Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-03
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

democracy VI -NeNauo'
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
1t is patent to the eye of every man
whose vision is not tinged with inherent
verdigris, that the accursed rebellion which
for years has been warning not only
against this nation but the very principles
of self government. is in its dying throes.
It's military resources are about exhausted.
Their lighting material was long since
conscripted to the last man." their "last
dollar went years ago, anu the "last
ditch" is near enough at hand to tumble
into at any moment. The history of the
past year has recorded continued sue
cession of victories for the National arms,
and that of the past few months has been
story of terrible and overwhelming dis
aster to the rebel arms, and the destruc-
ton and decentralization of the rebel
troops. The campaigns of Sherman and
Sheridan, and the recent overthrow Of
Price by Pleasanton have not only in
flicted upon the rebellion the moral DAM
age of defeat but have deprived them Of
an amount of artillery, small arms, wagons
and munitions that terribly weakens their
military power, and is loss that, situated
as the rebels are, is absolutely irreparable.
Their territory is absolutely overrun with
the national armies, and they have none Of
their own save the flying squadrons of
Hood, the shattered fragments Of Early
and Price, and the pent up garrisons of
Richmond and Petersburg. Not only is
their military power thus broken, and
haggard want staring in the faces Of both
soldiers and non-combatants, but discord
and dissension, long threatened, is now
growing into hoarse murmur, betokening
speedy outbreak and final dissolution OF
the Confederacy. North Carolina has ever
been FESTIVE under the Confederate rule.
She entered it only by force Of her geo.
graphical position; her men went unwill
ingly to the field, and so palpable was the
spirit of disaffection among them, that
they were considered dangerous, and, as
they themselves complained, they were
made breastworks for more reliable troops;
being ever placed in front in the attack
and in the rear in the retreat. More than
once they have broken out into open mu-
tiny, and have only been quelled by
bloodshed, Time and long series Of
disasters have not improved the tone OF
their attachment to the Confederacy.
Sharp letters have passed between hei
Governor and the Confederate Govern
ment, and the cords which bind her to that
bad Union are badly stranded. Georgia
too, the Empire State of the South, the,
granary and the workshop of the Con-
federacy. as well as the widest field fol
the levy of troops, is open in her revol'
against the Confederate rule. Her State
authorities have been in direct collision
with the Central Government upon the
question OF States Rights" and under
their Montgomery Constitution, the Geor-
gia Governor has certainly the best of the
question. So far have these hostile feel
ings eliminated that it is not long since
Georgia withdrew her entire militia from
the support of Hood. A Union like thai
of the rebellious States, which is based
upon the principle Of the right of seces-
sion, is but shaky political edifice at the
best; and these two disafected States
availing themselves of the "undoubted
right to secede." guaranteed them by the
Confederate Contribution, have chosen the.
hour of the Confederacy's weakness and
impotency to put on airs. and talk about
making the best terms for themselves I"
with the victorious powers of the Ma
tional Union. Taking the condition Of
the Confederacy in its military, monetary
and political points of view and one can
easily read the handwriting on the wall.
There is only one faint glimmering ray OF
hope on the gloomy horizon of the South;
and that is in the success of their coadju-
tors in the North-and sickly straw that
is for the grasp Of the sinking rebellion.
With them il Is ~ Mcclellan or surrender"
and from the light which reaches US from
the East there is no earthly chance Of it
being Mcclellan. The day for the decl-
sion of that question, which is fraugh'
with the destiny of the rebellion, is close
at hand. Let every patriot see that the
condemnation of the Rebels candidate
is so overwhelming as to crush out the
last faint spark Of hope in the breasts Of
the traitors cabal at Richmond.