Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-21
"a RESTORED UNION

rights of all the States unimpaired, ETC.,
etc. He will not believe il himself, but
he will try and make others believe IT,
He will tell them that the South with
drew from the Union before the inaugu-
ration of Lincoln, under the well-founded
that under Republican
Administration their slave property would
be imperilled BY inimical legislation; and
that could proper guarantees be extended
against any encroachments Of the kind,
the South would return to its allegiance,
all memories Of past grievances and past
bloodshed be forgotten, all once more be
harmony, Union, and brotherly-love. 1t
sounds pretty, and would be glorious if it
were only true. So far, however, from
being true, it is the most utter balderdash
and demagogueism. 1t is a truth. hard
and stern, but susceptible of proof from
every act. word, and deed of the Confed-
crate leaders, from days long anterior to
the first sign of rebellion, down to the
present day, that it has been the determi-
nation Of the slaveocracy to dissolve the
Union between the slave States and the
free. They have seen an antagonism be-
tween slavery and free institutions that
BODIED the final destruction of the former
by slow degrees, under the mere operation
of moral power and without the inter-
ventior of legislation. They dared not
trust their peculiar institution" in that
close contact with free labor which was
inevitable under the same government.
They saw that to withdraw, and set up
the barrier of national frontier between
the antagonistic institutions, was the only
hope of saving their own from gradual
decay and final obliteration. They there
fore withdrew, so far as they could do so
BY any act of their own. II took two
parties TO make that bargain, however.
and the party of the second part " couldn't
see Thence this war. Has the condi-
ton of things since that withdrawal
changed the aspect favorably TO future
harmony between freedom and slavery:
II so We confess our blindness. Is slave
rv any dearer TO the hearts of the free, or
stronger upon It's foundation on its own
soil than it was three years and 4 half
ago: Who will pretend it: No! That
first discovered and acted
upon BY the men of the South, has
through the vlciSsitudes-.nay,e even the
very fact OF this war-been made wider,
l thousand fold. The impossibility Of
this nation existing part slave and part
,ree-once theory-haS now become a
slaring, unquesnonable fact. 1t need not
have been 50. these many years 10 come,
ou. they have precipitated the issue. have
themselves tolled the hour OF doom. On
their heads be it. They have has
tened and brought about the hour
Of " irrepressiblc conflict, and
sowing the wind are reaping the
Their pet child, slavery,
they have strangled with their own hands.
When William II. Seward declared, years
ago, that there was "an irrepressible con-
fiict between freedom and slavery" con-
men frowned him down, and
the South gave q fearful screech. The
theory was true enough, but a spirit of
comfy and concession pervading the
breasts of majority of the free North,
they forebore to put the principle into
practice. The broad shield Of the Consti-
tuition covered the loathseme thing, alb
horred of all Christendom, and so long as
that Constitution was acknowledged and
obeyed OF all, the reptile must be allowed
to live. Who dragged away and trampled
under foot the only shield that the dragon
of slavery ever had from the St. George OF
freedom: We all know full well it is
idle to repea: the tale. The fact of that
" irrepressible conflict was as well known
in the South before Bill Seward announced
as afterwards. They had learned the
tale from history, where it is inscribed on
every page. We will, in substantation
of this fact, quote the following brief en-
tract from the Charleston Mercury in which
the conflict Is laid down as an axiom
When South Carolina seeded from the
United States, she invited her sister slave
holding States of the South to form with her
4 slaveholding Confederacy. Bitter ex;
periencc had proved that slaveholding ana
States could not 1--we IN
harmony together under one Government
Great Britain, France and Holland had sac
rifced their slaveholding colonies, while I'M
der the Government Of the United States
strife had proved perpetual lrrecon-
cilahility.'
With this irreconcilable hostility exist
ing between free and slave institutions
fact patent to all, and to which the South
are keenly alive, how utterly futile 1t is
for men in the North to talk about "peace
On the basis of restoration of the Union.
Yet these copperheads talk it night after
night, and seem almost themselves to be-
lieve the fallacy. No! There is but one
way to restore the Union" and that is
to destroy forever the element of discord'
This Union must and will be restored,
with all its ancient domain, but on all the
air from the st. Lawrence to the Gulf
there must be heard no clink of fetter, no
crack of the slave-driver's lash.
The Traitors Candidate.