Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-12
One of the Mistaken Notions.

Professor Dabney, Of Hampden Sydney
Theological School, in Virginia, writes to
friend in New York, as follows;
ave mean to spend everything except the
land, fighting the Yankees. When that is
left, infested with four millions Of lazy free
negroes, and beset with seven millions Of
scowling, revengeful, conquered men, hating
the Yankees worse than the devil, it will be
worth nothing to them. The Government OF
the United States, If it conquered the South,
would never raise enough money to pay one
tenth of the cost of one years military occu-
patton, which will be necessary to keep the
Southerners from numbering every land rob-
Der in one night"
In response to all Of which, the Indianapolis
Gazette comes at the Professor in this style:
In other words, when the armies Of the
rebels are destroyed, the pious professors Of
Southern theology propose to prclong the war
and keep it up by organized aSsassinations.
The plan will not succeed. There will be no
seven millions Of scowling, reyengeful, con-
ouered men. The only men in the South
who will lose their lands will be the large
shareholders. Every poor man will see that
he has been a gamer BY the overthrow Of the
rebellion, within year after its close. Let
the conquered Shareholders continue their as.
sassinations after their armies are destroyed,
if they dare.
There never was u greater fallacy than the
supposition that the South will not submit,
after being conquered. Rebels may not
those who are ut heart enemies OF the old
Union and haters of the loyal people OF the
North; but there will not be many Of them
left when the war is over. Inc most OF them
LII hn hol
will be ruined BY confiscstion and the free
dom of their slaves, and will be banished or
scared out of the country. The great major
ity of the people who will be left at the South,
after the war is over, will be those that have
heen at heart loyal to the Government all
the time. and who will not only gladly &C.
ouiesce in the restoration Of the National
authority, but will rejoice to see the rebel
lion nut down, and the real, genuine rebels
subiuQated, destroyed or driven out OF the
country. Many of them will be poor peo-
ple-the "poor white trash" of that country,
and they Of course will rejoice at the result.
They are to be the real Union men Of the re-
bel States hereafter, and are to WELD the po-
litical power Of the South, in the New Union.
There will be no danger from them, no trou-
Bile or resistance. They will not only &C.
ouiesce in the restored power of the Union,
Int thew will help to put down and e1termi-
nate the guerrillas and rebel assassins,
should any such remain after the Union is
restored, They are the people on whom the
Government is to rely for safety and support
hereafter. 49,.
But what of that other class-four millions
in all-who are to the last man and woman
loyal TO the Government, the Union, and
Freedom! We mean the hitherto human
chattles, the laboring class of the south-the
Negroes. They seem to be overlooked, in all
calculations as to the condition Of society
and the feeling of the people in the South,
after the war IS over. They should not be
overlooked, for they are to be power in the
land, hereafter. They Of themselves will be
sufficient to keep down, drive out or exter-
inmate all rebels, traitors, or guerrilla asSas-
sins after the war is once fairly over, the
Union restored; and woe be to the miscreant
wretches who shall make it necessary for
the Government to call upon them to do the
congenial work,