Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-09-11
THE RECONSTRUCTION BILL.

In b d now Almost misty periou OF
our history, before the war, South Caro-
lima was the uueasiest of States. Her
sons devoured more and hotter fire
than tie scions of the frst families OF
all the other Slave States combined.
Disunion and secession were familiar
words in their mouths;th Palmetto was
Haunted in Northern faces on all posi-
bic occasions, and for many years the
p~ugnacious little State kept u body
polite in an almost continued p%srturbs-
ton. Tho teachings of that brilliant
Secessiouist OF the last generation,
South Cardinals favorite son. John q.
Calhoun, found . ready response in the
hearts of bis neighbors. Andths baleful
seed be sowed Was kept alive and nur-
,ured, until it blossomed and bore bitter
frui. in the early winter Of 1860. True
10 her professions and proclirities'
South Carolina led the van of recession,
ardeutly her sons plunged into the thick
Of the fsht-fearfully were they pun
ished, in the field and in their homes.
With FIRE and sword South Carolina
was restored to the Union she con-
temued and stroys so hard and so long
to destroy.
When tho inevitable end came, the
majority of the citizens Of the hot
bed of secession saw the madness and
folly Of their past, and set themselves to
work in earnest to mako repnration for
the great wrong they had wrought
themselves and their common country,
by obeying tho laws and conforming
themselves to the new order of things.
Since the surrender at AppomattoI,
South Carolina has given less trouble
than any one of the other insurreetion-
airy States. First in war, she be-
came first in peace. The ordeal Of bat.
tie brought sense to the former hair
Drained cavaliers. They bent their
spears into pruning-hooks and their
swords into plow-shares, abided BY the
issue of the war, aud did what they
never had done before-wsnt to work
like good citizens and e%ntesprising
Americans. And with what result ?
The yield of products in that State thi,
year will amount to $50, ooo, 900 ; or au
average of S74 60 per head, in a popu-
la,;on of six hundred and seventy thou
sand. How different and much better
these results than those produced by
repiaiug about the inevitable.
The ether cotton States, though less
industrious thau>Sou,h Carolina, have
also done we'll. The yield o: the staple
sbi, year will aggregate three millions
of bales, and the average value Of all
their crops will amount in money value
to si1.y-four dollars per head Of popnls.
ton. This is progress in the right di'
recllOn. Iet tuo SOuIu Sun Wv e'Sn
better. Freed from the incubus oil
slavery, that fertile and hitherto com
paratively barren section OF our coun'
try will blossom like the rose. There
are elements Of almost boundless wealth
in the great section that treason tried
so hard to make waste forever. With a
faithful devotion to the Union, a stern
determination to obey and enforce all
the laws of the land, tho reconstructed
States will enter upon a career of pros
perity equaled only BY the marvellous
progress Of the North and West. Our
Southern brethren are but standing on
the threshold Of their great future
their real development has only begun,
A generation Of freedom will set them
fairly on the high road to the greatness
which they, in common with their sister
States, are destined to achieve.