The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-09-11
THE OLD DEMOCRATIC GAME OF
FORESTAII.ING PUBLIC OPINION
OUR CONGRESSMAN.

Wt rtnn U0t ~ WCAA bCAACAuDSA SA1S
time when the Pro-slavery Democracy so
Lr.i public opinion by the throat in Cal
ifornia that We lthen) young Yankees
rsed to think that ii actually ,eas an
',npar,ionable sin to sympatize with any
,.3olitionist-let alone to be one. This
IL came of the cool assumption of a
pIedicate-the causing it to be taken for
granted that it was. most nnquestionably,
thoroughly dastardly piece of business
I, b. in favor of the extinction of African
slavery in the United States. A man
might be a horse thief or highwayman
aad Vet be tolerated in the community !;
he might. easily enough. be a murderer.
and Yet get Office and be received into the
hes, society: bat Just let him declare
himself. ever So mildly and respectfully.
opposed to selling men and women and
little children on the auction block, and.
- radically did he run counter to fore
stalled public opinion that his life was
hardly safe anywhere from Shasta to San
Diego
We mention this state OF public senti-
r1ent in California because quite two
thirds of the people there. even in the
-srly days, were of Northern birth. OF
covrse. in the South. where but one opin-
ION concerning slavery was tolerated, it
"a. not u matter of surprise that all lex
pressed, sentiments should be in accord
Nth those of the slave-master. But this
submission to the stronger current Of
"''inion lasted for surprisingly long
time IN California and many is the man
~ho never stopped to question why it
7sss to be received as an incontroyertible |
fact that to hold slaves and uphold sla.-
~ was right ard 20 favor abolition was
the rnpardooable sin. 1t took the bloody |
--r Of the Rebellion to open those blind |
II eyes. and when they did see the light.
those who thus suddenly looked upon the |
truth wondered how and why they were
- Ion. deluded. borne down and over |
come by the force of mers impudent |
assumption.
Having 50 long and SO successfully |
p-actised this forestalling dodge. and hay
any long since found out the virtue and
force Of making an assumption and per-
si,,en;iy adiisring TO it and never seem
Ing 10 suspect that there could possibly
-yi~r any other sane or admissible view
OF the matter. the Democracy here. find
ia,a somewhat passive and plastic popu-
i-r mind "a operate upon. assume that
their representative. Kendall, is simply
al unIueStionatiy perfection and that
Icing sTich. being al that this constitu-
, nry eorld possibly desire, he must. of
"su-s,. be reelected or grea, and griev-
cu> caianit. viii fall upon this State.
Wv this Is AL hu.nbus, Kendall is we'll
lH-lsh for n passahly weii-mcanins.
: nj -,li.r7niess sort of man, who never '
'.,-li hare go; nominated for Congress
i us party had thought they could elect ,
-i-';c candidate. and who cuts Just about s
- ,a1rh of figure in Congress az any q
th-r sood-tempered. easy-go;ng. nom c
, 'lf-i>,sr.inc. :orc;t,e-teeble. one-horse a
= :: ',.-atic lawyer might be expected to d
Iskr Ii that body but he is nothing h
II ''psstty clever felIer" after all. L
Th@rs is not much harm in him unless it h
'cl-, down to politics: and then the II
! a,ublicaI1s canno: :r,1st him. He be- u
a-.;s Nth the party which now proposes n
/: -o-aiect sim-.hs aggregation 81 dis h
saiai rebels. sorehead Republicans. l.
'a.i- Va-drns and claw-hammer politi- a
AIS WHO Constitute the Possum Party al
: N.ya1-. 81
Dpn't ie. this continual retention of "
Questionable gootiishness deceive any d
NT,rblicas. 1t is .. the old thing'-it is b.
1,piy Democratic assumption :. blad- nj
1r o: e,ectioneerins Wind an impudent til
,i-a devised 70 catch the unwary and TO
4Ir-
I:.pI5lic.1s should certainly bear IN m
nj the fact that i; Is toward the by
OF the Cnitei States that the tn
--aocracy have set the whole force of IL.
Il actual struggle. OF course they tit
Mi ike veil enough to- have Greeley tn
= -