Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-21
THRILLING WITH THE SOUTH,

There is an amazing impudence about
the tone Of the men who, taking cour-
age from the reception given to the ex-
rebels at Tammauy Hall, have gone
forth TO r~c-iniame the Southern mind
against the North. "Admiral "
Semmes, the freebooter who did such
gallant deeds in destroying unarmed
whalers and merchantmen during the
rebellion, is one of those marvellous
specimens. He has just notified the
Northern people that the South is not
to be triied with !" There is no per-
ccptible tremor, as yet, in the Northern
pulse, ut this omipous threat. Gold
has gone up, but it is not attributed to
Semmes, by any Of the best authorities.
We could afford to laugh at the pomp-
Gus nonsense of poor Semmes, were it
not that it was with just such stuff as
this that the South vas reused to active
rebellion, seven years ago, and were it
not that there are yet thousands Of hot
headed Southerners ready to echo the
braggadocio of this ex-pirate, and only
wanting the power to carry their now
empty brag into active hostility to the
Government. Semmes, himself, is
nothing, and his threats, IN themselves,
are lighter than vanity. They are the
old story over again I: " Yon have pulled
my nose, You have spit in my face, you
have kicked me down stairs, you have
called me a coward and a liar! But
beware lest you go n step too far and
rouse the sleeping lion in my breast y
Seriously speaking, the South ought
to know BY this time that there is nc
disposition to trife with her, She has
behaved too badly, and cost the coun'
try too much, to allow the idea o.
triaing. That there has been far
too much generosity and lcnience
shown toward her is undoubtedly
true. 1t has been carried to
n extreme that may be almos.
taken for triaing. When it is remem-
bered that not one traitor has ever been
punished, while three hundred thousand
loyal American citizens lie in premature
graves on account Of the crime Of trea-
son; when it is remembered that the
wicked folly of the South has bound
the fearful burden Of our national debt
upon the shoulders of the country, and
that the South hns been made to pay
nothing for the inliction Of this load
upon US, there does seem to have been
something like triaing with the great
results of the rebellion. But when
Semmes and the like, warmed, like
frozen vipers, into new life, in the en-.
brace of the Northern Democracy, begin
to hiss out their old threats against the
loyal people Of the country, and to tell
them, with that supreme insolence that
is the natural expression Of one large
phase Of the Southern mind, that ''the
South is not to be triHed WITH it only
serves to show the North that such peo-
pie are, as yet, very Tar from being
"clothed in their right mind" very far
from being fit to resume their old place
as citizens of the United States. Such
men neverknow when they are whipped,
The rebels who insulted Generals
Grant and Sherman at St. Joseph a few
weeks ago, were of the same stripe as
Semmes, and Sherman told them the
plain truth when he intimated to them
that although he and General Grant
had given the rebels rs much fighting
as they wanted, they could be accom-
modated with a little more Of the same
kind if they needed it.