Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-11

Nebet EElGcace uSa1ust EStOcAlou.
The cohesive power Of public plumber is
enough, in the minds of the Vallandigham-
ers, although that power exists only amid the
obscurity of dubious hope, to bring them
to the advocacy and support of what Mr..
Alexander Stephens, Vice President Of the
Confederate league, called ga blunder and
crime" He is the most intellectual and the
most honest of the Rebel leaders, and he
told them (the couspirators) before any State
had seeded, but when such men as jeff.
Davis and Toombs, Wigfall and Floyd, were
doing their utmost to rush the South into the
overt treason which has ruined her, that the
measure they proposed, if carried, would be,
not because of any wrong the South has re-
ceived from the Federal Government or the
North, but because OF the ambition Of disap-
pointed politicians. Mr.. Stephens was for
long series of years 4 member Of the Lower
House OF Congress, from Georgia, was ever
a vigilant sentinel watching to protect the
rights of the South, ardently attached to its
institutions, Us may be inferred from the fact
that after the overwhelming food of Rebel
audacity had swept him into treason, he de-
clared that slavery is the cornerstone OF the
Confederate edi6ce. And yet this man, with
all his experience, after his long Congress
sional service, his mingling for so long
time with Northern men, and understanding
thoroughly the working, the policy, and the
spirit of the Federal Government, told the
Georgia Convention which subsequently
passed the Ordinance of Secession, that they
could give no reason for their attempt to
break up the Government that it had never
given cause, nor performed an overt act, on
which they could rest plea that no interest
OF the South had been invaded; that the
North had assaulted no right; that no justice
had been refused no claim founded IN JUS
tice and right been denied; and he challeng-
ed any one to name one Government act Of
wrong, deliberately and purposely done, Of
| which the South had a right to complain.
On the contrary, he told them what every
man acquainted with the history of the Gov
| ernment knows, that the North yielded to
them the privilege of importing slaves for
twenty years; that they yielded the three
ffths representation Of slayes-a repre-
sentation of capital accorded the South
and not to the North; the Fugitive
| Slave law, having been previously ac-
| corded and engrafted in the Constitution
| that when they asked for more territory for
! Slave States It was granted; that they had
| always had control of the Government, and
could continue to hold it BY remaining in the
| Union; that they had had the Presidency
nearly all the time-sixty years Southern TO
[ twenty-four Northern-and control of the
Northern Presidents most Of the time-he
| should have named Van Buren,, Fillmore, and
| Pierce-that they had always had u majority
| of the Supreme Court, eighteen Southern
| Judges to eleven Nnrthern-thus ever insur-
| ing them Justice under the Constitution and
! the Laws Justice as understood by the ulti-
I mate and highest power in the country, ac
| cordin3 to the Southern idea Of justice. Yet
| with all these things aud thousand more in
| their favor, they revolted, made war, robbed,
! murdered, massacred the defenders Of the
| Government, invaded the loyal States, and
! have done the uttermost within their power
/ to iniure those who had never injured them,
/ to destroy Government which they had al
most always controlled, to break into frag-
ments great nation and thus make 1t n
tempting bait for some new Polish drama,
/ some Mexican conquest repeated. And after
| all this, the Vailandighamers desire to take
/ these Rebels back without any reeonpense
! for the crime they have committed, without
any guaranty for the future; thus stamping
/ all that the Government and the loyal people
! have done to save the life of the nation,
| crime; all our professions and acts, lie;
| and oy the act they advocate, erecting mon
ument to the heroes who have died in the
cause of freedom, inscribed with the word
assassin" This is the programme OF the
! Opposition, to indorse treason by pardoning
| the traitor, TO barter the honor Of the country
| for Office, to sacrifice principle, liberty, for
ever, TO achieve power for four years. What
! real Union man can indorse the principles Of
/ such a campaign Call.