Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-15
THE DAY IS APPROACHING.


The true. loyal men of the country must
prepare for one of the most bitter aud en-
citing contests that the country has ever
witnessed. We feel ii in the very air
around us. The Northern allies of the
rebellion are resolved to fight as they never
have fought before. They know that if
the Union cause triumphs at the polls this
year, the last spark of the rebellion Will
be extinguished, and, with it, their last
hopes Of political success. We cannot tell
the limits to which desperation may be car
ried during the space ofanother month"; but
we may rest assured that no means how
ever INSCRIPTIONS, will be left untrled to
defeat the election of President Lincoln.
Every shade of opposition will be united,
and every discontinued spirit will be
marshaled on the side Of the Northern
allies of the rebellion. Men who proclaim
that they are in favor Of a vigorous prose-
cution of the war will be found side by
side with those who hurrah for JEFF. Davis.
Intrigue, chicanery and conspiracy will be
pushed TO the utmost limit in every direc-
ton. The credulity of those who are I'M
informed will be piled with falsehood in
every ingenious form. The terrors OF war
will be held up in their most frishtful as
pect; sel6shness will be appealed to with
columns of taxes; impotence with the
long continuance of the war will be ca
joled with grand promises of speedy de-
hverance; old partizan prejudices and old
antipathies will be excited TO the highest
pitch; and there can be no doubt but
thousands upon thousands in this army OF
rebel synpathizers are desperate enough
to unfurl the flag of rebellion and revolu-
ton, and inaugurate bloodshed all over
the loyal States, if they saw no other pros
pect of defeating the Union party at the
ballot-box. With this prospect so clearly
foreshadowed, it is time that every true,
loval man should awake to the perils and
dangers that surround the Union cause.
In what condition are we III for this
contest which is now close upon us
Are we awake and alive 10 the danger
that threatens us. or are we in Il state OF
torpidity and supineness which forbodes
defeat: We fear there is too much OF the
latter. Our past victories over the copper
heads have been so easily won, and our
majorities have been so large, that we have
been lulled into state Of fancied security.
1t is this topper, this supineness, this Sc
crlrity, that now encourages our oppon-
ents, and they are taking the advantage OF
it to strengthen their outposts and prepare
for desperate assault. They are busy
gobbling up every man who has allowed
himself to stray beyond our lines and ply
ing him with every artifice to induce him
to Join their ranks. We warn our Union
men everywhere that they will be taken
by surprise, and defeated, unless they
awake and exert themselves. In this hery
ordeal. through which the nation is pass
ing, unless the fires of patriotism are con-
stantly fed, they will die out N the hearts
of thousands, and they will be led away
BY the artful emissarieS Of JEFF Davis. The
true condition of our national affairs, the
perils to which our Union is exposed, both
from rebels in arms and their allies among
us who are doing their work, the more
terrible calamites that are i'll storefor this
nation in case this devilish rebellion sue
ceeds, must be kept steadily in view of the
people; and who will do this, if those IN
every town and school district who know
and understand the tremendous issues at
stake, sleep at their posts and allow the
partisans of JEFF Davis to fill the ears and
poison the minds of those who do not I'M
derstand the true state Of affairs.
Harmony in our own ranks is the one
thing most essential to success. United
we shall be the victors against the COM
bined traitors of the North and South.
Divided we fall an easy prey to our foes
Union men must remember that all cannot
be pleased-that all cannot have every.
thing TO their own liking in this struggle.
We must, therefore, lay aside all our little
preiudices and have an eye only to the
general good. Upon the result of the
present contest depends all that is dear to
afree people. Defeated, we shall be bound
hand and foot, and made to crawl in the
dirt at the nod of the slave aristocrats, who
will wreak their vengeance upon us with
an unsparing hand.
. Awake, then, Union men, and be alive
rLl.