Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-22
PRESIDENT MAKERS.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin, July Isl

From the Philadelphia Bulletin, July 1st.l
It is q most edifying study to watch
the tide Of President-makers, just now
northward through Philadel-
phia. The Wigmam Convention OF
1866 gave us a pretty good specimen OF
the modern Southerner but the rebel
Congress, about to assemble in New
York, is a far more august occasion,
and is bringing together the choicest
spirits that in old times ruled the De-
mocracy, and who are o Fastening to
seize their old reins Of government
once more.
Very edifying is it to pass through
the corridors Of the Continental just
now, and to inspect these interesting
American Warwicks. The regular old
types are all. there. The pompous old
politician is there, in black broadcloth
and white vest and gold seals, with
thumb in arm.hole, and oracularly stern
visage, i%nstructing some comrade from
the South or w~orshipper from the
North in the duties Of the hour. The
dark-skinned, ~long-haired, felt-hatted
Texan or Louisianian is there in guam
titles /; cool, insolent, staggering in the
good old style, as if slavery still made
him an a%ristocrat, and as if there a
been no rebellion, OF as if 1t had been
already declared successful. Among
them are rebel generals, colonies and
majors-the South never confesses to
any grade below major rebel Con-
gressmen, Governors and Commission
ers Of all kinds. They have come up
in swarms, travelling day after day over
battle-felds and past cemeteries and pris-
on pens, all crying out with the memo.
ries of a half a million Of slaughtered
citizens whose blood is upon the heads
of these men and Of their children.
Names like Ould and Forrest; like Cor
don and Hampton /; like Price and Hill
and Vance ; names familiar to the Re-
bellion Record, are among the men who
are now summoned to make o President
of the United States.
As this remnant Of the rebel army
moves northward it is recruited by the
worst elements of Northern and West
ern ruHianism. The magnificent old
Southern planter is thrown cheek by
jowl with the roughs Of Baltimore and
Philadelphia. The men who fought
under the rebel flag on Southern fields
are ~hob-uobbing with the Copperhead
allies who served them so well and so
slavishly through the war. And SO the
tribes OF the Democracy go up together
to the American jerusalem to worship
at the shrine of St. Tammany, and to
put themselves once more in battle array
against the old Army Of the Republic.
1t is q motley host that is thus marching
upon New York. Here and there in the
ranks goes On apostate Republican like
Doolittle, but the great mass is the
same old host that the loyal North con.
frouted here at home and on every
Southern battlefield.
1t is we'll for the cause of liberty that
this Democratic Convention thus openly
welcomes the u%ndisputed rebel element
into its councils. In 1864 it was timid-
ly feared that the presence Of Fernando
Wood and Vallandigham would damage
the responsibility Of the Wigwam Con-
v%entiou. But Mr.. Doolittle and his
party have gotten bravely over any such
delicate qualms Of conscience. Now
the worst rebel is the most welcome
guest, and tho Northern Democracy,
casting off all shame, and all pretence
Of sympathy with the cause of the
Union, proclaims its readiness to re-
commit the grave business Of making a
President of the United States to the
very individuals who were, but yester-
day, trampliug Constitution, and laws,
| aud sacred oaths, under bloody feet, in
ment which they now aspire to control
and direct.
There is a glorious impudenco about
| this Democratic Convention which will
be its own best antidote. Searching
| about for an available candidate who
will be thoroughly acceptable to the
rebel element of the country, some man
will be put up rs the representative Of
the interests of rebellion, upon q plat.
form which, however speciously framed,
will mean but one thing, the regaining Of
the lost cause. 1t matters not one whit
who the nominee may be. He may be
any one Of the legion of published as
~pirants, or he may be some man not yet
named. In the mad struggle Of oppo-
sing factions, no one can safely predict
the result. Among the Chases and
Pendletons, the Hancocks and McClel-
lans, the Johnsons, Seymours, Blairs
and Hendrickses, who are entered for
the race, it is doubtful if there will be
any choice, and some new man like
Bucklew of Pennsylvania, for instance,
may be put upon the track. But all
will be required to accept the same mis-
sion, and set up the Confederscy that
General Grant, three years ago, tore
down. The platform may be cunningly
worded, but the character Of the men
now passing through Philadelphia to
construct it, leave no doubt Of its real
meaning.