Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-07-24
MASSEY.
The Hopeful old Democrat oses
More Comes 60 the Front.

The Corners. not being prepared for
the nomination Of q Union general. were
inclined to hold back in their ratification
meeting. But Nasty appalled, to hem
% follows:
"a Dimskrat's fust duty Is to obey
his convenshun and 10 do what his oon-
vsnshun direx him to do. / don't deny
but wot my hart 10 somewhat tried BY
the nominashun Of q Federal soljer
which bore arms agin US. But why
shood We repins1 Why shood We ques-
ton the wisdom nv the ohoicsI WITCH
seckshun controlled that conyenshunf
Paws and reflect. Was II the North or
the Southf Ef the North, wat differ
enos IL thur betwixt = Northern Dime
KRAFT and q Suthsrn one, anyhow But
the Northern Dimekrats didn't hsv
nuthin to do with II. The oonvsnshun
vuz controlled entirely by the solid
| South. The brigadeers WIZ all ther.
Their a Wade Hampton, Nv pleased
memory. Their WIZ all nv 'sm. Their
WIZ present every ~long.haired man wich
he'd bin prominent In the defence Nv the
South, either a. o dslsgait or ez . in
foosnshsl spectator. Bare this In
mind, Their wuzn't q niger dslegait In
the entire convsnshun. not one! II
vuz a convsushun nv white men, actin
for white men, and in the interest oil
the white mems party.
"Doss 1t make any diirsncs to the
Corners who the ieger he'd 10 that 10 put
mn. Not at all. The Corners want Sc
csshun erik slack-watsrsd; the Corners
wants Q Custom.houss and q Post.ofds,
and the Corners wants her Suthern he
roes penshunsd. and the losses Nv the
crooii war pade, and done ez quickly ez
possible. The Corners, onto vich Bias.
com has got a mortgage, wants releef In
the shape Nv money from the Fsdrel
treasury, and that immejitly. We want
our niggers back agin-we want the old
system restored, aud the Corners wants
TO rool this ksntry ez 1t did wunst.
"Ef Hancock Is the way. walk 70 In 1t.
Does any one suppose that Hancock,
wich 10 to be elected Of be IL elected at
all, by the Solid South, 10 q goin' back
onto the Solid South after his slscshunf
Does the ass know his masters oribf Is
be a poin' to turn and rend the hand
wich feeds him?
care we 10 stoopid ez to spose that
the Southern B~rigadeers wioh U the
Cincinnati C~onvenshun didn't know
what they wuz aboutf Hsvin but one
thing to do, do you sposo they didn't 60
and do II? To win, we hsv got to kerry
some Northern States, and wood 1t hev
bin policy to hsv put up Q Brigsdser in
gray, to hev skesrsd the Northern De-
mocrisy, whose stomicks are still wsatf
We kin forgive = Fsdral General which,
for the sake Of bein President. IL willin
TO undo ez Q President all that be did sz
a soljer. What he did ez o soljsr 10 past
what he will do ez o President IL yet
TO come. We have not gone back onto
ourselves in nominatin him-if he goes
back upon hisself, that Ia his " biznis.
my friends. It 10 perfectly safe to
take any Fsdrel soljsr wieh Is willin' to
take q nominsshen ct the hands Nv Suth-
ern Brigadsers, 700 bet yer life. An 1t
10 perfectly safe fer US to swallsr the
resolushsns, NO matter what they may
be. They all pint the way. Ef they
are for tariff or agin tariff, they mean
the old rool Of the glorious South. Ell
they are for hard money or soft money,
they mean the triumph nv the South.
Miflellen, Of he had been slsctid, would
hev done jist ez we'll fur rs OF Jefferson
Davis, and 90 will Hancock"
We adjourned with three cheers for
Hancock and the platform, tho we
hedn't received the platform and didn't
know nothing about II. But ez in the
case nv the nominashen, We know the
men that made II, an that's enuff.
kentucky will role up q good ole
fashioned Dimscratio majority this fall,
shoor. PETROLEUM V. EAsBr.
Exultant.
P. S.-Bascom 10 concerned about the
bar'l. / satisfied that much doubling
man by ~ashooring him that Tildsn's
bar'l wood be opened jist the same. But
the nashnel committy want to be In
haste about Akin that. We kin take o
candidate on trust. but the barl must DO
q reality. We must know all about that,
and for shoor. +. v. N.