Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-04-11
IN THE DUST.

Inc falee chlvalry OF the naughty Sout-
rons approaches its end. The pompous
soldiery, marshalled under the chief COM
mand Of the vain glorious Governor Of
Virginia around the scaffold of " Old John
Brown" have lost that air of proud de.
fianee and boosted proves which ami
mated their souls in the presence of mis-
guided and doomed old man. The new
uniform and the glittering armor,so ready
W be donned for the purpose of executing
the penalty of death on single individual,
are laid low in the dust, and their haunt-
ing banners torn into shreds by the hurri-
cane wkiSh they themselves famed into
existence. With their, pride and boosted
proves have gone the principles they es-
sayed to vindicate and sustain; and their
system of oppression and wrong, repug-
nant to humanity and the sentiments of
civilization, is blasted forever. Virginia,
once proud and prosperous, is now field
of desolation, and its dwellings turned
into habitations of woe. The naughty
lords of the lash and slave-pen have
reached the end of their tyrannical career.
From the slave-pen and the auction block,
human creatures have escaped who now
WELD the sword in triumph over the capi-
tai of their lordly masters, and whom the
people of Richmond welcome With shouts
of Joy, preferring that the fortunes OF war
should place them prisoners captured and
guarded by black men, rather than re-
main longer under the dominant sway OF
liberticides and tyrants.
The false chivalry who thirsted for
domination have found disgrace, and sleep
in grief, dreaming of fate and destiny, and
awaking to find themselves utterly dis
comfited, and the conqueror in their
midst, not an illusory phantom, but stern
reality. The mud-sills of society are the
conquering host before which slave-sell-
ing, women-whipping chivalry must bow
its naughty head. The "small-hsted
farmers and greasy mechanic" are the
men who have ordered chivalry to drop
the lash, an order which the self-styled
patricians of the New World will be COM
PEELED to obey or perish in re-
fusing. If there is particle Of
reason existing in the minds of the lead
ers of the rebellion, they certainly can
not fail to perceive that their case, if not
already irrecoverably lost, is hopeless
one; and daily new evidences arise that
their scheme of secession "by peace, if
possible; by force, if necessary" is SIM
ply an impossibility, and that the prolong-
alton of their efforts to uphold and sus-
tain their Confederacy, can only result in
more efectually involving themselves in
ruin. They have heard Of the crash Of
their capital; their strongest defences have
been taken by storm; large portion Of
their army slain, and the rest fleeing before
or surrendered to the conquering army Of
the Union; therefore they must be blind
indeed. wilfully blind, if they do not see
the prophetic truth of the utterance that
"the Union must and shall be preserved"
being terribly verified. Slavery is dead;
the Confederacy is dying; is in the last
throes of existence, and with them will
perish forever those sentiments of false
chivalry which have led the Southern aris-
tocracy into path fatal to itself and in
famous to its defenders.