Owyhee tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1869-1870, 1870-01-27
Unqualified Opinion.

do the voting for the Democratic I
party, could be induced to read and /
think for themselves instead OF fol- |
lowing blindly the leadership of I'M |
scrupulous and designing leaders,
there would be some ground Of hope !
for ultimate reform but like the
Juror in Judge Lewis Court, at the
last term, they appear TO have
formed an unqualified opinion on
everything branded Democratic that
evidence will not remove, or as the
Judge quality put the case, they
have heard that John Smith MUIR
dered bis wife and made up their
minds that he ought TO be hung for
it, and Notwithstanding il turns out
that John Smith didz't murder bis
wife, they still think he ought to be
hung because they heard he had
murdered her. So it ia with the
Democratic party With reference to
the Burlingame Treaty. the Fifteenth
Amendment and every other meas
uro inangurated by the Republican
party. They have heard, for in
stance, that the Burlingame Treaty
gives privileges TO Cinnamon in the
United States that are denied 10 ma
tive and foreign born white citizens,
and expressed an unqualified opin-
ion that Burlingame, Grant, Fish and
everybody connected with the Gov
eminent ought TO be hung on &C
count OF what they have heard, and
Notwithstanding il turns out that the
Treaty positively forbids the exer-
else of any OF the privileges Of citi-
zensbip by virtue Of any Of its pro-
visions. they still think these men
should be hung because they heard
il was otherwise. Because the San
Francisco Examiner has said, and
the lesser lights all over the coast
have echosd the statement, that the
Burlingame Treaty guaranteed to
Cinnamon coming into the United
States all the privileges granted to
immigrants coming from the most
favored nations, therefore such an
unqualified opinion has implanted
itself in the minds of the masses Of
the party that they will not even
read the words Of the treaty itself
or If they do. will still be Of the
opinion that what they saw and heard
coming from a trusted Democratic
source must be true, and therefor,
positive fact has no weight or influ
ence to remove the unqualified opin
ion, and John Smith ought to b.
hung because they heard he ha'
killed his wife, although they hav
since seen Mrs. John Smith ant
heard from her own lips that job
Smith was good and kind husban
and at the moment when he was rel
resented as committing murder upo
her they we're at the milliners an
be engaged in purchasing for her
new spring bonnet.
The clause in the Burlingam
Treaty which is held up with sue
marvellous effect upon the ignoral
non-rsading and non-thinking Pc
ton Of the party, as comforting SUI
extraordinary privileges on the Cf
nese over every other inhsbitaut
the country simply has reference
the protection OF their psrso
against violence while travelling
residing in the country, and COME
no other rights whatever as eve
person Of any intelligence can rea
lily see by reading the instrume
itself. We copy from the Congrel
ionsl Globe the Objectionable clau
referred to and hope il will be re
and compared with the prejudic
versions published As truth in I
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