Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-13
The ISSUES OF THE COMING
CAMPAIGN.


sertion that " there is nothing new under
the sun" If the APPEAL shall, during
the coming campaign, illustrate that
aphorism 10y repeating arguments with
which its readers are familiar, let not
the blame of their WEAKNESS be laid
upon the editor, but rather upon the
Democratic party counselors who are SO
in love with the pas. that they viii not
leave it in the sepulcher which events
have prepared for it. 1t would be mat
ter for consra.ulation if, in this Centen-
NAL year. with the grave grass eleven
times grown over those who fell in bat
tie, there could he discussion of other
questions than those which have hith-
crto divided the nation. But our DEM
ocratic friends viii not have it so. They
continue to snarl ut the civilization
which conquered them; they continue
to antasouize the political ideas which
pushed them from power; they insist upon
renewing in the forum the combat whose
issue was deciieti--as We thought, for-
ever-on tie battlefield. As evidence O.
the tendency Of the Democracy to turn
their backs 10 the horses and look over
the tail board of the wagon, we have hat
to refer to the files of the Congressional
Record.
Two years ago the Republican party,
for the first time in eighteen years, lost
the control of the United States House
of Representatives. 1t were idle to dis
cuss the causes Of that defeat. for they
vera almost rs numerous rs the local
tribunals which rendered the Judgment
One thing, however. may he asserted
without risk of contradiction. and that
Is, that the Democracy did not gain
power upon the ground that the war for
the Union was wrong, and that the |
Southern Confederacy ought TO have
succeeded. II was no part of the Dem |
ocratic platform of two years ago tina.
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments to the Federal Con-
stitution ought to be abrosated, or that |
the Acts Of Congress to enforce these |
amendments ought to be repealed. The |
Democratic candidate for Congress in
this district two years ago, was not q
enthusiastically, at least-upon the
basis of his services to the Southern Con-
tederacy, but rather upon the ground of
his repentance Of the past and accept
anee of the new condition of things.
Whatever else was then in issue before
the people. the old questions of slavery
or anti slavery, Union or secession. State
rights or Federal sovereignty, were
neither propounded nor discussed. But
no sooner did the Democracy gain power
upon the false pretense of acquiescence
in the results of the war, than they pub
licly plotted TO regain and re-es:ablish
those political conditions upon which
the American people have pronounced
sentence of perpetual Punishment. The
Democratic majority in the lower House
of Congress seems to be entirely under
the control of its Southern element, and
the spirit of the dead Confeieracy stalks
and spouts under the dome of the Ma
tional Capitol. The Clerk Of the new
Committee on Ways and Means wasa per-
son who named his infant sonWilkes after
Booth. The old SerSeant-at-arms Of the
Confederate Congress is elected Door
keeper of the United States House Of
Representatives. The manned Union
soldiers lately In attendance are sup
planted by former soldiers of Johnston
and Lee. l: is indeed true that the SOL
.lier whose duty it is to hoist the Ameri-
can flag at noon each day over the House
of Representatives, to announce that
that body is session, has been permitted
to retain his place; but the duty Of low
ering the flag, to indicate the adjourn
ment of the House, is conided to an ex-
Confederate, who is thus enabled to enjoy
4 luxury he failed to achieve during the
war. I. will be observed that the first
lebate of the session was on the subject
If amnesty. The Democratic majority
'or long time refused any scheme of
pardon which did not include the be-
Itowal of unasked citizenship upon
Davis; and they listened with