Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-05-14


ern States generally.
Next win be the Centennial year. The
feelings which that great anniversary is
calculated to evoke. are those exclusively
of loyalty and devotion to the Union.
The Centennial would lose half its force
il celebrated by disunited. wrangling
and quarrelsome people. With this view
OF the case, the indebtedness of the pol
iticians who recently rushed out here
from Washington. and in conjunction
With their confederates and henchmen,
sndeavored to arouse the passions Of the
rebellion, and raise once more the stand
srd Of sectional hate and luminosity, can
EASILY be estimated. We can conceive OF
aothing more ill-timed and short sighted.
Nor was the strange proceeding wholly
eiieved IRON an unconscious caricature
or the parties to the new war did not
particularly distinguish themselves in
he last one. When there was bard
lighting going on they did not exhibit
much OF stomach for it. The records
If the struggle will be searched in vain
or the figure of any Of the signers of the
ate flaming manifesto leading the charge
or mounting the deadly breach. Gorham
Nowhere appears sword in hand, heroic
lily contending with the monster Dis
inion. They were mostly camp-follow-
'rs who kept far out OF the way of
treacherous bullets. The South at this
moment would indeed seem TO be pre-
pared for anything but war. What she
mainly wants is helping hand. We
imagine that it will be Centennial politics
30 extend that hand to her freely and
raternally rs. F. Balletin.
Wepublish the above remarks of the
Bulletin because We think they are pert.
inent and well founded The need of
the country is cessation from the no
lisical troubles, heartburnings and an
noyances which have now prevailed ten
years. During that period every politi-
cal trickster, mountebank, has been air
ing his particular nostrum for the recon-
struction of the South. Experience has
shown that the real panscea is the restor-
alton OF local government. The plan
has worked, and is working well in
Georgia. Virginia. North Carolina, Texas
and Alabama, and there is no reason to
donbt but that in the other Southern
States it will be equally successful. In
ante bellum days the South was the best
customer of the North, and one of the
main reasons Of the present stagnation
Of business at the North is the lack of
purchasing power at the South. The
people in that section are 80 impover-
ished and tax-ridden that they have not
the means of paying for, and therefore
oan not buy the productions of the
North. This shows how impossible it ia
or one portion of the nation to be in
lured without the whole feeling the
wound. Prudential reasons would
then urge the adoption of those
well conceived and wisely conducted
measures which will lead to the
complete restoration OF the former
mutually beneficial relations. On this
point the best, the ablest end the pat.
riotic of all parties are thoroughly
agreed. They see that the i'll feelings
generated by the strife of the past is
rapidly fading away and in most cases
has entirely disappeared. Men Of high
OF pronounced political opin-
ions. OF unquestioned devotion to the
Union go down South and come back and
declare their satisfaction at the tone of
public opinion which they met with and
unite in their declarations that oil that
Is necessary to be done to restore pros
perity and harmony is the restoration of
local self-government The late Mr..
Greeley visited the South and gave that
rs his testimony. Since then other i'm
partial observers have visited that por-
ton OF the country and corroborated
those views. The latest is Vice. Presi-
dent Wilson. another is Mr.. Wheeler of
the congressional Investigating Commit
tee, another is Kelley of PENNSYLVANIA.
ihese gentlemen certainly cannot be
accused Of any prepossessions in favor of
the south. yet they all agree in the opin-
Ion that all the Southern States need is
the power of managing their local affairs.
The mutual expressions of good will
and friendship between the North and
South are daily growing more frequent,
more pronounced. more authoritative and
are unquestionably sincere and reliable.
This being the case what q happy omen
1t Is Tor the failure Of the country. that
its Centennial anniversary will not be
celebrated by divided and antaeonistic
people but united and harmonious ns-
ton, the former dissentions of which
has taught its citizens. the value OF each
other and how essential mutual conf.
dence and esteem is to the safety and
happiness of the whole. With this plo-
rious prospect in view and with rea-
sonable appearance of its speedy realiza-
non, how inopportune, how absurd, how
wicked is the wretched howl published
ny the California bread aud butter brig
ade' who to retain their places. would
perpetuate discord, entail more misery
upon long suffering communities and
'nniet serious injury upon the whole
nation.
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