Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-30
The Guilt and Insanity hat Slavery


Cabinet, all leaders in the pro-slavery
civilization of America, are implicated in
the deep and damning crimes of starving
thousands of prisoners as matter of cold
blooded policy; as also in the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln, has suddenly
opened the eyes Of all the world to the
true character and tendencies of the in
fernal institution upon which the South
ern Confederacy was sought to be estab-
lished. To make good their plans, the de-
tenders of slavery had resolved to stop at
no crime. They even pointed to religion
and the Bible as the warrant for whatever
new crime was meditated. In vain were
the examples of all other civilization but
theirs. Whatever in theory or in practice
did not sanctify the infamies of the slave
trade and the slave mart. they denounced
fiercely, in the name of God and good
government as atheism, anarchy and false
hood; and what was the worst feature
of this fanaticism is that the fanatics, like
the followers of Mahommet or Peter the
Hermit, were earnest and sincere in their
cruel and bloody faith. Back to the re-
morSeleSs Dark Ages they were bent on
conducting society, and their motto ever
was THE end justifes the means"
Thirty years ago they assassinated poor
Lovejoy, an amiable and harmless minis
ter of the Gospel, for no other cause than
that he maintained the right of an Ameri-
can citizen, under the laws and Constitu-
ton of his country to teach and preach
that slavery was opposed to the best in
tereSts of the States which encouraged it.
This they did without rebuke from the
leaders OF their policy, and with the ex-
ample of truth as shown IN the relative
conditions Of the free and slave States on
the Ohio and Mississippi, to confirm
10 all minds The affirmation Of the muir
dered man. Never was crime more helm
Gus. Yet not one pro-slavery politl-
clan condemned it. The million rejoiced,
and even their pulpits resounded with Ill
suppressed eneomiums on the 6ends who
did the base and bloody work. These
same wicked, devilish principles they car
ried into Congress in 1910, shaping them
in the interest Of slavery, into systematic
opposition of the right to petition, when
the prayers of the petitioners did not
square themselves with the barbarous
code Of their workshop; and they triumph
ed, too; triumphed through the syco-
phancy of the Democratic party and the
trucking cowardice of Northern time
servers. This triumph was signal for
mob in every slave city and every border
CITY where a man was to be found honest
and brave enough to call sin and brutality
by their true names. From 1910 10 1856
was the carnival Of the slave hounds. The
crimes their mobs committed in that time
in the name of God and Liberty were as
dark as those of the French Committee of
Safety. from which they differed only in
lacking the form and sanction of law. APP
probated they were by the votaries Of the
institution from negro-driver to venal,
silken-handed priest and parsou. Amid
these multiplied scenes of brutality the
fate of Lovejoy was forgotten or shrank
into tameness or common place. In spite
OF all, they constantly lost ground. The
old weapons of the Middle Ages would
not, could not retain their edge against
the new. The blood Of the martyrs cried
from the ground perpetually and its voice
refused to be silenced at the bidding of the
tyrants and their servile lickspittles.
Every life sacrificed TO the unholy am
bition of slavery was equal to thousand
recruits against the institution. Printing
presses and anti-slavery orators multiplied
an hundred-fold more rapidly than pro-
slavery mobs. The keen rapiers Of their
satire and logic penetrated every open
place in the mailed armor Of the mobs and
gradually unmarked the Geryon form of
the institution.
It was not yet ready to die. The hard
est-hved of all sins, its most terrible blows
came Just in the agony of dissolution. Its
tactics were changed. From tearing
asurder the limbs of the poor slave and
his humber class Of advocates, they turn
ed. first upon the heads of Government
and the leaders of society. They would
by force or fraud fasten upon all the
avenues of place and power in the Federal
Government, and finally be able to do
those crimes by law which had hitherto
been so fruitlessly borne by the blood
hounds and mobs. The Supreme Court
they owned already and most of the Dis
rrict Courts. If they could secure the
President all might go smoothly in the
cruel crusade plotted out by their leaders.
Buchanan was elected in 1856. The poll
ticians of the plantations committed the
error of supposing that he would be less
pliable in their hands than I" Poor Pierce"
Their blood hounds understood the slight
est hint. An effort was made TO poison
the President in the National Hotel at
Washington, where he boarded. It failed
to reach the victim intended, though it
struck to death many others. Had the
plot succeeded the man Breckenridge, who
is among the most perfdious of the trail
tors now, had been President, and posi-
bly, we should have had quite another sort
of revolution from that just ended. We
say this poisoning was done by the vota-
ties of slavery for no other purpose than
above sketched. We know the dark crime
was hushed up at the time, and all under
stood its suppression to be only that the
honor of the American name might
not sink in history to that depth Of
infamy with which the Borgias loaded
Italy four or five centuries ago. But
lately a secession advocate, now penitent
for the foul murder of Mr.. Lincoln BY an
agent of the same class who melted the
poisoning of Buchanan, takes occasion to
charge the former crime where it belongs,
and this justi6es US in repeating the
charge. We well remember the subdued
tone in which men spoke of the poisoning
at the National Hotel In 1857, and the
gloomy forebodings it melted in all pat
riot minds for the country's future. under
the sway of such an execrable and devil
breeding institution as slavery was prov
ing itself. Yet it had its apologiSts and
sympathizers among patriots. But this is
not strange when we remember that Juli-
an, Apostate, was otherwise good enough
man, and that chronic diseases never yield
to quick remedies. France endured pa
tiently the absolute rule Of four prostitutes
for one hundred and twenty years before
she asserted her dignity in the Revolution
and strangled feudalism, All the past