Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-14
One of the Results of Secession.

The impression has been gaining the past
twelve months that the dcath-kncll Of slavery
has been rung, and that the means adopted
for its preservation, has proven the instru-
ment of its death. 1t seems if one could see
the hand of Providence in the working of
the war, "Whom the gods would destroy they
first made mad" The South, knowing that
slavery could not be made the corner stone
in Republican Government, resolved upon
u Southern oligarchy. Hence secession and
the war. As events are now shaping, the
aspirants of power in the South arc likely to
lose slavery under the old Republican Gov
ernment and fail to gain the oligarchy, they
would establish for its preservation and en-
tension. As the prospects Of success grow
dark to the mind of the Shareholder, he too
begins to express determination to free the
slave. He "sccs the handwriting on the
WALL" and appears anxious to forestall the
Northern army in its work of breaking the
chain of the enSlaved. In the contest for the
preservation of the Union, the four millions
of slaves are likely to play Il prominent part.
The North find in the negro an able and act
i've soldier, and as his shacklcs fall, the Gov
eminent places arms in his hands for the
prosecution of the war. The rebels, seeing
their slaves appropriated, arc awaking to
their true condition, and begin to realize a
double danger. TO avert it, they are COM
PEELED to adopt the same systematic arming
of Africans.
When the rebels become satisfied that the
rebellion is to be put down, they will then
most chccrfully free every negro in the land.
OF what use are the slaves without the plan
tation to work them on If the STAKEHOLDER
is crushed, his immense plantation is confS-
Gated, and he is left landless and niggcrlcsS.
This condition of things Bishop Polk antici-
pated months ago when he commenced to
council the abolition of slavery. lie evil
IDENTIFY believes that the rebellion is crushed,
and that there can be no safety for the instl-
tuition of slavery under the old Government.
Hence, as a forlorn hope, the Shareholder
concludes to arm half 4 million of slaves with
the promise of freedom at the end of the war
as a bride to fight for their masters and
against themselves. Such an experiment
seems u most desperate effort at saving their
territory from confscation. They are driven
to the bittcrcst extremity. They consent to
the emancipation of one-cighth of the slave
population, in the hope Of preventing subju-
cation and con6scatiOn.
The experiment of arming slaves to pre-
serve slavery must be a most dangerous one.
A negro who has the Intelligence to make Il
soldier, has the intelligence to fight for lib
crty, not slavery. If the question comes to
this, whether the white master in the South
has to be subjected to the Government, or the
slave by slave arms subjected to everlasting
slavery, the cause of the rebel masters is
most certainly doomed. In this movement
of putting half million Of slaves into the
field, we think we can see future volunteers
to the Union army. The South may arm and
drill the slave, but on the first safe opportu-
nifty he will walk over to the cnemy-to those
he sees fighting for the old Goyernment-and
before whose banners the shackleS of the
slave are falling. These arc some of the I'M
foreseen events and results from the war.