Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-14
Pity the

There is a mixture of patience and
pleasantly in the tone Of the following ar
ticle from the Richmond Bulletin. The
greatness of the change and the novelty Of
the present condition of things may be
hard to bear, but in the long run it will
be found better for all concerned, and if
not, the losers have but themselves to
blame
"If it is difficult for the Southern man
to give up his former privileges. how much
more difficult is it for him to give up the
old cherished habits Of his life-his hos
pitality: For this he was proverbial.
Day after day, week after week, his table
was crowded with guests, friends and
strangers. His house was open to all.
His table fairly groaned under the weight
of his bountiful cheer. He was like a
feudal Baron with his friends and retain
ers around him. Alas his reign is end.
ed. His barns are no longer full his
Aocks and herds have wasted away his
fields have become d~esolate, and his once
hospitable mansion is fast falling to ruin.
The cheerful negroes who once occupied
his cabins. who plowed his fields, and
whistled as they plowed who were fat
and sleek and faithful, are now free, and
wandering about In strange places. They
are not as fat and sleek as they were-in-
deed, they are thin and careworn. Often
times they know not where to get a meal
but then they are free Poor things
Heaven help them j! for they greatly need
a guide, a counsellor, and friend. He
who kept his horses and hounds, and was
wont to make the welkin ring with the
shrill clamor Of his horn and dogs, will
henceforward have to content himself
without them. Where he once rode he
will have to walk, happy if he has two
legs left to carry him."
We don't apprehend any serious dimi-
mutton of the amount of human happiness
by the decline of the feudalism of Virginia.
More than the Baron losses will be
gained by the "retainers." And even the
Baronial lord himself may improve by the
discipline of adversely, especially if it be
accompanied by the wholesome fruits of
repentance. The above lament seems to
imply that the slave was the only support
OF the aristocracy, and that when the black
retainers scatter, the Barons ore left help
less and f~orlorn. II the negroes are not
so "fat and sleek" as they were before,
their masters do not appear to have much
advantage of them, in that respect. Per-
haps the negroes may, with equal sincerity
of benevolence, reciprocate the wish of the
Barons-"Poor things, heaven help them
for they greatly need q guide, counsellor
and friend"
If our counsel may be acceptable, they
are quite welcome to it; and it i, that
they fill up their barns with the fruits Of
honest industry, that they repair their
desolate fields, and mansions fast falling
to ruin, that they employ the laborer and
pay him his hard earned wages. Then. if
there be fewer big dinners and carousals.
fewer grand hunts, with horse, hound and
horn, there will be more republican free
dom, less bitterness Of bondage, and a
much higher type Of christian civilization.
If our counsel requires argument to secure
it consideration, the Baron Of the planta-
ton may find it helpful to his contentment
to reflect that the whirlwind which he is
reaping is the fruit of the wind that he
sowed. If he had resolutely said five
years ago. no rebellion, he would not now
have to raise the pitiful cry, no groaning
tables, no hounds, no fat and sleek "nig-
ers."-PitS6urg Commercial.