The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-09-22
A Singular Anxiety.

Singular Anxiety.
most singular and intense anxiety per-
vades the Republican party to the future
course of the Democracy on the question of
universal suffrage and equality of the races
Whenever an obscure or weak-knced journal
of Democratic tendencies is found counseling
the Democratic party 20 abandon opposition 10
this leading idea Of Rudicllism and TO accept
the situation, the article is caught up with
wonderful ayidity and made the theme Of end
less discourse throughout the party press of
that faith. Now, the secret Of all this anxiety
is, that they dread the future with the incubus
Of this fearful blunder hanging above their
political hopes, If an opposition party, whose
skirts are unstuiued with their crimes and
blunders, shall hold them to the record made.
for themselves. If the Democratic party
could only be induced to abandon oppo-
sition 10 negro suffrage, it would lose the van
tage ground gained and which it now occupics.
and become, so far as the future is con-
cerned, paTticepS crmHiS in the evils
which are TO ensue from this blind and
fatal policy. Now, that they stand trem-
bling upon the brink of q vawning
precipice, if pressed 10y the Democracy,
they are moving heaven and earth TO in
duce that party to throw down their often
sive weapons and come over and unite with
them in shouting FOR the equality of .all men.
and they will generously allow the past to b.
forgotten. In their eagerness to embrace
their old political foes, they be;ray the coward
Weakness of condemned criminals who see
their Judgment indelIb!y written, and their
doom irreyoc.Lly fixed. If il were a fatal
policy for the Democracy to cling to their en-
nifty to negro suffrage. as skiliful generals and
wise leaders Of party policy, they should do
all in their power to encourage this hostile
organization to continue its Worship of fallen
IDOLS that 1t might remain hopelessly in n
minority; and were the premises true that
adherence 10 the ancient landmarks would
have that effect, none would be more eager
that the Democracy should cling to the past
than the leaders of the Republican party.
whose only hope for Office in the future is in
the continued minority of the Democratic
party.
There nre two leading objects to he accom-
plished i'll inducing the Democrats to acqui-
csce i'll the Radical policy. The first is to
insure immunity from the curses and ven
Beance of an outraged people when the ripe
fruits of their damnable policy becomes fully
developed, as 10y now breaking down all party
lines or the question of social equality, all
would stand upon common ground and none
could point to his neighbor and say thou did
IT.; and i'll the second place, the leaders all
know that if the Democracy stands by its
colors, sooner or later they will be Overthrown.
and rs the gulf between the parties is now so
wide upon the issue Of races, when they
are OverthrOwn they will sink so deep that
no political resurrection i'll this generation will
reach them. They know md feel AN inward
conviction that they have sinned so grevously
that once they nre disrobcd of the prestige of
partisan success and political power, and nre
compelled to stand up in their naked dcrOr-
nifty in the presence of tho people, judgment
and sentence of death would speedily follow. as
the country is only waiting for a favorable
opportunity to carry its judgment into exc
cutiOn. We can tell them now, however. TINT
they need not lay the hattering JUNCTION to
their souls that the great Democratic party
can ever be induced to come to their black
standard, rcoking ms it is with the vile odor of
official corruption and moral decay party
that is struggling beneath n weight of NAL
icnsance in Office which would consign any
party instantly to an ignominious death in
calmer times than those through which the
country has just passed. II will not do, gen
tlemon; tho Republican party must carry
alone, without our aid, the load of infamy
which il has taken upon itself until il shall
perish beneath it.