Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-04-07
THE F1FrERNrH A-MENDMRNT.

WIN Va 49,
happened to his race-and right cir
cumspect and well behaved has he
been in doing honor to the occasion.
The President Of the Nation has de-
clared the official ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton Of the United States-the last act
in the great struggle for the freedom
and REIMBURSEMENT Of the black man.
Truly, this is an occasion for thanks
giving, for universal congratulation,
for speech and song, for ringing of
bells and roar Of cannon. 1t is the
mightiest victory ever yet achieved
over oppression and the foul spirit Of
caste. H~enceforth, compleXional dis
tinctions will cease to be the ground
of civil and political ostracism and
every man, by simple virtue of his
manhood, will stand invested with all
the rights of American citizenship.
What was once prophecy Is now mar
velous fulfillment:
Friends OF tho olteast view tho accomplished
plan,
The negro towering to the hight OF man!
Now Justice, leagucd with Mercy from above.
Shall reign In all the liberty Of love"
Hereafter, "the right Of citizens of the
United States shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States, or by
any State, on account Of race, color or
previous condition of servitude.' This
is the work of the Republican party (;
but it is only one Of its great achieve
ments. 1t abolished slavery; it raised
four million chattels to civil rights.
1t organized armies, and equipped
them; il raised millions Of money, and
disbursed them !; it won victories and
breasted disasters. 1t gathered and
hurled the material resources Of tho
nation, and it performed the higher
and more difficult work-it inspired
and directed the moral strength Of our
people, and marshaled all the Gle
ments of our heroism in individual
and national character, upon the side
of the Union. 1t suppressed the rebel
lion, and has given to the Republic a
new life-without a slave, and without
caste. This is the lustrous record of
the Republican party. So much it has
accomplished. Beyond the hopes of
the most sanguine, beyond the de-
mands of the most extreme. it has
gone forward steadily, performing
always the duty before it, and adj
vaucing to the next task which oppor-
tunity presented. Only the most
sublime courage enabled it to confront
the great conspiracy and to cross
swords with it. Only the sturdicst
faith sustained it in drafting men for
the armies and levying taxes which
necessity compelled. The party with
the country might have gone to death
with n bold front; the highest virtues
which party and country can possess
were requisite to lit them above re-
verses and to teach them to coin vic
tory into vantage ground for new
advances. Brute courage alone may
be successful in battle. The moral
principle which, out of either re-
verse or triumph, constructs reform.
and in personal danger cares
for the elevation Of the oppressed,
has endured the crucial test. An
other party possibly might have
waSed the war for the Union; but
the Republican party alone could out
Of that nettle pluck the flower of free
dom and equal rights for every indi-
yidual in the Republic preserved.
Here we stand. The Republican party
| has achieved that which seemed I'M
possible, not only from the distance,
but as step by step it approached its
new tasks. The party has been true
to every pledge. Its promises have
become achievements. Grant that crit
| ticism has been possible upon some OF
its acts and some of its leaders. These
are eddics OH the surface. Its main
| current has been resistlessly directed
by the profoundest moral convictions,
and most earnest aspirations Of the
American people. The victorious
party in the ~fullness of its strength,
has reached another stage in its BEN
eficent career. The ratification Of the
Fifteenth Amendment, is in itself q
contamination grander than falls to
the fortune of many an age or many a
party. 1t cannot fail to secure to the
side Of the Republican, party, several
of the restored States heretofore doubt
full. Justice is assured to those who,
lifted out of oppression, became the
wards of the nation, and are now its
citizens. In the PRONUNCIATION Of this
guarantee of equal rights, the Repub-
lican party gives a new pledge of its
devotion to the noblest principles, and
fresh evidence of its abundant capacity
to embody the worthicst convictions of
the people in legislation and admins
tration. The Republican party has
written Its new triumph in the Ma
tional Constitution by the ratification
of the Fifteenth Amendment. And
now once more, close up its ranks,
stand true to It's principles Of right and
justice, and again, FORWARD!
MILITIA TO FIGHT INDIANs.-A Chcy-
| enne date of the 4th inst, says: