Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-19
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in the following commonplace chivalry
talk:
IAN army with banners would do but little
harm in marching through a country OF PLAN
.ations. They would have but little pswerto
subsist themselves in q sparsely settled re-
zion. They would find it hard to feed the
arm with which they invaded, and would have
no power to bring away prisoners and fugi-
tiyes. How stands it on the other side In
4 country Of populous cities, of manufactur-
ing towns, where population is gathered from
the country into own and villages, the
torch and the sword can do their work with
dreadful havoc and starving millions would
weep at the stupidity Of those who had pre-
cipitated them into 4 sad policy
Here is not only a prophecy against the
accomplishments of Sherman, but a direct
and approving suggestion Of the econ
spiracy" contemplated to eliminate at
the meeting of the Chicago Democratic
Convention in August, '64.
Old out-cass Slidell, on the 9TH Of Feb
ruary, 1861, said:
"How long, think you, will the great naval
powers Of Europe permit you to impede their
free intercourse with their best customers for
their various fabrics, and to stop the supplies
of the great staple which is the most impor-
tan. basis Of their manufacturing industry,
by a mere paper-blockade You were, with
all the wealth and resources Of this once
great Confederacy, but a fourth or 6fth.rate
naval power, with capacities, it is true, for
large, and in i just quarrel, almost indefinite
expansion. What will you be when not
merely cmasculated by the withdrawal Of
fifteen States, but warrcd upon BY them with
active and invetcrate hostility"
Iverson Of Georgia (now n fugitive and
suppliant for pardon). at that time pro.
claimed, in the U. S. Senate:
"Wc intend, Mr.. President, to 20, out
peaceably il We can, forcibly If we must; but
do not believe, with the Senator from New
Hampshire, that there is going to be any war.
II five or eight States go out, they will neces-
sarily draw all the other Southern States after
them. That is n consequence that nothing
can prevent. II five or eight States go out Of
this Union, / should like to see the man that
would propose n declaration Of war against
them, or attempt to force them into obedience
TO the Federal Government ut the point Of
the bayonet or the sword.
"Men talk sometimes about their eighteen
millions who are to whip us; and yet we have
heard Of cases in which just such men had
suffered themselves to be switched in the face,
aud trembled like sheep stealing dogs, ex-
pecting to be shot every minute. These
threats generally come from men who would
be the very last to execute them. Some Of
the Northern editors talk about whipping the
Southern States like s~paniels. Brave words ;
A.,k II x.onN,ra % aa0ANS nnnn nf Nhaln van
would ever volunteer to command an army,
to be sent down South, to coerce us into obe-
dience to the Federal power"
On the lIth of January, 1861, Hunter
of Virginia NOW suing for pardon from
the Old Capitol PRISON., vauntinsly said:
"Why Sir, how would this war Of coercion
be wageds II would take 500, 900, 900
yearly. for you cannot wage it with less than
\ hundred thousand men and where would
you get this sum! Not from imports ; for
what would the imports OF the Northern por-
ton of the Confederacy be when you took
from them all that comes in return for the
exports of the South. You would have to
sustain the war by loans and direct taxation;
and is il to be supposed thatthe people would
bear such burdens in such 4 cause as that ?
l believe they might submit to any Just and
necessary taxation in the defense OF their
own legal and necessary rights; but would
they submit to such q scheme Of taxation for
the purpose Of enforcing their yoke upon
other peoplc-for the purpose Of depriving
those other people Of the right Of self-gov-
eminent? Whose would be the commerce
hat would be preyed upon ? Not the South
crn m That would 60 in foreign
bottoms. The to be preyed upon
by priyateers would be the Of the
other section Of the Confederacy. II it came
TO 4 question Of plumber, which Of the Sec
tons would afford the greatest temptation to
plumber? Where are the cities, villages, the
concentrated wealth Of 4 community TO be
found in the greatest number and quantity ?
Those are the objects which tempt the Gu
pidity Of 4 soldiery. You could not steal our
negroes. Your WI people would not allow
you to take them and set them free among
them to enter into competition with them for
labor and for wages. How would you carry
on such a war, Sir? Where would you find
the means? You would not continue the at
tempt for more h a six months before you
would find it impossible, and you would
abandon it."
On the I'd of March, Wigfall, then
Senator from Texas (now Il fugitive from
.iusticc), said:
al suppose commissioners. in 4 few days,
will be here from the Confederate States.
They were not sent by my advice. To be
very candid with you, l do not think there is
any Government here with which they could
treat. (Laughter.) You have n sort Of de
facto, certainly 4 revolutionary Government
(laughter) that time and acquiescence on the
part OF the States may give the character Of
legitimacy to; but it surely has not that
stamp now. One OF the partners having
withdrawn from u partnership dissolyes the
firm. Il is true that, IL the remaining part
ners go on, and still use the partnership
name, by implication they are supposed TO
consent, acquiesce in the withdrawal, and to
have reformed another. In the course Of
time, seven Of our partners having with
drawn, IL the rest shall acquiesce in the ac-
ton Of this revolutionary, irregular, wrong,
full, de facto Government, that is about to in
augurate u President to-day, acquieScence
may give legitimacy to it, and we may prop
erly treat with you.
It is particularly amusing and refresh
ing to read these choice extracts from the
Southern chiefs. 1t is worthy and desir-
able Of notice: how closely their boasts
and threats agree with present Democratic
talk. They arc so precisely similar to
the chatter Of the half.choked magpies Of
the Democratic press of to-day, that the
latter becomes " additionally disgusting
on the perusal of this evident class of
originals. And it strikes MS now more
and more forcibly that somebody has been
whipped in this fight; and in all modesty
amid the hurrah of the Copperhead
journals-we inquire: who did win in
this little encounter:
The sale of Reese River mines to New
Workers is going on rapidly; and we
don't wish to be understood as saying or
intimating that all the bargains are cheats
- ,he nnrchasers. Bnt IL ia n fact that