Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-19
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7, ha, been, rather the iashicn. among
,opnd loy.l men. uhile indalsing in the
b;tt.re., denudeisions against traitors,
and talking sternly. about "Fopss and
. ,ibbe,,, 10 snser sort of qsasi sxOep-l
,;or in favor OF General Lee. This has
been partially owing to the fact that Lee
he'd few tears when he drew his sword
.zsins, the Gag for which his father fought
and under which whatever fame himself
pos,essed had been acquired; partly be.
cause he protested against the secession
movement at the outset, and partly be-
cause his position had been merely that Of
of soldier and not that of an ambitious
politician. These things may perhaps be
pleaded m mitigation Of punishment. and
to shield HIM from the isnominy of the
rope; but they weigh not one grain as
excuses for his deliberate and bloody trea-
son. Had they even been considered H.
that light up to the day Of his, surrender,
his bomhas,ic, demagogueish, "Southern
chivalry" proclamation TO his army would
have spoiled it all. What right has this
man, who is known as GENERA" only
by courtesy, and who was allowed his
personal liberty only through the gener-
osity of his conquerors, to be issuing ad.
dresses to the fag end OF, the crowd of
tatterdemallions whom he dIgnifes By
calling his "arny." His army, forsooth !!
he was nothing but the chief Of an armed
and organized mob, engaged in violently
resisting the laws, and Isaiah Rynders,
who led the democratic rioters against the
draft in New York. last year, might, with
as much propriesy issue an address to the
"arny" of ugly mugs that were dispers-
ed on that occasion, after they had held
the city in terror for days and nights, and
murdered a portion of their fellow-citizens.
This address of Lee is not the Subdued
language of repeptans man, but that Of a
defiant traitors traitor still in hear: and
soul-a viper with his fsnSs extracted. 1t
is plain that he can not appreciate the
noble generosity of his oonqusror, and
tha, that generosity was absolutely thrown
away on him and those he represents.
His appeals to the Deity are blasphemous,
and his allusions to the &" country" which
he and his fellow rebels were fighting for,
is q deliberate insult to the country which
has somagnanimously spared him and
them. When was it ever heard Of before
that q conquered rebel was allowed to
issue addresses for the purpose Of airing
his treason, and to speak Of his "coun.
try" as as distinct from that country to
which he owed allegiance, and from which
he so wickedly revoiteda % -"
Mr.. Robert E. Lee and those like-mind-
ed with him had best learn at once that
there is no longer any " country" for him
and them within the bounds Of the Union,
and that the sooner he Hess out Of 1t the
better. II he does not, those who have
suffered the loss of health and limb, of son
and brother, Of father and friend. will
make this country too hot to hold him.
He has partaken of our kindness and
abuses it; and now that the reaction has
fully ses in. he win do well to get out Of
its way and seek some other country in
place Of the one he talks 50 glibly about
having fought for and lost. The black
deed of the night Of the fourteenth Of
April, completely in which attaches to
every ringleader of treason, wrough.
fearful change in sentiments very generally
entertainer on the ern OF rndr month, the
date Of Lees surrender. What was en-
dured then, and perhaps laughed at IS the
natural clustering Of defeated aud sore
headed general, reads now to the awakened
eyes Of the people too much like the
writings of the serpent that is sco,ched
but not killed. Mr.. Lee had as well sing
small and keep out of the Court Of High
Treason. or he may chance to find his neck
longer by some six inches than COMFORTS
well with his personal appearance.