Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-28
BEWARE THE GREEK

BEWARE THE GREEK"
The "bout ship" tactics Of certain bell
wethers of the Coppcrhead party, who have
until recently, and up to the time Of arranS-
ING the programme Of the Presidential
contest now so close at hand, been thc most
troublesome and formidable enemies of the
nation, is a sharp warning 10 the true friends
and supporters Of the Government They
are the very men to whom the Southern con
spiratorS, looking for aid and comfort, If not
direct armed support, were encouraged to
hazard the desperate chances Of rebellious
war. This is fact established beyond con-
troversy. The written promises, in the hand
and over the sign manual OF the northern
Iscario,s, have been discovered among the
abandoned correspondence of the rebel chiefs.
The famous letter of Franklin Pierce, thus
discovered, forwarded 10 the Government,
and so widely published through out the land,
and which brands him forever with the
treachery of an Arnold withou, his courage.
is but one among the many Of the documents
found, 20 establish the fact that the Copper
heads of the North are responsible for the
Inauguration of the rebellion. Without
their promised countenance and support, the
South would never have dared to have en-
tered into the bloody conflict. With an
united North, they knew that the contest
would be hopeless. With divided North,
one portion enlisted in their behalf, they saw
for themselves an early accomplishment Of
their rebellious design. Il was because Of
these hopes and these promises, that at the
outset Of the war, the JEFF. Davis Govern
ment so vauntingly and confidently asserted
that it would "be conducted upon northern
soil; :" that wigfall would return to Wash
inxton in the saddle" and that Toombs was
10 "call the roll Of his slaves beneath the
shadow Of the Bunker Hill Monument"
When, however, the hour Of battle and blood
and carnage came, the gizzard of the Cop
perheads grew pale, and their promised aid
and support dwindled down into sort of
dishwater sympathy, and expended itself
in petty annoyances and endorsements ct
the Administration in whose hands the Gov
eminent and the quelling Of the insurrection
rested. They were faithless to their pledges,
and the Southern couspirators learned the
bitter lesson, that he trho rroulH treGcheroasiy
6etray has country reiR be equally fIithLess to
other trusts and compGcts. These double
traitors stand, therefore, despised OF all men,
and must doubtless smart under that bisterest
OF all stings, self-contempt and humiliation.
Traitors TO their natural allegiance, they are
under the ban of all loyal men and faithless
to their co-conspiratorS, they are cursed for
all the evil and desolatioR which the rebel
lion has brought upon the deceived South.
As outcasts and pariahs, they stand aloof
from all, and despised Of all. Verify,
theirs is an evil case. They are Of
that class who had been reared to
feed and fatten on the spoils Of pub
lie station, and now hurled 10 political
oblivion BY an indignant people, their
Occupations gone" They look in vain for
CLEAN of hope Of any endorsement OF their
past acts, and see no certify chance of ever
again grasping the reiuS Of power, save In
masking the black treason that ran&les in
their hearts, and, even at the eleventh hour,
assuming the garb and mien Of loyalty. The
guise beseems them not; the lions skin IS
two scanty to hide the salient points and an
giles of their horrible deformity. During the
past years OF blood and anguish through
which the suffering nation has passed: reap
ing the bitter fruits Of which this devils
brood sowed the seed; they have, BY their
back-stabbing treason, inscribed their names
on the scroll of infamy, in letters indelible
and not to be erased BY a few licks Of an oily
tongue. They are known and marked,
and on each brow self-branded Jul
das." It is too late. The people must not
and will not have faith in asseverations OF
loyalty from lips which have, for years, been
they grasp in fraternal greeting, hands on
which they see the but half-washed stain OF
loyal blood. James Brooks, Sunset Cox,
Horatio Seymour, Fernando Wood, and the
long list that makes up the roll-cal of "Jeff's
left wing" may, at this late day, change their
base and become as vehement and radical as
they will; they may out-Garrison Garrison
himself in their anti-slavery professions, and
roar you "Old John Brown" till the rafeers
ring, out the people will scent the rat that lies
hidden meath the meal-sack, and their loud
mouthed rant will only pass current as the
fanatical profession which ever marks the
treacherous renegade.
We are led 70 this dissertation BY the ru-
mors which, from time to time, reach US
from the East, of the changed policy Of the
leaders of the so-called Democracy, as shad-
owed forth in their public speeches, manifes-
tos and party esolutions passed in State aud
county Conventions. We shall expect to sec
the Copperheads sail into the campaign, with
the Union banner floating over their heads,
and with a platform embodying the most
patriotic resolutions, "The country and the
whole country" THE Union as it was" and
all that sort Of thing. The black flag with
the skull and cross-bones will be hid away IN
the Captains locker only to be hoisted in the
event of victory. If such be the platform OF
Democracy" let the nation beware. We
cannot believe that pretensions so shallow,
and devices so transparent, will succeed in de-
ceiyinz the people; but it is well in every
prospect of battle not to underrate your foe.
Beware Of the Greek when he brings pres
ents"
A Gloomy Picture.