Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-19
An Irnnhle Pence.

Copperhead orators and editors are tire
less in their hollow clamors for peace. BY
insulting the intelligence of the masses
with the mere defamation of what they
know to be an impossibility as long as
their confreres at the south are in arms
and defiant, they hope to aggregate suffi-
GENTLY strong party to carry the next
Presidential election. "Peace" is their
party cry; Peace" they have the eff
fronterv to declare is within our reach:
only elect Democratic" President, and
the elements of the conflict will imnedi-
ately subside, and peace will reign over
the distracted land! May God avert the
shame of such peace as the Copperheads
would bring us; may He save our coun-
try from the infamy and disgrace at which
we would purchase the ignominious peace
that the traitors of the North would force
US to accept! The announcement of such
4 peace would sound the kneli of depart
ed nationality; it would sound with the
clank of the chains and the riveting of the
gives of twelve millions of cnthralled
frecmen; it would reverberate with the
cries of anguish of an already cnslavcd
race, whose bondage would be rendered
still more unbcarable; it would usher in
the reign of brutal ferocity, Of stripes and
laShes, of open murder and secret torture
the reign of exalted crime, from the saw
agery of which none who were not crimi-
nal could escape. 1t would revert the
natural order of morality, and make ruff
fianism mcrit-virtue ruffianism. The
country would lie bleeding under the feet
of an unrestrained oligarchy, which had
proved false to every sentiment of right
which had, for the attainment of power,
ruthlessly plunged the country iuto civ
il war. Whom would that oligarchy select
to rule but one of its own number proved
foremost in the damnable work of rebel
lion. He, like Milton's Satan, would be
raised to that bad eminence by merit and
such merit, "uplifted high beyond hope"
could only be maintained by the progress
sive brilliancy of new crimes. But,
thanks to patriotic and gallant people,
no such peace shall be forced upon us.
The man-dealers of the South shall never
again rule this fair land. They have
made their procrustean bed, and in it they
shall lie whether they shall list or not.
The peace which they would welcome,
and that their co-conspirators of the
North would give them, is beyond the
reach of both. The salvation of the
country is in loyal hands; it will be
worked out by our armies and fleets; 1t
will be wrenched from the traitors at the
point of the bayonet, and they-whatever
NAV be left of them-will be compelled,
whether they like it or not, to submit to
the DEGREES of fate. Those men of the
North who delude themselves with the
idea that the South cannot be subdued-
not lashed into submission, have not only
studied the progress of the war to little ct
feet, but they have failed to place just
estimate upon the relative strength of a
people fighting for a holy principle and
chat of community of men fighting to
perpetuate stupcndous crime. Mr.. Cob
den, one of the clearest statesmen of
Europe, in speech of singular perspicui-
ty, recently gave the following remarka-
Bile reason for his faith in our ultimate
triumph. He said:
I have from the first never believed It pos
sible that the South could succeed, and have
not founded that faith merely on moral in
stincts which teach US to repudiate the very
idea that anything so internal should succeed.
No. It is because in this world the virtues
and forces go together, and the vices and
weaknesses are inseparable.
And in this terse conclusion is summed
up the great sin and weakness of the
South sin whose inherent debility must
sooner or later force her to bow to the
triumphant banners of patriotism and
right. Then will come peace indeed
such peace as the universal world will
behold with admiration and awe; a peace
that our children and our children's chill
dren, to the fitch generation, will revert
to with pride, and point to with profound
veneration