Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-14
THE NATION RESOLVED.

Surely we may say at this time that
the South are blind if they do not re-
eognize the fact that the ruling, the
active, sleepleSs majority in this Nation
are determined on a settlement of the
war question in Il manner that will ad-
nit OF no re-openiug. The Congress OF
the United State is more clearly enun-
ciating every week, in one form and
another, its unbeatable, its deepening
resolve to fully reap the fruits OF the
contest. The more the defeated object,
either with protesting oaths or sniveling
appeals for extraordinary concessions,
the 6rmer is the expression, in Act duly
set forth, from the Representatives of
the loyal people. 1t is obviously a
matter of comparative indifference to
Congress whether the present submit
ted Constitutional Amendment be
adopted or not. 1t is not in the power OF
the late insurgents to disturb the tenn
per, much less to excite the fears of
Congress. A grand, definite political
consumation is in view from the Federal
Capitol, an establishment Of Freedom
throughout the Land, even as it was
proclaimed by the bell on the old Con-
gress Hall, at Philadelphia; and vain
are the attempted h~indrances offered by
the ~slaveocrats. An acquiescence in
the i~mplacable demands Of 'the sitra-
ton" is the only sound advice that
can be given to or heeded by the
sons Of ancient Southern chivslry.
Nor have we suggested all the stern
features of the demand by loyalty. To-
day, though the leaders of Southern
politics, so called, should declare that
they had no farther struggle for their
peculiar ''rights" to make, they @ouid
no, be 6eliersd By Congress. The suspi-
cious of the nation would not be aroused
by any such profession on the part Of the
late rebel chieftains, and by such pro-
fession no REIMBURSEMENT or modihca-
ton of present terms Of political exac-
ton, guarantee, could be acquired. We
are glad to believe and say, that up to
this hour, the principal rebels have
made no false declarations Of repenting
o, 'ssubjugated" sentiment. With one
accord they still clamor for '.justice'-
a character of "iustice" that, if granted,
would leave no practical triumph for
liberty on the journals Of National Leg
islaturc and in the daily doings Of men
and women Of the South.
Who can look back over the record
Of the past six years, ard not see that
an over-ruling Providence has so shaped
the order of affairs in this country that
| there could be no escape from a thor
ough and splendid political regeneration
Of the land? What patriot can review
| the scenes Of the civil contest,
succeeding the war, and not re-
joice that the loyal element Of the
Nation still holds the complete control
and arbitrament Of the Main Question
Still comes and lives the Demand, in all
its battle force: equal and exact JUS.
| tice to all men," 1t is glorious to live
under a Rule that is insisting upon the
truth of such a motto, and writing the
same in ineffacable letters upon the
tablets of National Law. More glo-
rious, most glorious to the American Pa
triot will be the hour when the fulfill
ment Of the National Wars hopes for
freedom shall be authoritatively an
nounced, in the length aud breadth Of
the land, by the universally sanctioned
doom of every species of human slavery.