Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-06
INST AS WE EXPECTED.

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IN strict accordance with the ideas ad-
vanced in our issue Of yesterday, tho
Tre,pdss no sooner got the Union ranks
and harmonized to its liking by
means Of its pseudo-couciliatory article
Of the 18th, than it followed its hand, in
its issue of the 9Th, with q puguaciously
d%isputatious article. The Trespds,
" leaders" Of the 18th and 5th, taken to-
aro equivalent to this: "0rder
in the ranks, thore, and don't say any
thing to distract tho party-while | dis
pute with you and abuse you"
This is the style of the old-time
Southern Chivs, who would introduce q
on tho negro question into
Congress, and then raise the howl of
" agitation against those whom they
compelled to discuss it.
It may prove instructive, asst will
certainly be amusing, to study two days
tergiversations Of our neighbor.
On the 4th he proposes to defer until
we shall "seo Grants legs under the
Presidential table," all discussion Of
the motives Of the seven Republican
Senators who voted for Johnson's ac-
e%uittal. On the 9th he opens his lead
ing article with this sentence " great
deal Of fault has been found with GER
tain Senators for holding their wi
sense Of justice above their duty to
party. Congressman, rs such, may en-
act what rs jurors they might o be
willing to stand by" And then he pro-
ceeds to discuss the length and breadth
of the question concerning which he
said on the previous evening, INSTEAD
of stirring up strife and dividing Union
men on this question Of ethics, we
should do all in our power to tide over
these little differences" AS n rule
scarcely capable of exceptions, it is
perfectly safe to anticipate a plea for
the admission Of some prejudice or false
reasoning, from a man who invokes har-
mony At the sacrifice Of free discussion.
And so it has been with the Tres
pass. On the presumption that
his article Of the 18th had so far
secured "order in the ranks that he
might walk along the lines, whip in
hand, with impunity, he commences
administering to the party a severe cas-
tigation for considering, rs he charges,
that General Meade, by his action in
regard to the Alabama election, has
become and is regarded as "another
delinquent to the party" At the risk
Of conviction and punishment for iusub-
ordination, we will break tho ''ordcr in
the ranks" and declare that General
| Meade is not considered n delinquent in
the party. \ few Alabama Republicans,
who have been bounded, prosecuted
and kukluxed beyond endurance, may
have been blinded to the plain require
meuts Of law by their sufferings, but
the Republicans in Congress clearly
agreed with the General, and the latter
uuquestionably sympathized with the
Alabamians, though his sense of duty
would not permit Of his complying with
their request. That he did s~ympathize
with them, is explicitly stated in his
communication to the President, where
in he regrets his inability to declare tho
Constitution adopted in compliance
| with the Reconstruction law. That the
Republicans in Congress agreed with
the General is clear, from the fact that
they amended the law so as to cover his
objections. If they had not considered
his objections valid, there would have
been no occasion for amending the law
to cover them. Congress could have
admitted ALBANIA without such amend
ment.
If tho General, instead Of q simple
executor, had boon empowered to amend
the law, his sympathy with the Ala
bamians indicates that he would have
done as Congress did. The argument
of the case seems to prove most con-
clusively that General Meade is neither
a delinquent to party nor SO considered.
| We are 10th to believe that our neighbor
finds it n labor of love to mouse out
these cases of apparent delinquency and
a~ntagonism, but much as it would har-
row u feelings to admit such II propo-
sition if asserted, it would be with e1-
treme ~difideuce that we would engage
to prove by appearances that it was I'M
true. Our opening, closing and only
argument would be, he is openly,
avowodly, by printed proclamation, in
favor of q Order in the ranks