Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-14
A SUGGESTION.

Allison Ranch, in Nevada, California,
the site of the richest gold mine in that
State, if not the richest in the world,
achieved on Tuesday last notoriety as
place where not only was every vote cast
for the traitor ticket, but where no Union
mans life was safe ION that day. Con-
corning that interesting locality, the Ne
vada Gazette says:
If Lincoln is elected to the Presidency,
efforts should be Immediately taken 10 have
the Government take full possession of the
gold-fpldS ut this Allison Ranch; and every
COpperhead scallawag should be driven from
the ne,Chborhood. Those mines belong to
the Government they are held by the pres
ent proprietors under sufferance OF the Gov
eminent, aud not under any law Of Congress
on the subject, and the Government has a
right to take possession Of Its property when
ever it pieases SO to do, and no one has a
right to complain of it. The Allison Ranch
mines are the best in the State. The owners
have grown rich out OF the proceeds OF them,
and they expend their money, derived from
Government lands, to make war against the
very Government that owns the property,
and to which these scallawags are indebted
for all their wealth. We trust that our Sem
ators and Members Of Congress will take
this matter in hand, and devise some means
BY which this valuable property can be taken
out of the possession Of its present proprie-
tors and worked for the benefit Of the Gov
eminent, or placed in the hands Of loyal
men. II is time that sink-hole Of corruption
was destroyed. There are other rich mines
in the neighborhood Of Grass Valley whose
owners are disloyal to the Government to
which they have sworn allegiance, that stand
in the same category with GLORIOUS Allison
Ranch" An eve should be had to these
mines also.
We admire the suggestion; and would
suggest further that it is not worth while
to make two bites of cherry" and that
while the Government has Its hand in, it
convert to its own uses and purposes
several of the richest silver mines in this
Territory, the owners of which are open
and avowed sympathizers with rebellion.
One of these rebel tenants at sufferance of
one of the richest mines of Gold Hill,
made characteristic monkey-show of
himself and wife in a carriage at the head
the late Broom Rangers procession. He
wants the "rights of the Southern people
purtected. We want the rights of the
Government to its silver mines "pwrtect-
ed" against invasion ofrebel sympathizers.
There were other mine-owners who made
grand display on the same occasion; but
who, when the friends of the Union turn
ed out en- masse to show their strength
and speak their sentiments, these sneak
mo traitors whose wealth is daily torn
from the mines of the very Government
they were seeking to destroy, these ven
omous rebels made no sign of sympathy.
No Star-Spangled Banner foated over
their works, no bonfires and Examinations
LIGHTED them; but as the Union crowd
passed them, they passed black hiatus
in the general illumination-all was dark
and silent and gloomy as the grave
black as the treason that lurked and
brooded in the hearts of the traitor occu-
nants. Union men marked it well; and
every Union man in that procession can
take Uncle Sam by the arm to-day and
lead him to those of his mines that are
being wrought by his bitterest foes. 1t
will paw the old gentleman to take such
walk some fine day. We call upon our
Representatives and Senators to direct his
attention to the point when they go to
Congress next month. 1t would be glo-
r;ors retribution,