Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-19
uEwARN1Na FROM KENTUCKY

Theuews which we lately received shows
A considerable excitement to exist in Ken
lucky about the drafting of negroes into
the army. This is but another instance
added to the list of thousand discon-
tents and excitements OF which slavery
has been the cause. 1t is almost impossi-
bic to comprehend the difficulties which
that institution has caused to the Amerl-
can People. Before the American Revo-
luton it was the source of elimination
and recrimination between the mother
country and the colonies. During the
Convention which formed the ConStitu-
ton of the United States, it was the chief
instrument of discord, and from that time
until the breaking out of the present re-
bellion, it has been all the time agltating
the people and keeping up state OF I'M
healthy excitement among them; which
first broke out in violent MODS, and then
blazed out in civil war. Since the COM
mencement of this unhappy war, how
many thousands of our best and bravest
men have fallen victims to slavery, how
many fields of blood are the fruits Of Its
existence: Two millions Of men have
been called to fight against the champions
of This deyilish monster, and out of that
number how many are now numbered
with the dead. how many thousands are
hopelessly disabled for life, and With
mansled limbs will drag out miserable
existence. Yet this is all the result OF
slavery. No one can dispute the fact;
slavery is the cause of it all. This gigan-
nc rebellion is the result Of the agitation
of questions, originated by the existence
of slavery, therefore following back we
find that institution the first cause
Slavery has lawful existence, but the re-
belhon of which it has been the source IS
unlawful, and, theoretically, against this
alone our Government would have to con-
tend to establish law and order, but prac-
ticallv it is quite different. The rebellion
is liable to break out anew at any time at
ter it Is subdued, SO long as the cause
which brought it on at first remains
This is forewarned by the recen: action OF
the people Of Kentucky. They are loyal
as far as a love of the Constitution and
The Union Is concerned. but when their
pc, institution is in the least intertsred
with, blind excitement at once springs
NJ which knows no bounds. The people
Of that State have been glad enough when
drafts have been made heretofore to bring
Up their slaves and put them in the ranks
as good and proper substitutes for them
| selves; but, when an enrollmentis made o.
all male persons" without distinction Of
color, preparatory to draft, an indignant
cry is at once raised because the Govern
msnt interferes with slavery. The only
2rac;icalway of ending the rebellion and eS-
| ,ablishins peace, Is to abolish slavery Who'll
", totally. throughout the whole nation.
Should it continue to exist in those States
and parts of States where il has not yer
been prohibited after the rebellion is quel!-
ed, it will be torch to light up the whole
Southern people again in flame. The
people of those districts, too, where II has
been abolished, will always look with jeal-
ousy upon such sections and Indignantly
feel that they have been deprived of their
ancient rights by the power OF superior
force. Our future peace and welfare re-
ouires that the institution should beswept
away. The Government is in duty bound
to take every means to establish per-
manent peace, and to do it, slavery must
be annihilated. The cost of purchasing
the slaves of loyal men would be tar less
than the cost of the military force ano
the loss BY violence which we will yet un-
dergo, to say nothing of the anxiety and
constant fear of another bloody strife &c
which people would be all the time SUBJ
iect. Let the warning that comes from
Kentucky be profted by, and let the work
of Liberty which has been begun march
steadily onward until the Banner o
Freedom waves over an entire Union
blessed with peace and contcntment.