Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-14
Tbe Di.graco OF AnncrIca.

There can be no little question that the
worst thing that will be said hereafter
against our institutions, the thing WHICH
more than all else will lead posterity to
doubt their value, will be that, after only
eighty years working, sucha tribe Of peo.
pie as our Copperheads should have grown
up under them. 1t is safe to say that the
like of them. considering the advantages
they have enjoyed, has never appeared IN
any country or in any age. England had
her Jacobites, men who plotted against thS
public peace and public liberty in unison
with foreign governments, who took PAY
from foreign despots for bringing contu.
sion into the councils OF their own coun-
try, who betrayed the navy and sought to
betray the army, to the public enemy, TO
whom the national honor and indepen.
dence were jests, and to whom the triumph
of the Court party, or, in other words,
their party, was their first and dearest aim.
But then the Jacobites were courtiefs, or
were bred under Court influences, men
who had been taught from their very era.
dies to despise liberty, and to think Of the
country as the royal domain. and Of the
Kings prerogatlve as the only thing IN It
worth preserving. They grew up in an
age when the great political principles
which are now familiar in our mouths %
household words, were but imperfecuy
understood, but few people in Europe had
solidified into nations, and when the
claims of county wer. only beginning to
assert themselves against those Of creed
and caste. ........ -.
The French, TOO, have had their Emf.
qres, men who often met the just efforts
of their countrymen to secnre relief from
horrible oppression. by flying into tbs
ranks of foreign armies, and helping them
to invade French soil, men who made the
taverns and coffee-houses of every capital
in Europe ring with their vivas whenever
they heard of the defeat Of the French
arms, and dishonor of the French flag.
But then the enaigres were members OF the
caste; it was their boast that they were
of a better breed and nobler blood than
the rest of Frenchmen ; they and their
fathers had for thousand years looked
upon themselves as France, and on all
Others as born simply to serve and obey
they them. The idea that they could
have a country in which there was no no.
blesse, had never presented itself to their
minds.
But our Copperheads surpass both Ie.
cobite and Emigre in everything that mAde
either one or other base or contemppble.
The Jacobite had at least one eleyatinE
sentiment-that Of loyalty to the King
and the King loved and honored him for
it, and respected him as a gentleman.
Our Copperhead has nothing like thus 70
boast of. He is loyal to be sure to the
Southern Shareholders: but his loyalty,
far from being the loyalty of gentleman.
4 is that of cur dog. He is devoted to
men who loathe and despise him-fiat-
ters and fawns on people who spit in his
| face and abuse him, wags his tail the more
vigorously and reyerentially the thicker
the shower Of epithets that comes from his
master, and is never so cringing and de.
ferential as when they are moodiest and
most contemptuous.-N. Y. 7YRes.