Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-25
TT nFeINs TO HURT.

Pine earnest and effective policy which
has been inaugurated by Grant, and is
being carried out by Sheridan and Sher-
man, is very binding" on the rebels
and their northern sympathizers. The
shrieks of the rebel journals are echoed by
their allies in the North, and "vandal-
ism and barbarity" are the burden of
their wells. The Metropolitan Record (once
the organ of Bishop Hughes, but repudi-
ated BY that distinguished prelate long be-
fore his DEATH makes fearful cutlery
about the "fendish policy of the war"
and Beriah Brown copies the article with
gusto. The Record asks:
"Have we conducted this war in accord
ance with the gentle spirit and benign pre-
cents Of Christianity We boosted OF our
progress, of our superior enlightenment, but
how have we proved it? By outrages that
would have disgraced Vandals, and by bru-
tality that would have thrown discredit on
the lowest tribe of sayages. Sherman, with
the serene indifference Of Turkish bashaw,
drives thousands Of people from their homes
in the face of an approaching winter; and
Grant, with a GOODNESS that argues no ordi-
nary degree Of mental obtuseness, orders
Sheridan to lay the Shenandoah Valley in
waste. Yet both these men remain in their
positions, and not one solitary Republican,
Jealous of the honor Of his country, has raised
his voice i'll protest"
We believe there was some attention
paid to "the gentle spirit and benign pre-
cepts of Christianity while Little Mac.
was at the head of the army. 1t consist
ed principally in carrying out the COM
mandment, Thou shalt not kill" in
mastery inactivity" in "changes of
base" in successful retreats" and in
" strategy, my boy" His " Christianity"
consisted in diverting his vast army of
soldiers from the fierce and bloody trade
OF war to the gentle pursuits of peace.
He turned not " their swords into plough
shares" but their bayonets into spades.
With these spades he subsoiled all the Pc
ninsula to the depth Of five feet, and ma
nured it with the bodies of his own army
of hired invaders" He carried the di-
vine precept of Love your enemies to
an extent that, to the worldly, smacked of
treachery; and his government and peo-
pie came finally to the conclusion that
that kind of Christianity would never
crush out the rebellion. They put the
Christian Mcclellan on the shelf, and
placed man at the head Of the army
whose style signifies Cuisines" The
nation has found that it has to deal with
a people who are lost to every principle of
honor and humanity; set of brutal and
fiendiSh murderers of black flag" pi-
rates and Thugs. They look at the hor-
rible record of the burnings, crucitixions,
and burying alive at Fort Pillow, Column
bus and Plymouth; the starvation at
Belle-Isle, and Libby, and Columbia, and
the massacre at Petersburg. They read
these records, and the "milk of human
kindness" turns into gall; 1.-THE sun
turns into darkness and the moon into
blood" and the cry of Christianity
which comes up from the murderers and
their allies, sounds like mockery from the
depths of hell. The SOLITARY Republi-
can, jealous of the honor of his country,
raising his voice in protest" is not heard.
But from every throat and from every
heart comes up the hoarse cry, "GoD
SPEED THEE, GRANT, AND SHERIDAN, AND
SHERMAN; sLAY, BURN, DESTROY, AND
SPARE MOTT"