Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-21
Alna. YirRinia!

There is no sadder scene in this rebellion
than the once noble Commonwealth Of Vr-
eiuia presents to-day. 1.-The Mother OF
Presidents" heading a mad revolt against
liberty and law; against the very family COM
nact itself-for secession, legitimately carried
ont. means that and all other evils; raising
her hand against God and man; disgracing,
dIsuwning the fame Of her statesmen, her pa
triots and martyrs And all this for-slav.
ery. Once she stood first in population,
wealth and power among the noble slsterhood
of States. Then her steps became tardier,
as the clog on her movements grew heavier
then she became stationary, then refrigerated.
She became q second-rate, then thlrd-rate
State. Even while all was yet peace and
prosperity in the land, she had come to the
verge Of bankruptcy. To-day, oeggary, rum
desOlation, are but terms that but family por-
tray her situation. Only the other day a
Richmond paper estimated the widows and
orphans of Virginia alone, made such by
this war, at sixty thousand. Well, she knew
the cause of this failing prosperity, this wa
ming greatness, and fearful elimination. She
was warned of the serpent she was nursing,
of the path she was pursuing. Her true pa
triots raised their voice in her councils and
through her press, entreating her to pause
ere il was too late. One of these warnin
voices i. published in another column. 1t
would now seem as though the writer had
been gifted with prophetic vision. 1t is such
a note of warning as Alexander H. Stephens
sounded in the ears of Georgians. Both
we're unheeded, and Georgia is now sharing
Yirgiuia's fearful experence-the more bit
ter that it has been self-inyoked. Step by
step Virginia deliberately approached the
brink of ruin. Even then she might have
retraced her steps, but pride forbade, and she
made the dire plunge. What has she galnedf
After four years of war, the Richmond En-
onirer, thus foots up the sum. 1t asks where
the necessaries Of life will be obtained after
the war?
"From our enemies or our friends How
will we pay for theml With the money
earned BY our slaves? Will we be willing
after the war to take the stand Of an inde-
pendent people Nominally we will, but,
strangely enough, our real Independence will
terminate with recognition. Yankee drum,
mers will be sent out as of yore. They will
be those who have headed the peace party
They will take orders they will open stores.
The blockade runners will come home from
Nassau and Wilmington, and tempt our wo-
men with useful and ornamental wares. We
will relapse into dependence upon the Yam
KEGS and English. The Yankees and English
are, we fear, destined to be the Relief Com
mittee of the Confederacy, bestowing upon
us such things as they think we need. When
ever we become restless under this depend
ence, our foreign masters will be offended,
and We will again be driven to propitiate the
Deity who has brought the scourge Of war
upon US by ibation of blood and tears
poured out upon his altar"
The tgniS fataus of Southern independence
has vanished from their sobered vision, and
left them hopelessly Aouudering amid quag-
mires boundless and bottomless.
How proudly different would now be the
people OF Virginia had she cast her lot with
the loyal States, and thrown her sword into
the scale of right, and freedom, and consti-
tutional government Sac. Bee.