The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-04-15
THE DEMOCRACY DIVIDED.

Q sore destroyer of the harmony of The
Great Unwashed. The fact now becomes
apparent that there are what may be
termed progressive Democrats no, that
these are favorable 10 such initiative
measures of progress as characterize the
Republican party, and which have gained
for its leaders the name of Radicals
but that they are disposed 10 submit to
the inevitable and desist from single
handed oaslaugh hts la Don Quixote,
upon the sweeping arms of the defiant
and resistless windmills ofaccomplished
legislation. These, if not entitled to
the descriptive adjective progressive"
are, at least to be enumerated among
those whom the laws and measures Of
reconstruction have subjugated; for,
after Sighting until the further side of
the last extension of the very last and
most final ditch has been reached, and
then finding themselves vanquished, dis
armed and altogether powerless for
further resistance, they d.jectedly but
frankly '',oss up the sponge" and cry
peeeari There is hope or.such. Their
past perversities warrant bat little hope
for their final political salvation and
actise reformation but they have come
at last to a condition of passive right,
harmless, humble and non-combatant.
But there is another faction. 1t is
made up and led on by a class of self
bl;ndfoided oracles TO whom the Wiz.
ginia aud Kentucky Resolutions of '9s
are a pillar of cloud by day, and the
"Cous,itution as it was" pillar of FIRE
by night. These are past all hope
hopeless themselves, not 10 be hoped for
by the fondest wishers for their Olsen
They are welded to, and
glory in, the Unpardonable Sin. They
glory in the bleak and faded past, while
and denying the existence
cf the paipab!e present. A small and
bitter bit of the meiieva! history of our
Republic is their only stock in store
I'll they kaow, all they want to know
ill they have or will worship.
Between these TWO there has sprung |
up al interesting and irrepressib!e con-
fsict-as between the blind who are
much relieved, and the blind who refuse
10 submit to any curative process.
Witness what has taken place upon
he part of two Indiana Democrats.
Hon. Thomas A. Headricks is looked
spon By many intelligent observers as
be ables,, wisest man 10 the Demoertic
party. Certainly he has lately develop
ID something of shrewdness; for he has
,een heard counseiling the Democracy
# Louisiana to accept the situation in
rood faith, treat the enfraHchised freed
neu like ren aud brothers and to walk
'pright in the path OF the great Amend
nent. Mr. Hendricks is thus reported
5 havipg depor,ed himself wisely and
Fell-for a Democrat. 1
On the other hand, the redoub,sbIe
Ian VOORHEES,, standing upon a rostrum &
rhere sa; Hendricks, rePudia;ed, az did
'iblsck upoo the floor of Congress, the /
fifteenth Amendment, pronounced it
-aud, and held, stou,ly, thar it had i
ever been coas,itationally adopted
borrower, he not only did not counsel, I
= did Hendricks, the treating of colored '
irizens with the respect due to freemeo
I'D voters, bat valisutly. not to say
ombas,;ca!ly, proclaimed thsthe would /,
OF have "a niyger's" vote if be could '
ct IT, s
sow here ia a most wide aud radical!
iference. L. cannot be healed uoless
be fossiiisferous era shall &c made OBJ
ole,e ami the blind eyed patriarchs of
10 Democratic party sabside away into
onentiiy. Tee @us,y "glories of the
as," mast cease 20 be sung and the !
xe1 feet Of the presen;-if only in . post
ran iisl way-must be agreed upon and a
or s.rbe Harmonious
10 forever lost. The ques-
On must shortly receive the affection I