Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-06
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PEACE

The Gopperheads, who defame the name
of Democracy" disgrace the name of
American citizens, and outrage every
sense Of decency and patriotism by their
Juda s-lke sympathy with Jefferson Davis
and the Southern Confederacy, held a
pow-wow last night in this town. All of
the speakers and nine-tenths of the audi
ence were from Virginia. Although every
man who mounted the rostrum was q
black-hearted traitor to the country,
although every sentiment uttered was
rank treason. that would have blistered
the tongue of any but one already case
hardened for hell, and although the shouts
of applause that came up from the audi
ence proclaimed it horde of wretches
whose oath of naturalization was rank
perjury, yet decent respect on the part
Of Union men, for the laws of the land,
deferred them from oyerturning the speak
er's stand and driving the traitorous horde
back to their homes. But few Union men
gave the countenance of their presence to
the rebel mob. and it was allowed to con-
clude its programme and 60 home. The
hoary-headed old avowed rebel who led
the speaking, declared for himself and his
party that they were in favor of an "~n-
conditional peace n'-and the sentiment
was roared back from the crowd with an
enthusiasm that would have warmed the
heart of JEFF. Davis to hear. Uneondi-
tionaE peace = That is the platform Of the
copperheads of this Territory and Of the
whole Union. The Federal Government
to lay down its arms, give up to secession
and the independence of slavery, the
eleven States nominally composing the
Confederacy," but over the soil of which
the flag of the Union waves in triumph and
our armies are marching in victory!
Unconditional Peace! Build black
monument to the memory Of the hundreds
of thousands OF our brave brethren whose
bones lie bleaching from Gettysburg to
the Rio Graude, and inscribe thereon
with the nations hand, "these men were
Justly slaughtered while defending an I'M
holy cause! - God of Heaven! Can
men thus stand in the face Of loyal Amer
leans and insult the memory of our hon.
ored dead: The blood of slain patriots
watering the soil of the Tebellious States,
cries aloud against the Copperhead re-
vilers of their memory, and of the holy
war in which il was shed. Unconditional!
No more talk about the "Union as It
was" no more reference to the Consti-
tuition as it is''-but unconditional" It
is the echo of the cry of agony that comes
up from the defeated hosts at Atlanta, and
from the desperate Cabinet at Richmond.
" Let us aloueI" "Let US alone !" The
rebels in arms are too proud, as yet, to
cry for mercy. Defeated, broken, and
iisheartened as they are, they still hold
out, buoyed up by the hope that their
cowardly coadjutors in the North may
prevail in their treason and give them
what they never can conquer tor them
selves-an unconditional peace" The
Copperheads can never help them to this
heir utmost desire. The loyal North
can give them an unconditional peace and
it will do it. The peace that it will give
the South will be that peace which the
parent gives his refractory child, when,
after spanking him soundly, he sends him
% bed, to sob himself to sleep, and get up
in the morning a better boy. That kind
OF peace is the only one that the rebels
need ever hope for from the Government
of the United States, and that peace they
wifi have ere many more moons shall wax
ond y,ope