Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-09-02
BRING UP THE ARTILLERY.

Ot tue cueuy u Jus W "SCS Nuu ONSE-
throw. The contest ia one in which
our opponents recognize a struggle for
plunder, which to them is but another
name for life. Like all men face to face
with almost certain defeat they will not
scruple to advantage themselves of
everything in the nature of weapons Of
offense. They will not give quarter,
nor will they expect it. Their fight is
o 6ght Of desperation. If they win,
they renew their lease of life. and if
they lose, they lose a~ll--position, hope,
everything.
Now the objects, aims, and nature of
the parties can be learned in no easier or
moro certain way than from an examin-
alton Of the means employed to carry
their respective standards and policies
forward. The Republican party builds
for all time, because it builds upon
principle. 1t cannot afford to make the
fight for temporary advantage. 1t must
educate its adherents up to the work OF
governing well, for the sake of stability
and progress, and not for personal and
pecuniary advantage. A party only
held together and managed by its at
fractions for public plumber, can never
bear the strain of adverse circumstances;
but must fall in pieces, just as we saw
the Democratic party broken up and
scattered by the war for national life.
That party could never have been raj
lied again had not Andrew johnson be-
trayed his trust, and so %quickened the
appetite of the leaders for plumber. 1t
was only when he thrust Republicans
out to give place to men who opposed
the Government in its dire extremity
that these leaders began to sound the
trumpet for the reassembling Of the le-
gions scattered and disheartened by the
stress Of war. To-day these hyenas and
jackals among politicians are galvanized
into life BY the prospect of again tap
ping the public treasures at the foun-
tain head. But for that there could be
no efficient organization of the party in
this campaign.
So we may as we'll prepare for q cam
paign OF hard work and sleepless vigil
lance. False issues, lies, d~eceits, false
hopes held out to dazzle the ayaricious
all these things must we prepare to
meet and turn aside else they will do
the unsuspecting deadly harm. 10 and
Of themselves these things are not for
midable. They are to the great battle
what the sh~arpshooters were to the
grand fight in the Wilderness-danger-
Gus to the careless and unthinking. To
dislodge them we must bring up the ar-
tillery, and shell them out of their cum
ming ambush. The real dangers are
farther ahead. But we must get rid Of
these lies and liars who pop down upon
US at every turn in the road.
Aud in dealing with the real dangers
which threaten, let US give due credit
to Frank Blair, who said truly that the
question TO be decided was not one Of
finance ; whether bonds shall be paid
10 gold or paper whether bonds shall
be taxed or not, or whether we can nf-
ford to repudiate our debts as Il nation,
and so destroy our credit and good
fame. He was right in saying that the
true issue was not involved in these
questions Of finance. He says truly
that the real question i, one Of jnris-
diction between Congress and the Exec.
utire. In other words, the question Is,
shall the legislation Of Congress stand
until repealed by the same body, or
shall it be overthrow by the violence
Of revolution That is the question /;
aud il we feel 40 particular admiration
for Mr.. Blair in other respects, we thank
him for his Crawford letter, In which
he states the question as above, and
fully commits himself to revolution to
overthrow the Reconstruction Acts Of
Congress. We must take him at his
word, and so labor rs to render his de-
feat certain and signal.
And we must learn to regard the we'll
ascertained probabilities Of the situation
as we'll as the csrtaiuties. Who that
knows Frank Blair doubts his reckless
intent and all-absorbing ambition. 1t
is not risking q reputation for candor
aud foresight to say that if the calamity
of the success Of Seymour and Blair is
reserved for this afflicted aud troubled
nation, Mr.. Seymour will be disposed Of
as that party has already disposed of
three men who stood in the way Of its
plans. For Horatio Seymour is a weak,
timid, hesitating man, totally unequal
to the task Of inaugurating revolution
on any larger scale than that OF the
New York riots of 1868. But in Blair
the Democracy and the rebels have q
tool fitted to their hands. Brutal in his
excuses, drunk with vanity always,
and utterly bereft of all that cnnobles
manhood, he would hasten to perfect
the coalition Of rebels North and South
already commenced by Andrew John.
son /; and in six months from the day
he should be seated in the White House
the loyal men Of the nation would have
to choose between submission to disin-
tegration or war for the Union. 1t is
Just the situation Of April, 1861, repro
duced. And that is the questionable
real question which we must meet and
decide upon.
FoR CoSGREssMAN.-The Reese River
RereiA of August 2sth, in speaking of
the candidates for Congressman on the
Union Republican ticket, says:
We believe i. is pretty generally conceded
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