The Nevada journal., 1853-08-26
B. f. Washington, the transcripts Black
guard and Bully.

Our citizens well remember that on the
29th of July last, Mr.. Bigler visited this
city, and was courteously asked by the
executive officers Of the Reform party to
allow an open discussion. He refused,
and cast aspcrsions on the character of
the gentleman proposed as his opponent.
The Transcript took occasion in its first
issue subsequent to the arrival Of the news
at San Francisco to revie in the most
scurrilous manner, without the least re-
gard to truth, Mr.. Collins, who was pre-
sented for fair and courteous discussion.
1t drew picture Of the most hideous
moral and political deformity, enlarged
with the malignity of a fiend and the filth
Of a scavenger on its own imaginings
stabbing at the personal character, honor,
and good name of its object, in language
that strumpet would not descend to use
to bedaub her most Objectionable or des-
picablc enemy. After a column of such
sickening billingsgate against Mr.. Collins
it wound up with a single allusion to Mr..
Sargent, the editor of this paper, the only
item for spite its exhausted ingenuity and
vocabulary could furnish, and then said,
These are the men " who oppose Bigler
& Co., thus by a dash Of the pen throwing
on us all the odium its lying pen had
sought to fasten on Mr.. Collins, by putting
us in the same category. We contented
ourself with showing the mottreS of the
transcript in that it had been bought
body and soul for 100000 by the Bigler
faction, and did not retOrt in personalities.
Since that time the Transcript has been
constant in its scurrility upon Mr.. Collins,
with q malice and shamelessness astound
ing to every body who does not know
Benz. F. Washington. 1t has made its
football the reputation of an individual |
who simply differs with it in politics and
whose brilliant oratory caused it to fear
him. To counteract the legitimate and
manly opposition of Mr.. Collins, the filthy
scribe aSsails him with the lowest, meanest
and most mendacious slang specimen
of which we give below:
Gas His Benevolency, William Relief and
one John A. Collins, seem to be very thick,
and are speaking together from the same
stand, and it is even asserted by some that
he is to be the next Secretary of State, pro-
uided aI,cayS his little Re!iefShip be elected,
the question is frequently asked who this
Collins is. At home he was known as a
rabid, noisy abolitionist, OF the Garrison and
Ere |. Douglass stripe. Coming to this
country, he took the part of brazen pros
titute, on board one of the steamers be-
tween here and Panama, and by most in
decent exhibition and appeal to the passen-
gers, sought to inhame their minds against
o distinguished and highly respected lady
After his arrival here he became Peter
Funk mock auctioneer, and was probably
arrested, and thus cut short in his first great
enterprise in the Eureka state. From this,
those interested can form some estimate of
who this distinguished champion Of Waldo
Whiggery is"
We charge that not word of the above
that is derogatory to Mr.. Collins is true.
The first charge was denied on oath by
some of the first citizens of the State, two
years ago, when made by the Transcript
and one of the then editors of that paper
has since declared he believed he had done
Mr.. Collins injustice. With reference to
the matter on the steamer, the brazen SLAM
derer has lied in gross. Ex-Mayor Harris
of San Francisco, VIM. McNulty, of Sac
ramento, Mr. Belden formerly of the firm
of Vandyke & Belden of San Francisco,
besides nine-tenths of the entire passengers
who took warm interest on the side Mr..
Collins advocated will tell the Transcript
its charge is a malicious falsehood. We
have conversed with many passengers On
board the Panama at the time, and they
all concur in saying that Mr.. Collins and
the other gentlemen we have named acted
together, and on the urgent call of hui
name principles. The last charge is false
also. No one ever before attempted to
cast an aspersion upon the business Of Mr..
Collins. He carried on large auction
and commission business, as entirely incon-
sistent in its nature with Peter Funkism
as is that of Theodore Payne. The Unio,
thus noticed the charges against Mr.. Col
lins,and II speaks the sentiments Of all who