Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-20
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been several elections IN the South. With
q liberality that will challenge the admit
ration of the world, the Government has
generously permitted the standard of suf-
frage to be just what the seeded States
themselves established, with the simple
addition Of taking the oath Of loyalty.
What has been the result In Richmond
such VIGOROUSLY obnoxious men were
chosen to office that the commander there
deemed it his duty to prevent their Access
sion to power. In other States, some Of
them protesting al extra amount Of 10y
atty, men have been chosen who not only
favored and labored for disunion, but
who now openly denounce the policy Of
the Government, and, with characteristic
effrontery, proclaim null and void the laws
Of Congress and the proclamations of the
President most nearly affecting their social
position.
To be plain, thus It is: There is very
widespread idea among the Southern
people that the abolition Of slavery is not
an actual verity-that Mr.. Lincoln did not
really mean it, and that by and by the
good old institution will be restored.
Hence most wicked maltreatment of freed
men, refusal to pay them for their labor,
utter disregard Of contracts, the denial of
employment, and forcible expatriation;
all with the view Of showing the ignorant
black that his government liberty is
worthless, and that his safety consists
only in still and ever remaining, practical
", at least, a slave. Hence the half
concealed spite against the presence OF
Northern men in Southern cities;
the silent contempt and open viru-
lence with which they land most
of them compelled there by duty are
treated solemn and often ridiculous pride
with which the more extreme Davisites
glare upon outside barbarians, and point
to their vest patterns, wherein the awe
struck stranger is expected to see, in letters
of flame, "Subdued but not conquered"
Hence the more moderate and more dan
gerous coquetry of the Southern leaders,
with the fragments of the late Democratic
party, and the hope that the said Southern
leaders, with the aid of the yet unbaked
doughfaces Of the North, may be able to
control the great legislative body of the
nation. We read soft platitudes in our
Southern exchanges about crops and cot
ton stock, and the heart-rending scenes
that necessarily follow the fiery track Of
war; we are RECALLED now and then with
the reports Of reconstruction meetings;
but under, over, in and through all these
-permeating, coloring and intoning all
means the grand theme Of "subdued, not
conquered outnumbered, not beaten
unsuccessful this time, but hoping for
better luck in the next venture-victory
postponed, but not despaired Of the
Union triumphant, but only for a little
while-our treason strongly repressed, but
watching for the first promising opportu-
nifty to blaze anew"
1t gives US no pleasure to record this
unloyal and revengeful spirit, but we are
compelled to do so, or leave most vital
facts unstated. We had hoped, but we
confess with much diluted faith. that the
sudden and complete collapse Of the re-
bellion would have revived q generous ma
tional sentiment over the Southern States.
So far as the North is on record, we only
state a patent fact when we say that with
the exception Of a few theorists and a
few Of the most virulent pro-rebel organs,
the press and people of this section have
been guided by most generous sentiments;
they have had no words Of malice; they
have torborne the discussion Of irritating
topics; they have sought every feasible
occasion to assure the Southern people OF
a Willingness to forgive and forget: they
(the Press) have, in many prominent in
stances, incurred damaging censure at
home by pleading for mercy in conspicu-
Gus instances Of guilt. In short, the
whole tenor of the victorious North, since
Lees surrender, has been that of generous
and almost unrestricted forgiveness. We
challenge the world to show an instance
more creditable to the better instincts of
the human heart.
And how are we metz 1t is, perhaps,
too soon to arraign the leaders and expo
nents Of sentiment in the lately rebel
States; but it is not too loon to say that
every indication of their policy-as we
have to some extent specified above
seems to be in the wrong direction /; that
it is the manifest intention Of the Southern
leaders to foster and perpetuate the antag-
onism of old times ; to imbitter the gall so
long fed and encouraged by Calhoun and
his followers; to rebuild the wall Of Sec
tional division, and again man the fortress
of local prejudice. We have searched with
great diligence in every place likely to
Weld information-and we have the ad.
vantage of many private letters on the
same topics-and say with regret, that our
best judgment more than ~justlies the esti-
mate herein made Of the tone and temper
of the Southern people-or at least Of their
representative men.