Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-18

We think we desire to see the rebellion
crushed as much as any man in the country,
and would make. and have made, Just as
many sacrifices as any other, to secure this
desirable end. To raise the sword against
the best government that ever existed, as the
now rebel Vice President pronounced the
United States to be, upon the very edge of
the rebellion, was one Of the darkest crimes
in the catalogue OF human otfenses but that
even this should encender enduring hate and
revenge, is against the spirit of Christianity
and against sound policy.-N. T. Express.
II the Express always talked as Sensibly
and periodically as this, we should have no
occasion to quarrel with it. 1t aptly stigma
ties the rebellion as lone OF the darkest
crimes in the catalogue Of human ottenses."
We agree with i: entirely, that great as is the
sin of the South, and calamitous as have
been the consequences Of it, it is neither wise
nor christianity TO harbor enduring hate
and revenge" against the Southern people.
They are still, in one sense, our brethren.
They are bound to uI by the ties Of common
destiny. Whatever the future has worth
living for, they must share with US. They
were-at least the majority Of them-forcibIy
dragged into the rebellion; and although they
now seem heartily identified with the inSur-
rectiOn, their sympathies were originally with
the Union.
Nor is there any likelihood that the hate"
now existing between the North and the
South will be enduring" On the contrary,
II will subSide with the war. The rebellion
once crushed and the leaders OF the rebellion
DESTROYED or driven out of the country, the
people will accept the DEGREES OF fortune, re-.
sumo their old places in the old Government,
and revive their old relations with those who
are now their enemies. They may chatc, and
fret, and pout, for a season but that will not
last. They will see that il is more profitable,
as we'll rs more pleasant, TO be friends than
10 be foes, and that there is no sacrifice OF
self-respect in owning up whipped after a
brave fight.
And in doing this they simply follow the
universal rule. Wars seldom, il ever, breed
permanent hatreds. Even civil wars leave
no enduring social scars behind them. The
English people were never more homogene-
on. than they were 4 few years after the great
revolution. France has been convulsed, time
and again, by civil and religious wars; yet
the French people are to-day the most thor
oughly fraternal in their feelings Of any
people in Europe. Germany has been desc
lated by we don't know how many domestic
wars; vet the national feeling is prOverbialy
intense Onc-third of Switzerland was in
surgent in 1916, and soundly whipped; but
Switzerland was never more united, never
more prosperous, and never more happy Ean
she is to-day. And so it will be with US. We
shall all be the better friends for our present
disagreement. The Southerners will learn
that the Northerners are not towards; the
Northerners will learn that the SOutherners
are not braggarts. By knowing each other
better, we shall respect each other more. And
we shall agree that it will never pay, in the
future, to inhct blows upon each other, which
might be so much more proftably dealt at
our common enemies.-iBGny Journal