Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26
LET Us SHAKE HANDS ACROSS
THE BLOODY CHASN!

When Blaine was holding up JEFF
Davis and his atrocious character TO the
country. Shoe Fly Cox, having no Butler
to fear, ventured to interrupt the LIZ
Speaker by calling him the Honorable
Hyena from Maine" Following suit,
the copperhead. Rebel and Dolly Warden
press became suddenly lachrymose and
sentimental over this attempt to reopen
the old enmities of the war" Ali at
once every Democrat who had opposed
the draft and voted the war an abolition
invasion of the South; every copper
head who had flung mud at President
Lincoln and called him Abe the Ape
every BLACKBOARD rebel sympathizer who
subscribed TO Brick Pomroy's internal
newspaper; all these sweet and gentle
lovers OF peace and unity were al once
sliced with an irrepressible desire to let
by-gones be by-gones and TO shake hands
across the bloody chasm- Among other
tender hearted deprecators of the course
adopted by Blaine was the San Francisco
Erax,insr The country was about to
enjoy the full fruits of peace, said that
paper, when in comes Blaine with fire
brand to revive sectional animosities.
This was at,ocious. said that organ OF
the constitutional Democracy.
But . change has come DER the spirit
o: that exponent OF the Democratic
principle in California politics It has
lately been examining the school-book
question. In last Saturdays issue of
that agitation-deploring organ We find
the following:
We gave space. Yesterday, TO the rep
reservations of Bancroft X Co, denying
the correctness of some calculations, re-
gently published. as 10 the relative cost
of the books in question; also TO Their
declaration that the contents Of the Pa
cific Coast Readers are not objectionable
Is to the reading matter in them. On
the first point We may be misinformed.
On the other there is no mistake. We
will prove the correctness of our state
ment, in this respect. by simply calling
attention to the fact that in the Readers
proposed to be substituted for NcGuf-
fsys. will be found Sheriian's Ride"
which is designed to hold up to the adj
miration of the young and rising gener-
alton one Of the wors. characters who
has ever figured in the military annals OF
any country. A brutal monster, during
the civil war. who boosted that he would
transform one of the most fertile por-
tons of the great State Of Virginia into
such q desert that "a crow, IN lying
over il, would have to carry its own
provsnder to avoid starvation" A red
handed murderer of defenceless Indian
squavs and papooses, who supplemented
his dastardly and cruel deeds In tine late
tratricidal conflict by essayinc. IN time
Of peace, to trample under the heel OF
military power the deares: rights OF a
sovereign State of the Federal Union.
There are other oblectional contents IN
Bancroft Pacific Coast Readers not now
necessary to mention The one poem,
to which We allude. should condemn the
work in the estimation of every true
lover Of his native land.
Not smulating the E.SuniEer 5 example
in condemning Dir. Thomas Buchanan
Reads stirring poem. We commend this
extract from tina; paper to the careful
perusal of our Republican and Demo-
cratic readers-so that if those two sets
Of newspaper patrons should be st all in
doubt of the ACCESSIBILITY OF shaking
hands over their differences and agreeing
to wrap themselves in The folds of
common flag and swear to participate N
q common destiny, they may not pro-
coed with their embraces without due !
of what they are doing. /