Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-10
THE NEW SCHOOL OF HUMANS
IT.

A party that is ipse faeto dead on the
suppression of the rebellion must be, ne
cessarily, a party Of secession. Equally
true is it that a party that openly hopes
for great accessions to its ranks through
permitted rebel votes, is and always has
been a secession party. Such is the party
in one or the other case-of "Democ-
racy." The Democratic party at its
Chicago Convention, in 1864, pronounced
the war for the preservation of the Union
"a failure;" and they took up the great
est failure the war has produced and
placed him at the head Of their ticket.
This failure assertion was the material
part of the Democratic platform. All the
"armistice" talk of the party proceeded
from this great plank. BY it, Of course
the party said. as a party, 1--WE have had
and will have-nothing to do with car
rying on this war. We have been spec
tators; we pronounce the attempt ut Gov
eminent self.preservation a failure"
Now, if the Democratic party did not
succeed, but on the reelection Of Mr..
Lincoln to the Presidency, the Union
armies did succeed, where was Tor is) the
Democratic concern Certainly, as the
party defined by the Chicago platform Of
"a, it is dead as a door nail. Its "fail-
ure" and "peace" propositions are failures
themselves, and irretrievably, uncompro-
misable failures. The '64 organization Of
the Democracy, so far as it had vital con-
nection with the platform, is passed, gone
into the shades. The war being strictly
and fully speaking q battle-success, the
leaders of the rebellion desire to save their
necks. In this prayer they have the asso-
ciated appeal of every Copperhead in the
country. This is the new platform of the
Democratic party. Who so blind as not
to see the absolute brotherhood of that
party and the junta of chief Richmond
rebels: They talk about humanity. Not
peace, but humanity e. c. pardon for
Davis & Co.)-"humanity" is the new
Democratic platform. Nothing so grand
as that. If it could be so! Nothing so
grand, indeed, as Copperhead's calling for
clemency on behalf of their holder but not
more vile comrades. Humanity! Read:
THE HORIZONS OF ANDERsoNvILLE.-Since
my last letter / have conversed with a great
many Audersonville prisoners. The stories
they tell ofthe horrors Of this worse than hell
cannot be described. I was told by Mr.. Reid,
n gentleman fully entitled to credit, that the
keeper Of the prison, q black-hearted, snake
eyed devil, by the name Of Writ, would
amuse himself by putting down the number
Of prisoners confined and dividing them By
the average number Of deaths per day, and
then chuckle, saying to them, at won't be
long till all you damned Yankees will be in
hell" He would also grant a thirty days
furlough to any one Of the guards who would
detect a prisoner with his hands on the dead
line, and shoot him. Some Of the men were
so weak from diarrhGa and starvation that
they would sometimes fall on the dead line
from sheer exhaustion. and certain death was
the result. Writ boosted that he was killing
more Yankees than aEy regiment in the field.
During the winter the prisoners suffered
severely from lack of wood. They would
build 4 small fire Of splinters, and crouch
around it until flesh and blood could stand it
no longer, and then drop dead at the feet Of
their companions. The only opportunity Of
obtaining wood, in addition to the scanty sup
ply furnished them, was by parties who car
ried out the dead men, who would NIL the
blankets with wood. A small piece Of this
would sell for one hundred dollars. Some Of
the men. when they were dying, actually sold
the privilege Of carrying them out for money
with which TO purchase u cup OF coffee or
morsel to eat.-Correspondence Of Neto York
Herald.
Think Of Fort Pillow! Think of Belle
Island. from which the cries and means Of
the starving assembled to the very ears OF
JEFF. Davis. Think of the open boast Of
the rebel Commissioner Guild : that he got
back, always, "a lot of healthy fellows"
and returned a "set of useless wretches."
Remember the fact of Davis and Cabinets
proceed and immediate connection with the
assassination of Lincoln. And then read
with complacency-if you can-the ap-
peals from Democratic papers for "mag-
nanimity to a fallen but honorable foe"
o, it is fit that the party of hitherto incon-
ceivablc infamy should go to the lowest
hell, on paths that all mortal eyes may
behold. The federation of these cowardly,
outside pleaders is sufficient showing for
really ~magnanimous people.