Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-31
THE CAMPAIGN.
We copy as follows from yesterday

We copy as follows from yesterday Is
dispatches:
Memphis, August 29.-An Avalanche
special dispatch from Jackson. Miss.
saws: After the organization of the
HAYES and Wheeler Club at VicksSure
lag: night, ex Senator Penss was rotten
esged BY the mob while attempting to
speak from the gallery of the Post
Office. A. H. Arthur, an old and re-
spected citizen OF Nicksburg. was chair
man of the meeting, but was powerless
to suppress the disorder.
This recalls the days when Ecpnbli-
can speakers were thus assailed In Cal
ifornia. Then staggering slavsocrats
bullied the free soilers in the Golden
State as unrepentant rebels now bully
the white and black Republicans of the
South. Are We Of Nevada who love the
Union and are proud of the victories
which sustained it. '.pigeon-livered and
lacking gall" to resent these impudent,
cowardly atrocities? Shall We desert
these Mississippi Republicans and leave
them TO their fate by giving the North to
their oppressors? 1t takes courage and
steaafastress in the States of the late
"CoDfederacy" to maintain oneself as a
Republican. To do SO is to face a
scowling, murderous opposition; to do
so is to fight in a hopeless minority; to
- Il h. ha
of the loyal North, is to court contumelv,
oppression, social ostracism and out
rage. Nevada is the Battle born State. .
1t was called into the Union in order
that it might help to swell the majority
of Abraham Lincoin's vote. 1t is an
outgrow,h of Republican progress and
LOYALTY. Shall it surrender in the face
OF the foe and leave these struggling
Republicans of the South to the tender
mercies of the enemy? Evidently it Is
the purpose of the ex-rebels. every
where, to be prepared for full res:or-
alton to power. The election OF Tilden
and Hendricks would be a clean sweep.
and the apple tree at Appomattox had us
well have sheltered surrender of Grant
to Lee as to have seen the spectacle 1t
did. II Tilden is elected he will be
elected by the votes of the Confederates
of the South. Once in the Presidential
chair, and be would be Commander-in-
chief of all the armies of the United
States. The military and naval power
of the Republic would be placed in the
hands of the man who declared the war
a failure, who denounced the emancipa-
ton proclamation as an outrage, and
who declared it to be unconstitutional to
abolish slavery. The nominees of the
State Convention whose sittings have
just been concluded at Virginia City, are
of political stripe and pedigree which
mean no recognition Of Northern con-
cessions. The ticket means everything
or not,n 1g; the whole game or full de-
feat. Loyalty stands challenged and de-
fed. The Confederates of the Demo-
cratic party no longer disguise their
purposes. They have flung down the
gauntlet and dared 5 to the conflict.
Shall We fail to accept the wager of bat
tie thus boldly offered? Shall We finch
now that the Democracy is in its des-
perate death struggle" Never Let
us again raise the standard; again con-
secrate our energies, our time, our will
and our capacities for conflict to the
cause which saved the Union. crushed
out slavery, reconstructed the Cons:itu-
ton and gave the ballot to the freed
man.