Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-17
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To ]. F. ANGEL, Silver City.-As boys
are not in the habit Of writing cards for
newspaper publication, l shall deal with the
"card" signed by your son as written BY
yourself In the outset, let me remark that,
saw with regret the efigy Of yourself as 1t
hung in our street, not that YOU did not de-
serve it, for when q man keeps his house
open in what should be the still hours of the
night to accommodate political friends, who,
| in their drunken orgies, are calling his fell
low-citizens in maudlin songs and broken,
| doggerel sons Of b-s," he need not COM
plain at finding himself hung in efigy, or
boast of head large enough to love his
whole country. One word for your love Of
country: You were born in Northern State,
breathed free air, and were educated under
| free institutions, and one would suppose that
heart of flesh and blood, and head of Or
binary size, would have prompted you in the
| hour of your country's danger to have ranged
Yourself OH the side of Freedom, rejoiced in
| her triumphs, and mourned over her defeats.
| Have YOU done so : Truth answers, No !!
Living in as loyal community as breathes
| Gods air, nestled away in these peaceful
| old mountains, where the groans OF no sick
| and wounded soldiers, the signs of no be-
| reayed mothers, wives and children have
| been borne on the breeze that famed your
cheek, feeling as little, aye, less Of the bur-
! dens of this war than many who live in To-
reign land, with a family around you who
richly deserve the name they bear, no smile
/ has lighted up your face at the triumphs OF
the Old FLAG: no feeling Of sadness ever
mantled your cheek when it lay torn and
stained in the blood of the heroes Of your
native land, struck down by the parricidal
hands OF those who laugh at the declaration
OF the equal rights of men, of which that
Flag stands as an emblem, and who, with
frenzied madness, born of the accursed mon
ster Of human slavery, have endeavored to
raze the Temple Of Freedom to the dust,
and rear upon its ruins temple dedicated
to tyranny and despotism, with its founda-
tionS laid in negro slavery and white degra.
dation. 4 temple where no foreigner should
be allowed to enter, and upon whose inner
walls should be inscribed in letters of blood,
"Capital is Hing, and Labor is his SEaue."
You complain OF being hung in etigy Go
! to your traitorous cohorts for whose defeat
YOU have often worn a saddened look, and
ask how they treat defenseless women and
tender maiden, do they but dare to look
with reverence npon the old Flag of their
fathers, and pray for its success, and thanks
God the rope did not encircle 4 neck Of
flesh and blood Have the honor to ac-
knowledge that i'll time Of war manhood
deserves no better treatment from an enemy
than il metcs out to defenseless women
and children! How long, think you,
would you live where rebel rule holds the
rains, were you to name an infant child after
Robert Breckenridge, Andy johnson, or any
other of the thousand patriots who love the
dag of their fathers better than they love
human slavery? While here you openly
boast Of naming your newborn child after
Vallandigham-the man whom of all others,
jeff. Davis and his vile crew would see in the
Presidential chair! You and your property
rest as safe under our laws as that of the
warmest hearted patriot that breathes! You
claim TO be Democrat. Go TO those true
and tried leaders Of democracy as it was
Andrew Jackson and Stephen A. Douglas
hear the one on his death-bed repenting that
he had not hung the father of secession (Cal-
houn); and hear the other, as fresh from
defeated contest into which he had thrown
the whole energies of his nature for victory
over his lifelong opponent, Abraham Lin
coin, declare that party lines were obliterated,
and that in the contest that was upon US there
could be but two parties-one who sustained
the Government, and one who opposed it
patriots and traitors. Judged from the stand
ard of those heroic sentiments which have
embalmed'the memory Of Stephen A. Doug
las in the heart Of every loyal American,
are YOU a patriot: Have you supported the
Government: Echo answers, No What are
you, then: The answer comes back in
solemn tones from the grave of the lamented
Douglas and tells you not what democracy
was but ,chat Il iS-TRAIToR TO ITS COUNTRY,
ITS STRIPES AND ITS STARS.
SILVER CITY, October IA, 1864.