Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-17
RaheI PenItenee.

From the land OF DIXIE, the nursery OF
the boosted descendants Of the Huguenot
cavaliers, comes up the wall Of despair
from the slavery aristocracy. whose power
as political engine is stiAed beyond re-
suscitation. The lamentation of "no
home. no country" is heard on every side,
but the honesty of self-recrimination is
virtue they do not possess. The vulgar,
low, ill-bred Yankees, the desp,sed race of
mudsills and greasy mechanics, the "poor
white trash from whom sprang Webster,
Seward and Everett, have won the hard
fought contest and placed the highest bred
gentlemen on earth under the ban Of SUBJ
jugation. Poor, oppressed Southrons!
your vail is loud enough to ascend to
Heaven, but we fear it will never get
through the clouds and fogs that overhang
the destiny of all such evll-born consplr-
acies as your would-be republic. Four
years ago you exhausted your vocabulary
Of rebel Billingsgate in your abuses OF Ine
ablest and best men in the land' l"e
honest and constitutionally chosen rulers
of the nation whose only shame was 10
own you as q fractional part of itself. To-
day, your arrogance and insolence' that
has already been thoroughly humoieo, 70
the SCORPIONS tail in your mouth ana you
are stinSing yourselves to death with ran
cor and bitterness of heart. io-GA!'
ninety and nine out Of every hundred IN
your midst are pensioners on the chaiI!
of the liberal and lenient Government
which. but for the bravery OF our soldiers;
the integrity and genius of our generai
officers, and the grace Of the God OF pat
ties, YOU would have RACED to the ground
Blu, YOUR humiliation is and shall be
wholesome lesson if you take II aright'
Repentance, such as you profess. shows /,
pure hearts within, and with those e!e- |
ments of grace your final return to the |
National hearthstone is no longer prob |
lematical. The victory we have gained |
is the victory Of right over oppression
the mastery of liberty and education !
over tyranny, ignorance and barbariSm
worthy of feudal age. The blackened
links are broken. BY which you enslaved
not only the persons Of the black men in
your midst. but the rights and privileges
of those whom your ribald Grgot styled
" dirt-eaters," that is, white men who
had to work for their living and enjoy
blessings you never knew; the blessings
the Creator bestowed on sunny-browed
Labor and her hard handed votaries. All
time, till eternity. shall never again be-
hold the nation cursed with 80 hideous q
blot upon her escutcheon as the barter,
sale and forcihle ownership of anything
that can talk. Henceforth, should you
feel the thrillings of a love for the State
on whose soil you first saw the light
You must seek to ennoble that commu-
nifty by guaranteeing the blessings OF
equal rights to the least among you; by
disseminating the radiant light OF popular
education through all phases of society;
and by teaching all men true devotion to
the Government that shelters your person
and protects your property. And then
you may indeed succeed in establishing an
arls,ocracy not of birth and wealth alone.
but Of intellect, honor and moral worth.
Men Of the South, you have much to
repent; We of the loyal States have as
much to forgive. It is useless 10 indulge
in dreary recrimination and bitter fault
findings. Our forgiveness shall not be
wanting it shall meet your penitence half
wagon Mason & Dixon's line. if that
only be the last that is heard Of that Equa-
tor Of evil. Let such imaginary lines be |
broke. and banished forever. We deny
the existence Of the South a. nation we |
likewise scout sectionalism IN the North. |
America is the name Of our nation. We
are one great common family, bound to-
pether by common language, adoring !
the same Creator and looking forward to
:he same end-the reunion of the States |
and the honor. glory and prosperity of our
common countryside. Bee.