Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-24
LOYALTY and sneakins Opponents.

While great chanSe IN every respect ioI
| the better is daily progressing III our Terri
tory, in no regard is it better or more clearly
seen than in the constantly increasing feel
ing of loyalty that is manifested by the people;
and this, notwithstanding that all the under
handed influences possible are brought TO
bear to keep up and influence spirit of hos
tility to the Government under which they
live, which has protected them and will con-
tinue to do so. Nay more, It Is to the patience
and magnanimity of this same Government
that the very persons who are here dong their
puny utmost against it, owe the fact of their
now standing free and unshackled before the
community, instead of being eXiled or pining
in dungeons, as would have been their fate in
any other country in Christendom. Every
| sensible man knows that no Government but
| this would for moment tolerate the dlsloyal
utterances, the by-timeS quasi hostile attl-
tude, or the illegal or criminal practices which
are here INDUCED in Heaven save the mark!)
digui6ed with the name Of religion; and yet,
with these patent facts before their eyes, we
see in print from day to day, and may hear
whenever we choose to put ourselves in the
way of listening TO the silly bombast and
wishy-waShy palaver that goes in this region
BY the name Of sermonizing, any amount Of
covert sneers against Government on the part
of those very persons, who have to thank the
much-abused freedom Of our institutions that
they are not with parti-colored clothes and
shaven heads expiating theid crimes against
sense, reason, law, and the credullty OF those
still more ignorant than themselves, in
treadmill, or picking oakum IN one OF our
| penitentiaries.
We inveigh against the ingratitude Of the
man, who, having been fed, clad and cher
| ished in our family, does his utmost to malign
| and traduce his bcnefactors but how much
| more contemplate is not he who, having
been protected in life, person, liberty and
property, BY government so benetcent as
ours, turns around when he fancies it is in its
need, and throws all his influence into the
! hands of its opposers, or what is, il possible,
| still more contemplate, says he is neutral
| is non-committal, neither fish or flesh, luke
warm, and consequently deserving at the
hands of the Government the fate threatened
the lukewarm church Of the Revelations:
| Fellow-citizens of Utah be not deceived (;
there is no such thing as neutrality in the
present contest, and those who, knowing
your inherent loyalty, would fain insinuate
that you have "nothing to do with the
present war;" know full well whenever they
say so, that they lie most egregiously.
Neither you nor they can stand aloof. He
| that is not with the Government is against
it." and the course Of all is and has been
marked during the present contest with a
view to a day speedily coming, when their
due reward will be melted out to each and
every one.
To those who have thus been using any
influence they may have among the people
| for the purpose of perverting them from this
LOYALTY, we would say by way of advice, that
as shrewd men flor we cannot speak of them
as honest men, and they we'll know in their
hearts the reason) that little reflection will,
or ought to show them the impolicy Of the
course they are and have been pursuing; and
using the argument that with them will be
most potent, unless they are about to belle
their whole past course, there is nothing to
| be made by it! You are not learned, but for
the most part quite illiterate men; still you
are not wanting in that kind of instructive
shrewdness which the habit of managing
men will finally confer even upon Boss
Navy, and appealing to this degree Of intel
ligence which we know you to possess, we
would strongly recommend that both for the
benefit of the people Of Utah (which is our
aim) and that you may the longer keep your
hold upon the people, (Which is your object
you would look facts squarely in the face,
and acknowledge your error by ceasing to
strive against the stream which has for some
time been too strong for you, and whose cur
rent is receiving daily accessions from the
tributaries of every days news. Taken or
disregarded, the advice is good, and you
know it, and if disregarded, retribution will
| as surely follow as to-morrow's sun will sue
coed to the darkness Of to-night.-Umon
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