The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-05-15
AND THE FIFTEENTH
AMENDMENT.

Republican party has steadily progress
ssd in the line of logical progress.
Assuming to speak for the people and
in the interest of loyalty, the conserva-
lives have invariably been found with
holding their appreciation Of the party's
advanced steps until after a full dem
snstration that the dreaded danger has
been ayerted. But the march has been
onward and upward toward that conclu-
sion which is inevitable if We would
not relapse into the heresies to Fid our
selves of which we have so long strag
eled. 1t is the manifest destiny of Re.
publicanism to perfect and insure the
nationality of the United States and
its we'll sustained self-faithfulness has
out to be maintained in its present
strong integrity to place the Republic
out of the reach Of it's enemies. The
second grandest step in the march of
Rspublieanism is almost accomplished.
1t will be gloriousiy and grandly
6nished wbsn the Fifteenth Constitu-
tional Amendment receives the sanction
Of seven more of the States Of the
Union. The prospects of an early
success are promising.
A. illustrative Of the attitude main
tanned by our ancient enemy, the Dem
ocratic party with relation to this great
measure, we quote the following admir-
able article from Harper's Weekly Of
Nay LIST:
Twenty-one States have ratified the Equal
Suffrage amendment-the Democratic party
every where opposing. Now in party war
fare, a. in all other, there is q conduct which |
wins the respect of the foe, as there is one |
which moves his contempt. -Four or five /
years ago equal suffrage was defeated in Con- /
necticut BY a majority Of seven thousand.
Last Spring the Democrats elected their
Governor by nearly two thousand majority,
and three members Of Congress. In the
Autumn the Republicans carried the State for
Grant. This Spring, when, according to the
Democrats, equal suffrage was the issue, the
Republicans elect their Governor and gain
two members Of Congress, beating the Dem
ocracy in their strongest holds and because
the majority for Governor is smaller than
that for President, the papers Of which We
speak deride the meagre and dismal majority!
The Democratic party are more signally
defeated in the State than they have been for
many q year, and instead of frankly acknowl-
edging the fact, and seeing that it is futile to
fight upon an issue settled and settled again,
one Of their organs feebly peeps that it isn't
much Of . shower, and another gravely de-
ciares that il il the natural consequence Of
net sticking to Wade Hampton's platform Of
last July!
. The one great truth of our recent political
history is, that the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties were opposed upon the issue Of
slavery. The Republicans WON at the polls
again and again At the polls. They have
the slaves. They have given
them civil rights. They have given them
political rights. At each step they have ap-
l,ealed to the country, and have been sup I
ported. They have been intrasted with the
government for four more years. Their
new administration begins by the plain dec |
shere protected and the laws every where
and by the urgent Recommendation
hat the amendment to the Constitution be :
adopted, which finally closes even the agita-
ion of the question and still the Demo-
ratio party piteously asks its absurd question
. a conclusive political argument. Do you /,
rish yonr daughter to marry a nigger:" /,
1t perceives that there is a prejudice in the
ountry against color, but it is unable to see c
hat the country has learned the mortal peril
f indulginS in that prejudice. Instead, 4
therefore,, Of accepting the facts, however I
much il may depfore them-instead of join
ng issue as 10 the better method Of securing
n equality which is inevitable. the Demo- {
ratio party riaiicules the negro, and argues
gainst him, and denounces him, and bellies !.
i'm, and all as If there were really hope
reducing him again to a state Of vassal- I,
&c. The whole Democratic force is ex- i,
ended in this business, and in sneering at !.
he President. The party papers have no. i,
hing to say bot that every thing is wroag, I;
othing to propose bnt everything Is un- D
one.
As usual. the Democratic party hopes for
not from fair debate Of great O
,licics, but from the Ieadmissien to po-
teal privileges of those who repudia the a
meTican principle of equality Of citizens. d
&c against color when it was . bulWayk of
e system of which the Democratic party oi
as the defense was intellectually useful; but :,
th the fall Of the system the appeal to tbs
ejudice Is pOintless. There is no insight, l
heroism in the Democratic leadership. ..
ne party Is but aisOrderly camp of tAs
saffected and disappointed. It must find Of
me newer ground than hostility to equal di
yhts, OF Ielinqsish the hope Of success,
less the conduct Of the Republican party, 81
here it has . majority, as in the Legis- We
ure Of New York, shall persuade the n
untzy that thers IS really NO choice be-