Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-22
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Good Words from England.

The following article from the Newcastle
(England) Chronicle is sharp rebuke of the
British tories who persist in coloring events
in the interest of the rebels:
1t is a melancholy reflection, that on no
question in our day has so much want OF
candor been displayed, or so much dishonest
perversion been resorted to, as on this ques-
ton OF the American revolt. The origin Of
the war, the object Of the war, the progress
of the war, the spirit in which the war is con-
Quoted in spite Of the clearest possible facts,
have, one after the other, been disputed, de-
MED, or perverted. When southern p0liti-
clans, from Davis to Toombs, and from
Stevens to Spratt, tell us they design to estab-
lish a government based on the bondage Of
the laborer-when the bishops of the Episco-
pal Church declare that the abolition Of
slavery is hateful, infdel, and pestilent," and
the Rev. DIR. Palmer adds that the provi-
dental trust of the South is to perpetuate the
institution of domestic slavery now existing,
with the freest scope for its natural develop
ment" when the statesmen, journalists,
and divines of the South join in one chorus
of admiration for slavery, people among US
are vet dishonest enough to aver that the
question Of slavery neither had nor has any
thing whatever to do with the rebellion Of
the South-that that rebellion was simply
and entirely question Of alarm.
Precisely the same spirit is shown in deal
ing with the events Of the war. When Sher-
man drives Johnston into the interior Of
Georgia, Johnston succeeds in drawing Sher-
man from his base. When Grant attacks
Lee in front, he is credited with the qualities
of n bear. When he outhanks Lee, he is
afraid to meet him in the field. When he at
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in driving him from Fredericksburg to Rich
mond-why, then we are told that the Fede-
raj General might have reached that point
long ago. While the opposing armies were
on the Rapid Ann we had no end Of predic-
ton that Grant would never see Richmond.
When he at length does see it, we are assured
that Grant is fool for not taking shorter
route. Ever since Butler landed on the
James, we have had almost daily assurances
that the next mail would bring US news Of his
having been driven into the river. On the
other hand every repulse Of the Federals,
however trifing, has been magnihed into
rout while more than one success for the
Confederates has been reported and gloried
in twice or thrice over.
II one had read the exclusive news Of the
Copperhead newspapers only, he would have
been sorely puzzled to understand how 1t IS
tnaL the NOIlH IS HuI OheIIul tudI " aSH-
ington is not destroyed, and that the armies
of the Potomac and Cumberland exist at all.
In the same, if Semmes didn't take the Kear-
sarge; it was only because his ship was out
of repair, and his enemy was chain-plated.
Semrnes wasn't beaten (; he only committed a
mistake" But il the critics are severe on
the Federals, they are exceedingly charitable
to the slayeowners. Semmes burns unarmed
ships; runs away from the Federal cruisers !;
libels the victor in his first fair encounter,
and the critics celebrate his gallantry and
call him hero. Like kings in the constitu'
tional axiom, the slayeowners can do no
wrong. They shoot negro teamsters at Muir
frees6oro; they give no quarter TO the negro
troops at Port Hudson they burn alive the
negro garrison at Fort Pillow-and never
word Of protest or censure is uttered by the
critics. They chain cannon-balls to the legs
of Federal officers at Atlanta; they starye
Federal prisoners at Belle Isle; they make
arrangements to blow up military prison at
Richmond they slaughter men, women and
children in Kansas they play at nine-Pins
with the bones Of the Federal dead !; they
commit every conceivable atrocity, and many
atrocities that are absolutely inconceivable-
vet no Confederate commentator on the war
goes out Of his way to condemn them.
Quantrel is an energetic officer Forrest is an
able commander and Winder is the mildest
of iailers. Such is the way in which con-
Temporary events are chronicled in England