Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-18
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unnoticed, only that the perpe-traitor-
who has made loud %pretentions to better
things and has deceived many-left be-
hind him an open confession, with request
to circulate it, that it may be known and
read of oil men. That confession Of that
low-lifed, sneaking, mongrel thief was
headed 1.-THE Virginia Daily Union"
Read, if you please, the leader he circu-
lates this morning and judge for yourself
whether a hungry dog or a poor miserable
creature that has thus sold its loathsome
carcass to the Copperhead party of to-day
needs most to be pitied. No, the COM
parison is iuvidious, as the meanest cur is
the prince of these Shiny, venomous creep
ing things. "Of all that God made up
right, most prone, most fallen, most earthly
and most debased." Well may the muir
derer, condemned and only waiting to be
executed and damned, propose to let the
dead past bury his dead and with his
judges propose to shake hands over the
graves Of his mangled victims. Most
reasonable compromise this to come from
a convicted felon! And shall we in
friendship grasp their hands, yet warm
and dripping with the gore of so many
thousands Of our fellow country men
And shall we salute with friendly kiss
those lips that for four longs years have
Kissed on the bloody hounds of war, and
spurted treason from every stump and
street corner in our lands No! by all
the saints in the calendar, no! The love
of every philanthropist-the ardor of every
patriot, the zeal Of every christian, the
common sense Of civilized humanity is
shocked-shudders and recoils at such q
repulsive suggestion the voices of their
millions of victims, from both North and
South, as we'll as the blood Of our forgiv-
ing yet martyred President, cry u against
it. He says the war is over" Its
great issues are dead and entombed."
How fit is this sentiment for the dark den
or q Copperhead who never looks beyond
his own Shiny precincts? He says it is
not the part Of humanity, patriotism or
decency to perpetuate the issues Of that
war, as they belong, not to the present or
the future, but to the past alone. and the
past cannot be recalled. There IS but one
place on Gods green earth where such
ignorant twaddle is either effective or par
donable-and that is in the sanctum Of q
Copperhead organ. He would not have
his followers know that the issues Of to-
day are as old as fallen humanity. He
would not have them know that ours is
but the cause of civil and religious liberty
against tyranny and oppression. The
vindication of mans capacity for self
government. He would not have them
know that this self same cause had its
friends and its enemies marshaled in battle
array on the fields Of Marathon, Platea,
Salamis and at the pass of T~hermopyln,
nearly three hundred years ago, and that
since that time it has deluged almost every
nation of Europe in blood. He don't tell
them that, because in enervate, lethargic
Asia this question was never sprung, and
there she sits in the shades of despotism
to-day, and has sat for near six thousand,
and il to-day she was by the hand Of God
| blotted from the face of the Garth or sunk
beneath the sea, we would only miss
a few spices, a few sacks Of rice and
tea and a few pig-eyed Cinnamon.
He does not tell his benighted fellows that
the reason why France and England are
the first class powers Of Europe to-day is
because they have spent most of blood
and treasure in this mighty contest. But
contending as they did against long estab-
lished prejudices, gross ignorance and vice
in every form, backed up as they were by
| thrones, principalitics and powers, they no
where gained a complete victory. Yet
| they did cause those thrones to tremble,
and the hands that swayed the scepter TO
do it in accordance with written law.
They have, within the last two centuries,
obtained Il sort of half-w liberty, and
duped by their rulers, have been resting
content for u while, believing that to be
all that was consistent with o stable form
OF government. He don't tell them that
the example of our Fathers of &c reused
Europe to these efforts, and the example
of the patriot heroes of '6l is already
causing those thrones to tremble again.
Oh no, he would fain have them think
that all this mighty convulsion, carnage
and blood-shed, has been about some poor
obscure negro, who is long since dead and
buried in the fence-corner of some rice
field of the South. Fain would he draw
q thick veil over the hecatombs of patriots
slain by his more laudable compecrs in
vice. Fain would he put the muffle on
those reasonable expressions spouted by
his more consistent brother traitors on
every street. But he can neither veil the
one by the dark skin that overs the more
noble soul Of the negro, nor muffle and
drown the other by raising a louder cry for
an oppressed priesthood-for the remem-
brance of both are as indellibly stamped
on every patriot heart as was the image Of
Phidias on the buckler Of Minerva. These
issues of the past are not dead, thank God,
but live to-day. Oh that I could impress
upon the mind Of every man who will ex-
ercise the elective franchise at our coming
election that this contest between the
friends of liberty and oppression is not
yet ended, and that the cause Of liberty
will receive at his hands either a check
which will retard its motion and delay the
day of its triumph, or an impetus which
will accelerate its progress and hasten on
the day when it shall reign throughout the
world supreme. To nj hands are COM
mitted these mighty issues, and we must
act either n way or the other. Millions
of our fellow men have given their lives,
but we to-day are only called on to give
our voice. .
Union men, patriots Of every name and
nationality, be not deceived by these me;
NAL, crawling fiji; flaps, for you must vote
either with US for peace, prosperity, hap
piness and Union, or with them for an
archy, confusion, perpetual civil war, and
disunion. Finally, to all on whom rest
such mighty responsibilities, I would say,
beware how you cast your votes.
J. G. c.
VIRGINIA, October 18th.
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