Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-09-03
ANOTHER WAR WANTED.

Most people in tho country had come
to the conclusion that the rebels had
gone through with about as much Of
war as suited their chivalric" predi-
lection. But these honest-hearted folks
were altogether in the wrong. Hamp-
toms Cavaliers" and Forests brave
butchers Of unarmed men at Fort
Pillow, are anxious for another tilt at
arms, but this time it is to be against
the poor freedmen. Having failed to
subdue the stalwart sons of the North
and West, and encouraged by His
Supreme Magistracy" and the Tamma-
ny Hall nominations, the leaders who
gave up their swords to Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan, are now engaged In
once more " firing the Southern heart
not particularly against their victors'
bu. against those who were formerly
their slaves-their chattels.
The same journals which did so much
to precipitate the rebellion md whose
editors and proprietors dared to
place their own precious bodies in the
way Of she'll or bullet, are just as bust.
ly employed at this moment in trying
to get up another war, and they call it
"a war Of races" Says the Richmond
Examiner, "The negro element in the
South is a gangrene upon the body pol
tic, and the 6rst blood shed will be the
signal for the extermination OF the
whole race" Truly an assertion which
no man ever under the influence of the
Christian religion would have given TO
the world. But, continues the Examiner,
"if such a war must come, let it come
quickly. Our white allies in Maryland
aud Kentucky, not to mention States
further north, may be relied on for assist
anee."
Now, that is the old story over again.
Ia 1861 these identical men 10 the
South told their readers that If they
would only eudeavor to break up the
Uuion and organize a Southern en-
pire, they would receive aid from
their white allies" in the North.
Deceived by their false prophets, the
Southern people made the effort, and,
after losing hundreds Of thousands Of
lives and b%aukruptiug their entire Sec
ton, they were glad to confess defeat,
They received no aid from their white
allies, NORTH" except in sympathy, nor
can they expect more in the event OF /"
war to e%xterminate the blacks. II is
all very fine writing with the journals
Of the Examiner class, this thing Of up
pealing to the prejudices Of their read
ers, but when the hour Of trial comes
the men who illuminate so furiously
through their columns will never be
heard of n the battles din. They used
to talk of "dying in the last ditch"
but during the progress Of our armies
they were generally ION the move"
and always further from the ''diteh"
than the poor fellows who had become
their tools, and who finally filled tho
ditch in place of the scoundrels who
caused the sacrifice Of their lives.
If the people of the South Can again
be wheedlcd into the belief that their
friends in the North will help them
through another conflict, they will be
as badly mistaken rs they were before.
A new war would prove a God.seud to
their "allies in the North" who would
at once set about securing contracts
and m king fortunes, having an oye tc
tho fact that Uncle Samuel's "grcen-
backs" are more valuable than ''Con-
federate scrip" There is only one ex-
igency that can arise by which they
might Do benefited, viz: the election Of
Seymour and Blair. 10 that case, they
would have Il show Of success in carrJ-
my out their programme for the exter.
~,uiultiou Of the black race. Tue infu-
ence Of Hampton, Forrest, VsIl"ndig-
ham and others, either avowed rebels
or those aHiliating With them: in the
New York Convention, begins to bear
fruit. Down with the Union and up
with the "Stars aud Btrs is rapidly
bee coming their expressed motto in tins
year Of our Lord 1858, just us it was in
1861.