Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-21
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ing papers indicate that there is a gooddeh
of SOLDERING at Washington-(bawling
and singing Of nasal mucous)-about the
hanging of the she-rebel Mrs. Surratt.
Well, let them slobber, those who do il, we
will bet high, had but few tears, If any, to
shed when President Lincoln was assas-
sinated. We have read most of the evil
dence given before the Court that tried
Mrs. Surratt. as published in the Eastern
papers, and zoe feel convinced that she
was guilty Of harboring the assassins, If
she even gave no direct advice to them.
1t will perhaps be remembered that Payne,
the would-be assassin of Secretary Sew
ard, was arrested at her house, at eleUs'
o'clock at night, having gone there dis
guised as a working man, and carrying a
pick on his shoulder to fix her sewer"
as he remarked, when asked his business.
Oh, the innocent she-devil! Would an
innocent, honest, virtuous, loyal woman
have such visitors at the dead hour OF the
night: Is there reason or common sense
in the world, that people can be gulled
into convictions contrary to honesty and
sense. We opine that there is some sense
yet left in the world; and that President
Johnson showed some of it when he re-
fused to reprieve this woman. We notice
too, by the same telegraphic dispatches
this morning, that there is a Catholic
priest, the confessor of this she-rebel,
poking his ecclesiastical nose before the
public-declaring that she was innocent
of any completely in the assassination.
How does he know He has her confess
sion or admissions, but he feels deli
cate about making them public. The
court that convicted her had the s,0orn
testimony Of disinterested witnesses-and
we leave it to the public which would be
the most entitled to credit, a person con-
yicted of a felony and standing on the
verge of the gallows begging for her life,
or the uncontradicted evidence Of a dozen
Witnesses But she is huRg-she is very
dead-.and it cannot mend the matter n
title for any n to plead that she was
innocent, and all that.
This Mrs. Surratt belonged to q class Of
Southern women that has done much
harm to the Government, and far greater
harm to the masses of the Southern white
people. She was the representative of a
class of females who played a most un-
womanly part in the great rebellion, and
her fate is likely to dispel a too prevalent
impression in the South that a satanic
spirit, if clothed in a feminine form, is en-
titled to respect and immunity from pun
ishment, however detestable its conduct
may be. If the training Of slavery made
the male shareholders naughty, arrogant,
lawless and cruel, its effects upon the
other sex were not less debasing. 1t is
the universal testimony of Union soldiers
who have traversed the region of rebel
lion, that the women of the ruling class in
that section have exhibited a fierce, unre-
lenting spirit of hatred to the invader
gloated over slaughter and outrage in the
hour of success, and maintain a sullen,
treacherous and insulting attitude toward
the conquerors under the darkest aspects
of the insurgent cause. Not without am
pie reason did JEFF. Davis appeal to that
sex to again "fre the Southern heart"
when his ranks were thinned by deser-
ton and despair was brooding over his
cities and camps. He knew the malig-
nant frenzy Of secession was most endur-
ing in the feminine mind he was familiar
with the arts employed by the sex to
stimulate the war spirit among the lag
CARDS at the beginning of the struggle;
he had found women to be his most trusty
and indomitable spies, and saw how they
remained hostile to the Yankee rule in
cities long occupied by our troops. In
tercepted letters, written by these women
to their friends and relatives in the field,
have been found to breathe as blood
thirsty a spirit as if every rebel female had
been rehearsing the role of Lady Macbeth.
This exhibition of ferocious temper has
been foolishly referred to as evidence of
heroic devotion to the Confederate cause.
The same spirit may be found among the
Sioux squaws, who are not generally
pointed out as models for the sex in Chris
tan and civilized communities. In that
barbarous system of society where a wo-
man can still be considered an ornament
of her sex who coolly orders a female
slave to be whipped, or who feels no CON
junction in severing a mother from her
child when in want Of funds, such hero
ism is to be expected; but God forbid the
extension Of this savage spirit beyond the
borders of the region it has cursed. Mrs.
Surratt kept a rebel Post-ofice. Her
house was a rendezvous for rebel spies
and ail-carriers throughout the war.
Though living under the protection of the
National Government, in the very shadow
of the Capitol, she cherished a fierce hatred
of its pure and generous chief. Her son
was a leading actor in the assassination
conspiracy. The assassins were frequent
ly sheltered under her roof. She was
aware of the progress Of the plot, from the
first step to the last, and was employed
in securing the weapons required for the
murderous blow.
A Coon HIT.-The Louisville Journal
gets of the following good hit at those
nervous politicians of Kentucky who
pirate of negro equality as a consequence