Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-07
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Will the Ieoeillont anu piayeu '~
spittle to JEFF. Davis, there have oeen
many more influential. but none more
contemplate than the Placer Herald puo-
lished at Auburn, California Destitute
of the minutest particle of originality its
ea;tor;.,s have been a series of fiat, stale
and unavoidable "re- hash" of the Dem
oera,;e Press, Marysyille Express and sim
liar journals, and its selections chiefly
from the New York Day Book and the
speeches of Vallandigham and Fernando
Wood. Following in the broad and beaten
track, leading to damnation, pointed out
by its masters, the Herald has persistently
asserted the superiority" and "chivalry"
of the rebel race, and denied the well sub
standated charges of inhumanity exercised
by the rebels toward the Union prisoners
in their hands. An intimation that
course of retaliation was about to be pur-
sued, and that the sauce poured upon the
Andersonville and Libby geese was to be
served out to the Elmira gander, ELECTS
shrek of agony from this Confederate
jackal, and it changes its base with the
rapidity of modern rebel generals in the
track of Sherman. Here is the wailing
squeak:
"Such system If inaugurated, either by
| Congress or the Executive, as a military ne
cessity or otherwise, would infallibly end in
| the most bitter and savage warfare known in
! the annals Of recorded time. And yetwe OBJ
serve, at a time too, when every thinking
mind should be engaged in the consideration
! of lust and dispasSionate terms of reconciliR-
| ton, that Senator Howard, of Michigan we
believe, from the Military committee, intro
| duced January 18th, "a Bill proposing
| method of retaliation for the treatment OF our
prisoners BY the rebels. rec9mmends that
! rebel prisoners be placed under the control OF
officers and men who have themselves been
prisoners in the hands of the insurgents,
with instructions to give the rebel prisoners
| the same treatment as our own men have re-
ceived from the rebel government" Can it
| be that we as 4 nation seek low revenge,
| and deliberately strive to put the same upon
! record as statute Of the people Indeed, It
may for aught We know, be law of the land
while we write. Must the innocent be made
to suffer, for either the wilful disregard or the
more probable inability of the rebel govern
| ment to feed, clothe, and render comfortable
our poor unfortunate soldiers whom the fate
of war has thrown into our hands Shall
the American people by statute bid for the
Door fellows whose good fortune has survived
| the worst that they measure out, (under in-
| structions,) and gloat over revengeful re-
| taliation decreed by great and Christian
people. We are not disposed to multiply
words on proposition so inhuman, as well as
autagonistical to every attempt at 4 settle
ment for peace and the reunion OF the
I States"
We will pause right here, to say that we
are not an advocate of the horrible system
of retaliation proposed by the bill referred
to. There are systems of retaliation and
reprisals, which, although revolving to
mans better nature, as Furnishing the in
nocent for the acts of the guilty, are yet
forced upon belligerents by the pressure
of self-preservation, and are measurably
consistent with manhood and civilization.
But when it comes to the slow and horri-
BILE torture of starration-that horrid pro-
cess by which the hell-deserving fiends of
the South have murdered our brave
patriots by the tens of thousands-com-
mon humanity shrinks with horror from
the internal thought. For every death
wantonly inflicted by the rebels in viola
ton of the laws of honorable warfare, let
a rebel die in expiration; but let him die
! more speedy and merciful death than that
melted out by Southern " chivalry" to its
unhappy captives. With the protest made
by the rebel rag at Auburn, we have no
fault to find. 1t is the consistency of the
paper that attracts our attention. 1t has
persistently denied the charge of inhu-
manity made against the rebels but when
it is proposed "to give the rebel prisoners
the same treatment as our own prisoners
have received from the rebel Government"
then the rebel press shrieks "INHUMASI-
rY !" Note how the crawling rebel sneak,
while he is now forced to admit the devil
ish barbarity of the wretches whose boots
he blacks, seeks to cloak and excuse it
under the plea of "more probable in
ability of the rebel Government"
It strikes a mind of ordinary sense
that civilized power, unable to feed its
prisoners, should iberate them on parole
or, what would be less barbarous than
their torture by starvation, follow the in
famous example of Napoleon with the
Mamelukes, and slaughter them at once.
The played out talk about "exasperation
and inaugurating "more bitter and saw
age warfare" than that waged at present,
is the broadest and most egresious non
sense. The system of warfare waged by
the Southern rebels is, and ever has been,
a disgrace to civilization. Sioux and
Apaches lay no claim to descent from
the Huguenots." and 1.-THE blue blood of
chivalry" runs not in their veins, but they
are gentlemen beside the cavaliers of rebel
dom. THE descendants of Pocahontas
and some other squaws-are pretty
plentiful in the South, but if their copper
colored and bare-legged ancestors could
see the latter day doings of their progeny,
they would blush through their tar and
war-paint. No! we have measured the
depth of rebel infamy, and we know that
they have exhausted their internal inge-
nuity. They have done, and are doing,
the worst they know, and we neither fear
their threats nor cry their mercy. The
course of the American people is plainly
marked out, and it will be pursued to the
end, which is rapidly approaching. Con