Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-09-19
STOCK
SAX FRAxoIsoo, Sept. ls-l Pm.
Dirty Trieks or the Johussnites.

In the late Philadelphia johnson Con.
v~ention, while Raymond, the Little VIII
lain" Of the New York Times, was reading
the Address. according to the reporters. he
was once, and but once, interrupted. The
interruption was made BY q motion
"unanimously carried" that the reader
repeat q paragraph which was supposed
to be q clincher ; and this was what he
reported:
"No people has ever yet existed whose
loyalty and faith such treatment, long
continued, would not ALLEVIATE and impair;
and the ten millions Of Americans who
live in the South would be unworthy cit.
liens Of a free country, degenerate SONS OF
a heroic ancestry, unfit to become the
guardians Of the rights and liberties DE-
queathed to US by the fathers and found
ers Of this Republic, if they could accept,
with ACCOMPLISHING submissiveness' the
humiliation thus sought to be imposed
upon them"
Now, what are the conditions" and
"humiliations" alluded too We can
think Of but two proposed BY Congress:
First, the disqualification OF all the rebel
leaders, civil and military, from holding
any Office under the Constitution OF the
United States which they repudiated and
second, the Acknowledgement OF all those
who could not take the test. oath. These
two conditions are proposed by Congress
to the late seeded States, and they will
be insisted on before any Of them can have
its consent to come back into the Union.
! OF course, they are, to a certain extent,
.humiliating !" but punishment for crime
is always humiliating, or it would be su-
~perAuous. The main point to be consid-
cred is not what will be most soothing to
the criminal, but what will best secure
the future protection of those against
whom his crimes have offended from their
repetition. This is the plain, clear logic
Of the criminal law Of every civilized
country. Raymond & Co. have reversed
the rule, and insist upon it that the pun
ishment must spare the criminal from un.
pleasant feelings at the risk Of placing him
in a condition to adapt the law Of his
State and the Nation to the encourage
ment of similar crimes in the future. The
obvious meaning of this paragraph is the
Address, which was cheered 80 Justify by
the unpardoned traitors and Copperheada
in the Convention, is that those who vio-
lated the Constitution and laws must be
fully pardoned and restored to political
power without conditions, while those
who defended the Constitution and laws
must be placed under their heel and pun
ished. For Mr.. Raymond knows. very
well, and so do those who cheered his
dirty trick, that every Southern State and
the Nation itself, is divided into but two
parties-one that supported and fought
for, the other that cursed and Tough,
against the Union. He knows, moreover
that the differences of opinion between
these two parties are radical and uncom'
promising ; that the triumph Of traitor,
means the most degrading humiliation and
malignant persecution Of patriots.
He has taken his choice with the trait
ors, and it is therefore natural that, hav'
ing gone SO far IN infamy, he should &c
farther, and attempt to benefit his bac
cause by q fiat lie. The assertion that TIT
Congressional plan is offensive to ten mil.
lions of Americans in the South, is tina
lie. The entire population of the seeded
States is short of nine millions. There art
three millions and a-half Of freedmen who
without exception, favor the Congression'
al plan, and whose very lives and liberty
depend upon It's success. The plan al
which Mr.. Raymond and his associates
aim is designed to re-enslave them all. Oh
subject the lives Of those who resist to the
mercy Of the men who starved our soldierI
at Salisbury and Andersonville, and muir.
dered their prisoners at Fort Pillow Their
there are at least q million and a-half o.
Union people at the South who believe IN
the Congressional plan. These, added tc
the freedmen, give US Ave out Of the lest
than nine millions, whom Raymond, with
q perfec. knowledge Of the falsehood
claims are sought to be ''humiliated."-
Stockton Independent.