Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-17


same yesterday, to-day and forever.
But on one constitutional ground it is
still unchanged. It still holds that
each State is sovereign, separate and
a right TO withdraw at pleasure. This
reasonable doctrine made rebellion
possible, and if ever the party indors-
ing it comes into full power there is
still danger that the whole fabric may
be rent in twain under the demagogues
pandering to popular preiudices, or
would be statesmen whose doctrines
are subversive of National unity. This
party has cost the Nation half million
of lives and billions OF treasure filled
the land with mourning; made posi-
BILE Decoration Day where loyal and
loving hearts bedeck with flowers the
graves of those that lost their lives
because Of its creed out Of which
sprang rebellion causeless, wicked,
Democratic. 1t denied the power OF
the General Government to coerce
State to submission to National au-
thori,y. 1t asserted that all measures
to prosecute the war i'll behalf OF the
Nations life were unconstitutional. 1t
denounced the proclamation OF free
dom true to its instincts tending to-
ward a privileged class and against
the down-trodden. 1t declared the
war for freedom and for right failure,
blind to the fact that amoral cause is
or shall be triumphant, for fright is
right and God is God" 1t fought to
the end every measure abolishing and
forever prohibiting slavery; every
measure prohibiting the assumption
Of the rebel debt; every measure es-
tablishing the equal rights OF all the
citizens in all the States every meas
ure declaring that no man should be
deprived of the right to vote on ac-
count of his race or color. And now
this party, after aiding and aDetting
treason after opposing every meas
ure that tended to make more solid the
compact of States established in the
Constitution, re-at1irmed on every bat
tle-field, and cemented by the best
blood OF loyal sons after resisting
every measure that aimed to remove
the curse of slavery after doing all it
could to hinder the cause of right and
Justice after using every power 1t
had to make us a by-word among ma
tons; rejoicing over rebel victories,
gloating over Investigations bringing
the Government into disgrace and
shame-as glad over new disgrace as
overa Bull Run disaster-now presents
itself before the people and asks to be
restored to power in this Centennial
year when if it's aims and purpose
had been realized there would have
been no Nation to celebrate Centen-
NAL.
Now this party in its spirit changes
not. II still applauds unrepentant
rebels it still prefers Confederate
to Union soldier; it is still narrow
in its aims, indiscreet in its methods,
partisan in its purposes. And were it
in full power to-day it would undo
what has been done in behalf of free
dom and rIght-re-establish the color
line, assume the rebel debt, pay for
the slaves set free, repudiate the
plishted faith of the Government,
proclaim each State a Nation-and the
few good men in the party would be
utterly unable to keep the dema-
cocues of which it has so many, and
the selfish OF which it is largely COM
posed, from having their own way.
This is not the party the best people
want to rule this is not our party
this is the Democratic party which in
spirit, like the Bourbons its best rep
resentatives, or like the Pope its other
head, changes not.
And suppose we forget all the past,
what promise does this party give tor
the future? Staggering yet under
load of disloyalty, 1t would now rem
der the Nation bankrupt by dishon-
ored currency. Its system of finances
would bring discredit to our institu-
tons and expose us to the contempt
and ridicule of the civilized world;
by it's gambling and corruption
plunge the country into moral and ma
tional dishonor. Its currency is like
itself changing and changeable, look
ing toward imitation with all its attend
ing evils. lis policy would fleece the
laborer by causing prices to rise while
wages remain the same till by and by
the poor man realizes that the "peo-
ple's money" which was to be so
cheap and 50 plenty is a continual
cheat and the day Of promised pros
perity when everybody would have
plenty or money and the "money
power" be broken is postponed while
the day of disaster fast approaches.
Its policy would help SPECTATORS by
reviving speculations increase gamb-
ling enterprises, multiplying every