Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-22
a Remarkable Article.

The following article is worthy Oh attentive
perusal. 1t was published in the Charlottes-
vile (virginia) Review, in April, 1861, be-
fore Virginia had passed her ordinance of
secession. In the light of present events the
writer's views seem almost prophetic:
THE FIRE AND BLOOD OF REVOLUTION.
That is the cue. They propose to give you a
taste of Mr.. Yancey's medicines. 1t Will De
a nice little operation. Sowing wheat IS no.
thing to marking time, and walking sentry
at two o'clock in the night under drizzllng
rain. Shocking corn is fat compared to
charge of bayonets.
You will also make your arrangements to
have your barn yards lit up at night with the
fires of the revolution. Set your boots at
the head of the bed, for at any moment the
same fires may be suffering and cracking
on the roof of your dwelling house.
Glistening bayonets on the south bank OF
the Potomac in front-burning straw ricks
and burning barns behind you-something
worse than that, perhaps, in the shape Of
death produced by invisible and unconfront-
able agencies-the State deprived of its labor
those laborers escaping BY hundreds, or
sold at half their value in the South-your
fields unplowed-your public works ruined
land depressed to the lowest fgure-State
stocks, insurance stocks, bank stocks, rail-
road stocks, hawked at a mere song-these
would be the immediate effects Of the Fire
and Sword which Gov. Wise proposes in his
speech at Norfolk.
A peaceable dissolution of the Union is
sometimes suggested.
Let US allow that the result could be effect
ed peaceably.
The next thing we should want would be a
standing army. The John Brown affair cost
us three hundred thousand dollars. Make
the calculation.
You would maintain a line of posts all
along your frontier.
You would also want a navy, though Nor
folk only produces a few fishing smacks, ex-
cept the vessels built there by order Of the
Government.
You would pay Southern President
with oil the ordinary Government officials.
You would pay diplomatic corps.
You would have to pay for an independent
Senate and House Of Representatives, and
for new Judiciary.
Perhaps you think all this would be readily
managed. They tell you you are rich. We
tell you, that no purely agricultural people
ever was rich. The wealth Of Philadelphia
alone is equal to the entire wealth Of the
State of Virginia.
Take the Post Office alone. The total re-
ceipts from the Post Offices in Virginia for
lS57-5S were S242,95l; the expenditures were
S453,S In South Carolina the receipts
we're SOL, las; the expenditures we're $2S4,-
600. In Alabama the receipts were 81 ,O92;
the expenditures were S24S,T50. In hissis-
sippi the receipts we're S,45S; the expendi-
lures were 1882, sos. In Arkansas the re-
ceipts we're S35.727; the expenditures were
S2i4, $50. How is this deficiency made up
now? Part of it is made up thus: The re-
ceipts in the State of New York are 81 1885,
III; the expenditures are Sl,l54,lll. In
Massachusetts the receipts are $685., 1888; the
expenditures are $435,237 In most of the
Northern States there is deficit. But III all
the Southern States the deficit is enormous.
The whole Northern deficit is some $500, 900
the whole Southern deficit is some
S., OOO, 900.
Suppose, however, the civil war disposed
Of. Suppose the new Government established.
Suppose us with our army, our navy, our
Notifications. Suppose us to have survived
the shock with some slaves left, and our de-
preciatee lands. What then? We belong
TO Southern Confederacy. The Cotton
States begin an agitation for the reopening of
the slave trade or some coolie system. Our
remaining negroes are to compete, If they
succeed in their schemes, with the new labor.
At all events, we are still to be section-a
section as regards the Cotton States, which
has no trade with the other section. We are
still to have sectional quarrels. There are
still to be charges and -charges-ag-
gressions and neutrality-suspicious.. We have
not conquered peace.
We have now two sections to plague us.
On the frontier we have to guard against the
North. On the South we have to meet the
extreme views Of the Gulf States. After a
while, perhaps, Virginia would have lost her
slaves, and she, with Kentucky, Maryland
and Missouri, would be an anti.slavery Sec
ton in the Southern Republic.
II any one can find a remedy in Southern
Confadsracy we soc with different eyes