Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-01

Post.
Our sprightly San Francisco conten
porary means sarcasm. The inuendo
of it is that the Republican party. foul
years ago, was not at all pure. We dc
not believe that it was entirely pure; but
We believe that it was aspire as any pre-
vailing political party ever was or ever
will be. The Republican Party has been
obliged to profess certain special mo-
rality-or something above a mere poll
cy such as the Bank and the Tariff.
This moral principle it adopted from the
sturdy Abolitionists of old. Also the
Republican Party came to father the
acts of Old John Brown and to vindicate
his motives and his sanity. These pro-
LESSONS of morality have subjected its
members and leaders to close and criti-
cal scrutiny-just as relision-professing
people get watched and seotled by the
depraved and ungodly. Any lapses on
the part of such 4 par,ya this come to
be detected and exposed and paraded
with great noise by the Opposition. Set
a thief to catch thief. The Independ-
ents, professed Reformers. are merely
ambitious malcon:erts.
When political parties exist they
should have clear. well-ieined excuse
Of existence. or they are not worth heed
ing. The Republic has been saved from
the Secessionists: Slavery no longer ex-
lists; and one Constitutional Amendment
makes citizens of the late slaves, while
another gives them q partial means of
seh-protection in the ballot. The saving
Of the Union; the abolition of slavery
and the enfrarchisement of tie Freed
men is the work of the Republican Par
ty. On the face of things, the scheme
of reconstruction has been perfected
What excuse, then, is there for the
longer existence of the Republican Par
ty? What is it that remains for it to
do? If it has no mission then are its
Conventions mere machineries for the
helping of men to nominations, and its
performances at the ballot box nothing
better than sordid scrambles for Office
holding--And office-holding is not full
and worthy object for any party. What
has this Republican Paaty, then. to live
for? What great questions yet remain
unsolved whose rightful solution it is the
business of Republicans to attempt?
Simply these
To continue to vindicate John Brown;
to confirm and make real the abolition of
slavery, and to carry out the letter and
intent of the Constitutional Amend
ments. The real, live, decent excuse for
the continued existence of the Republi-
can party is to stand by the negroes of
the South and make sure that they have
and enjoy that full freedom which their
emancipation was meant to endow them
with.
The Independent press tell the coun-
try that these questions have been set
tied. Have they been settled on the
John Brown basis? Is the Fourteenth
Amendment as much part of the Con-
stitution in Georgia as it is in Vermont?
Is the Fifteenth Amendment as strong
and vital an instrument in Texas as it is
in Maine? Ii not, then there Is danger
in restoring TO power the Democratic
party. Why? Because the Democratic
party have fought every John Brown
measure from the victualling of Fort
Sumpter to the Civil Rights bill. The
Constitution as interpreted by jefferson
Davis and Barnwell Rhett was and is
worth more to the Democratic party than
the Union; and slavery was and is dearer
to the Democratic heart than Northern
manhood. As to any sense of Justice
for, or sympathy with, the enslaved
blacks, the Democracy never had any
and certainly they have none for the
slaves.
There may be sneers and sarcasns
over the purity of the Republican
party; men lacking the instinct and
needful for an exhibition of
political virility, like Booth, may pirate
of its perfected mission; but the moral