Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-05-11
WHO ARE LIBERAL AND WHO
PRoSoRlPTIvE. q

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Next to ribald and seurrilous abuse Of
their political opponents, there is moth
ing more common with Democratic
writers and speakers, than to character
ize the Republican party as despotic in
disposition and proscriptive in conduct
This is so often, and with 30 much APP
parent candor, reiterated, that those
who utter it have well-nigh convinced
themselves of its truth, aud have in
many instances misled the unwary or
u~nthinking among their readers ana
hearers. But eveu q cursory examine
ton Of the facts Of the case will demon
strate the falsity Of the charge, and
send the slanderous brood of f~alsehoods
homo to roost.E In disproof Of their
assertion, we will cite u few, and only
O few, patent facts. The Republican
majority in Congress, with the hearty
approval and endorsement Of their con-
stitueats, have admitted rebels who
wilfully and deliberately demolished the
former State Governments Of the South,
to an equal participation in the recon-
struction Of those State Governments
with those who opposed their former
mad acts, and defended with the hazard
of their lives the Government in its just
resistance Of rebellion.
Only an insignidcaa proportion Of
those who engaged and fought in the
rebellion are debarred from equal par
ticipation with loyal men in restoring
what they voluntarily destroyed. The
Southern rebel press and the Northern
rebel sy%mpathiziug press, from the time
Of the first Bull Run fight down to Lees
surrender, TEEN with evidences that no
Union man, white or black, would have
been permitted citizens privileges had
the rebel cause triumphed.
Again: OF all tho Republican papers
in the country tho New York Tribune
has u circulation double, treble, quad
ripple that Of any other paper in our
party. The doctrine, in fact the hobby
Of the Tribune has been " Universal
Suffrage aud Unicsrsal .Amnesty," coup.
led with a generally concilia,ory tone
Besides, did not Horace Greeley, the
editor-in.chief of this most largely pat
rouized Republican paper, bail JEFF.
DdrsP On the other hand, Brick
Pomeroy,s paper, the La Crosse Demo-
erai, has q circulation double that Of
any other Democratic paper in the Uni
ted States, although it is published in
q village on the banks of an insigni6-
can't stream Of the far West. This pa
per applauds the assassination Of Lin
coin, glorifes Wilkes Booth rs a martyr,
advocates reputation Of the national
debt, the re-enslavsment Of the black
race, the assassination Of Grant, il
elected, and coins the ribaldry that pas
ses current for sound argument through
the columns of the Democratic press OF
the whole country. This man and his
paper are only notable for these black
guard qualities, aud because he boldly
advocates the re-inauguration Of civil
war, and yet his is more largely patron
lied than any other Democratic paper
in the country.
For moderation, libernEty, nrgumen-
t~ativeness and responsibility, who will
dare compare the Democratic represen-
t~atives, the La Crosse Democrat and
Brick Pomeroy with the New York Tn
6une and Horace Greeley? It is also
true and patent to the world that the
Republican party is willing and eager
to forgive cx-rebels and forget their
crimes. General CAN'T, Of Arkansas,
and scores Of others who fought bravely
for the Confederate cause, have been
welcomed with open arms to warm and
throbbing loyal hearts when they have
maufully abjured the rebel cause. And
il is but n short time since q large num-
Der of such old time abolitionists as
Horace Greeley, Horny Ward Beecher
and Professor Whitlock met together to
devise means for assisting Washington
College, Virginia, Of which General
Robert f. Lee is President. The De-
moeratic party lauds the heroism, of the
rebel soldiery, sneers ut the very name
Of "boys in blue" and such men as
| CAN'T, Judge Busteeds and others who
have forosworn the rebel cause are the
| butts Of severest Democratic sarcasm
and dirtiest Democratic filings.