Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-05
sion ordinance on the following day; Florida,
that beautiful little peninsula, with quick.

salubrious coast climate, whose ambrosial
everglades in the interior had been redeemed
from the dominion of the Seminoles at enor.
NOUS but ungrudged national expense-at
the date Of It's secession the haunt Of those
who had forgotten their early teachings in
patriotism, while learning and adopting lam
guage and manners and sentiments moro
brutal in their character than were the sc cial
tenets of the exterminated savage. And on
the following day, Alabama assumed to cut
loose from the moorings and move her i'm
memorial rice swamps, where so many Con-
necticut Yankees had been baked into chiv-
alry ncrustations-moyc them into foreign
jurisdiction. And then Georgia, after afford.
ing an unprecedented and elsewhere unc-
oualed freedom OF discussion on the PROPOSE
ton, Joined the rebellious States; and soon
her greatest statesman reset his voice to the
pitch of the fercest traitors, and had bauble
Office rs the reward OF his lamented pertdy.
Then Louisiana, a rich acquisition by pur-
chase from French authority, assumed,
through the Vaccinations Of her traitor DEM
agogues, to carry far away from beneath the
conopy Of the Union the cmptying volumes
Of the Father Of Waters and the cotton -baled
battle ground of "Old Hickory" And once
more Texas was said to resume its periodical
independeDces In vain the Old Hero OF
San Jacinto lifted his protest and exerted all
his strength agairft the deed Of dissolution.
Alone star was once more planted on the
banner that waved from the State Capitol at
Austin; the dim eyes Of the battle;scarred
patriot veteran beheld that sight and then
closed upon reason and soon darkcned into
death. And then, Virginia-tho sold Do
minion"-thc mother Of Presidcnts-thc
Commonwealth which above all others had
been respected and honorcd-whose Senators
could utter unchecked and undisturbed in
Fauuiel Hall what the most insignificant
domestic demagogue of New England would
not have been permitted to have uttered there
with impunity-Virginia, whose sons VIC had
all been taught to believe were the enibodi.
ment of ruprightness and valor, whose sons
never asked for Federal Office in vain and
knew of none SO responsible that they might
not discharge its duties and regularly receive
and expeud its salary-Virginia, with null
titude OF counsellors, and for long interval
of apparent irresolution bristling with warn
ings Of it's hostility unto every State, and the
rest OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, finally, and with
sealed doors, adopted the ordinance OF seces-
sion, on the 18th OF April, 1861. Had she
remained true to the Union, her advice would
have been heard supreme in the forum, and
her children, in whose veins the blood OF the
Washingtons coursed, would have led the
peerless armies Of the Republic to speedy
and splendid triumph. But it was not so to
be- My heart sank within me with inde-
scribabie emotions Of regret-though never
once Of despuir-as this pillar Of the Temple
of our Government was withdrawn from the
fronting arch. Henceforth, for many long
months her fields and her forests were to be
scenes Of dreadful slaughter, and the great
garner.houses OF her harvests and the fucto.
RIGS for the working OF the products Of. her
soil were to be converted into prisons, whose
names should be more cxecrable than all the
history Of barburous inhumanity had yet fur
nished to the world Arkansas Is next in the
mournful catalogue. And the sounds and
hustle Of preparation for battle upon her soil
and on her wild borders hushed the amusing
and rhyming stories Of the Legendary travel
er, who was wont to wander aud fiddle from
tavern TO hunters camp fire. Tennessee
then approves the act which had now so
large an endorsement; and though the 10y
atty Of her people has had a practical division
in the supplying of forces to either side, the
weight Of her influence at home and abroad
departed for time unto the enemies OF our
country. Thank God she was reclaimed
soon enough to receive the full honor Of the
accession OF Andy johnson to the Presiden-
earnest and catholic and generous temper Of
the successful supporters Of the Government,
when the valiant and patriotic republican
and plebian OF q once recreant State is made
Chief Magistrate by vast majority in the
loyal nominating council. On the 20th Of
November, 1861, Convention in Kentucky
passed Declaration Of Independence and
an ordinance OF secession the principal sub
stantive effect of which was to give our Mill.
tary Bureau q list Of names TO be considered
with great care and deliberation in the ulti-
mate execution Of retributive justice.
1t was evidently the intention and expec-
tation of the authors Of the rebellion to take
the Southern States from the Union without
any more demonstration than the usual
nmount of braggadocio employed to frighten
the time-servers and the weak-minded Of the
loyal North. Presuming that these were in
the numerical ascendency in the free States,
there was no anticipation on the part Of
than that involved in the lynching Of few
thousand Union men Of the South, for the
purpose, merely, Of perfectIng the harmoni-
Gus organization OF the Southern Confede-
racy. It Is a safe faith: to believe chat II the
masses Of the Southern people had under
stood the issues there would never have been,
BY any possibility, the War Of the Rebellion.
Th;. ne hcon roted over and oyer aunin
hv The ;n,oil;oont TTn;on men of that section.
To'Jny" borerer h T. a nnnch surer faith:
~ .sS b.J Isg Dsy;, and his Cabinet i'm.
so;n ~ as a nrob,b;l;,y the nersonal result of
their treason, tbcy would never have deludcd
The ignorant masses into the support of the
rebellion. As conclusive evidence OF the
confidence Of the leaders in a peaceful and
sneediiy triumphant dissolution OF the Union,
wc have the fact that Davis and the Virginia
Senator'S Hunter and Mason. introduced
into' the United States Senate resolutions
declaring Tint the Goyernment had no " one.
ra,iyc " authority over the arsenals and dock.
Yards and forts in the States which had an
nonnced their separation from the Union,
and directing the Secretary OF War to retro
cede ali property OF that character TO the de.
parted and the outgoing States: . . = ~ 4.
The ,inst;9s,ors 'fof he rebellion believed
that they would be successful at all events,
ana against any character Of opposition
which might be arraycd against them. They
were blind in this belief. And you and arc
glad that they set down IN unerasable form
that. confidence, with the reasons incopsru.
ously assigned for the action they were TAX.
ine. II ever there was an absolute righ, and
an absolute wrong, marked BY the character