Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-17
PRESIDENTIAL.

cliaed TO do any such thing. Knowing
nothing whatever Of his reasons for the
course he has adopted, we shall not
undertake to state them but we can
very well understand what might be tho
reasons for such q course in q thought
full man occupying his position. In the
first place, he is not, in any fair sense
of the term, q "candidate" for the Pres
idency. Whatever has been done IN
the way Of putting him up for hat
office has been done by other agencies
than his own. Those who prefer him
do SO upon his past record, and on his
general character as u public man.
| This being the case, it is no duty OF his
to b~eadraucing political opinions orto be
~propounding political theories that may
or may no, be applicable when the time
for action shall arrive. And this brings
US to the second point. The country is
in an extraordinary condition every
where, North as well as South. While
| the subjee, Of tho restoration Of the
| Southern States is one Of vital impor-
lance, the uneasy condition OF oil busi-
ness matters, growing out OF the present
state of the country, also presents q
question Of the highest consequence.
These matters are so i~nterlocked that
they cannot be separated. The course
that seemed to be the best, and, per-
haps, the only one that could be adopted
a year and q half ago will scarcely do
for to-day. Events have moved on so
rapidly that policie, have to be modified
to meet the changing aspects OF the
times. What a man might have felt
disposed to do in January 1867, he
may find it impossible to do in January
1868. With such rapid changes as this
country has seen in the last year or w
on the subject of reconstruction, it
would, therefore be manifestly unwise
for any man of position and character
to say in 1865 what no will do on that
subject in March, 1869. No matter
what views such q man may hold about
reconstruction now, he may be forced by
the pressure Of events to change them
before another month rolls by. The
conditions Of the Ease are all the time
shifting. But even if nothing else
should interfere, the industrial interests
Of the whole country, that arc now in q
suffering condition because one portion
is partly idle IN o Of another
portion being to a large extent idle, may
induce all parties to hasten a settlement
for the sake Of getting once more
actively at work. The case must be
met according to the exigency Of the
times, whenever the time comes, and
that man is O wise one who reserves his
right to meet it in that way. when the
day for action comes upon him. "Plat-
FORMS" declarations and pronunciamen-
tos in advance are but obstacles in the
way on such occasions. We are moving
along too fast to know where we may
be fifteen months from now. The train
i, in rapid motion, and that is among
the safest of railway regulations which
advises passengers to keep offthe plat
form while the cars are going at full
speed. General Grant may have OBJ
served that %salutary caution, and, there
fore, keeps clear Of the platform"
under the circumstances.
One of the most important of the for
NAL nominations General Grant has yet
received is that made by the merchants
and business men Of New York at the
Cooper Institute meeting. They are
men upon whom the activity Of COM
mercial, mercantile, manufacturing,
financial and industrial affairs in this
country largely depend. No men have
larger stakes in the material welfare Of
all the people in the whole country.
They take General Grant upon " his
past record Of his services to the oun
try, and o confidence that his judgment
in the future, as in the past, may be
safely relied on to carry the Government
through the difficulties" Of the next
Presidential term. That is the only
platform they have, their confidence in
The man. They intend to pross the mat
ter upon the attention of all their BUSH
ness connections everywhere. 1t will
be we'll for the country if it shall be
responded to in the same spirit, SO that
General Grant should 60 into the office
uu.rammeled, rs the choice Of the peo-
pie rather than as the pledged candidate
of party conventions. Washington had
no platform but his past services and
character, and yet received every cleo
toral vote. He was the spontaneous
choice of the people. James Monroe, in
1921, without a platform, received every
electoral vote but n for the same
reason. Nothing could be more whole
some than to let the people have such a
chance again, and if the party leaders
must have q contest, let them fight it
out on the Vice President, the members
of Congress, or any other line.
A KENTUCKY TRAcEDY.-The Bards-
town (Ky.) correspondent of the Louis
Vile Courier sends the following:
On Sunday night, 18th, a party of
fifteen men, duly armed and mounted,
proceeded through the alleys to the Jail
in this place, and took therefrom q ne