Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-16
NOTICEABLE CHANGE.



The Transcript, has. for some time
n,st been the best newspaper published
r oakland. But it has recently sur
nassed its former excellence. Calvin B.
WcDouald seems now to be singing the
;ndelible ink of genius into its columns,
ard the consequence is, as it should be,
large increase in the number of its rea.
Jsrs While we widely differ with Mr..
Mcdonald in his political views, and re-
GARD him as an unsafe counsellor in mat
ter, pertaining to the public welfare, we
neyertheless consider him one of the
most eloquent writer's on the Pacific
coast in treating of questions where no
feeling of partisanship is involved.
In the outset and during the progress
of the civil war Mr.. Mcdonald WAS con-
nected with the war-press of the country
AS a writer, and among the most ardent
advocates of the crusade against the
South In behalf of the decency of our
common human nature, we concede that
he then thought he was right-that he
was enlisted in just and holy enterprise
although we shall ever think he might
have been less savage in his propositions
towards, and less cruel in his exultations
over the weakness OF his Southern breth-
rem.
But let all that pass. A few days ago
in the columns OF the Transcript he Mt
tered sentiments which go far towards
earning him forgiveness from the people
he once so ruthlessly maligned. Senti-
ments alike indicative of clearness of
mind and soundness of heart. Under the
caption The Angel of Reconciliation"
he says of one of his blood seeking arti.
cles during the war. prefaced by the
couplet from Whittier
The flags of war like storm.birds fly,
The charging trumpets blowr
1--WE could not write it now, and never
want to see it again. Since then, we
have been among the people who were
SO fiercely denounced, have seen the
long, rank grass waving over their house
hold desolations, and heard the dead
rebels very "dog that whined in vain,
till fed by stranger hands," and we are
cured of our patriotic humanity. While
staying couple of weeks at fashions
BILE resort in Missouri, corresponding
with our Calistoga, We saw the rebel
widows dropping about in their weeds,
accompanied by their forlorn little ones
with their childish semblances of woe,
and it was very pitiful. One little thing
some four or five years old, and as beau
tiful as the spirit Of the day, was conspic.
uous. With her we contrived to make
friends, under the spreading walnut
trees of Arcadia. and at last she came
aud laid her tiny, snow-white hands
upon the strangers knees, looked up
into his face with her great wide, desc
late eyes, with an inarticulate reproach
fullness, as though we had slain hel
father at Pea Ridge and buried him il
the bloody trenches. We are not ashamed
to say that this was more than human
nature could bear, and we were glad Il
get away from that terrible judgment
bar, feeling as though we could fling tn
lacerating pen of the political journals
into the flaming vortex of hell, and writ
no more forever. All this. perhaps, wa
an unsubstantial fancy, fever-dreau
under those sultry, brazen skies; but tn
sad impression still fingers, and tn
sweet, accusatory face of that little on
stands out in relief on the walls of mem
ory, prophesying against cruel, curseful
bereaving war.
The people Of that great State at ths
tlluc ChICu upout LhtiuhtiS
Pacific railroads, and didn't want to bea
much about politics. They ''wanted
rehabilitate the country" they salt
wanted to get back their lost trade froi
the Southwest, which the war had CT
off, They did not approve of any cours
that was calculated to stir up old bite
ness, but honestly, il not cheerfully, a,
cepted the award of the wars arbitration
and wanted to be friends again. We al
glad to see this rational sentiment begil
ming to prevail in our own State, an
that it is being judiciously inculcated
their leading party journal. What hi
been the present condition of England
the houses of York and Lancaster ha
kept up their bloody fued to this da,
Nations like individuals, are born to di
and ours will undergo political tran
formation and perhaps extinction in Il
FAR distant course Of time, but there vi
never be another civil war to establish
slave-csntederacy. The stronger eleme
Will overrun and absorb the weaker, as
did in England, and the process is rapi
ly going on now.
We have done, then. with tulkir
about rebels, traitors, copperheads al
the like, and turn now to address Il
American people, as far as We can
heard, impartially and respectfully, CO
cerning the new questions that ha
arisen since the wandering planets ha
been re-collected and re-adjusted on the
orbits, and shall never again go back i
yond the landmark of established Peac
When provoked to bitterness of recolle
tlon, we shall recall to mind the De
Rebels Child, with her great, wide, wo
dering eyes, and her air of unspeakat
desolation. May God keep the swe
little preacher Of forgiveness, and crov
her In her young womanhood with th
imperial beauty, that spotless innocent
which almost hallowed her childish fat
as she wandered about in melancho
solitude amid the walnut groves of A
eadia. And if she shall ever be fou
dropping on the blood stained slopes
pea Ridge, searching in affection amo
the nameless graves for one of the uni
corded dead, may she look from b
weeping to behold the friendly and |
nlgnant standard of her country unto
ing its splendors in the sun. and fiingi
Its protecting shadow all around her, a
say to herself, 1t was but an incident
heroic war; it was long, long ago;
horrid storm-birds have flown far aw,
and and no longer the charging trump