Grass Valley telegraph., 1854-01-19
Respectfully, yours,

week, Which Will best suit your convenience
Respectfully, yours,
go, - 1asrs,S, A. TALaNo,
Geo. w. WOoDWoRTH, CAPT. JOHN DAY,
G. r. EDWARDS, e. JAMES DELAvAN,
2. Fl. DENMAN, GEO. WooD,
w. LoUTZENHEIsER, G. D. CLEVELAND,
&. A. ToMPKINs, GEO. D. DoRNIN,
C. ALLEN, WM E. JONES,
S. L. BoswORTH, Jos. S. CoNN,
RICH'D. TIBBALs, j. M. FoUsE,
GEO. N. CRANDALL, j. W. OLIVER,
CHAS B. HASKELL, A. M. DAVIS,
W. LILLY.
NEVADA, January 8th, 1854.
Gentlemen Your favor of the 7th, is be-
fore me. 1t is source of deep qualification
to me that at the close of anearly three years
labor in the editorship of the Journal, during
period when exciting questions have ocsu-
pied attention, 1 am able to retire with he
good wishes Of SO many sincere friends
throughout the country. At Grass Valley. I
have always received warm encouragement
and sympathy, and go where I may, [ shall
always retain lively recollections Of my ma
ny friends there With the same frankness
with which it is extended, accept your prof
fered hospitality, and will do myself the hon
or to visit you on Tuesday, the 10th inst
Respectfully yours,
A. A. SARGENT.
To Messrs. Delano, Dean, Day, Sykes, and
Others
THE SUPPER.-Ths was an excellent one
served up ina very superior style, and alto
gether in good keeping with the enviable
reputation which the 'Epicurean" has alrea-
dy attained.
After doing full justice to the supper, the
cloth was removed, when Mr. Delano, the
Chairman, arose, and after briefly alluding to
the cause of their assembling, the indepcn-
dent and manly way in which the Nevada
Journal had been conducted under supervis-
ion of Mr.. Sargent, by whom it had acquired
an enviable reputation among the Journals
of our State, adding that this was no partizan
meeting, and he was glad to see men of both
political parties present, who desired to sus-
tain free and unshackled Press, the Bulwork
of our Nation.-He offered the following SEN
timent
Our Guest. May his future course be as
prosperous as his past has been energetic and
honorable, and with the good opinion of his
friends, may he win golden ones sufficient to
make the downhill of life comfortable and
happy.
| MY FRIENDS =
1t is with grateful heart that I acknowl-
edge your kindness this evening. Your par
tiality has selected me as an object of honor
by this demonstration, and while must de-
clare my own sense of unworthiness, [ most
sensibly feel the value of the courtesies Won
extend, as an endorsement of that line of con-
duct l have felt it my duty to pursue in nv
editorial capacity. see around me men. as
sembled without distinction of party-forget-
ting the battles in which we have fought side
by side, or as warmly in opposition, but now
met in cordiality and good fellowship. AL
low me to say, l feel the present the proudest
moment of my life. should indeed he in
sensible were untouched by the friendly do
monstratlons OF this occasion. In them T
learn lesson that independence and nerso-
verence, though for a time they NAV excite
enmlty, IN the end must command the roc,oc+
OF the community. In the conduct of no.
per in this county, have laid down certain
principles for my guidance, and I be1icvo No
one, not even my enemies, if such have will
charge me with departing from these Firs+
to fully establish in my own mind con-,;o
tions upon all exciting questions. Or onestions
that enlist attention. Second, to receive od
vice from all, dictation from none Tb;r1
to hold myself independent of elionog on5
factions. Fourth, after Determining pnon =
course OF action, to pursue it in contcr,nt of
threats or personal considerations. boliono
IN no other principles can a press be usof,l
IN maintaining its dignity. The duty of the
editor is not to feel after public opinion 10
take his cue from his contemporaries. and foon
TO form OF express his own convictions. It
TO lead the column Of public sentiment
throw himself into the van, and to secure for
his convictions their prevalence in the com
munlty. BY hesitating and timid courso
he betrays his incapacity for his position
while the public cease to rely on his Jonrnal
as source of information or direction Rv
the 1ree and enlightened press of the world
mankind has been lifted upward to a nobler
destiny Science has been ENCOURAGED. 1itora.
ture has grown from the amusement of the
few to the instruction Of the many, while