Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-12
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When the Southern Confederncy will
be RecoRniaed.

In his speech upon the resolution to eSpel
Mr.. Long, Henry Winter Davis said: .
But, Mr.. Speaker, if it be said that time
may come when the question of recognizing
the Southern Confederacy will have to be an
swered, admit it; and it is answering the
strongest and the extreme case that gentle
men on the other side can present. / admit
it. When Democrat shall darken the White
House and the land; when Democratic
majority here shall proclaim that freedom Of
speech secures IMMUNITY to treason, and de-
clare recognition better than determination
of traitors; when Vallandigham shall be the
Governor Of Ohio, and Bright Governor of
Indiana, and Woodward Governor of Penn
sylvania, and Seymour Governor Of Connec-
ticut, and Wall Governor of New Jersey, and
the gentleman from New York City Mr..
Wood sit in Seymour's seat, and thus, pos
sessed of power over the great centre OF
the country, they shall do what they
attempted in vain before in the midst OF rebel
triumphs-array the authorities Of the States
against those of the United States; oppose
the militia to the Army of the United States;
invoke the habeas corpus to discharge con-
fined traitors deny to the Government the
benefit of the laws Of war, lest 1t eNtermlnate
its enemies when the Democrats, as in the
fall of 1862, shall again, with more perma-
nent success, persuade the people OF the
country that the war should not be waged TIL
the integrity of the territory Of the Union is
restored, cost what it might, that such war
violates the spirit of free institutions, which
those who advocate it wish to overthrow, that
it should stop, for their benefit, somewhere
this side of absolute triumph, lest there be no
room for a compromise, when gentlemen OF
that party in New York shall again, as In No
vember, 1862, hold illegal and criminal negoti-
atoms with Lord Lyons, avow their purpose to
him, the representative Of 4 foreign and un-
friendly Power, and urge him to arrange the
time of preferring mediation with q view to
their possession Of power and their prepara-
ton OF the minds of the people to receive
suggestions from abroad; when mediation
shall appear, by the event, to be the hrst
step toward foreign intervention, swiftly and
surely followed by foreign armed enemies
upon our shores to Join the domestic enc
mics when the war In the cars shall begin, |
which was menaced at the outbreak Of the |
rebellion, and the friends Of Seymour shall
make the streets of New York run with blood,
on the eve of another Gettysburg less dam
aging to their hopes; when Mcclellan and
Fitz John Porter also shall have again |
brought the rebel armies within the sight |
of Washington city and the successor Of
James Buchanan shall withdraw our ar
mics from the unconstitutional invasion Of
the State of Virginia to the north Of the Po-
tomac; when exultant rebels shall sweep
over the Notifications, and their bomb-shells
shall crash against the dome Of the Capitol;
when thousands throughout Pennsylvania
shall seek refuge from the rebel invasion on
the shores cf Lake Erie, cheered and well
coined by the opponents Of determination;
when the people, exhausted BY taxation, weary
of sacrifices, drained of blood, betrayed by
their rulers, deluded by demagogues into be-
lieying that peace is the way to union and
submission the path to victory, shall throw
down their arms before the advancing foe;
when vast chasms across every State shall
make apparent to every eye, when too late to
remedy it, that division from the South is
anarchy at the North, and peace without union
the end of the Republic-THEN the freedom
Of the South will be an accomplished fact,
and gentlemen may, without treason to the
dead Republic, rise in this migratory House,
wherever it may then be in'America, and de-
clare themselves for recognizing their mas
tiers at the South rather than exterminating
them Until that day, in the name of the
American nation in the name Of every house
in the land where there is one dead for the
holy cause; in the name Of those who stand
before us in the ranks of battle i'll the name
of the liberty our ancestors have confded TO
US, | devote to eternal execration the name
Of him who who shall propose to destroy this
blessed land rather than its enemies.