Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-01
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Inc IOyul peoPle VI Ihc ShA'SV SNn'~o
have had the physical power to put down
by force of arms a vast rebellion that has
been maturing since its conception in the
miasmatic swamps of South Carolina more
than thirty years ago. Our country has
proved its right to take the highest place
among other nations as a military power,
and the stars and stripes which formerly
were respected in foreign ports as repre-
senting a vast commercial interest, will, for
all time be recognized wherever they may
float as the emblem Of a naval and military
power second to one Both the North
and the South have shown the world, even
when dismembercd, their resources, their
| strength, and their bravery. The hun
dreds of blood-red fields extending from
| Gettysburg to the Rio Grande are lasting
| monuments of the heroism of our people.
What will be our power when again uni
ted and all sectional differences forgotten
can only be contemplated with pleasure by
Americans.
While We congratulate our country up
on its physical power, we have observed
| that there is shown IN evidence of moral
,oeakaess. It is to be regretted that we
have occasion to write this. Already there
are persons of influence and standing who
| plead for JEFF. Davis, and argue q mild and
forgiving course.
When we put aside the awful offense Of
! treason, even without m overt act, and
| reflect upon the misery that Davis has
| created, the heart shudders. Scarcely a
| family in the vast country that has not
felt the pangs Of bitter grief for the loss of
some one dear to them, who has gone up
a sacrifice to the wicked ambition Of Davis
| and his associates. -.
When we look at our hospitals, crowd
ed with mutilated warriors; Jul post
cemeteries, acred with the wooden head
boards of those dying from wounds and
| disease ; the vast trenches, filed with our
brethren slain in battle when we see the
country for thousands of miles laid waste
by contending armies; when we listen to
| the mournful stories of craped widows
and mothers A; when we behold the impov-
erished orphans, bereft of their protector;
when we see around and about us all the
| horrid consequences Of war when we see
| disease and immortality scattered through
| out our land when the Chief Magistrate
| of the Nation is assassinated by a rebel.
| lious demon, by the side of his wife, and
| the Secretary of State, q feeble, wounded
| old man, slashed with the knife Of a cut
\ ~throat-when we see these things and
trace all of this crime, misery, woe and
devastation to Jefferson Davis, shall we
hold up our hands in supplication for
mercyf Shall we plead at O human bar
that his perjured and tre~ason-tainted car
cas- shall go unpunisheds
The highwayman shoots down and rifles
his victim. He is arrested, tried and hanged
for his ofense, committed upon a single
individual, and we applied the law that for
our protection, hangs the culprit. We
now have the million, whose rihing has
been Territories with their cities, towns,
lakes, rivers, mountains and valleys, and
shall he, by reason of the very magnitude
of his crime, be the subject Of executive
clemencys Shall we merely Danish him
from the country and call it adequate
justice, or any justice at all: II so, why
send troops Of cavalry after him? Why
not have allowed to consumate his
fight. and sport his ill-gotten gains in
some foreign country, instead Of arresting
him and, by a sympathizing decree, trans
port him, full of notoriety, at Government
expense, where he would have been pleased
to havegone and paid his WI %transporta-
ton Out upon such twaddle. Let the
country show that it has for this emergency
a backbone, and comply with those just
remarks Of President Johnson, when speak
ing of rebel leaders, "try them for treason,
and if convicted, by the Eternal, hang
them"
If a little wholesome hanging had been
administered when treason first showed his
hideous head in our Senate Chamber, how
different would have been the history OF
our country. Our pausity cost us not
only this rebellion but the respect of Eu-
rope. Foreign powers suppose that a
Government that would allow treason to
be thrown into its teeth, from Its legisla-
tive halls must be impotent indeed. Shall
we, after four years Of sad experience,
repeat u eccentricities!