Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-01
THE PROBABILITIES

Arkansas and Mississippi have a better
look yet the promise is not well even in
those comparatively good-disposed regions
Of country. The general appreciation OF
the condition of affairs in the late rebel
lious South, as We have here stated them to
be, isillustrated in the fact that there is a
growing emphasis on the part OF loyal
journals in regard to the absolute necessi-
" of keeping the refractory States on the
probationary threshold, until they can
give the amplest assurance and guarantee
Of loyalty after re-admission to all the
rights Of sister commonwealth. Speaker
Colfax las he will again beg is abjured to
demand the test oath OF members of the
House of Representatives. Candidates
for Congress in the East, On the Union
ticket. are pledged by platforms adopted
at their nominating conventions to stand
6rmly against re-admission, except the
State be established on an enduring, or
ganic act of Unionism. II is universally
conceded that the coming Congress will
be the most important of any yet held;
and the consequences to flow from the
| National legislation of next Winter are
depicted as likely to be OF greater magnI-
tude than ever before came within an es-
innate of law-making authority. 1t may
be that in the few months yet to intervene.
before the opening of Congress, the aspect
Of affairs may change: the observed tenn
per of the Administration may serve to
quiet the hope Of instruction again
threatening to break forth into deeds OF
blood. In our judgment this is not OF the
probabilities. The arrogance Of the South
ern taskmas,er, the fel! spirit Of the Dem
ocra,ic party is not to be driven on and
away except this generation has its time
consumed.
But, is it possible by Congressional
action to provide against the re-introduc-
ton TO supremacy Of the doctrines OF the
party of secession: While the self interest
of a people-speaking of the bona Jfde
laboring ci,izen-would instruct them TO
enter cheerfully and abide faithfully under
the new order of things, the Democratic
politicians ambition proverbially over
riding. in proportion to numbers, the SEN
,imen, and desire Of honest citizens-wilI
sweep US again into the vortex of disaster
except there be special, vigorous, constant
watchfulness and labor against such ade'
plorable relapse. We deem the PROBABLE,
ties to be that there will happen this CON-
ing session of Congress the Events Of the
Age, in the passage Of laws under
fully endorsed anti-slavery constitutions
amendment, and the holding firmly under
appointed Governors of practically insuo'
ordinate States-wlth the distinct and u
mistakable notice that such will constitute
their Government until there can be nc
chance to suspect that the majority Of voter'
therein resident are hostile to a thoroughly
Republican form of rule. The ~probabili'
ties are that the Union party will be i'm
mensely strengthened by the proceeding
Of the coming Congress. The Commit
tees of Investigation that will necesSaril,
be appointed IN relation to war matters
will produce further evidence Of the bar
barity of the rebel chiefs, and the heather
ism OF the aris,ocracy that the contest ha'
pierced to the civil center, exposed and lef
clear for the utterly dispensing force OF TIT
closing legislation. The acts of President
Lincoln's administration which have at
forded the largest scope for criticism will
we confidently think, be vindicated ant
lifted TO honoring place, as an incidenta
effect Of examination for other and equally
worthy purposes. We are only nov be-
ginning TO rightly realize what danger
bese. us, what horrors havejust overpassec
our heads. More and more will the tru'
picture of the woes threatened, with th'
most carefully studied plans for execution
fresco itself on the walls Of our minds. Arc
As the shapes ofserror gather on the metz
canvas, as the scenes of carnage multipl,
with increasing atrocities of the detail, vi
shall be prepared to 90 farther in adopting
preventive measures against new rebel
lions or endorsing such stringent regula'
tons as others in authority may conceive
the exigencies of the day require. Pro-
found will be our sorrow If in any man
ner. inadvertently, we shall have taker
from the strength of a wise and patriotic
organization. or been betrayed into Install
ing an unreliable representative or rene
Sade politician in u place where he car
seriously embarrass the counsels and de-
signs of a Republican Administration.