Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-05
WHAT SAYS THE SOUTH NowP

buSH pun pOSO, auu Will auHSlV =
it. If the South should be equally in
flexible, the prospect is not one that
patriotic men a contemplate with sat-
isfaction. 1t involves too many actual
and possible perils. Certainly there is
now no obstacle to the use of calm and
c~onciliatory words and acts towards the
South. While insisting firmly upon
such amendment to the Constitution as
will prevent the South from securing
more than its just share Of political
power by the consequences of its rebel
lion, we may we'll be magnanimous in
all other things and show u kind and
fraternal spirit. Some Of our Republic
can politicians, with more zeal than
wisdom, have thought it necessary to
cultivate hostile feeling in the North.
1t was a mistake. Considerations of
justice and National safety were suffi-
cient, and really determined the action
of the people and the attempts to ex-
cite sectional and vindictive feeling have
reacted upon the South, without doing
any good at the North. Doubtless we
shall now have rest from the startling re-
ports, purporting to come from New Or
leans, ofplots to the Union men,
to send a corps of thugs to dispose Of the
republican Congress in the same way,
and numberless other shocking things,
which failed of effect by their e~xtrava-
gance. Unfortunately the shocking
crimes of the riots at New Orleans and
Memphis made it possible to believe
almost any enormity that could be in
vented. The southern people have been
both annoyed and amused at the mon
.strous stories circulated in the North
for party effect. That n about secret
societies for another rebellion is good
naturedly burlesquedb by the Montgomery
ALA Mail, thus:
I'VE have one Of them here, known
as the Knights Of Anthropohagi. They
delight in eating ~aloyalist for breakfast
every morning. They dine upon fri
casseed colored people, after the aroma
has been removed with saltpetre, and
never sup without demolishing a steak
from a slaughtered bureau man. They
are armed to the teeth with Spencer
rifles, and have their breasts protected
with those patent breast-plates-you
know! 1t is suspected that they meet
at the remarkable temple over the Arte-
sian Basin, and that they drown freed
men in the basin at midnight. We can
not vouch for this, although officers OF
the treedmen's bureau have been OBJ
served watching that temple as though
they expected it to explode"
There is no good reason now, political
or other, for giving the southern people
to understand that we think them thugs,
barbarians, Wholesale perjurers, or mon
sters of any description. They may have
a larger proportion of violent and law
less men than We; it is quite natural,
though none the less wrong, that they
should not be altogether we'll disposed
toward their late slaves; and they must
expect that in the new freedom of speech
and press in the South their faults will
be noted and widely published, often
with exaggerations. There is the more
reason why they should suppress theil
lawless classes with the strong hand,
and so demonstrate their purpose to dc
justice to the freedmen, that there shall
be no need of interposition by the Gen
eral Government for their protection
Faults that do not exist cannot be e1'
aggerated, and those whose vile trade il
is to invent SANDER will soon find theil
occupation gone.
But worse in their effect upon the
South than these inventions for politi'
cal effect, are the assertions Of u ex'
treu1lStS tuat 1ue Nottu 10 ueSei'LuS 'u'
South and does not mean to stand to the
offer made for final settlement. The
co1ruh;o .Soy,5 c,rohnian the LEADING
paper of South Carolina, has an article
against the pending Constitutions
Amendment, in which it quotes from
49, ~ vi, La.n.nAu,,hno..o,,
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ars.. means ~ admit the ton wa;,ino
So, ,;mn,r ~, a.. odon.;or of ,ho,
.m.namo,tn a,a .ar..
mpo,,+ Rr,Ior p.orr,ow and ,bo
entire ang of extremists take the same
position, and insist that the Radicals
have other conditions wnicn they Will
u nim ~ 1900 ~ snn"T"
or he Allowed representation in the
Union. If, therefore, the Southern
States ratify the odious Amendment,
they will do 1t with their eyes open, and
WIN tne iuii koo",euge 'nas y! 50 uo.us
N ~. 80 iii ,harahn ;%nsn;re
coptemnt of their owe of resistance,
and invite further aggressions upon their
rights"
Ifthe Southern people knew that these
men do not represent the Republican
e.