Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-02-22
GEORGIA.

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practically out Of the Confederacy. Her
principal commercial cities are in the
hands of our troops, and under the COVER
mental control Of our military authorities;
change of government which, in Savan-
nah at least, Is hailed with satisfaction by
the people. The people of Georgia long
since found that upon their shoulders
rested the burden of carrying on the war
of the rebellion; that their State was in
truth "the workshop and granary of the
Confederacy." They found that the doc
trine of State Rights, /" the very founda-
tombstone of Secession, the very principle,
for the establishment of which Georgia
had hoisted the flag Of rebellion, was prac-
ticaIy, boldly and shamelessly ignored by
the central government at Richmond.
They found that under the Confederacy,
Georgia, instead Of being a Sovereign
State" was an undivided and unrecogni-
Fable portion Of common empire, sub
jecs to the caprices and tyranny of the
military despotism at Richmond. Gov
emor Brown sought at one time to place
his State in the attitude of " Sovereignty"
to which it was theoretically entitled, but
JEFF. Davis came down on him with the
strong hand. and gave him to understand
that he, JEFF, was sole lord and master
wherever foated the Bonnie Blue flag, the
Stars and Bars and the Southern cross.
Governor Brown of the Empire State OF
the South, was surrounded on every side
by the bayonets and the cannon'of JEFF
Davis, and he was forced to haul in his
horns, and sing exceeding small. That
day is past, however, and Georgia is COM
paratively, in fact almost entirely, beyond
the coercive power of the Confederacy.
The State of South Carolina on the North,
has been swept almost free from the troops
of the Confederacy at all events there is
no rebel amy that can approach Georgia
from that direction. On the other side, in
Alabama, the feeble Confederate army
which has occupied Mobile, has taken up
its march, not towards Georgia, but west
ward. Arkansas is rumored to be its des-
tinatien; whether it will ever reach the
Mississippi is grave question. Georgia
is therefore in a position to say for herself
and without dctation from Richmond,
whether she will at once lay down her
arms, and return to that Union, the aban-
donment Of which has cost her so bitterly,
or whether she will hold to the shadow of
State Sovereignty, but remain in fact a
conquered country governed by the
iron military rule of her conquerors.
The readiness, the almost eagerness with
which Savannah accepted the national
rule. is already well known, and the
transition from death to life of the COM
merce of that portion of the State, is now
becoming an old story. We learned yes
terday, that Augusta, the next important
commercial city was occupied by our
troops, and we may safely conclude that
the effect upon both business and public
sentiment will be the same in that portion
of the State as at Savannah. The intelli-
gence published this morning, shows that
long prior to the capture of Augusta, both
at that city and Pulaski, peace meetings
had been broken mp by the military. That
disturbing military has disappeared before
the advancing armies of the Union, and
peace meetings can now be held in peace
Strong Union meetings had been held IL
at least nineteen counties. The Unior
sentiment is represented as being genera
throughout the State, and special session
of the Legislature has, by this time, called
a Convention to effect restoration o.
Georgia into the Union. The result o
that Convention cannot be doubted. i
can be held without fear Of Richmond
coercion, and there is no reason to doub
the immediate adoption Of Constitution
acceptable to Congress, and under which
Georgia, as free State, viii take higher
and prouder place in the National Unio1
than she ever occupied under the dynasty
of the Toombses and Cobbs. So mote il
be.