The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-02


tirely impracticable. The Democracy
at this day could not, even if they
would. destroy this colored citizenship.
The negro question is practically solv-
ed. Why then waste further words
about it? As Manton Mar BILE once
said "negro suffrage is an over strained
mule of an advancing army, and must
be left behind, if need be, to perish
and die"
The reconstruction measures were a
series of outrages, but they no longer
figure in practical politics. They have
expired by their w limitation, and
the late provinces have again taken
the form of States. Financial matters
are gradually settling themselves by
the appreciation of legal tenders to a
coin standard. The Democracy do not
propose to repudiate the National debt,
nor to assume the Confederate debt,
nor to restore slavery, nor to pay for
former slaves, nor to impair the value
of any portion of the L. S. bonds.
Whatever may have been the individ-
ual opinions of Democrats in past
times on any of these propositions, as
issues they have no existence in 1871.
They are the rubbish of the dead past
Away with them all! As they form
no part of the Democratic creed. let 1t
be so understood in language unmis-
taxable. The Montgomery resolu-
tons are in that language. They state
the Democratic position as it was real
ly a year ago here, and in most Of the
States, both North and South.
Time has crystalized the floating
sentiment, and shaped it ITO the exigen-
cies of the times. Fighting accomp-
lished facts which are as dead as the
patriarchs will not be the policy
of the next campaign, nor will it be
the policy of the next Democratic adj
ministration. The fight of the future
will be against that Centralism in
which even the aged Republican, Mr..
Bryant of the New York Post. sees "a
danger no less real, and scarcely less
serious, than if we had an imitator of
Napoleon at the head of the nation and
the arrny-in which reverence 70 r the
fundamental law is disappearing, and
all the checks and forms of our Fed
eral system will become the sport of
political controversy. 1t is an absorb
ing power in which the local rights OF
persons and of property, the local
conflicts of corporations, the whole
versies they involve, and the passions
hey excite. will become elements OF
rational strife; and the very Organiza-
ion of society throughout the land
Will become the stake OF national
1t will be a renewal onag-
scale of that memorable contest
which placed jefferson in the PreSi-
chair. In this struggle the
Democracy will have with it the purest
'tate>n1en of the Old Republican party
who like Carl Shurz and Judge
in the United States Senate.
seen enough of the centralized
yrannies of the Old World to have
to appreciated the liberty-loving
epublican ism of the New.
Thus far the Montgomery resolu-
appear to meet with the general
of the Democratic party. ,
prominent idea of these reSolu-
ions is but an echo of the speech de
by Senator Hendricks at New
last Winter. The indianapolis
endorsing the resolutions, |
avs of them:
1--WE fully and cordially approve the
platform. 1t is not only right I
4 itself, but We believe it is the only il
Obey that will insure success to the ,
i'll the next Presidential :
and furnish a common ground
pom which all may stand who oppose 2
lie ruinous measure OF the party in /
And In expressing this senti-
tent we believe that we reflect the
cas- and wishes OF the masses of the
emocratic party of Indiana not only, "
1t of thousands of Republicans who,
lily realizing the dangerous condi-
)n of the country, are ready to join l
inds with the Democracy i'll changing
e administration of the Government g
BON the principles enunciated in the >
tyton PLATFORM"
The Chicago Times V
majority of the people of the
nited States have said that the prin-
pies relating to civil and political
proclaimed in the three lat
t amendments to the Federal Conf