Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-20
BARBARrTY,

Prom RAtion OF the most vainslorious
braSsarts on the face of the, earth, the
Southern chivalry have sunk to the posi-
ton Of set of miserable winners. The
people Of the North were neither given to
lighting nor to talking about it and the
bold Southrons, presuming upon this
peaceful character, had no qualms OF fear
III throwing down the gage OF battle in
the unholy cause they had espoused.
They were going, that very summer OF
1861, TO establish their seat of government
ut Washington, winter in Philadelphia,
cut grass in Broadway in the Spring, and
call the roll of their niggers ut the foot OF
the shaft on Bunker's Hill. If our menu
DRY serves us Alright, they did neither the
one, nor the other. They soon found that,
in vulgar parlance, they had "waked up
the wrong passenger" The war had
scarcely begun and they received few
blows in the face, than, i'll terror and
establishment, they began to shrek " bar
barity"'; and at every fresh "belt," they
have squalled the same baby-cry louder
and louder. Peter Toutant, alias Beau
regard, refuses to remove women, children
and other non-combatants from Charles
ton, and then screams barbarity!" Ben
Butler hangs n rebel for audaciously pull
ing down the flag in front OF his head
quarters. and the Confederacy cry out
barbarity!." Our generals hang spies,
captured within our very camps, and
rebeldom cries barbarity." Every act
which "hurts" no matter how fully au-
thorized by the customs of warfare or
justified by the dictates of common sense,
is, in the estimation of rebeldom, rnhuman
and barbarous. When, however, It comes
10 the cold blooded murder Of prisoners,
that is Southern privilege and chival-
rous amusement. There is nothing bar
barous about that. On the recent friendly
visit of the Confederate army 10 Cham
bersburg, there were several quite extern
sive conhagrationS, which were thought to
have been not exactly accidental, and
several horses, hogs, sheep ana oxen MISS
ing were thought to have not strayed OF
by themselves. Even If it should turn
out that those towns Were burnt. and the
stock driven off by the rebel army, there
would have been nothing barbarous about
it; because it was done by Southern gem
tlemen-don't you see. But now that
Sheridan, following the illustrious en-
ample Sc recently set, is trying his hand
at the same game in the Shenandoah VAL
ley, and beating his teacher at it, it is bar
barous forsooth. And the Richmond ed
itors have seated themselves in the ashes,
and scratching themselves with a potsherd,
bewail themselves over 1.-THE fell work in
the Shenandoah Valley" Oh! chivalry,
where now is your cheek Where now
Your boast of one to FIVE Where now
the blood of the Huguenots Get up out
of that! You began the fight. fight it
out. Get on your black horses" If
Sheridan has not got them all, ride out to
the Shenandoah, thrash that Sheridan in
stead of scolding ut him. and then ride
over to Broadway and cut some grass
While, however, history shows the record
of such acts as those with which rebel
dom has stained its page. it would be be-
coming in that government to leave the
word +. barbarity" out of its vocabulary.