Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-01
A OF TWO.

We think tire event will prove that the
m~aguanimi,y OF tue Government toward
jefferson Davis was an Improbable, If
not d costly experiment. Jefferson Davis
does not appreciate the masn"uimi,y of
the authorities at Washington. lie is
one Of those restless men who never
abandon II project until the breath leaves
the body. And we have no sort OF doubt
of his intention to renew the contest for
division Whenever there seems TO him to
arrive an opportune moment. Had lie
other intentions he would at one leave
the country and remain sway until the
work Of restoration shall be accom-
plished. At present. he appears to be
making q tour Of inspection through
the rebel States; and if he will keep in
the track of war VIC think it likely
enough he may pause and reflect ere he
urges the South to extreme resistance
to the policy OF Congress. But he APP
pears to be the guest Of cities, keeping
out Of sight Of the major devnstations
Of war, Il course which mag less inter
ferc with his sleep o nights undoubted'
ly, always surprising that he has any
conscience to wound. The wreck and
ruin of y wal undertaken for the ag'
| grandizement of II few Southern leaders
must constitute something very like d
nightmare in the lives Of such men as
Davis, Lee, Toombs, and others who
survived the struggle.
The first blunder vas in taking Jcffer'
sou Davis prisoner. But for the reward
offered for his apprehension and delir'
cry, i. is not supposable that this blum
der would have been perpetrated. |,
would have been o decisive peace meas
ure had the soldiers who ~apprehended
him tried him by drum-head court-mar'
tial, and hung him on II tree in the
Jacksonville ]prison-pen. \ man o.
less regard for the rest Of the WORLD
never lived in America. \ cold
blooded, INSCRIPTIONS politician; I
man who never permitted any man:
life to stand between him and thu
tattainment Of his ambition, when h
could. destroy it; who would have
doomed the entire mass of the American
people to violent death at any time dur
ing the war, if by q stroke Of his per
he could have done it, and ut the sam
time ensured the success of the treason
he planned. Every intelligent man who
ever knew Davis knows that we have
not put the case q word too strong
He has but one peer in our history MS d
people-Aaron Burr-and it is doubtful
if even Burr was fully rs much enslavet
by his base ambition rs Davis. The
man is malignant as well as unscrupu'
lous, cunning and sccretive, vindictiye
III MS uuttSs IL nv NUS ohy iO'Se NuSl
do not extend to any ma beyond the
pale Of his W household. A hard
cold, intellectual man, without n gener
Gus impulse, and with none of tho bet
ter and higher attributes of r man
hood.
The second blunder lies in suffering
this traitor TO run at large. The am'
bitiou Of this man sent n million Of mer
to untimely graves, impoverished hun
dreds of thousands, and created as many
more dependents upon public bounty
Every man who knows him knows thai
Audersonyille, Salisbury and Bell Isle
were but incidents in his plan to destroy
the power Of the North. It may moi
seem possible that any man could de-
liberately doom to death by starvation
and exposure so many thousands OF de-
fenseless meu, But AS we said, ant
now repeat, those who know Jefferson
Davis will believe it without difficulty
We do notsuppose that he took pleasure
in it after the names OF Nero and Cali
gula. We suppose tina, he simply or
dered it rs a justiiable act, without any
emotion whatever. And this is tho sor
of man the Government hesit.tes to Try
for the highest crime known to law +!