Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-12
GOVERNOR GRARY,s mRssAoR,

His Views on tho National Situation.
Governor Geary's message is a sensi-
BILE, straightforward document, treating
chiefly of State concerns. The follow
ing extract contains his views on the
national situation:
We are confessedly in a transition
state. It is marvellous how prejudice
has persisted in the furnace of war, and
how, from the very ashes of old hatreds
and old parties the truth rises purified
and triumphant. The contest between
the Executive and a Congress twice
elected by substantially the same suff-
rages-a contest so anomalous in our
experience as not to have been antici-
pated by the trainers of the National
Constituencies only served to devel-
op the remarkable energies Of our peo-
pie, and to strengthen them for future
conflicts. The contest is virtually de-
cided.
y
Boast as We may Of our material and
our moral victories, yet is it not true
that there is no such thing as a republic
can government in the ten States that
begun and carried on the war; There
is not, to-day, a despotic State in Eu-
rope where the rights Of the individual
man are so deliberately trampled under
foot as in the sections which were sup
posed to have been brought into full
submission to the Government Of the
United States. But the disease has
suggested its pYovidential cure.
The abhorrent doctrine that defeated
treason shall not only be magnanimous-
ly pardoned, but introduced to yet
stronger privileges, because of its guilty
failure, seems to have been insisted
upon as-f to strengthen the better and
the contrasting doctrine, that o nation,
having conquered its freedom, is its
own best guardian, and that those who
were defeated in honorable battle should
be constrained to submit to all the terms
Of the c%onqueror.
The violators Of the most solemn OBJ
legations, the perpetrators Of the most
atrocious crimes in the annals Of time,
the murderers of our heroic soldiers on
fields of battle, and in loathsome dun
geons and barbarous prisons, shall not,
re-appear in the council chambers o fthe
nation, to aid in its legislation, or which
will preserve out institutions from their
baleful purposes and influence, and Sc
cure Republican forms Of Government,
in their purity and vigor, in every sec
ton Of the country.
That they are indisposed to accept
such conditions is manifest from their
recent and ven arrogant rejection of
the proposed amendments Of the nation
al OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES which are
believed, by many true and patriotic
citizens and statesmen, to be too mild
and generous.
They have, however, been fully con-
sidered by the people during the late
elections, and approved by majorities
so large as to give them a sanction
which it would be improper either to
overlook or disregard. And certainly,
in view Of this fact, none Of the late
rebel States should be admitted to their
former practical relation" to the gen.
eral government while the continue to
oppose these amendments. ~
To the Congress of the United States
the heartfelt ~sympathies and oyerwhelm-
ing SURFACES of the people have been
generously given. They have fearlessly
proclaimed their unequivocsl verdict
"Well done, good and faithful SER
wants" Upon the deliberations and
actions of Congress our present interests
and future welfare all depend. In its
firmness and courage the whole expert
ment of genuine republicanism is indis-
Solubly involved. That this frmness
and courage will be fully exhibited by
its controlling majorities in the origina-
ton and adoption of measures of wis
dom and discretion, even more radical
and decisive, if necessary, than those Of
the past, l entertain no doubt. Such
measures will meet with my cordial APP
proval. And / may well add, that
while Pennsylvania will con6de in a
loyal Congress, she will not hesitate to
sustain it with her entire influence and
power.