Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-31
coPPERHEAD MISERY.

COPPERHEAD MISERY.
The saeaking Yankee rebel who spits his
treason through the columns of the Marys-
Vile Express, and whose neck aches for
rope. is in peck OF trouble about these
days; and the cross-puiling OF his yoke-fel-
low, Bcriah Brown, has put him in perfect
fever of perp,cxity. Beriah has endeavored
TO straichten out that kink he made in the
Copperhead line of policy, when he incau-
tiously took position" that it was "the duty
of the Democratic party to support the Gov
eminent and the war against the rebels,
who were TO DC considered as public enc
mics" The Express came down on Beriah
like hawk on june-bus; denied all his
propositions, and gave Beriah, the Soft,
terrific pen-lashinS; whereat Beriah did in
continen,ly crawfsh. The breach has been
plas,ered up somehow. and we hope satisfac-
torily 10 the sweet-scented firm.
The latest trouble that yexes the Express
man, is the Con6scation Bill-for when the
rebels are all dead broke, where will their
Northern cD3QlutatpES Oe
The new Coufsca,on Law makes the forfeit
ture of all estate absolute in defiance of the Con
sutu;irr. Ye- the Abolition press complain that
che desrutau; j. 20 be hung IN thirty days after
sentence: bu; the sale canUc; be- made without
giving 49,, forty days notice Of the time and
plade The traitor i hang before the time OF
sale the property is vested in his heirs. and the
forfeiture is a mere aUIity' The old saving
about man being sentenced 20 Be hung and pay
forty Shlngs. finds il counterpart here. Since
the dUwuGg Of the Christian era t;inatical hate
has eSdeavored 20 solve The philosophical inquiry
whether vengeance can BE- pursued further than
death This law il about the acme of 'heir folly
We had been Of the supposi,ion that the
depriving Of foe Of his material resources
was considered one Of the best modes OF rem
dering him powerless for evil, and as such,
was one most commonly resorted to, if not
the universal rule. Ii the enemy, upon his
decease BY rope or bullet, could take with
him to the unknown country Of his destina-
ton his worldly pelf, the deprivation thereof
might be perhaps considered vengeance pur-
sued further than death" Such transport
tation, however, being impossible, and the
worldly wealth of necessity LETT on this
planet, to be used for the further annoyance
of the Government, the confscation thereof
for better uses, Injuries not the defunct, while
it does surely cripple the rebels rebel heirs
and their rebel Government. To let it pass
TO the heirs Of the traitor whose earthly ca
reer has been brought TO an abrupt termina-
ton, would be merely transferring it from
one rebel hand to another. It would be as
reasonable as giving to Lee the guns cap
tured at Lookout Mountain. To say that
this con6scation works wrong to innocent
widows who have not taken part in the war,
is beautiful sentiment in theory and might
draw sympathetic tears il told to the marines.
But, when brought down TO the stern scrutiny
of reality, it will be found to abound in sheer
fallacy and poppycOck. These chiralrous
breeders Of blood-hounds and saddle-colored
babies, have, for generations past, instilled
into the hearts of their interesting progeny,
an intense hatred Of the Flag of the Union,
and that hatred is more bitter in the hearts
of the youth than in those Of maturer age, be-
cause less tempered by experience. OF the
women Of the South, those inaocent angels,
whom the ConiscatiOn Bill is supposed to so
foully wrong, little requires to be said. Out
of the mouths Of their own kinsmen and their
own government, they are condemned as the
most uncompromising, fanatical and venom
Gus of rebels. Twas they that fired the
Southern heart" twas their ostcntatious
gifts of money, jewelry, niggers, etc, that
set the patriotic" bail in motion; twas their
red petticoats that made the bloody "stars and
bars" under which the chivalry swore to con-
quer or TO die in that mythical ultimate ditch.
They run out Of petticoats after awhile End
had to change their flag. It is in favor Of
these beauties that the Copperheads would
have the Government modify its stern DEGREES
of confscation and let its vengeance cease At
the old he-rebers grave. Magnificent idea,
undoubtedly, but Uncle Sans spectacles,
begrimed with rebel powder-smoke, won't
permit him to see it.
The conhscation matter is not the only one
that is now ,roublingth the Express man and his
coadiutors, North and South. They fear the
reelection OF Lincoln; they see the hand
writing upon the wall of the loyal Legislatures
and Union Conventions, ard the thought nils
them with the terrors of Belshazzar. They
see in the almost certainty Of Lincoln's re-
election, continuance of that policy which
is 70 them and their cause inevitable doom.
Mcclellan is their choice; but even Fremont,
Chase, the Devil himself, anybody but Lin
coin. Schism in the ranks of the Upion |
men, is the only feeble straw they see floating
upon the mighty current that is sweeping |
treason to the gulf of humiliation. They |
catch at it eagerly, but it will elude their grasp,
and next November the pillows of oblivion |
will sweep over them, and their dark history |
will be written.