Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-13
JOHN mitchell

Oruer Oh OeHeAoA Lux, 10 IedNe tne
country or be tried for his completely with
the rebellion, and that he was again i'm
prisoned. On the 18th Of June. he wrote
a letter to Ben. Wood, of the New York
Mscs, for which paper he had been dish
ing up his foul treason for several weeks,
which is published in that sheet, and in
which he uses language just about as
i~nsolent as he used towards the British
government about the time he was BAN
ished to n Of its penal colonies. The
poor, beggarly whelp, without q dollar to
his name, and a convicted felon in a penal
colony, was helped by Americans to re-
gain his lberty-was treated as a freeman
and enabled to gain his status Us o man
again and after gaining it, turned rebel
to the Government which recognized him
as such-now presumes to insult the loyal
people by i~nsolence. We have room only
for a few extracts from his letter to Wood:
$50 long as a Southern C~onfederacy
| existed I was a Confederate, o secession
ist, or what some persons choose to term
a rebel. From the moment Of General
Johnston's surrender to General Sherman,
at Gr%eensborough, I perceived that the
cause of the Confederate Government was
utterly lost. There was no longer a Con-
federa;e Government. 1t had disappeared
from human eyes; and inasmuch as a
| country cannot be without q government,
and the only government then in fact sub
sisting being the Federal Government of
the United States, I owed to il, from that
instant, full obedience; which obedience I
at once yielded in good faith, as I think
my fellow citizens at the South very gen.
orally did ut the same time, and for the
same reason. / am, therefore, no longer a
secessionist nor a rebel; but a Unionist
and q lawful citizen.
BY appeal to arms, in assertion of the
right to secede, the Southern States &C.
| cepted beforehand the arbitrament Of that
sovereign tribunal. The decision has gone
against them-no matter by what means,
or by virtue of what overwhelming odds
against them it is. And I believe that all
| Southern men Of high and honorable char
acter do frankly accept the new position
that war has made for them, and acknowl-
edge the duty Of applying themselves to
the task of reconstructing and re-estab-
fishing their society upon the basis of the
Union and the Constitution Of the United
States. This they will assuredly do, if
they are permitted to do it in peace if the
successful Government do moi trample
them into the earth, DR. torture them by
prosecutions for the crime of having as
serted a right long known to have been
claimed by most Southern politicians and
and admitted by many at the North also.
I say that I asked leave o~f'nobody to
come to this city and to write in the News.
Further, I do not conceive myself to be
here and going at large by virtue of the
amnesty that some papers have men
toned. Neither have I asked any par
dom and I trust the President will not
press a pardon upon me until I shall have
been first convicted of something. I
should be obliged with thanks for his po-
likeness, to decline it. He is very kind
but I do not use the article.
JOHN Mitchell"
At about noon, on the 18th of June,
two military officers, accompanied BY a
detective, entered the News Office, and in
quired for Mitchell. He was found in an
inner sanctum, and quietly acquiesced in
his arrest when informed that that was the
object Of his visitors, and accompanied
them to a coach in waiting at the door.
Mr.. Mitchell was perfectly silent for some
moments after the carriage commenced
moving. He presently broke the silence
by saying to Captain Callahan, one Of the
officers accompanying-so goes the public
rumor:
Captain, from your name, I take you
to be an Irishman."
Captain C.-"You are right, sir, I am
an 1rishman."
Mr.. Mitchell-"O Of course you know
me to be one also; how can you and it in
your heart to arrest one Of your fellow
countrymen:
Captain Gle am now an American ;
Y u are no more my fellow co~untryman
than anybody else; I only know that we
have orders to arrest you."
Mr.. M.-"For WHAT"
Captain CT don't know-for trea-
son, perhaps"
Mr.. NJ" But I am not a traitor. The
South are fairly thrashed, and / follow
the tide-I am no longer q traitor, but a
peaceful, loyal man."
Captain c., (with emphasis - Mr..
Mitchell I have nc time TO handy words.
You are an Irishman, I am ashamed to
say. You pretended to flee from the OPP
preston of the Old World to the freedom
of the New !; yet almost your first act in
your new found liberty, was to declare
yourself in favor Of q species of human
bondage, the meanest and most Infamous
recorded in history. In that cause you
toiled with brain and Drawn for five years,
and you now have the sublime impudence
TO come here. in New York, and establish
yourself as the head Of the most ultra
Copperhead sheet in the city. ! can only
say that, as q general thing, your
trymen abhor and despise you, and that
my own contempt for you is so great that
l can find no language to further express
my feelings.
Mr.. Mitchel's face worked convulsively
as he listened to this answer, but he said
nothing more.
Arriving at General Dix's headquarters
the prisoner was Immediately taken up
stairs. The case Of the prisoner was evil
IDENTIFY disposed of in yery short order, as
he issued from the Office in few moments,
accompanied by the detectives who had
arrested him, and proceeded to the car
rage which was waiting below.
1t is understood that Mr.. Mitchell was
sen to Fortress Monroe.
The District Court in session at Norfolk,
Virginia, is said to have indicted him, as
well Us Gen. Lee and others, for treason.
The NATIONAL DEBr.-From the re-
port of SIC. McCulloch we learn that the
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