Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-04


hers. Int I understand it was the
opinion of some of tbt gentlemen that
the clerical labor of getting these pa
pers into shape could not be compile
ted by O'Clock.
Here we find the great Reformer
cheek by jowl with Vallandigham
and John i. Weller-two OF the most
notorious aud offensive rebel sympa-
thisers that ever polluted the air OF .oy-
alty. OF course he helped frame the
.swar is q failure" plank; and OF
course he wanted the war to fail. III
he hadn't he would not have been in
that convention Of disloyallsts.
Blaine has been making speech At
Cincinnati III the old, incisive way.
He has pricked the bladder Of vino
which has SO long buoyed up the false
renutatiou Of Charles Francis Adams,
and let that veteran humbug be most
mercilessly exposed. Adams action
in the seth Congress in attempting 10
pacifv the South by 80 amending the
Constitution as to provide that that in
strnmert should never be so amended
"a to abolish slavery save by the
unanimous consent of the slave States
themselves, this is the burden OF this
speech as reported. Blaine also AYERS
that Adams favored peaceful disunion.
We extract as follows from the report:
His whole course during the closing
session of the Thiriy.six;h congress,
intervening between MIR. Lincoln >
election AMI his Inauguration, WAS oi'e
of treason to the cause OF liberty an"
desertion from the cause OF the thloh.
He offered every humiliatlng cohres-
sion to the South agreed to ABANDON
the prohibition of slavery in the lern-
tories. and. asa climax OF degrading
am! dishonoring conditions, he offered
,o amend the Constitution OF the
Tr;tod States SO as to render the aDo-
,ition of slavery impossible SO long as
a single slave State should object. Inc
amendment so warmly urged by Mr..
Adams declared, in effect, that no
amendment to the Constitution III any
Interfering with slavery IN the States
should ever he even so much az pro-
posed except by one OF the slave StateS'
and should not he adopted except WIN
the consent of every slave S'a.e.
When. in 1855, Arkansas applied Ior
admission into the Union Win Co"'
stitution which forever prohibited reg
i>la,ion from touching slavery except
with the consent OF the siaFeiioiuIls
John Quincy Adams declareu suon q
provision infamous beyond me power
of expression, and yet Charies Iancis
Adams. in 1861, offered and urged and
ontraatcd and plead for an amendment
to the Constitution OF the oh'teu
States. which was TO be applied to the
whole country, far more infamous IN
nrinciple than was contained IN the
Arkansas Constitution Of 1856. Livery
franchise YOU enjoy under the Constr
tuition of the right to vote, freedom OF
religious opinion, trial by jury, rlgnt
of even to representation. were leI1
omen to change by the ordinary pro
cass of amending the Constitution, Out
MIR. Adams proposed to give siaEefya
far more sacred guarantee than had
ever been given liberty ana 10 Gu
shrine it as something OF superior
right. placing it beyond the power OF
uinety-nine hundredths OF those OF the
naonje of the United States to Abolish
i unless Save State should propose
it and every slave state vote ior IT,
There is no parallel to this III history
Mr.. Blaine pressed his statements
with his well-known strength anu
positiveness of assertion and closed
his remarks by saying:
When Massachusetts forgets the
teachings of John Quincy Adams she
will elect his son Governor OF the
proud old Commonwealth. nave
said have no time and no desire LOT
personalities. If had l might read
ily indulge myself at Mr.. Adams, ex,
nense, The personal and poiitical
gossip at Washington in ls6L was ousy
With Mfr. Adams name and II was CUT
rentlv said that he obtained the mis-
sion to England in manner ana ~
means which he would now Elauly
consipn to oblivion and which ms
children would blush to have repeat
ed. have no disposition to mduise
in that line of gossip and prefer TO con-
fine nv criticism to Mr.. Adams rec
ord on pnblic questions. Nor nave L
anv wish to comment on his inter us
regard of the difference OF pr'nclpies
between the great political parties,
standing as he has lot Sea!n ~
accept a nomination from either sue;
and still less do l desire to rehearse
the assumed belief in certain quarters
thar Adams candidacy by the Demo-
cratic party was the result of a regn lr:,
bargain between himself and Mr.. Ill
den, in which Mr.. Adams agreed TO
give the responsibility Of bis name 10
the Dem ocratlc party.
This speech will have wide hearing
and great effect. 1t has long been
needed. Shielded by the respectapll-
ity of a great name, Charles Francis
Adams, the aristocrat, the unsympa-
thetic man and the ambitious SELL
seeker, has long been, for some ubde-
fined reason, the political beau Ideal
Of certain dreamers and pessimIsts.
The humbug and cant OF the carrier
l.