Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-03
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This exhibit shows that the Southern
States, with nearly equal population to
that of the Northern, furnished less
than one-fourth of the fighting men that
won our independence. 1t may be
safely said that if the extent Of country
occupied by the Southern States, and
the soldiers furnished by them, had
been left out Of the contest, the North
ern Colonies would'have achieved their
independence alone. In fact it is not
! too much to assume that it could have
been done easier without than with
their connection, for their territory was
| far greater than that Of the Northern
Colonies, and acted as an incumbrance
in such a war, not overbalanced by the
| number furnished to the armies. It was
the New England States, which they
now affect to despise, that won the in
dependence of the Southern States for
them, rather than received aid from
them in accomplishing their own. New
England and New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania could have won their
own independence alone, while the
Southern Colonies could not do so.
Massachusetts, alone furnished 1912,
or more than one-third of the entire
force, and more than oil the Southern
Colonies combined. Even little Com
necticut beat Virginia and South Caro-
lima togetherl Pennsylvania also beat
the Old Dominion, and little Rhody beat
every Southern Colony except Virginia
and Maryland. Poor South Carolina
had only a beggarly SALT representa-
tives in the armies Of the Revolution,
and yet she claimed the right to rule
over the whole Union. We will pursue
the contrast no further. The curious
in such matters can do so for them
selves. Charity requires US to believe
that they did all they could to win the
independence Of the thirteen colonies of
which they formed a part. But there
our Christian duty ends. 1t does not
require US to accept undisputed all their
loud boasting and p~retentions concern
corning what they did to establish our
Government and the rights that thereby
acquired under its Constitution. Suf-
fee it to say that if the North had not
then formed the Improbable connection
with them the late civil war would new
er have occurred.
And now when the work of recon-
struction which is to restore them to
their forfeited place and power in the
Union which they sought unsuccessfully
to destroy, is in progress, they are as
arrogant and exacting as though their
course had been such as to entitle them
to demand their own terms of admission
to the halls Of Congress. Though they
number but one-fourth of the population
Of the Union, and a still smaller proper
ton Of its voting population, and are
but ten out Of thirty-sfx States consti-
tuting the Republic, they openly disre-
gard and oppose the fundamental prin-
ciple of which republican governments
are based-that the majority shall rule
and the minority submit. The will of
the majority of the people, of the voters
and of the States-a triple majority
demands certain conditions precedent to
their restoration to full fellowship in
the Union; and still true to the spirit of
~disobedience which prompted the mi
nority to rebel against the majority,
they refuse to submit to the terms that
the majority, in a spirit of liberality and
kindness, have offered by act of Con-
gress. They want to be favored and
conciliated, yet they propose no action
to conciliate the people of the Nation
whom they have so %grievously injured.
No persuasion affects their course of
conduct toward the loyal States. They
yield only to force or sheer necessity.
IF the war has taught them nothing of
their duty, as members of a Democratic
commonwealth to obey the will of the
majority conStitutionally expressed, then
have they much yet to learn to make
them good citizens, or safe counsellors
in the legislative halls of the Nation.
They must learn humility and submits
sion or they a never be sincerely well
coined back by those who have suffered
so much by the war, and are not asked
to forgive the aggressors.-S. p. Flag.