The Nevada journal., 1853-08-05
The Dodge Carried Out.

The Transcript and smaller ours of the
same stripe are barking at Mr.. Collins,
and falsifying facts as if the election of
Bigler depended on it. We make the fol-
lowing statements, to which we challenge
responsible denial:
1st. The refusal of Bigler was given be-
fore he knew who would answer him.
/ I'd. Bigler was Kissed because he forgot
his dignity as man, and INDUCED in dis
gusting vituperation, and not for what any
opponent said of him.
Sd. Mr.. Collins was selected here by
common consent, and at Grass Valley by
township meeting, and the men of both
parties wished him to bring to bear his
great argumentative powers on the points
started by Bigler.
4th. That the desire prompting this was
only for fair and free discussion.
5th. That the violence of Bigler's par
tizans was the only thing that created i'll
feeling, and turned what would have been
civil and courteous discussion into partizan
rivalry.
The "impudence" of a "Citizen" IS best
put down by a reference to the county res
olutions adopted on Saturday, in which it
may be seen if the "Whigs curse Sargent"
or any other man who tried to obtain that
discussion, customary, and highly becom-
ing democratic form of government. -
1t is so much easier to abuse men than to
answer their arguments and meet them
fairly, that we do not wonder at the course
taken by the Transcript. We despise it
and its allusion to ourself equally and
shall not look to it for any endorsement
we may need in political life.
AS to oursef, we yield to no one in love
of the Union and the Constitution We
certainly will take no lessons from the pre-
, sent editor of the Transcript, who declared
: in paper he was then conducting, July
10Th, 1852, that the idea of this great re-
public being Zone country" and having
zone constitution that is, being bound
together with common bands of patriotic
feeling, and possessing equally acting laws,
was g the legitimate offspring of monarch
ial predictions. Such sentiments could
only spring from gross abolitionism or as
gross secessionism. A man holding them
is dangerous to society in proportion as he
is trusted to lead public sentiment. Let
Mr.. Collins be all he is denounced to be,
which was denied On oath by many of the
most respected men of this state two years
, ago, when he was nominated for Senator ;
and yet he is not greater enemy to soci-
ETY., or more politically corrupt, than the
editor of the Transcript, who put forth the
views above quoted. In the worst aspect
of the case, it would only be "pot calling
kettle black"
But we shall not succumb to the tactics
of the Biglerites in endeavoring to call at
tention from the iniquitous administration
by abusing Mr.. Collins. What that gen.
tleman is, does not affect the question
whether Bigler helped on scheme to rob
the state of over million of dollars in the
states prison affair-whether he violated
the constitution and the principles of reli-
gion and morality in making duellist,
fresh from the field, a secretary of state
whether he aided water lot bills to rob the
state of two thirds and the people of all the
millions their sale would produce-wheth-
er he signed stamp acts, notarial bills, &c.
&C., for the behoof of hungry cormorant
partizans like the Transcript. These are
the questions at issue. Any man, no mat
ter what his antecedents, who exposes cor
ruption, benefits the state.
The zeal of the Transcript for the re-
election of Bigler may be summed up in
these words 1t has fingered lions share
of 100000 expended this very year in
fraudulent state printing! is making
$4,000 more out of the legal notice act
its recent editor is commissioner for the
sale of water lots, in reward for partizan-
ship-its present ones expect two years
more plumber if Bigler is elected. These
are their motives. Therefore they evince
such feverish anxiety. Therefore they try
to keep you, honest democrats, into the
strings of an exploded party organization,
and to stide reform. Therefore they heep
up abuse against every man and every
move that lessons Biglers chances, at the
same time loosening their hold on the treas
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