Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-28
Rebel Cheek,

Our dispatches from the East published
yesterday, contain about as rich speci-
men of rebel impudence as anything that
those chivalric Bombastes Furiosos who
occupy the editorial tripods of Secessia
have ever given to the world. The
modesty and self-sacri6cing character of
the terms" upon which alone they are
disposed, excites our unbounded admira-
ton, not unmixed with amusement. The
idea that in the present dilapidated state
of their fortunes, just upon the heels OF
their diplomatic explosion with thSir
privateer building, and munition of war
supplying-blockade running, ie-manu-
featuring British allies, they should pre-
tend to dictate terms at all, is cool enough
but when we come to read what those
terms are, it is Arctic. AS a preamble to
their list of "terms,' they announce the
startling proposition that "the North
commenced this causeless and wicked
war, and strict justice requires that che
South should be reimbursed for all ex-
penses and losses during the war;" Holy
Moses Then comes the terms " save on
which no peace can be accepted" No
thing short of absolute recognition, the
withdrawal of National forces from the
sacred soil; the giving up to the Confeder-
acy their proportion of the Navy as it
existed at the time of secession. In short,
nothing less than full and complete ad-
mission by the National Government,
that the secession of the South was right
and justifable; the war which has been
waged at such cost of blood and treasure
for the preservation of the Union, all
wrong; the death of every rebel muir
der, and the slaughter of the thousands of
brave and loyal men who have died for
the Flag justi6able homicide. Nothing
less than;these will satisfy "our South
ern brethren" We are sorry about that,
for we apprehend that they will never be
satisfied. We could have given them
these terms two years and half ago,
had we been so disposed, and saved
much money and blood. The expendi-
ture of that blood and gold has not put
the nation in better humor for the set
Element of the little difficulty. We opine
that the terms upon which jeff Davis
subjects will one of these days be glad
to accept peace, will be rather harder to
stomach than the dainty bill of fare which
the Richmond Enquirer demands. They
want our armies removed. We shouldn't
wonder! Those armies surround their
borders, are encamped and intrenched
in the heart of their country, occupy
their chief cities, and marchSwith broad
track of desolation throughout the length
and breadth of their land. No wonder
they want them withdrawn; they must
be horrible nuisance. 1t is wonder
the rebels don't get mad and drive them
out if the Washington authorities don't
withdraw them. They want their "share
of the Navy as it existed at the time of
the secession" That is very modest-it
is magnanimous in them not to demand
half or more of our iron-clad navy and
monitors. That "old Navy as it was "
is of very little account nowadays, and
the South would be no "great shakes of
naval power if we gave her the whole
of it. The South, however, destroyed its
share of it long ago. What remains Of
the Southern half of that Navy are the
blackened hulks of those once proud
monuments of our national glory burned
by their traitorous hands at Norfolk Navy
Yard, and the wrecks of the noble old
Cumberland and Congress sunk by their
Merrimac in Hampton Roads. "Terms"
indeed! We like the idea of making
''terns" with these traitors. Their bonn
bast, and impudence would be irritating
if it, were not for its absurdity. The only
terms that will ever be offered them will
be the old historical command" Dis
perse We rebels! lay down your arms,
and dispense"