The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-09-29
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! ton, after viewing the field Of slaughter,
and numbering the wounded and the dead,
we said that the Republican party in Cali
fornin. under its old organization. could not
\ expect to achieve many more victories: and
/ that policy and sound reason dictated that
/ Union men. Democrats as well as Republic
cans, should reorganize and carry the war
/ into Africa that the political revolution is
| not going backwnrd--thnt the Republican, or
Union, principles must be maintained in this
State, though Republicans were forced TO 50
| into the present ranks of the so-called De
mocracy to find weapons with which TO defeat
the demagogues protesting Democracy.-
NdrySriRe appeal. ...
| What n fail was there, my countrymen
| How strange that declaration sounds, coming
from IA leading Republican journal in Califor-
nia which has told its Republican followers
n thousand times, in the past, that the De-
mocracy was dead or in the last throes of
dissolution, and that each campaign would be
| its last. The Democracy, however, obstinate
| ly refusing to die and be buried for the accom-
modation Of the Radical party, the Appeal
and its class of journals are not to be cheated
| out of funeral of some sort, and hence are
| counseling their own party to shuttle OFF
this mortal coil, " and prepare TO solemnize
! the common burial rights of a defunct party
| organization. The Appeal has been, since
the "scendancy of the Radical party in Cali
| fornia, one of the most iutolerunt of its party
| organs on the coast, and never weariei of vile
and bitter aspersiuus on the Democratic party
What, then, must be its humiliation and shame
III being thus forced to confess that the party
which it has traduced in such unmeasured
| terms is about to become the dominant party
i'll that State, and that if its friends would
ever again behold glimpses of the lesh-pots of
official patronage, that they must throw down
! their offensive weapons and rush pell-mell
into the Democratic ranks. in the hope that
they may be able i'll part 10 CONTROL it, 1t is
but few short months ago that we were told
| by the Appeal and its class OF Journals, that
the very children OF modern Democracy
would curse the name and memory of their
misguided sires who had stood by their prin-
! ciples and party organizations with unfatering
devotion through all the long years of its de-
feat and minority; but if We are permitted TO
judge by the signs of the times everywhere
plainly written III the logic of passing events,
then the picture is likely to be reversed, and
the descendants of Radical ancestors will oc-
prophets to young Democracy. Ten years
hence, and it will be the most difficult task
imaginable to find man who will confess
that he was n member of the lawless, God
defying, crime-staired organization that ruled
the country from 1865 to 1870 This period
forms the darkest era of American history,
more dark by contrast with the few years
that preceded it, which lifted the young Repub-
lie of the West TO the front rank of warlikc
powers. But what was won by the nation in
martial glory between 1SGO and 1865, was
dimmed, obscured and lost in the FIVE years
that followed; and while the nation fcigu
would embalm in cherished memory the chici
actors III the great drama of war that lifted
our nation to a proud eminence, yet if the
names and memory Of those actors are black.
ened with the curse of participation in the
political acknowledgement Of the country since
the fall of the Confederacy, the people will
turn with loathing and horror from the bare
mention of their names and deeds.
When the Democracy WAS hopcicssly in q
minority, with every prospect that it would
remain so for many years, yet conscious Of
the rectitude of its purposes and the sound
ness Of the principles it advocated, its mem
beers, unlike the leaders Of the Radical party
were never heard to counsel an abandonment
of it's cOlors and party organization, but witt
. patience and fifth they waited for the pas
sions of the masses to cool and for Reason
again to resume her scepter over the minds o
the people. Neither the Establishments o
popular favor nor the frowns of arbitrar,
power could ever induce them TO swcrve from
what they considered to he their line of polit
ical duty, until they now have the cheering
satisfaction of seeing the dark clouds, which
have hung so long above their hopes scatter
ing to the winds and the bright sunlight o
victory breaking amid the gloom and chasing
the dark shadows from the land. Where
, amid all the darkness, gloom and disaster I,
, the Democracy in the past, can single in
stance be pointed to where q leading Demo
, Crnt, or a respectable Democratic journal ha
counscled abandonment of the party orgauizt
ton and surrender at discretion to the Radi
cal party None that we have ever heard OF
!, and yet the first year of defeat brings Radical
ism to this unconditional surrender.
In JNIL.--By private ndvices from Union
y vile, we learn that Lindsay and Cage ar
:, again safely lodged in Jail, at that place, t