Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-03
THE SITUATION.

The Both of June brought to a focus the
long drawn out fight between Congress aud
President Hayes The veto by the President
of the bill appropriating the pay of United
States Marshals and their Deputies makes an
unanswerahi9 statement of the reasons why
the rider with which the bill was loaded should
not become a law The fact that the Demo
cratic party should allow President of this
Republic to have occasion to make such an
argument as this veto embraces, IS of itself
such a condemnation as would wipe any other
association Of men than the Democratic party
ont of existence. Were it not true that the
beginning and end of the s0-cailed Democracy
is treason against this nation, it could not
survive such an impeachment as IS implied
by thus recurring to the first principles which
constitute the life of a Republic. 1t shows
how deeply Democratic legislation strikes at
the very vitals of our national life and clVln-
zation. and how dark and damnable Is the
plotting against the perpetUity of the Federal
Government After reading this admirable
message, the more formal indictment of the
Rebel DemocracY by the brave and loyal Sen
ator, Zach Chandler, seems almost snpertiu-
Gus, and yet, for the purpose of bringing to
popular apprehension the dangers of the pres
ent crisis, it WAS as necessary and opportune
as the veto itself.
The issues which the Brigadier majority in
Congress have invented for the purpose of
misleading honest men, and Of disturbing the
peace and prosperity Of the nation, are now
fairly launched upon the turbulent of
American politics What the result is to be,
futurity alone can discover. President Hayes
has given to Congress and the people the ad-
vantage Of unfaltering resistance to Demo-
cratic schemes, and deserves the thanks of
all loyal men. There have not been wanting
many Republicans who have conjectured that
bIr. Hayes would prove stubborn factor in
the Democratic fight for national supremacy,
should that party fail to accept in good faith
his steady efforts at conciliation; and his re-
cent course has largely justified just such an
estimate of the man. One thing is certain:
the policy, so called, of conciliating the South
and the Democracy, has been tried to the
very verge of national destruction, and the
loyal people of the North are ready, with
bluff Zach Chandler, to cry halt, and demand
some decent degree of justice before extend
ing any more misplaced lenency to the Rebel
Democracy either North or South. For
eighteen long years has this Republic faced an
active, sleepless and wide spread treason,
Il l,c yo1 mad
armies to tit it out for as open rebellion as in
1861 The final success or defeat OF that re-
bellion is to be decided. 50 far as ballots can
settle the question. But the South is never
satisfied with the peaceful solution of any
question, unless it is a clean glve-away to
Southern demands. 1t therefore becomes
every man to be ready for the precipitating
of armed hostilities and civil war. The grand
political struggle, so to speak, will in 1880 be
fought by the Democratic and Republican
parties. 1t is hardly probable or even posi-
bic, that any third-par movement Of impor
lance viii be organized The people, who |
will shortly begin taking sides upon these is
sues VII have to choose between Republican |
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such as propose to enlist under the Republic |
can banner, will make up their minds this |
time to stay with the proposition until it is
definitely settled one way or another. Those
who are. endowed with such massive iutelli-
gence as TO connect themselves with a politi-
cal party for the purpose of helping to cripple
it, ought to be at least honest enough to join
any other organization in the world than the
Republican party. That character of intelli-
genoe, and, if one pleases, of respectabuty
that finds frequent occasion to vote for Rebel
Democrats for the purpose of improving the
Republican party, can best serve the country
by joining heart and hand with Treason, and
done with it. The Republican party will
not be particularly in need, much less in
search of half hearted patriots, or camp fol-
bowers. This fight is for blood and he who
enlists must expect to serve till the war is
over, and this Republic either saved or de-
molished That's the issue: Choose We
SUNDAY night last the stage from Hamilton