Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-04
GENERAL LEE.

The Sacramento Union, Of May I'd. has
an article on General Lee which has an
ticipated the expression of our sentiments
concerning the man by exactly one day.
We have regarded Lee as traitor Of the
deepest, blacklist dye. The Union, in its
scathing article, neglects to recount the
circumstances of Lees detection to his
country-probably on account Of the gen.
eral understanding Of those circumstances.
Yet we can not help reminding our read
ers, that Lee stayed with Gen. Scott until
he received all the old chieftain's plans
for "coercion AS it was then demo-
cratically named - and then OF he
scsmpered to Dixie. Some half-baked,
latter day, sainted "Union men OF
Virginia City, when the news came OF
Lees surrender. proposed on numerous
occasions "Three cheers for Grant and
Leew We think that on at least four
SEPARATE occasions we were under the de-
cided patriotic necessity of Directing to
this proposition. as an utterly incongru.
GUS if not a Aagrantly reasonable one.
Lees expressed opinion Ian opinion
squeezed out of him BY New York re.
por,ersl that should an arbitrary, vindic-
tive or revengeful policy be attempted,
the end Of the war is not yet" was exult-
ingly read on the streets of Virginia City,
day before yesterday, by copperhead
scoundrels, who are suffered to be and re-
main here! To come down to the focus :
If this remark of Lee signifies anything, it
means that every traitor whelp must be
lifted up carefully, purred to gentleness
BY overpowering kindness and nursing,
aud then made to rule over US all as once
aforetime. Well we will not blaspheme.
We will say, however, that after recent oc.
currences, we hope the reduction in the
United States Ordnance Department is
not to be counterbalanced by purchases Of
Mrs. Winslow's or any other kind Of
Soothing Syrup. Captain Winslow's
Kearsarge Bitters were better kind Of
medicine for the military reconstruction
chesr.) Mr.. J. B. Harmon, in an admir-.
able Grafton before the Odd Fellows, at
Virginia, on the 26th ult., thus refers to
the present idol of copperheadism:
1--WE are bowed down in grief for our hero
President; and yet the awful tragedy Of his
death was but the elimination Of. the three
principles; that slavery was the only legit.
innate form Of labor that privileged class
ought to rule; and that mans allegiance
was due to his State only. The pathway trod
BY one-quarter Of the people Of this nation
for years past led straight to the tomb. The
South, unconsciously to many Of her sons,
was the very sepulchre Of political virtue.
As an example Of the fatal tendency Of her
doctrines, take Lee, a man Of culture a man
on whose table stood the cup from which
Washington drank man whom have seen
put that cup to his lips; a man in whose
veins flows the best blood Of our Revolutions.
airy sires. The South, said he, has no just
cause for secession but Virginia goes with
the South, and sogo I. Virginia is my native
soil. Ny kindred are there. She commands,
and draw my sword; and, though my soul
abhors the deed, I dip it in Northern blood.
What a mockery of patriotism when such
man bounds his political duties BY the lines
Of State! As il human justice knew any
such bounds! As il the men Of New Eng
land, New York, Pennsylvania and the West
were not equally with the men Of Virginia
his coun,rymen and brothers! As il the
crime OF shedding his Northern brothers
blood in wicked cause were any the less a
crime because shed at the behest Of his State !
II he should not forget her nor forsake the
home Of his childhood, neither should he
have forgotten nor forsaken the glorious
country which educated, honored and trusted
him" --....-.. ..sa .-