Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-11-15
A VISIONARY LONG ROLL.

A VISIONARY LONG ROLL. p,
five were as uncharitable as the cele-
brsted aunt of Mr.. F.. immortalized in
Dickens Little Dorriit' we should
sar,Iy; iutlAt S'; sae .uau Who
ticle published in the Virginia Ln'ei
prise OF the 10th inst, entitled the Long
NIL "a &C." However, We are foroear'
ing and christian like, and aasire to be at
nea.. - men, We therefore shall |
content ourselves with making a few
friendly structures on the article in cues. |
ton, sincerely hoping that the author
OF the said lububration will some day or
other realize his frightful folly in the
words which he thus so recklessly gives
to the world. The Enterprise seems to
think and so asserts, that the late politi-
cal revolusion il Southern victory. Not
q bit Of il. In the rolling MP of those
majorities, the North was equally con.
cerned with the South, and more so, and
had equally good reason for its partici-
patton in the struggle. The meaning Of
those elections was this, that the people
were tired, sick, wearied and disguised
with the high-handed insolence and
abominable corruption that was revealed
in the present administration
and its prominent supporters, They
were all for power, place and
the emoluments arising from their pos
session. OF the consequences of their
villainous acts they knew little and cared
less. Their motto was latter them the
deluge" and the fruits Of their vileness
were Of small importance to them, if the
present order Of things lasted their time.
1t did not. 1t was SO rotten that it fell
prone at the first gust of popular indig.
nation. From the head Of the govern.
ment downwards there attached either
the gravest suspicion OF positive assu.
rance Of improper practices. The con-
fidence OF the people was thus sapped,
and when that was destroyed, there was
no balm in Gilead for the present regi-
me. As we said the other day, the peo-
pie of the United States do not yet think
that they are the mere appanage of the
house of Grant, or worse still, of the
men, who to it, have allied their fortunes.
They (the people, did not think that it
was their duty to become the perpetual
prey of such horde of corruptionists as
Morton, Cameron, Conkling, Frelinghuy-
sen and the rest Of that tribe. Such
destiny was so infamous, SO revolving
that the instant that the possibility was
clearly shown to the popular eye, the
M. 1-ci'e! in horror and disgust.
That was too frightfu. /. 900, w 10 SUI
mitted to without desperate effort
to prevent so dire calamity. That
effort was made, and as We have often
said. it waG not made against or in favor
of the interest of any particular party;
but it was the instinct of self-preserva-
ton, which will actuate one or thou
sands when they feel they are falling
into the abyss OF destruction. The peo.
PIC ooW okoIt lau luuuC LIS luSuulUcuCy
OF the Presidential chair mere personal
matter. They saw that the men who
surrounded him acquiesced and connived
at this dissertation of his official response.
bilities. They, the people. had heard
and read the frequent, bitter and start.
ling denunciations of the public press,
by these very men that owed their for
tunes, their positions, their all, to the
very power they presumed to defy.
When that bitter hatred eliminated i'll
the gag law, the most outrageous infrac-
ton Of popular liberty that has ever dis.
graced the Congressional statute book.
That was enough. The measure Of the
iniquities of these wolves in Sleeps
clothing was filled, and there was nothing
left but to sweep them from the places
they have disgraced, from the positions
they have prostituted to their base pur.
poses. That has been done. Done in
one OF the most striking evidences of the
power and jealous caro- of the popular
Will, when it was once aroused, that ap.
pears in American history. This being
the case, how absurd it is for a sage.
brush journalistic soothsayer to rush
through the highways crying woe! woe!
because some corrupt, unreliable, bad,
mercenary wretches have been kicked
out of the positions they misused. We
do not look at this development of the
popular feeling from any party point of
view. We care nothing for one or the
other. but how absurd, how ridiculous,
how presumptuous it is, to find news.
paper scribber setting himself up in op
position to millions OF his fellow citi.
zsns, asserting that they are all wrong
and that he alone is right. 1t reminds
us OF the lunatic confined in Stockton.
who asserted that he alone was sane and
oil the rest of the world was crazy. For
our part, We cannot help believing that
the great majorities cast in some twenty
States are more likely TO be right than
The Virginia Enterprise, and, therefore,
conclude that its threatened "long roll"
in 1876 to be as unsubstantial as its
present views of the political situation of
the day.
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