The Nevada journal., 1853-08-26


knew this gentleman so generally loved
loved for his moral worth -
WELL vor OF Ir"-The Bigler papers
have nearly gone into spasms over the dis
comfture of Gov. Bigler by John A. Collins,
Esq, at Nevada In their distress, they as
sail Mr.. Collins with perfect tempest of
epithets, which fall harmless at his feet
He stands intellectually, morally and politi-
cally, so high in the estimation of his fellow
citizens, that such malignant arrows can
never reach him. So fire away, gentlemen,
if you think by so doing you can defend the
! actions Of John Biger, or cover his inglori-
Gus defeat at Nevada and Grass Valley
! Y You may call John A. Collins an abolition.
ist. but will that prove that John Bigler &
! Co, have not squandered the money of the
people by hundreds of thousands? If YOU
can find no better defence for honest (?)
Johns short comings, we fear he is cone
gandcr. All the whitewashing of his Benicia
Convention won't save him from that con-
demnation which awaits him at the hands
of the people" 5a..4s.
But we quote from the Transcript, not
to refute, for there is no need of that, but
to show how it deals in blackguardism and
filth, without stint, assailing private char
acter for political ends, where the person
assailed is no candidate for office, but ex-
crcising only the common right of citizen
TO discuss public affairs. The contempti-
bic nincompoop of the Transcript pursued
his course TILL heartily sick of it, we
brought him up standing by directing his
conscience to his ''anteccdcnts" by the fol-
lowing query:
"QUERRY ?--Is B. F. Washington, the
editor of the Times and Transcript, the man
who shot down Lieut.. Maloney at Sacra-
mento during the first squatter riots, when
Maloney was badly wounded, and was limp
ing away? We ask for information"
The pusilanimous slanderer drops his
tail at once on this and whines about an
''uncalled for end malicious querry.' His
glass house must not be stoned Not "call-
ed for" We gods! After columns of filthy,
wholesale, condensed vituperation against
private individual, a retort is ''uncalled
for !" Hear him =
"THE DIRTY HOUND OF THE NEVADA
JoURNAL.--The dirty puppy of the Nevada
Journal, who bears the somewhat unusual
canine name of A. A. Sargent, ptopounds
question in the last issue of that sheet, in
reference to one of the editors of this paper.
If that individual will apply in person to US,
we will cheerfully furnish him the desired
information, and at the same time so inn
press it upon his memory by an application
of cowhide to his dirty carcass as will pre-
vent his ever forgetting the answer to his
uncalled foI and malicious query"
If society ever tolerated a "filthy hound"
it must be a man who, after deliberately
killing q retreating wounded man, next
tries to assume the principles of the party
whose leader he had murdered, qrhea those
principles command roteS! We asked
! if B. f. Washington was not that man,
and B. F. Washington denies it not, and
dares not, but talks of a cowhide. Hide
your head contemplate blackguard, and
console yourself with the fact that you
would have caught the cowskin ere this if
you had man enough in your nature to
deserve the compliment. Now go on in
your mean assaults on private character,
and cover with filth men whose motives
you have not soul enough to comprehend,
all for your pay masters, but remember,
when you approach the sanctuary of pri-
vate character, that one deed of yours out
weighs in blackness all your ingenuity can
paint of others, and that your venomous
tongue can give no wound.
We believe we know how to treat friend,
and how to meet courteous enemy, and
we also know how to repel an assault from
a blackguard and bully come it in any
shape it may.