Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-23

most fearful pcnalues Lnht Can y --l
ing States in the losses, the sunerings' nnu
the humiliations OF unsuccessiui val
whatever may be the guilt or punishment vi
the consciences Of those engaged IN the ~
surrection, candor and common JUSTICE uo
mands the concession that the great mass VI
those who became involved in its responsl-
hilities acted upon what they deemed to be
their duty, in defense Of what they had been
taught to believe their rights, under a COM
%nulsion, physical and moral, which they were
poverless to resist. Nor can it be amiss to
remember that terrible have been the bereave-
ments and losses. For those have fallen ex-
clusiycly upon neither section, and upon nei-
tber party but they have fallen with. far
orenter weight upon those with whom the wal
Reoan. in tho death Of relatives and friends,
INC dispossession of families, the disruption
Of social systems and social ties, the over
throw Of Government and Of law and order,
the destruction Of property and the means OF
industry, and the loss Of political, CONNER
cial and moral influence in every shape,
which great calamities the people in the in
surrectionary States have suffered ten-fold
more than those who remained in allegiance
TO the Government, its Constitution and laws.
These considerations may not, as they GER
tainly do not justify the action Of the people
Of the insurgent States, but no just or gener-
Gus mind will refuse TO them very considera-
BILE weight in determining the line Of conduct
which the Government OF the United States
should pursue toward them. They accept it,
il not with ~alacrity, most certainly without
sullen resentment the defeat and overthrow
they have sustained, they acknowledge and
acquiesca in results to themselves and coun
try which that defeat involves; they no longer
claim for any State the right to secede from
the Union they no longer assert for any
State and allegiance paramount to that which
is due to the General Government; they have
accepted the destruction Of slavery, abolished
it BY their State Constitutions, and concurred
with the States and people Of the whole
Union in prohibiting its existence forever
upon the soil within the jurisdiction OF the
United States; they evincc their purpose
Just so fast as may be possible by the adop-
ton Of laws conforming to the changed con-
dition Of their society, and to secure by these
laws and its tribunals equal and impartial
Justice to all classes OF their inhabitants
they admit the invnlidity Of al! acts Of resis-
lance to the National authority, and Of all
debts incurred in attempting its overthrow;
they avow their willingness to share burdens,
| and discharge the duties and obligations
which rest upon them, in common with other
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they avow through their representatives in
tho Convention, by their public conduct in
every way and DO most solemn acts by which
States and societies can pledge their faith,
their engagement to bear true faith and ALE
glance, through all time to come, to the Con-,
s~titution Of the United States and to all laws
that may be made in pursuance thereof.
Fellow countrymen, we call upon you in
full reliance upon your intelligence and your
patriotism, to accept with generous, ungrudg-
ing confidence, this. full surrender on the
part Of those lately in arms against your au-
thority, and to share with the honor and re-
nown that await those who bring back peace
and concord to Earring States. War has
closed with all its SORROWS and disasters, and
has opened n new career Of glory to the ma
ton it has saved 1t has swept away the hos
tilities Of sentiment and OF interest which
were n standing menace to its peace it has
destroyed the Institution Of slavery, always
a cause Of sectional agitation-strife has
opened to our country the way to unity OF in
terest, OF principles and Of actions through
all time to come; 1t has developed in both
sections n military capacity, an applaud fol
the achievements of war, both by sea and
land, before unknown even to ourselves, and
destined to exercise hereafter. under an uni
ted country, an important influence upon the
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the world, and while it has thus healed dis
cord and compacted our power, it has proved
TO US, beyond controversy or doubt, by the
course pursued towards both contcnding Sec
tons by foreign powers, that we must be the
guardians Of our own independence, and that
the principles Of republican freedom can find
among the nations OF the earth no friends or
defenders but ourselves. We call upon you,
therefore, BY every consideration Of your
dignity and safety, and in the name OF Lib.
erty throughout the world, to complete the
work Of restoration and peace whichNthe
President of the United States has so well
begun, while the policy adopted and tide
principles asserted by the present Congress
alone obstruct it. The time is close at hand
when the members Of the noxt Congress arc
to be elected. II that Congress should per.
petrate this policy, and by excluding loyal
States people from representation in its
halls; should continue the usurpation BY
which the legislative powers Of Government
are now exercised; common prudence CON-
pels us to anticipate augmented discon-
tent,-a sullen withdrawal from the du-
ties and obligations Of the Federal Govern
ment, internal dissent and general collision
Of sentiments which may renew, in still more
fearful shape, the civil war from which we
have Just emerged. We call upon you to
interpose your power to prevent the occur
renee Of so transcendent a calamity. We
call upon you in every Congressional District
Of every State, to secure the election Of men,
bers who, whatever other differences may
characterize the political action, will unite in
recognizing the right Of every State Of the
Union to representation in Congress and
who will admit to seats IN either branch
every loyal representative from every State
in allegiance to the Government who may be
found by each house in the exercise Of power
conferred upon them by the Constitution, to
have been duly elected, returned and quail
fed for a seat therein. When this shall have
been done the Government will have been re-
stored to its integrity, the Constitution be
re-established in its full supremacy, and our
American Union will have again become,
what it was intended by those who formed it,
a sovereign Nation composed Of separate
States /; each like itself moving in q distinct
and independent spirit, exercising powers
defined and reserved by a common Constitu-
ton, and resting upon the assent, the conf.
dence and cooperation Of all the States and
all tho people to its authority. Thus re.
organized and restored to their Constitutional
relations, the States and the general Govern
ment can enter in n fraternal spirit with a
common purpose and common interest upon
whatever reforms the security Of popular
rights, the enlargement Of popular liberty
and the preservation Of our Republican insti-
tutions NAV domand.