party indorse or denounce that
| dogma? If the doctrine Of the right of
States to adopt colored suffrage raj
always ia part Of the Democratic
creed" what corrupt and fanatical Or
ganization was it, pray, that opposed
this " time-houored principle of the De-
mocracy," and declared that this Gov
eminent was made solely by white men
and exclusively "for white men and
their posterity forever? Perhaps,
though, the /" orderly and educated" in
whose favor the Reporter is willing to
allow an exception have only an invisi-
BILE admixture Of negro blood in their
veins.
Concerning some Of the other planks
in the Chase platform, the Reporter neiI
Their bubbles nor qualities. For in
stance
The other articles appear by their outline
to be unobjectionable. Universal amnesty
and the restoration Of the Union is the duty
and the great object Of the Democracy.
Thus it would appear that universal
suffrage, which would permit all loyal
men to vote, is a State question and can
only be handled by the States respec-
lively, but universal amnesty, which
removes the disabilities Of rebels aud
allows them to vote, is q national ques-
ton which should rightfully be decided
and enforced by the General Govern
ment, despite the opposition Of the peo-
pie Of the States affected!
Several idiotic Republicans Of this
vicinity have been unable to appreciate
this logic Of the Reporter. They are so
bigoted and wrapped up 10 "isms, F" as
to think that sauce for the black goose
should be sauce for the white gander.
These men are so perverse and SO inca
pable of taking a broad, statesmanlike
view similar to that Of the Reporter, as to
insist upon the proposition that amnesty
and suffrage ought to stand or fall to-
gether. Quo gives the elective fran
chise to one class and the other gives it
to another. Both relate to the regula-
ton Of that franchise within the States,
and if one is IN exclusively State ques-
ton SO is the other. II n may be
regulated by Congress SO may the other.
But then We must remember that Re-
publicans are prejudieed, while Democ-
racy is wholly impartial. Vfva Ia hum
bug!
INVALID PEssloss.-The absence Of
proof Of the death Of a soldier has hith.