Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-12-20
JupAL xAaLY's LATEST.

general, Jubal Early, Is painfully late
in comprehending the logic Of events.
Before the war, Q savage s~ecessionist
did all In his power to preclpitate
It; during the war, a fighting rebel
captain, he spared no pains to Intensity
and prolong 1t since the war, he has
not a solitary sign Of i'm
provement, either in tone or temper,
and persists in eulogizing the "Lost
Cause" as though the retributiye JUS
tice of heaven had not forever over
thrown 1t. In street p~arlance, Jubal
would have to be called "a hard case.'
He belongs to the class Of incorriglbles
who, come what may, even with the
halter around their necks, will neither
confess their sins nor promise to for
sake them. Jubal has been making n
speech-some Of the newspapers seek
to give it dignity by styling it an "ad-
dress" 1t was delivered at Columbia
South Carolina, at a recent meeting Of
the "South Carolina Confederate
Army Survivors, Association title
that Is even longer and quite as uncu-
phonious ito coin a wordl as that Of
"The Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals" Jubal's speech
Is, In every way, a curiosity. 1t states
things as facts that never happened,
and omits to state Others, material to
be told, which the civilized world
knows did happen. He denies that the
South ever, In any sense, submitted
the right Of secession to tile arbitra-
ment of the sword" This in the face
of their firing on Fort Sumpter, the In
augurating overt act Of the war. Lie
afirms that the South rendered q
~peaceable settlement of all the ques-
lions growing out Of their withdraw
al" while all history proves that the
North, In the valley Of humiliation,
besought the Southern Hotspurs to re-
fraln from war, and only accepted 1t
when brought to their doors. He reit-
crates tlre stale old story OF "invading
their country" as If the forts, arsenals,
navy yards, postotlces, and other ma
tional property In tho South had be-
longed to the Infatuated mobs sent to
seize them, and not to the United
States. He regrets the want Of pre-
paration on the part Of the rebels,
when 1t Is we'll known that their lead
ers for twenty years previous had been
preparing for 1t, and that to give 1t
success, Floyd had transferred to the
South nearly all Uncle Sans muskets,
and Cobb had we'll nigh bankrupted
the National Treasury. le complains
of the "ruthlessness of the war rs
prosecuted by the Union armies, and
this within a days ride Of Anderson
Vile and Florence, and with a full
knowledge Of Libby and Belle Island,
whose atrocities, even ut this day,
| shock the moral sense Of mankind. He
| aHlrms that the result Of the war set
tied no question Of right but merely
| furnished another Instance Of the fact
that In this world truth and justice do
not always prevail, and that Might Is
often moro powerful than Right"
Aha! Aha! And who made Jubal
Early an interpreter of the divine gov
eminent that h fshould thus set him
self up as an e%xpounder of tho will
and ways of Providence? Who au-
thorized him to declare, with the mien
and tone ofan infallible "By this the
Lord means thus, and by that He
don't?" Before Jubal ventures so con
fidently on the task Of sitting In judg-
ment on the Divine will and purposes,
ke had better exhibit his commission.
If the loyal States were mlghtier In
means than the rebels, that was not
tho result of chance, surely, but be-
cause they were infinitely stronger In
the righteousness of their cause-by so
much as freedom Is holler than slavery,
and Union better than Disunion.
"Thrice armed Is he whose cause Is
just" But why waste time and words
on such an one as Jubal EARLY? IRE
vocably Joined to his Pagan idols,
Y c after he and they have been cast
hopeiessly to the earth, without doubt
the very best disposition that can be
made Of him and all others OF his Xix
Is to let them severely alone. "Give
not that which Is holy unto the dogs,
neither cast ye your pearls before
swine, lest they trample them under
their feet, and they turn again and
rend YOU" In the meanwhile, how
ever, all good and loyal people, where
ever they may live, will discover from
the ratiocinations Of Jubal Early that
the secession snake Is only scotched,
not killed, and that 1t needs only the
sunshine Of a succession Of Democratic
victories to war; 1t into new vitality
and venom.