Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-03

ever SO severe, they do not embrance honor.
That survives, and fortunately for Amer
lea it does, for what picture would its
repubicanism present, were the people
ofone third the States self-acknowledged,
to be degraded and debased Neither re-
venge nor policy could dictate this. Re
yenge could not be gratifed by sowing
the storm to reap the whirl. wind Policy,
ancient and modern, teaches differently.
The Greeks and Romans conquered the
world by conciliation, laws, liberties, and
institutions, as well as by arms, English
liberties, and the English constitution
have been maintained by the desc, ndants
of York and Lancaster, of Cromwell and
the Cavaliers. On the field of Bosworth,
after the star of Richard had set in blood
the princely Richmoad could excaim:
proclaim pardon to the soldiers fed,
That in submission will return TO us;
And then, as we have taken the sacrament
We will unite the White Rose and the Red
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction
That long has frowned upon its enmity."
/ A people with such an.eeedents as
those OF the South cannot submit perma-
nently to be lorded over and over and
acknowledge the authority of master
race. They may endure for time, but
the wound will rankle and bleed affesh;
and they will strike back and bite the
heel Of the oppressor. Inextinguishable
hatred will grow up, ald their children
and chidren's children like tie infant
Hannibal, will be sworn upor the altars
of vengeance. Nor ought the power Of
such dispised Weak it may be to-day,
disorganized and overwhelmed by defeat,
colossal, disciplined and organized may
be the power which is brought in threat.
euing attituded against it. There are
small accidents in history which change
the relations Of peoples The weak have
brit to wait upon opportunity. Ireland,
Poland, Italy, Hungary, will rise AID
rise again, History is full of these aXam-
piles. A vast military establishment,
great standing armies, garrisons will be
needed here; and while their force is ex,
pended in crushing rebel lion in one
quarter, in such wide domain, it will be
aroused and rampant in hundred 9th.
ers. The tyrant, the oppressor and the
despot will in vain seek to prevent op
portunities which the great political re.
various Of the world involve, and he will
eyenia the grandeur Of his pretensions
tremole before them.
"Who would be free
Themselves will strike the blow"
, But why drive brave and homes
people to dispair +? What great public
purpose can be answered !? In what re
spect viii the North be happier, wealth
ier, more powerful by such course?-
: What christian or patriotic instinct car
) be gratifed by it? You have said tina
} freedmen are better than slaves, and il
not the doctrine as applicable to white
= men as to negroes? Do you not hastei
, to get rid of the expense and charge o
: territories by converting them into States
Has not Britain realized thousand time
over profit by the chance which mad
: colonies independent States?
t Doy you wish to make secession odiou
t and prevent the possibility of is recur
; renee? If sharp, fierce, sanguinary wa
5 has not accomplished this, do you thinl
: that the meaper remedies of the thumb
: screw and galleys will avail? What
compliment are you paying to peopl
1 whose standards have all gone down ant
= the debris only of whose power survives
s Methinks
a "There be six Richmonds in the field
!, Five have l slain today"
: The South went down under your co
!, hcrts and your legions; but having gon
n down with her broad and teemng land
e vast with her cities destroyed, he
warriors scattered and bleeding and dead
r her resources exhausted, and her peopi
d clothed in sack-coth and in ashes, your
c is magnificent tribute, when benin
If every bush you see her bayonets CLEAN
J ing still. Compose yourselves. I'll
It work is done-done efficiently an