The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-02
NEW DEPARTuRE."-THE
MONTGOMERY RESOLUTIONS.

county resolutions, drawn by Mr.
Nallandigham, will be found on the
first page of this number. They were
unanimously adopted by the County
Convention of Montgomery, Ohio, and
Endorsed by the Central Committee of
Hamilton county. These resolutions
have elected much comment among
politicians all over the country, and
the favor with which they have been
received indicate, almost to a certainty,
their general adoption as the basis of
the platform of the National Conven-
ton of 1872.
The resolutions are lengthy, most of
them being devoted to those topics
usual to political platforms. The pith
of the resolutions is contained in the
first. second and third resolutions.
their articles on this subject with the
title of "A New Departure" How
ever expressive this language may be
of the programme of the Democratic
party in some sections of the country,
they are irrevelant to the party in the
State of Nevada. The Democracy of
this State, in the Elko Convention of
last year., placed the Democratic party
here in the identical position occupied
by the conventions which have Off
cially announced their adhesion to the
Montgomery resolutions. On all ma
tional issues they made the fight in
Nevada on these principles, and won
the fight upon that plane. To the Ne
vada Democracy the adoption of these
Montgomery resolutions would be no
''new DEPARTURE" but the expression
in the clearest language Of a policy
already adopted in Convention, and
advocated on the public stand, and
through its Democratic press.
The main reliance which the Radi-
cal party has for success in the ensu-
ing Presidential contest lies in the in
stilling and fostering the belief
throughout the North that the success
OF the Democracy would carry with it
the destruction of the results of the
war, and of the Constitutional Amend
ments since adopted. This has been
the burden of their song for the last
eight years, and it has had a more
potent effect with the masses in re-
tanning their support, than all the bal
ance of the numberless specifications
with which they have arranged the
Democracy. Wendell Phillips re-
Gently said in the National Standard,
ITO prevent the choice of a Demo-
cratic President may be impossible."
If it be possible We are satisfied that
the possibility of Democratic disaster
can only be worked out by a revival
Of the prejudices which ought to have
expired with the war, and the continu-
ance of fears which have no founda-
ton in facts. The Radicals have owed
much of their success to the ingenuity
with which they have selected their
own battle fields, to their ability in
framing issues of their own concOc-
ton, and forcing them prominently :
as the all-absorbing questions
Of contests in which they had no legit- |
innate place. That this is still their |
programme is shown by Morton's late !
speech putting Grant forward for re- :
1t is shown by the New :
York Tribune, as in the recent article ,
II which it declared that "We appre- i
bend that the Democrats will battle in 7
- as they did in '6S for inequality, L
injustice, privilege, caste, and the Con- II
as it was, when a Democrat ii
sell at auction three of his own p
OF a morning, and run for =
congress on the strength of this proof II
If his devotion to Southern rights" b
This single sentence is sufficient to II
how the line upon which the Presi- h
contest is to be fought, if the II
Radicals are allowed to shape it after u
heir own fashion. 1t is time the De- l.
nocracv framed its own platform. and
its own fight on the distinctive, r
wing issues Wn1cn uINlde political eli
rather than on the debris of a q,
,aSt decade. q.
Men may adhere to their belief st
n the injustice. the unavisabil- w
tv. of the Constitutional amendments, Ii
still deprecate the violence and D,
utrages which attended their adop-
but so long as they are sustained
the Supreme court it would GER w
be no portion of ancient Demo- OF
ratio principles To attempt to ignore c,
hem. Negro suffrage was an insult -,