Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-14
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
N

MENTS
The late rebel States are asserting
their determination not to accept the
Constitutional Amendment, proposed by
the Representatives Of the loyal people
OF the country-amendments which offer
the South q participation in the Gov
eminent on more liberal terms than
were ever before offered to q conquered
people. The South cannot get over its
old ideas of Southern superiority, not
w~ithstanding the war gave it such a
striking demonstration of its error Of
opinion; and it still desires to hold or
increase, the advantages it held in rep
resentation before the war. The par
doned and UNPUBLISHED rebels are not
willing to come back to the Union with
an equality of representation with
Northern and loyal men, but they insist
on having n man in South Carolina or
Mississippi recognized as entitled to a
greater representation in making our
national laws than two Northern men
shall have. If the South has made Up
its mind 10 deny itself all representation
until the North shall grant this impu-
dent demand, we opine it will go I'M
represented for a considerable length
Of time. The North is not particu-
larly interested in having Southern
Representatives in Congress. Con-
gress is 4 much more orderly and re-
spectacle body since the absence of the
chivalry. In their absence there
have been no pistols aourished about
the capital no bludgeous used with
which to meet arguments otherwise un-
answerable, no invitations to coffee and
pistols, and but little of that low and
threatening language used which was
so common when the shareholders whip
was wont to resound throughout the
high and brilliant chambers Of the Capt.
tsl. The only one who has attempted
to perpetuate the chivalric habits was
Rosseau, of Kentucky, who, attended by
two fighting friends loaded with pistols,
made a brilliant onset on a clergyman
of half his size, and succeeded in salts
flying the demands Of chivalry by strik-
ing said clergyman several times with a
rattan. We repeat, the national dig
nifty and the country's prosperity lose
nothing by the absence of these exhibit
tions and of the persons who were accus-
toned I o indulge in them; and we feel
toward them as the parent does toward
his unruly offspring who refuses to eat
his dinner to spite his mother who can
stand their absence with quite as much
equanimity as they can exhibit in refus-
ing representation; indeed, we view their
refusal TO come to Congress, there to
joing the Copperheads in embarrassing
the action Of loyal men, with the utmost
e~omplacency.
We cannot see that the country is in
jured in any way by the absence from
Congress of representatives from the
rebel States while we can see great
danger to be spprehended from their
sending representatives as they desire
each rebel in the South to have double
the representation Of each loyal man in
the North. II the President does his
duty land if he does not Congress will
make him) the South will pay its share
Of the national taxes whether it sends
representatives or not; and as under
the laws those who were in rebellion
have made themselves liable to some
severe punishment, they had better be-
have themselves and not try loyal pa
thence too much, or some application of
Justice may be made that will ''make
treason odious'' and at the anne time
strengthen the public treasury. So,
altogether, if the South is not willing
to accept the liberal terms proffered in
the Constitutional amendments, let ''it
20 further and fair worse" and the
loyal people will not suffer thereby.