Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-25
The PrineIples md Policy Of Presi.
dNm1 JOhn0Oa.

The Principles md Policy Of Prcsi'
deat JOhnSOa.
From his Speech on the receiving Of thu
news of the fall of Richmond.
"At the time the traitors in the Senate
of the United States plotted against the
Government and entered into conspiracy
more foul, more execrable, and more
odious than that Of Cataline against the
Romans. I happened to be q member Of
that body, and, as to loyalty, stood coli
tary and alone among the Senators from
the Southern States. I was then and
there called upon to know what would
do with such traitors, and want to re-
peat my reply here. said, if we had an
Andrew Jackson he would hang them as
high as Haman>
but as he is no more. and 9leeps in his
grave in his own beloved State, where
traitors and treason have even insulted his
tomb and the very earth that covers his
remains, humble as am, when you ask
me what I would do, my reply is, I.could
arrest them; InoH!1 try them !; could
conviet them, and I could hang them. As
humble as I am and have been, have
pursued but one undertaking course. An
that I have-life, limb and property-have
been put at the disposal Of the country in
this great struggle. I have been in camp,
I have been in the field, have been every
where where this great rebellion was !
have pursued it until believe can now
see its termination. Since the world be-
gan, there never has been a rebellion of
such gigantic proportions, so Infamous in
character, so diabolical in motive, so en-
tirely disregardful of the laws of civilized
war. 1t has introduced the most savage
mode of warfare ever practiced upon the
earth.
II will repeat here remark for which
1 have been in no small degree censured.
What is it, allow me to ask. that has sus-
tanned the nation in this great struggles
rhe cry has been, you know, that our
Government was not strong enough for a
time of rebellion; that in such time she
would have to contend against internal
weakness as well as internal foes. We
have now given the world evidence that
such is not the fact; and when the rebel
lion shall have been crushed out, and the
nation shall once again have settled down
in peace, our Government will rest upon
a more enduring basis than ever before.
but, my friends, in what has the great
strength of this Government consisted I!
Has it been in one man powers Has 1t
been in some autocrat, or in some one man
who held absolute government No. I
AAo.l- - IN ~
claim the great truth that this Govern
ment has derived its strength from the
American people. They have issued the
edict; they have exercised the power that
has resulted in the overthrow Of the re-
bellion, and there is not another Govern
ment upon the face of the earth that could
have withstood the shock. We can now
congratulate ourselves that we possess the
strongest, the freest and the best Govern
ment the world ever saw.
THANK God that we have lived through
this trial. and that, looking in your intelli-
gent faces here, to-day, can announce to
you the great fact that Petersburg, the out
post of the strong citadel, has been occu-
pied BY our brave and gallant officers, and
our untiring, invincible soldiers. And
not content with that, they have captured
the citadel itself. the stronghold of the
traitors. Richmond is ours, and is now
occupied by the forces of the United
States. Death to the conspirators-cLen-
sacy to their rictim,. One word more, and
I have done. It is this:
am in favor of leniency; but, in my
opinion, evil doors should be punished.
GCries Of that's SOL Treason is the
highest crime known in the catalogue of