Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-31
A WORD FROM SENATOR NYE.

Among the Congressional proceedings
of July 10th, we find the following
"%sockdolager from Senator Nye on
Senator j. Winter Davis, Of Kentucky
the question before the Senate being
a bill to exclude from the electoral col.
lege votes of States lately in rebellion,
which shall not have been organized.
Mr.. Davis made n short speech on the
bill, and proceeded to denounce the
principles and policy Of the Radical
party, and predicted that the white
people of the whole country would never
submit to a government headed by IL
Wanted would-be military dictator, or
acknowledge the legality of an election
based on negro suffrages or controlled
by military force. The resistance would
not be by violent means, but by the
irresistible moral force of the vast mn
jority Of the white people of the u
try. He concluded by saying that the
Ides Of March would see the funeral Of
the Republican party.
Mr.. Nye recollected hearing the Senator
| from Kentucky, in 1910, denounce the Demo-
cratic party in terms as strong as those ne
used toward the Republican party now. 1t
was true the Republican party would die, as
would the Senator and as all the parties to
which he belonged had died, but the work Of
the Republican party in clevating the
humblest Of mankind would never die. He
wished for the pencil Of Hogarth to depict
the scene he had lately witnessed in the
Democratic Convention. Who was there
who called white men mudsills Whose
name should be spelled with a ch-Retch Z
Hauphter.) Wade Hampton, who was
| cheercd to order. What was it that the Sen
ator Rugged so fondly? A greenback plat.
form with a very black candidate-(aughter)
"a platform, every line Of which was marked
with reputation, every line a fraud, and
almost every word q lie.
He reminded the Senator that his prophecy
of the destination Of the Republican party
in 1864 had como to nought. He said the
Republican party rested upon the power oil
the men whose swords still bore the notches
received in defence Of liberty, while the DEM
orrats depended for success upon the support
i oil TeOelS uuui AN sNy W" oS
the support Forrest gave the negro at Fort
Pillow. The Republican party had clothed
the loyal men Of the South with the ballot,
let the Democrats take it away II they could.
Il is sealed, he said, with the signet OF free:
dom, and I charge you, lay not your hand
upon il, Never could the Democratic
party again have power IN this nation unless
they changed their principles, and he was
strengthened in that opinion by the recent
action Of the Democratic Convention. Blair
was as restless a spirit as he that raised dis
cord in heaven. Seymour had refused the
nomination as often as Caesar did the crown,
but accepted at last.
No unsounder man, politically, could be
found. At the time that thousands Of Dem
ocrats laid down their arms at Vicksburg to
Grant, the head Of the Democratic ticket
said to 4 Democratic meeting in the city Of
| New York, that the law Of necessity should
| never be invoked by a nation, and that's mob
could invoke that law as we'll rs a nation,
and quick as q fash the mob caught up the
idea and engulfed the city in blood and the
| orphan asylum in ashes. He would never
forget the letter Of General Dix, telling Sey-
mour that he had enough troops to take care
Of the mob, and him too.
Replying to Mr.. Davis remark that under
their platform the Democracy would never
surrender, he said "Let him that puttcth of
his armor boast not to him that putteth 1t
on" There would not be enough Of their
platform left to surrender.