Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-07
SOUTHERN UNION MEN WHO
THEY ARE, AND THEY ARE

official partin maintaining the cause Of the
insurgents. There is q close-at-hand
illustration of this assertion in the case Of
John Minor Bolts, who was tempted and
solicited by all the offers which Davis s
Co. were able to extend, to induce him to
take a positive stand in favor of the So
called Southern Confederacy. Not he.
No Establishments of the temporary and
usurped powers changed or shook his
patriotic purpose and resolve.
But, one man who was a member of the
Confederate Congress, has come out in one
long and many short personal proclama-
tons, in which he declares substantially
that he was practically and very shrewdly,
a friend and supporter of the Federal
Government, even and always while he
was a member of the Confederate Con-
gress. And we have recently heard a
number Of our citizens, for whose Union
ism of sentiment we have a profound re-
spect, express a sort of sympathy with
the person to whom we now refer; their
sentiment of regret and pity being based
upon his claiming to be a Unionist, and
the prevailing impression that, from his
lifelong personal a~ntagonism to jeff.
Davis, he must have been more of q thorn
in the side of the Confederacy than a
participation and alder in the scheme OF
secession. We allude to Henry S. Foote-
Familiarity known as " Hangman Foote."
If it shall appear that Foote'S pretense-
and that made for him by his friends-to
secret hostility to secession is a sham and
a humbug, and a deseat-day subterfuge,
it will probably 60 some considerable dis
lance toward the establishment of the
eminent propriety and justice of President
Johnson's clemency proclamation, wherein
all the high officials Of the "Confederacy"
are excepted from general amnesty benefit.
On this account we take q hand in
Foote'S case.
In Foote's letter to President johnson,
dated Montreal, May Is, 1865, he COM
plains of the severity of the banishing
sentence. which reads as follows:
Major General John a. DSr.-The Presi-
dent directs that you inform Mr.. Foote that
his letter " asking leave Of the President to
90 to California has been received and the
application refused. The President further
directs that you notify Mr.. Foote that II he
does not leave the United States within forty
eight hours after receiving this notice, he
will be arrested and dealt with for treason
and rebellion against the Government Of the
United States. You will report whether he
complies with the orders Of the President.
EDWIN NJ. STANTON.
The positive order embraced in the
above instructions is considered very
harsh by Mr.. Foote /; and he complains,
especially, that the abruptness of the
terms is distastcful to him, Us nc alto
gether so con,pLGeent as q Chesterfield or a
Palmerston would be expected to employ
on such an occasion "CD; although he
does add that he has "no special right to
c~riticise the ~scornful language which the
War Secretary thought it consistent with
his own official dignity to use, since he is
responsible in this regard to the President
and to the country, iohose nanners he IS
understood to represent, and not at all to
myself in particular" lMark-all this
grammatical and modest talk is quoted from
Foote'S letter to President Johnson.
Foote goes on to say: ~ am neither
ashamed nor afraid to avow all that I did
and said in Richmond during the doleful
three years that I struggled there to pre-
vent the establishment of a military des-
p~otism-to suppress corruption, to bring
to punishment the attrociouS a6eiser (mean-
ing JEFF. Davis) of entrusted power, and
to bring about as early as possible an
honorable peace. I did not vote for a
single measure calculated unduly to pro-
long the hostilities or heighten in the least
degree the asperties of the contest"
Now let US look q little at Foote'S
record in the Confederate Congress. So
late as January, 1868, he introduced a
series of resolutions, the second and third
of which we quote entire:
I'd. While the Confederate States Of
America are not at all responsible for the ex-
iSting war, and have been at all times ready
10 participate in such arrangements as
would be best suited to bring it to q close, in
, pn,pnar rnnsiSfenf with their 0wn safety
and honor, they could not yield their consent
to an armistice Of a single day or hour, so
long as the i~ncendiary Proclamation Of the
Gtr0cious monster lnow, he calls JEFF. " afro
cious"l now bearing rule in Washington
City, shall remain unrcyoked 1.-THE Emancipa-
ton Proclamation /; nor could the Govern
ment Of said Confederate States agree to ne
gotiate at all in regard to q suspension Of
hostilities, except upon the basis Of q formal
and unconditional recognition OF their indie
pendence.
Sd. Whenever the friends Of peace in the
North (meaning the Democratic partly shall
grow strong enough to constrain Abraham
Lincoln and his .fagitiow Cabinet to with.
draw said proclamation, and propose an
armistice upon the basis aforesaid, the Gov
ready to accede to said proposition Of armis-
y "Ak - y w SO no
ing difficulties"
Another resolution Of this hangman
Foote series, introduced in the Confederate
Congress, in January, 1854, reads as fol-
lows:
Should peace be at any time brought about,
the Confederate States of America would
freely consent to the formation Of q just and
mutually advantageous commercial treaty
with all the States now constituting the
United States, except Neso England, toith
,chose people. and IN tchose igno6h lore of
gold and 6r1tifyfn9 fanaticism this disgrace
ful,car has mainly originated ; in considera-
ton Of which fact the people Of the Confed-
crate States Of America are firmly and
deliberately resolved to have no intercourse
whatever hereafter, either direct or indirect,
political, commercial or social, under any
circumstances which could be possibly imAg-
ined to exist, with said States Of New Eng