Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-11
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When, little moIe tnon IL
Abraham Lincoln, the constitutioha"
elected President of the United states Oh
ansrics approached the Capital OF the
y.,iop for the purpose of being inausuTa-
I'D os such, in conformity with the eN-
rrp.sed will of the people, so loud anu
seree had been the threats Of the defeated
,lave-power that he should never live 10
,,te rhe constitutional oath, that General
Scott, then Commander-in-Chief OF the
Army, made cautious and formidable dis
nosition Of troops in and about the Capt. ,
raj to prevent the threatened revolt. Mr.. !
Lincoln himself. at the earnest solicita- |
ton of his friends, separated from his !
escort, and alone and in disguise entered
the Capital of the Nation over which he
had been elected to preside. The COM
pleteness of the preparations made BY the
military and civil authorities were appar-
ent to and deferred the conspirators; and
by faithful friends and the
cleaning bayonets of the soldiery, Abra-
ham Lincoln assumed the Presidential
robes. Fifteen days before, on the 18th
day of February, amid the tumultuous
cheers of thousands of confident and brag-
CART traitors, Jefferson Davis had been
inaugurated at Montgomery President
of the Confederate States of America"
Profoundly impressed with belief in the
popularity of the rebellion at home,
powerful sympathizing party in the
North. the invincibility Of the Southern
military power, the eowardice Of the
Northern people, and more than all, the
certainty of the recognition of King Cot
ton by the mouarchies of Europe. Jeffer-
son Davis heart beat high at the appar-
en-. consummation of his vaulting ambi-
ton; he walked on thrones" He
viewed the loyal North and the Govern
ment of the United States as weak and
powerless nation of "shopkeepers and
" mudsills," whose very existence as
nation should depend upon the gracious
forbearance of the "chivalric descendants
of the Huguenots." He sent his ENJOYS
his ministers and his ambassadors to
foreign courts, demanding recognition As
an equal among the great powers OF the
earth; and although he at first failed in
the full accomplishment Of such recognl-
ton, yet the acknowledgment Of the Con-
federacy as beliigerens power, left scarce
" doubt Of ultimate and complete re-
cosnition 50 soon as the strength Of the
Confederacy, which was fIregone con-
clusion. should fully establish the safety
of such recognition. For all practical
purposes the Confederacy was nation,
and JEFF. Davis was King.
That was four years ago. We all know
the history of the four years that have
elapsed since that hour of Jef.'s great
glory. 1t is written and craven upon the
hearts of the people, not only Of America
but of alt Chris,endom. The horrors OF
that long and bloody war extended them
selves over the Old World and the New.
Here. it was blood, and smoke and car
mage; abroad, it was closed workshops
and starving operatives. The curtain
has fallen upon the closing acts OF the
bloody drama, and the bright dream OF
treason is at an end. Abraham Lincoln,
the loved and honored, sleeps in mar
tyr's tomb, embalmed with the incense OF
a Nations tears; but the broad banner
Of the country. and the cause for which
he lived and died, floats in triumph over
the whole land. The hosts Of treason
have thrown down their arms in submis-
sion, or are scattered In wild, despairing
fight.
And where. now, is JEFF. Davis, the
King, the insolent braggart despot who
sought TO build MS throne of skulls upon
the ruins of his country: His cause Is
lost and abandoned; of his "Confcder-
acy" there is not left tangible trace, and
he himself is flying and hunted fugitive
in the forests and swamps of the Carroll
mas, wildly seeking an avenue for escape
to some foreign shore. some asylum from
the vengeance of the people whom he has
so bitterly wronged. A fugitive felon,
upon whose head is set q price, his neck
at the mercy of the cupidity of his few
re,ainers, felons like himself. The Scotch
cap and long cloak of Mr.. Lincoln might
serve King JEFF. in good stead to-day.
he may succeed in escaping to some land
where the power of the United States can
not reach him but wherever there is civ
ilzation, wherever there is honor. wheT-
ever there is loathing and detsstation Of
black and damnable crime against hui
manisy, there will JEFF. Davis be an out
cast, Pariah and leper. What q fall
tcas there, my countrymsn -