Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-18
PEACE AND A RESTORED UNION.


which the accursed traitors who nightly
I harangue the Broom Rangers could evade
+ the direct charge Of and prompt arrest LOT
TREASON. That is, tine pretense that thel
are struggling for peace upon the oaSi'
of a Restored Union" 1t is ie' Il oia'"
and damnable lie; lie that would choke
and scorch the throat of any but heliish
traitor whose mouth had been scared with
the oath of allegiance until it had become
cose-hardened. 1t serves their present
,,ur,osos however, one of which is TO lul
- sioor and into their arms. few men
,vbo /" sucked Democratic milk and were
r,orod IN a Democratic CRADLE" and the
other is TO keep themselves from being
hing. If they dared "for one night
only" to stand up in the glare of their
bontireS, and tell the assembled multitude
their true sentiments, and advocate openly
the cause of that rebellion. for they hope
and fear by day and blasphemously pray
to the devil at night, they would find that
free speech" and their necks would be
at the end of the rope before sunrise.
But no, Caution is the characteristic of
the Copperhead, false-pretense his policy,
perjury his notion of an oath, and treason
his patriotism. The Secessionist, wiser in
his generation than the northern dough-
face, has reduced him to seryitude, put his
foot upon his neck, and has learned his
slave to sing and swear the songs and
oaths that should work his owners will
and destroy the Nation. Therefore it is
that nightly we see upon the traitors
rostrum, men of northern birth, whose
cheeks long ago forgot to blush, standing
side by side with men whose treason is
fact, undeniable and undenied. And yet,
to horde of fools, (whose ears, long ago
stunned with the word Democracy" can
hear no other sound,) they tell the Soul
lie that they, the leaders OF the Copper
head gang, are for "peace on the basis of
q restored Union" They know, none
better, that there never was yet devised
means or measure, tending towards
peace" that the government of the re-
bellion would have listened to for mo-
ment. They never will. That was not
what they commenced the war for. They
already had peace on the basis of the
Union and they didn't like it. They
wanted independence" and they went
to war about it three years ago and are
fighting still. Feebly, to be sure; with ex-
hausted resources, and thinned ranks, and
with an amount of suffering that the north
knows nothing of. But they are fighting
still; and they will continue to fight so
long as their resources permit the main
tanning of an army in the field. They are
fighting for disruption of the Union, and
their own independence, and they are
bound to have it if they can get it. And
yet these Copperheads tell the people that
the Democratic party are for Peace
on the basis of restored Union :"
impudence or ignorance most
in the mind of a man who
talks such Accountable balderdash, is
question that it would take jury of
Cinnamon to decide. To show the fallacy
of such pretenses. we will give little
modern Southern talk on the subject,
which IS somewhat authoritative:
HoLcoNBE positively asserted that the
South did not want peace, and would not lis
ten to the faintest intimation of peace. except
o1s terms recognizing their absolute IndepeRd-
eRce and sovereignty, tclth all the territory they
oyfginally claimed. He said the rebels could
and would fight twenty years longer before
accepting any other or less terms than these.
He avezred the Southern people were not
fighting for Slavery, and cared nothing about
it that they would relinquish it in moment
il so doing would advance their cause that
what they were fighting for was independence
and separate Sovereignty, pure and simple,
and this they would have, or else they must
be erteT'nIinateG.
Our friend questioned him closely and re-
peatedly if there was not some possible way
to bring about peace; and he was always
answered that there could be no peace upon
the basis of any reconstruction of the Union
that was altogether out of the question.
Whatever might be said or had been said for
political effect, the Southern States would
never again unite with Northern States on any
terms. The rebels had announced, i'll the be-
ginning, that the separation was final, and
they meant precisely what they said, and
would either die or carry this point.
Mr.. Holcombe was at great pains TO create
the distinct impression that slavery was not
the cause or object Of the war, but only the
convenient pretext for getting up revolt;
that the real cause and object was independ-
ence and separate nationality, and nothing
else; and that no peace, or truce, or compro-
mise was possible that did not grant the rebels
independence and separate sovereignty;
and that, whatever political management
could do in the North to embarrass the Gov
eminent was fostered and encouraged By the
rebel leaders because it aided them more or
less in obtaining their ultimate object, sepa-
ration and independence.
Holcombe is one of that sweet-scented
set of Commissioners who were recently
bobbing around Niagara Falls, trying to
get chance to go to Washington and
give Uncle Abe some of their insolence.
Whether or not they had commissions from
JEFF. Davis, one thing is certain, and that
is that they were fair representation of
rebel sentiment. Peace on the basis of
restored Union we think we heard
you say. ..
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