Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-30
THE ISSUE.

cal duties,-Saturday evening and Sun
dav. Let us reason together. The War
is over. The question of o concerns
our Peace in full reunion. All. that is
needed to secure the grand object is to
get at the people of the South on the issues.
The rebels will seek again and again to
raise a State barrier between the sentiment
of the people Of the Southern States and
the General Government. Notice: They,
these, secesh demagogues, took Estates"
out of the Union against q contrary ma
jOrity of thousands. yin they not man
age, if the Federal authorities do not IN
one way or another interfere to prevent
will they not manage to erect the formally
expressed Will Of States against. alike, the
desire Of the people Of the States they
specially misrepresent and the deetermin-
alton of the majority of the Nation: OF
course. This would result in far greater
injustice and wrong to the honest citizens
of the once rebellious South than it would
iniuriously affect or embarrass the propos-
ed action of the Federal Government, or
tend to hinder Congressional action in
favor of free Legislative policy command
ed in all the Commonwealth of the Union.
Who doubts that within a few months
hence, at fartherest,-if it is not the case
nowhere will be a vastly preponderat-
ing sentiment among the citizens Of nearly
every Southern State in favor prompt,
bona 6de concurrence in the statutory doc
,rines the Administration and Congress
will prescribe or advise for "health's
sake" Let the people have a fair chance
TO nnoun their conclusions and re-
solves, say we ;-unfettered and unmis-
interpreted by the leading rebel politicians
who will renew their attempts to ride the
Masses of their ~neighborhood country
men into the jaws of death. Is it not right
TO contend for this, from the outside, in
view of the coerced secessionism of the
past: Here is a main question in recon-
s,ruction. To-day, u man who rises in
South Carolina, in most any part thereof,
and declares himself an o~ut-and-out
Union man, repeats the protestation OF
loyalty for the future, unconditional
ty any terms about State rights, is
in jeopardy Of mob violence, and
need not calculate on any less Lazard
than that of foul assassination. Now it
is feasible 10 "change all this without
keeping a standing army in every town.
1t may take a little time and the patience
and resolution that length of time cores
pondingly requires. When the elected @
rebel Congressional Representatives come
inside the door of the Capitol, let them be
politely entertained for a space while the
Clerk of the House reads a resolution Of
summary inquiry into his loyalty, which
being prosecuted forthwith will constitute
a basis for an ejecsing vote. This "'exper-
iment" frequently and regularly repeated
will evidently result in the sending Of
men to Congress whose sentiments are as
clear as their record. Congress may set
down an oath to be administered that will
perhaps answer all purposes, and prevent
the necessity of other trial of record and
faith in any instance. Whatever plan be
adopted, it is at least certain to be the one
deemed by the Congress most etficacious
for the preservation of the Union, the
fostering as we'll as protecting OF unquali-
fed Union sentiment in the late rebellious
portions Of the South. Does It not be-
come US to firmly sustain the Administra-
ton in these indicated efforts for square
and true reconstruction Should we not
send to Congress this Fall a man who will
aid the Administration in every legitimate
effort in this direction, and be known be-
forehand as one among the loyal Congress
sional majority who will insist upon en-
tire, proven fealsy to the Union as a con-
dition of membership from South Carolina
and company: Think OF these things.