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

mcnt Of the supremacy ofthe national author
ity, and are prepared, in their most loyal
spirit, and with a zeal quickened alike by
their interest and their pride, to cooperate
with other States and other sections, on
whatever may be necessary to defend the
rights, and maintain the honor, and promote
the welfare Of our common country. History
affords no instance where a people so power
full in number, resources and public spirit,
after a war so long in duration, so destruc-
tive in its progress, so adverse in its issue,
have accepted defeat and its consequences
with so much Of good faith us has marked
the conduct OF the people lately in insurrec-
ton against the United States. Beyond all
question this has been largely due to the
wise generosity with which their enforced
surrender has been accepted BY the President
Of the United States and the Generals in the
immediate command Of their armies and the
liberal measures which wero afterward taken
to restore order, tranquility and law to the
States where all had for some time been over
thrown. No steps could have been better
calculated to command the respect, win the
confidence, receive the patriotism and secure
the permanent and affectionate allegiance OF
the people Of the South to the Constitution,
rs have been so warmly taken and 80 stead
lastly pursued by tho President OF the Uni
ted States and II that confidence and loyalty
Of the South is to-day less cordial in its ale
glance than Immediately upon the close OF
the war, We believe that 1t is due to the
changed tone Of the Legislative department OF
the Government toward them; to the action
by which Congress has cndcayored to sup.
plant and defeat the Presidents wise and
beneiRcent policy Of restoration to their ex-
clusion from all participation in our Govern
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conferred and guaranteed by the Constitu-
ton and to the evident purpose Of Congress,
in the exercise of usurped and unlawful au-
thority, to reduce thcm from the rank Of free
and equal members Of n Republic OF States,
with rights and dignities unimpaired, to the
condition Of conquered provinces and con-
quered people, in all things subordinate and
subject to the conquorors, free only to obey
laws, in making which they are not allowed to
share. No people has ever yet existed whose
loyalty and faith such treatment, long con-
tinued, should not ALLEVIATE and impair, and
the ten millions Of Americans who live in the
South would DO unworthy citizens OF q free
country, and degenerate sons OF q heroic an
cestry, unfit to become the guardians Of the
rights and liberties bequcathed to them by
their fathers and the founders Of the Repub-
lie, II they could assent with accomplishing
submissiveness, the outrages thus sought to
be imposed upon them.
Resentment of injustice is always and ey-
erywhere essential to freedom, and the spirit
which prompts the States and people lately
in instruction, but insurgent now no longer,
to protest against impositiens Of unjust and
degrading conditions, makes them all the
more worthy to share in tho Government OF
a free commonwealth, and gives still firmer
Of the future power and freedom
Of the Republic for whatever respOnsloihty
the sopshern people may n have S, iiou1Ie So IN
resisting the authority OF the Neuonai aoS-
throw. thew NAV be held to answer, as indi-
vidunls, before a judicial tribunal Of the land;
and for that conduct, to society and organic
ed communities, they have already paid the !