The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-22
A FALSE ISSUE.

night before last, said that Nevada,
which has ever been loyal and true to
the Union, should not dishonor itself
in this election by giving its electoral
vote to General Hancock. This implies
that the supporters of General Han
cock, in this election, are rebels, or
are at least disloyal to the Union. The
iusinuation is simply absurd. There
are thousands of men in Nevada to-day
who will vote for General Hancock,
who were and are as true to the Union
as Judge Whitman or any other Repub,
lican. Hancock, and many of his sup
porters, fought to preserve the Union
IN the dark days of the rebellion, when
sone of the most stalwast Republicans
i, the State were not only opposed to
Abraham Lincoln, but were virulent
ropperheads. Among these are VIII
ham WOODBURY., who, was elected TO
Congress on the Republican ticket a
lew years ago, and r. II. Taylor, who
~ to-day one of the Republican nomi-
nees for Presidential Elector When
Judge Whitman was nominated for
Judge of the Supreme Court, by the
first Union Republican State Conven-
zion held in Nevada, members of that
convention were in favor of sending
Mr.. Taylor to Fort. Churchill, because
of his secession utterances. 1t is unfair
and inconsistent for such men as he, |
nearly sixteen years after the close OF
the war, to accuse men who supported
lincoln and the Union cause of being
disloyal, because they support brave
Union soldier for the highest Office in
the gift of the people. The. Union to-
day is net endangered or menaced by
enemies at home or abroad If it was,
1t is possible that the men who de-
nounced Union soldiers in 1864 as
Lincoln hirelings," would be now, as
as they were then, arrayed against it. |
Many of the ablast Generals in the
/. Union army, some OF them Democrats
. and some of them Republicans, are to-
day advocating the election of Hancock. |
Must they rest under the suspicion of
being disloyal to the. Union because
sWoodburn, Taylor and other latter-day
Republicans, whose names we could
Z mention, say se's. Has politics so de-
graded the people of Nevada that
they question the loyalty of men, who
proved their devotion, to the Union in
the dark days of the rebellion, at the
bidding of those who opposed Lincoln
and the Union when the war was raging?
The perpetulty of the Union is not an
issue in this campaign. The question
OF Secession was settled forever when
General Lee. surrendered. The Union
does not stand on such a shaky and
weak foundation, that it can be endan-
gered by the result of Presidential
election, and if it did, candid men of
: hll parties will admit that it would be
40 safe. under the Administration of
! General Hancock as it would be under
Garfield. There was four years ago, as
. shown.by the election returns, nearly
million more Democrats in. the North
thaa> taere was in the South, and the
proportion is greater to-day than it was
then, as thousands of Republicans,
among them many Of the most promi-
nent Union Generals, have declared for
! Hancock. For r. II. Taylor or any
other Secession sympathizer, who have
become Republicans since, the war
closed, to assert that these men are dis
loyal is an insult to every man who
fought or voted for the Union cause in
the days of the rebellion.