The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-02-02
DEMOCRATIC CLAP TRAP.

Cliuging like inconsolable mourners
10 The mummics and and grave clothes
O: dead issues, it is not to be wondered
n: that the Democratic press gives way
70 incoherent mut.erings over the ap-
partition OF new and living ones. I'M
perious Estate Sovereignty having
lost ifs substance and power By the
great war for the preservation of the
Union, Democratic editors, blind and
ua.eachable as the Bourbons, humble
,hants and dirges over the lost cause OF
Csihounism, aud with the persistence OF
tls ta;lor's drowning wife, moan AMI
matter their irnpntent eAecratIons over
&. the revolutionary purposes of the
-,:,ii and intoleran; Z sdicals. R"ch-
e.'s mourning fer her children was
cf,aerfui warbie compared with these
wa:lings of a beresved and heart-oroHen
Democracy. Bat, like the hired mourn
crs a; fashionable English funerals, their
wailinrs are hot always in earnest, nor
i,the language Of their simulated grief
3. heartfelt ard ingenious as they pre-
.-ni it ia As specimen of this gal
rsrized and altogether bogus sentiment
We quote the following from tie State
Capital Reporter of January Goth:
"Jhe United States Senate has adopted
'he new amendment TO The Constitution,
which reads as follows The right OF oi,i-
,pns of the United States to vote and hold
c;.,ce shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or any State on account OF
race or color or previous servltude. lhere
is scarcely doubt OF its adoption BY the
House. It may be vetoed by the President,
hu. then the .s two thirds VIII be called into
re1uis:tion, ard It will pass again. Thus we
sec another Of the State rights abolished. At
,his rate. what were once considered SOW
creiynties will soon be nothing out depend
cpcies. Congress. tho great central power,
.,il sooa have absorbed all State rights, and
State Governments Mi Il, as well be aool-
shed.
One mar imagine old Noah, after the
weather had become sufficiently settled
/, Justify him in abandoning the ark,
talking 10 just ouch II iugH5rious strain
as The above over the s. glorious old
days before the ;lood''-fo- Noah, if not
An oricias, Democrat, cer,airly dis
covered IIi,nsei: 20 have been the origin
a.cr of the most Distinguishing weak
ness o. the members ofthat party. These
Democrats are all auniii:Iuvisns, living
in the smoky atmosphere of The dead
past and refusing TO come cut into the
Ugh, of the present. But tie Reporter
has shown itself ready 10 bewsil some
thing which has not and cannot hap
peo, TO be sure the arrogance and
tyra2uy Of &c State Sovereignty was
whipped GU, o: the South By ,be war
which has just passed - and every
patriot gives GLORY TO God that such
was the result but because Congress
may or viii; pass resolution like she
ono quoted above, no iot or title Of
State Sovereignty" is Invaded or as
sirniGcan, admission Of tina; Sovereignty
is therein made +; for the said amend
men. is nothing more nor less than
concession 20 that principle it being
the fact, as All men know, that no
amendments can be made 10 the Con
s,itstioa without the concurrence o.
:h.ce !ou-.i,s Of all those g. sovereign
ties" II Congress should pass law
a we wish il would, giving the elective
franchise 10 all the citizens of every
State, State laws to the contrary not
withs;n aiding. the Reporters wall Of
woe might bs marc Oemocra,ically
relevant. !; bu; it is nothing now but the
.hai,owes, and s;upidest kind of clai :
rep based on nothing better than the
Siiurisu form alton of its authors Paleo
,oic soonce-box.