The Nevada journal., 1851-11-06
TIL JOURNAL
a. A. SARGENT AND w. C. AlBAx.
Thrrsday Morning. nov. g.
The Course of the Journal.

OF question they may take, whatever
line Of policy they may pursue. The
same editor, in the various minds of the
community is too moral and too immoral,
too independent, and too subservient,
too conservative, and too radical, too
cautious, and too free spoken, and let
him free his sheet ofevery political hue
the Democrat can see be is Whir.
and the Wing as clearly that he is a
Democrat We have not learned this
since we have issued the Nevada Jour
nal. At the start we knew the peculiar
difficulties of an editors position, the
mlsconstruction of motiye-the prciu-
dIces of every hu, to be met at every
turn and knowing all this, we laid down
IN few and simple words our plan in
the conduct of the Nevada Jonrnal, in
order that all might see it, and know
what to expect from us, In the first
number under our charge we said:
"That the patrons of the Journal may
know the line of duty marked out to
regulate the future conduct Of the paper,
we take this opportunity to state that
IN reference to the questions that may
arise in the public mind, on all occa-
sions, We shall speak freely, boldly, and
independently. We shall mako war
upon the preludices of no party, but we
shall be led by no party. Our aim will
be to make our sheet an acceptable
BUSINESS and family paper, with a pure
moral tone, careful selection of matter,
and such attention to public interests as
may be expected from public spirited
Journal
We believe we have pursued the
course indicated in the above extract.
On all occasions we hare spoken boldly,
fearlessly, independently. We have
not cautiously felt after public senti-
ment, and after finding it, giving it as
our own. While we have studiously
kept our columns free from personali-
ties and low blackguardism, making
war upon the preiudices of no party of
men, we have disdained to be led by
any party, on the contrary. on every
topic we have expressed our own con-
selentious convictions, after attentive
and careful reviewal, and most espe-
cially have we thrown whatever influ~
encc our position gives, on the side of
correct morals. We have met with
much appreciation in this course, and
nothing could be more grateful to our
feelings. We have also encountered
opposition. and on the occasion of our
article against the barbarous practice
of duelling, that opposition has amount
cd to threats threats at distance, n
rumor Of violence, an underlined and
ominous muttering, epjoining careful
ness on our part, or consequences in the
shape of coffee and pistols, personal chas-
tsement land a. that Now if il is
supposed for a moment that we are to
be overawed, and prevented from the
declaration of our views in any matter
whatever, in any manner whatever our
conscience may prescribe by any inquis.
atorial n ode Of practice, the supposition
is an egregious error. We owe a duty
to the public, and shall fulfil it. We
owe one to our own principles and self.
respect, and shall observe it. And
while we are the proprietors of public
print, owning paper, press, and type, we
shall use our property as we think best,
and have an inalienable right to do so,
as much as any man has to sell his
goods, or ride his horse. There is al.
ways a remedy in the hands of the pub
lie, lfa paper is wrong the public can
refuse to support it, and it ceases. But
to endeavor to cramp and trammel the
press by any other means is an idea in
consistent with republican feeling, and
subversive Of every principle of right.
1t is not consistent with our tempera-
ment to submit to it, and we will not.
We shall publish an Independent paper
viii we publish any, and when we
cannot express our own convictions un-
tramelled, we will cease our vocation,
and earn a living in some other way.
The parties engaged in the affair, to
which we referred on Saturday, we have
reason to believe have the best of feel
ings fer US, and we have not referred to
them in the above remarks But some
bodies, who are not satisfied
without every thing is their own way of
have been reading lessons