Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-17
TREATMENT OF THE SOUTH.

We vsn,ure the assertion, in full view
of the radicalism charged 10 tue
Republican party, tina. no desire is felt
either in or GU, Of Congress to humiliate
,ho sou,b. TO embittcr the feeling between
the two sections OF the country lately at
war, or TO press the claims OF the victory
achieved by the Union army a single inch
bevond the requirements demanded by
the issues Of the rebellion. The perpetuity
OF the Union was one Of those issues, and
the total adjustment Of slavery another.
Il was deemed necessary to secure these
that Provisional Governments and Freed
Bureaus should be established, and
that a portion Of our military forces should
be maintained in the South-all Of which
would long since have been removed had
the people of the late slave States acknowl-
edged the force of the logic Of events, and
complied fully with tho obligations i'm
posed upon them by the arbitrament which
they themselves courted. II the North
will not admit Southern Representatives
upon the floor of Congress, it is because
these Representatives have been chosen
for the active part they played in the field
against the Government, and the sympathy
they still express for their cau'e-over
powered, as they explain it, but not con-
ouered. II their elected Executives have
not yet been inaugurated, the reason IL
70 be traced TO a hardness in complying
with the requests Of the President, which
for their clsmency are unoqualed in the
history of any country in Christendom.
II the Freedmen's Bureaus are still per-
mitted to remain, the necessity is patent
justified BY evidences elected by close and
patient OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on preju-
dices that grew out of the relation Of
master and slave, and which can not be
destroyed in a day. The Chief Magis-
trate was anxious for the rehabilitation OF
the Southern States; he notified them
officially, in the kindest and most earnest
tones, and adding his personal desire that
they would act in compliance with the de-
cision OF the contest. The hot blood which
still boils, il any such there be, is kept
up in Southern veins by the fires Of the
rebellion; and the precautionary meas
ures Of the Union minds Of the country
are invoked at this time, as they were
during the continuance Of active hos
~tilities, by the spirit OF National preserva-
ton and defense. Il is not safe to give
the rein of the Government into hands
which but a few short months ago, WELD
ed the sword of rebellion, especially when
| they seem unwilling TO grasp the friendly
and just compromises presented and which
are inevitable, nor will Union men permit
i, to be done. The plain object now is to
secure the compensations Of the war. in
| part as well as in name, and forward the
| ship Of State on her new course without
the fear of starting o plank or going away
from a proper and prosperous direction.
This accomplished, the South will soon
| reconstruct and rehabitate itself.
With slavery gone, we don't know bu,
the peculiar designation of "Southern
States will 60 with it. This designation
is as closely connected and associated in
the mind with "slave" as it is with any
geographical institution. The peculiar
institution being blotted out, therefore,
what is there left of such particular iden-
tifcation as to justify the apprehension
,ha, tho ili-will of that section will, under
ordinary circumstances, be continued
The South is spoken Of as a subjugated
province, and its citizens as a brave and
chivalric people, who have been conquered
in a most determined effort TO achieve q
separate independence, and we are eau
toned about going too far in our measures
Of reconstruction, and Of wounding sensi-
bilities and arousing a spirit of hate and
vengeance. There is no ground for ap-
pretending such a state Of things; for, in
the frs, place, nobody, officially or other
wise, can possibly wish to produce an
effect of the sort, and, in the second place,
the South will soon be controlled by q
population that will ignore the sentiments
and feelings which are now so liable to be
outraged in this way. The abolition Of
slavery changes that section altogether,
politically and socially. Sectional pride
will exist there, as it exists everywhere {:
but i, will be Of a different quality and
character from that which led to secession
lam. Free labor opens the door Of the
South to emigrants, and the thousands
who enter that door will bring with them
none other thar loyal feelings. They will
be quite too numerous to be affected or
tainted by sentiments that grew out Of an
abolished system. The idea that we are
to contemplate the South for all time to
come a, a separate p~eople-made so BY
the institution OF slavery-is preposterous.
REBELLION IN GREAT BRITAIN.
England is in trouble at home. A por-
ton OF her dominions is in open rebellion.
and that. too. on a delicate point; the
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