The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-07-14
WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER.

Its Hunkerism was the destruction
of the Democratic party and its Hun
kerism is all that is left of it. 1t i!
the principle of the divine and immuta
be right of Loco Focoism to hold Of
Gee and pervert the spoils thereof tt
the establishment in power of elias:
Of Office holders. Its invariable motto
10 I" the end justiies the means" A
party moved by such motive can en-
terrain no pure patriotism and never
refuses to place itself in open antagon'
ism to the reformatory spiri. of the
age. Hence it was the willing servant
OF slavery just as it now is the willing
servant of the base prejudices which
slavery inculcated. 1t has been known
20 diveIge occasionally and for short
periods from its beaten paths by way OIL
experiment; hence many of its leaders
were Know Nothings until they found
that the American movement, if al
lowed to get the supremacy in our
politics, would submerge the Demo-
cratic party and break up tie routine
ofofice holding and hence the tenn
porsry adhesion of such men as Horatio
Seymour to the war for the suppression
of The Rebellion, and their subsequent
opposition thereto. Hunkerism saw,
after year or two OF lighting that the
war was being conducted upon such q
scale of magnitude and with so much
fervor by ali classes, that it was likely
to obliterate party lines By the very
force of the unseIfsh patriotism which
was its actaating motive; and when
this became apparent, the Hunkers de-
viseC the Peace movement which got q
formal declaration at Chicago in 1861.
Ever since that time, the leaders of
HuRkerism have set up party against
patriotism and devoted themselves to
efforts to make fealty to the Democratic
party superior to faithfulness to the
cause of the Right. In The meantime
the representatives of loyalty have been
industriously striving among themselves
TO reconstruct the country for the
couatry's good while the Hunkers,
being the nouts' and therefore entirely
irresponsible for any mistakes which
the patriotic servants OF the people have
made, have sought to accomplish the
two-fold resul. of exciting popular dis
trust of the ''ins," and inducing
return of the " War Democrats - to the
" good old party by unjust criticisms,
deaunciations and misrepresentation
of measures and motives. So soon as
the war got out Of Hunker control and
promised to give the glory of success to
a Republican administration, that
moment was organized that " regenera-
TED Democracy which the people of
the North in their Indignation end con-
tempt styled the " Copperhead Party"
Prominent among these agitators was
IIora,io Seymour. He would rather
imperil the Union cause in the field
than that its success should demonstrate
that the Dem ocratic party was no longer
a necessity for the maintenance of this
This mad desire for
power was what prompted him to his
harangue to the mobo-
Gratis Of New York in July 1868. IF
Justice had been done to him, be would
have been hanged for the murders COM
mitted by the anti-draft rioters ; for he
was certainly accessory before the fact.
He was elected Governor in 1862, be-
fore the Copperhead movement began
and hundreds of officers in New York
regiments held commissions issued by
his order. Reasoning from the dema-
rogus's standpoint, be believed himself
.bie to control the Pslitcs as we'll -
he military services, to . certain ex-
ent, of those regiments. Hence the
udaeious, riot-incitinR speeches Of