Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-02-27
RIcH aEAp1Na FOR rHE HOUR.


Atlantic to the Pacific the nation heio
high carnival over the FALL OF CHARLES
TON. The first national ensign that fell
before the guns of traitors was reared
once more above the ruins of dishonored
Sumter. and the death-knell of rebellion
had been tolled above its cradle. That
every patriotic heart should have beat
high in this national jubilee was most nat
ural. In the calm quiet of the Sabbath
which followed this pecan of victory, we
took up the Rebellion Record" and re-
ferred back to the indelible record of the
time of Sumter's fall. It'was most inter-
esting reading. The triumph of the rebels
at their easy victory, pulled them up with
an amount of sef-conceit and supercilious
scorn of the " Yankee" that was, perhaps.
quite natural then, but which the expert
ence of years, and especially the long rec
ord of the sound thrashings which the
chivalry have received at the hands of the
foe they then so utterly despised, renders
broadly ridiculous. We subjoin a few
extracts from the Southern papers of those
days, showing to what high point the
vanity and self-conceit of the "Southrons"
reached:
Every schoolboy knows that the Medit-
erranean races have almost monopolized the
chiraLry of the world, and Until within the
last three hundred years quite monopolized
its ciri6=Gtion. The people of the South be-
long to different and superior race from
those Of the North" Mercury,
4ipril 3oth, 1861.
The present attitude of affairs indicates
that the Mediterranean races" have
considerably "petered" within the last
three hundred years. Here You are
again:
"When they talk about coercing, conquer
| ing the South, let the valiant Mortimer con-
slider that every Southern State is several
modern Laconias, and all the Southern States
grand aggregate of Laconias, which We
verify believe could defy the iarading armies
of the chole ,corld."-Mo6ie Advertiser, Feb.
| l2th, 1861.
Wonder what they think about "Laco-
MIA" to-day:
Here is another rich, rare, and racy idea
from the Charleston Courier of February
18th. 1861:
THE South might, after uniting under
! new confederacy, treat the demoraliZed
| Northern States as insurgents, and deny
them recognition. But if peaceful division
ensues, the South, after taking the Federal
capital and Grchires, and being recognized by
foreign powers as the government de tGcto,
can, ifthey see proper, recognize the North
ern confederacy or confederacies, and enter
into treaty stipulations with them. Were
this not done, it would be difficult for the
Northern States to take place among ma
tons, and their flag would not be respected
or recognized.
70 say that the foregoing delicious
dream has not been completely realized
would be drawing it quite mild.
Here is another from the Mobile Adrer-
tiser. of May lst, 1861:
! They (the North may raise plenty of
! men-men who prefer enlistiug to starvation;
| scurvy fellows from the back slums of cities,
whom Falstaff would not have marched
| through Coventry Without these recruits
| are not soldiers, least of all the soldiers to
meet the hot-blooded, thoroughbred, impetu-
| o,ss men of the South. Such as
Mobile sent to battle yesterday.
| Let them come South and we will put our
negroes to the dirty work Of killing them.
| But they tciH not come South. Not a wretch
Of them will live long enough on this side OF
| the border than it will take US to reach the
ground and drive them over"
Oh, no! They did mt ago South" 1t
was Skimmerhorn's Boy that went
South" We wonder who occupies Mobile
to-day and what "the hot-blooded,
thoroughbred, impetuous men Of the
South" think of old Falstaf Granger, and
his recruits from Coventry. about these
days: But here is another to from the
Charleston Mercury. of Juneed, 1861:
THE Confederate States ouEhfnot TO. al
low one foot OF Southern soilto be the battle
field between the two sections of the Union.
The people of the Northern States
can neither shoot a rife nor ride a horse"
Oh, no! 1t took "Stuart's Black
Horse Cavalry" to ride a horse. Let
JEFF. Davis call the roll of the Black
Horsemen to-day!
Here is some theology:
ave are satisfied that Gods justice is over
all-and, whether it is the weak or strong.
that in the end He will support the truth, the
right, the pure, the just. Mer-
curry, May 8, 81.
Sound doctrine, that; but don't seem to
fit the Confederate application Off
Here is the superiority" clause again:
eve claim to be the superiors of the
| Mortimer in every respect-and we are but
We have got to prove it to their satisfaction
before we can expect peace" AngtstG
Chronicle and Sentinel, august IL, 81.
The Southerners have such devilish
poor way of proving it, that they are now
holding "peace meetings" in Georgia
without yet having convinced the North
of that " superiority" With the docu-
ments now before US, we could fill our
paper with specimens of similar bravado
and gaseonade of the "high-combed
cocks of the South. What must be
most Notifying to them in this hour of
their ignomlnious debasement, is the fact,
that when they made these ridiculous
boasts, they believed what they said.
| What must they think of themselves
today
Within the past few days, we
have been repeatedly asked for the dates
of the following events of the rebellion.
| To refresh the nuhlic memory we will