Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-12-05
ESSENCE OF PARTY DEN
OCRACY.
From the Chicago Tribune

Democratic. THAT tho latter Is n party
without affirmative issues that It's
function Is to oppose aud not to act, to
object and not to do, to criticisc rather
| than to pefOrm. 1t seems to overlook,
however, the necessary inference from
this premise. viz. ; that the Democratic
party should, therefore. always remain
out OF power. A p,rty which subsists
OH its ability to find fault with what
others do, and claims tic ability or de-
| sire to initiate, would sustain u double
loss by being invested with the respon-
sibility Of power. 1t would have no
time for the criticism In which 1t Is so
we'll skilled, aud 1t would have no
capacity for the affirmative positions
and action it would be called OIL to
take. 10 run = government requires
something more than criticism. 1t re
auires constant affirmation, ready and
prompt assertion, control and action.
rhi. is equally true whatever the
policy Of the government may be.
In another respect, the World puts
forward a claim which we are not dis
posed to co,icede so easily, viz: that
the Democratic party Is founded OH a
yenerou, faith Ia the capacity OF all
msn m govern themselves. The Worll
claims that
"lt believes that men may be safely
'i"'te. ,sa,i..,, d;.a"t ,ho;r
seiect lheir omn s.aSSe ~
industry iIto tls nho.s Pioii",Oio o
neiS anu MAXI 'helr o"n E'is"ni,
ami It. therefore opposes, anu p
70 abolish all ieSiSia.'1l nmielue" "
ii,t.ounce or esV .Sn noou'a aro n"t rat
uus.ry W m"tv m' ap; ill., I. $50
prepaisu ~ snSaSv .rha nsNoo-
nnS ~" s.noo. NJ What "a called
.n,y ~ &c .o,ne ono las ,lc~ri.iyeIv
ip';nt.nan,.J r. ,,n,srnoi government"
M" his,arv Of ths Dan,ocrotic marty
,,o,, show tL,t Il b,s resisted tbe ever.
'is, or n,,.rnsI MOWERS Inv the National
Sororn,nsnt h,it only In order tint II
m,,cbt vest tie same %paternal powers
in States. II has never been govern
ment ma n whole, but only the National
Government, whose powers the Demo-
cratic marty has sought to check.
The system of absolute government
of the laborinc class by the capitalist
class, and of the black race by the
white race, known rs African slavery,
rested for wears OIL the affirmative
sanction and support of the Democratic
party and of the New York World.
In affirming. as it does, that "tlle Re-
publican party grew up to power by
mere opposition to the extension Of
slavery" 1t necessarily implies that
there was al affirmative party In favor
Of extending slavery, to wit :: the
Democratic party. 1t then had an
affirmative issue. viz. that the white
man, BY reason Of n deficiency Of burnt
carbon under his cuticle, hail the right
To exercise absolute and arbitrary gov
erument over the black man, and to
import and adopt the slave laws Of
Congo and Dahomey and make them
nlrt of the common law Of America.
A happy excmplitication this Of the
Democrats faith in the ability of all
men TO govern themselves, to choose
tLeir own nur.uits. direct their own
;ndn.,rv s,,{ m,Ir their own borooinsi
A. h.ty,so, ~" bi,,.t Iaborcr nnI his
,sb;,s n,rr.r i'll H. ns,nocrs,;,. m,rtv
t..,,.h tI,at tb,t oorer,n,ent Ia hat
Which oovarms ,asStS Ear from n
This ,~nn,;,at;on of rho do,tr;no wr.
made nv the N~bo,itionis,s only.
Even "a concerns STAT and ..;,v oov-
Damocr,t;c DECENTRALIZATION.
show that thev have not the sligI,test
objection to t6ose governments Thicl,