Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-02-27
The Spirit OF the South-Che new
lIunifesiations.

The Spirit OF the sourh-Fhe new
Manifestations.
For the first time during the last four
wears, or since the great Southern rebellion
began, we now begin to see some lndlca-
tons of that for which we have always
looked so anxiously and so yainly-some
indications that the imperiouS, defiant, re-
bellious spirit of the Southern people IS
beginning to break. It is not merely in
the measures of policy adopted by the reb-
els that we see this; for the grounds, the
import. the bearing, the purpose, and the
effect of their measures may often be mis-
Judged by US; and for more than two
wears past, they have very often acted in
3 way that can be characterized as no
other than desperate or deSpairns. But
under it all, in all circumstances and amid
all fortunes, the popular temper. so far as
we could judge it through its exponent,
the press, has been unyieldlng IN Its de-
votion to the rebellion, and untiiuching in
faith of its final success. There has been
temporary despondency often enough, but
there is great difference between despon-
deney and its indications, and the lndica-
tons of despair. As might have been ex-
pected, and as is natural, the most constant
and extreme assertions of-this unbendlng
spirit of the rebellion have been from the
press of Richmond.
1t is this very Richmond press, not one
journal, but all OF them-the Sentinel, the
special organ of JEFF. Davis, as well as the
Examiner, his most vigorous critic-thar
now come to US filed with articles such
as we have not had from any Southern
source since the war began. They speak
openly of the fact that the spirit of the
South has of late been giving way /; they
acknowledge that the moral strength of
the rebellion is breaking down; they do
not attempt to conceal the falling off of
popular devotion, the sinking OF public
faith, the departing of hope, the advance
of despair The Wing, to make some
show, has been publishing a series of ar
ticles to prove that there is superabundance
of military power yet left in the South /;
that there are still hundreds of thousands
of men, according to the census, who can
be compelled to take up arms but the
Examiner very pertinently asks what all
this amounts to, il the spirit and energy
of the people are passing away:
While we find on every hand these con-
LESSONS of hopelessness in their success,
the rebels have not vet reached the point
of talking of submission. That we do not
expect to hear. The other is quite as
much as can be expected of them, or Of
human nature. under the circumstances,
that IS an indication that deserves to be
studied and valued. Instead of speaking
OF submission or reunion, they are giving
the most awful histories of their horrors,
and earnestly and loudly proclaim that
either abohtionism or colonial vassalage to
q European power would be preferable.
The fact that they have got TO the point OF
seriously proposing and urging such ex-
traordinary measures, is in itself an ey-
idence of their despairing condition OF
mind, only less striking than their con-
LESSONS of despair.
The treatment that Gen. Sherman ha.
extended to the people of Savannah viii
furnish to the now rejecting. Southern
people the best answer possible to reoe
declamations about the unutterable hor
rors of submission to the power OF tn
Union. In this view, as in many Others
we rejoice over it; and the great body o
the Southern people may be assured tina
when they lay down the arms of their re
bellion and submit TO the laws and Con
stitution, they will find the Government
and people of the North dealing with then
with leniency and generosity and justice
IN. Y. Times.