Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-30
THE DAY OF PEACE Is DAwNMe.

The logic OF recent events shows con-
clusively enough that the catastrophe OF
rebellion is near at hand. In the ordinary
course of things, and with the even
chances of war, it cannot continue another
year. With an exhausted army, country
laid waste. a bankrupt treasury, the
bravest people, though fighting In just
cause and with the sympathy Of civilized
nations, could not hold out much longer.
How dreary, then, is the prospect OF the
American rebels, who, in their struggle to
establish great slave empire, contrary to
the spirit of civilization, humanity and
religion, are without the united sympathy
of any single people. Everywhere Free
dom wishes evil to their cause, and the
despotic nations to which they might look
for assistance burst not come to their
relief. A few months more of hopeless
suffering and bloodshed may be dragged
out; but the catastrophe is coming on in
evitably and swiftly. AL their fighting
men are already in the field, or have
passed from it in the grand professions OF
the dead and if their slaves are removed
from the plantations, famine will become
not the least memorable of their enemies.
Those who have kept run Of the every
day news from the war, need not be told
how steadily and surely the vast Union
armies are closing in on the remains OF the
Confederacy; all know that the end OF
the bloody tragedy is near at hand, unless
averted by ome-mysterious interposition
of Heaven, which to expect were bias
pheny.
The last hope of rebellion is reposed in
the Copperhead Peace-party of the North;
but, that also is about to fail. The cleo
tons in Maine and elsewhere show that
the Northern people have determined on
the extinction of rebellion, not by COM
promise, but by the continued application
of the sword. The reelection of Mr.. Lin
coin, few weeks hence, will roll pail OF
despair over the shareholders Confeder-
acy, and will convince the people OF the
South that so long as they remain IN
rebellion they may expect nothing from
the North but succeeding battalions, to
pursue the work of determination, or
conquest. 1t is known to the more in
telligent people of the South that the
United States Government has the ability
and resources to continue the war hun
dred years longer, and so soon as they
discover the inability of peace-party to
procure an armistce or compromise, by
which slavery may be saved from the
general wreck, the traitors at Richmond
viii be no longer able to bear up the
national spirit. The cry of a people be-
reaved, impoverished, ruined and out
lawed, will compel cessation of the
hopeless sacrifice.
1t is true that in the bragsadocio of
rebel newspapers, We still hear of the de-
termination of the Southern people to
fight to actual determination there have
been instances where, in the frenzy Of
battle, little bands of heroes have fought
to the last man; but history does not
afford many examples of whole nations
voluntarily suffering total extinction
rather than submit to overwhelming
conquest.
Rebellion and its ally, the Democratic
party, will perish together, and the last
hours of the malefactors draw nigh. This
will have been the last campaign which
men will undertake in the name of the
infamous confederate of treason; and
three years hence there will not be found
a reputable citizen of California or Ne
vada, so dead to shame, SO Indifferent to
contempt that he will willingly confess
himself to have been a Constitutional
Democrat.