Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-04


the world at large, or the particular COM
munity over which he shed the effulgent
radience of his glittering brass. If he sub
served any purpose whatever in the world,
it was purely ornamental. This colossus
did not straddle great while. He seem
to have been groggy on his pins from the
start and there was more copper in his
composition than was compatible with the
shaky nature of the soil upon which he
stood. As consequence, the brazen
beauty fell, and great was the fall; but
history does not record that he smashed
anybody when he dropped, or that any
body cared about the circumstance. His
straddling days were over he lay prone
upon the sand-and to get him out Of the
way, the Board of Aldermen of the city Of
Rhodes sold him to Jew for old copper.
The use which the Israelite made Of the
copper is not stated. but there is tradi.
ton that he melted him down and run
him into Copperheads. In order, how
ever, to perpetuate the history OF the
mighty mass of brass and uselessness, the
Hebrew cast o diminutive fac sin'iIe
thereof. 1t took some brass, but brass
was cheap in those days, and the pigmy
edition of the colossus had no great in
trinsic value. That small brass ornament
is now in Virginia city, and is the prop
erty of the Copperhead Clubs.
The above sketch of the famous colossus
is of course imperfect; the limited space
allowed in daily paper not permitting
fuller history. ...
Speaking of this subject however, has
reminded US that gentleman by the name
of William H. Rhodes-some-
times famous under the alias of Caxton"
is resident of our sister city. To correct
any erroneous impression that might have
been created by mentioning Mr.. Rhodes
in connection with the insignificant and
worthless copper puppet, manufactured
out of the ruins of the colossus, we will
state that there is no comparison intended.
1t would be unjust and perhaps odius. In
the first place the original wonder was, as
its name implies, colossal gigantic, great,
stupendous, and all that sort Of thing,
while the gentleman whose name we, un-
warrantably, mentioned moment ago IS
neither colossal, gigantic, great, stu
pendous, or anything in any special point
of view that we ever heard Of. He Is q
very excellent gentleman (by reputation
we have not the honor of his personal
acquaintance.) Excuse US. There is
thing in which " Caxton" is great. That
| is as writer of seditious gable, at so
| much day, or so much per page. He
walked into the sanctum of our friends of
the Enterprise the other morning, and
emphatically denied that he was seces-
sionist. Now, if the Enterprise stated
Mr.. Rhodes words correctly, We hardly
know what to think of the matter. Mr..
Rhodes probably meant to have said, 81
am no secessionist-not if know my
SELF" That would have gwen him show
to plead not guilty to the charge of self
qualification. The public will say, after
reading few words of his, which We
quote below, and which were written
within the past three months, that Rhodes
is a secessionist-but that he don't know
himself. And, that's what has been the
matter with the man ever since we first
knew him by his writing.
Better thousand times that the brow Of
America should be adorned with a coronet
of republics than that gigantic central des-
potism should rear itself upon the ruins OF
| the Constitution. Better be Greece, with
Athens and Lacedamonia at perpetual war,
than Turkey, with her domestic quiet, her
Janizaries, her bastinadoes and her damp
| dungeons.
I'd. The Southern States are inrinci6le.
Situated as the Southern States are, geo
graphically and locally, their permanent sub
jugdtion IS an impossi6iHty. Embracing an
area of nearly one million square miles, with
an average Of eight white persons to the
square mile; bounded by seashore whose
coast-line is not less than two thousand miles
in length inhabited BY united, brave and
self-reliant population; blest with soil
whose fertility is unsurpassed, and a labor
ing class as docile and obedient as it is indus
trious and contented; accustomed to the use
r. e Al H.. ii
death or captivity 10 subjugation. Such q
people, in such CLINE, tcih such q cause,
are inrinci6le.
The north, from its populous hive, have
sent out already such stoarmS of inrGders
that the most gigantic struggles Of the past,
dWindle into insigni6cance, when compared
with ours.
The italics in the above elegant ex-
tracts are our own. They give but a faint
idea, however, of the grand whole of the
document from which we quote, which is
entitled "The Letter from the Hon. w.
II. Rhodes Of Virginia, to the President
of the Humboldt Democratic Conven-
ton" Still he says "he is not Seces-
sionist!" In slang, but expressive
phrase, the people will answer, "Oh ! no,
| we reckon not o.. ....-
We had almost forgotten the Colossus
Of Rhodes, but we wish it to be distinctly
understood that, in having made allusion
to both Caxton and the other brazen inn
age, there is no comparison intended to
be drawn between the two chunks of
copper. .r..,. Sc.
UNION PRIMARIEs.-The following gen.
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