The Nevada journal., 1856-08-22
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"Ihad dream which was not -. i are2.a BYRON
In the slumbers Of night ! had a Wis
ion, and the men Of the mountains, and
the miners of Nevada county were gath
cred together in the city of Nevada
And with one voice they cried aloud,
and said: We viii no longer be deceived
by political tricksters and unprincipled
knayes; but we viii elect men, as the
representatives of men. Thus shall
Vigilance Committees bs 40 longer re-
CURED in cur land, nor our representa-
tiyes be hanged in far country.
Then there arose certain men and said
to the people: Ye speak words of Wis
dom, and we will lead you in this your
crusade for your rights. Trust in us,
and fraud shall tremble il high places,
and iniquity be followed to its secret
dens.
Aud as | locked upon those men who
were thus valient for the nght, l mar
yelled, for upon their shoulders were
many faces; and to each man they
showed different face. And they
looked unto me like the faces Of old pol
iticians who hadruled the county of Ne
vada by chicanery, and whose tricks
stunk IN the nostrils Of the people And
10, the miracle of the Pentecost was re-
vived, and these men spake to men of
every nation in their own tongue; and
one OF them, with small stone under
his tongue, did speak with rich brogue,
and did steal away the hearts of the
children of Erin.
And they did also swear that they
knew all things, and also that they knew
nothing; and they were also all things
to all men that they might win votes.
And when the people saw these men,
they said: These men shall lead US, and
shall purify the ballot box, and save
the state; whereat these many faced
men did wink andmake divers grimaces
at each other, but the people did not see
them.
Then there arose a man with long
beard and hard hand, and but one
face, and he lifted up Lis voice and
said: Listen nnto me, ye miners of Ne
Vada, and We men Of the mountains. Ye
have desired to purify the eorruptions
OF party, honor honest men with honor
able positions. Thus far ye are right,
but you have chosen as your standard
bearers in this war which ye wage with
iniquity, the vipers which breed but in
political corruption, and fasten and fat
ten like vampires upon the wrongs and
abuses Of the people. Yo would place
in positions OF trust, .nca who have
shown themselves trustees, and to posts
Of honor tlose whose existence is dis
grace, who lave made me.ahandize of
yoa, the men Of Nevada, rs though you
were sheen.
Then the people waxed wroth and
would have cast stones and ancient eggs
at the men Of many faces, but the speak
er restrained them and said unto them:
Harm them not, but curse yourselves,
for ye sold yourselves into their hands.
Did ye not in days past send down from
the ridge and up from the valley, men as
delegates to represent you in the eoun-
ellis Of the state, and did not the men
from the valley say to the men of the
mountains: If you viii bestow upon us
the spoils Of the Offices, and the plunder
OF the party, we viii sell anto you our
constituents. And thus were We sold.
But when your buyers refused them
their paitry mess of potiage, they re-
turned sorrowing, and We comforted
them, and said unto them; Return again
and sell us afresh, and cur votes, and
our rights, to these political hucksters,
and take to yourselves the thirty pieces
OF silver, the price of our confidence and
the trust reposed in you. Fools that re
were, and blind. Why did ye not
say unto them thus: Ye traitorous
knaves! We sent you to Nevada to
represent not TO sell US; to preserve ouF
rights-not to ganble them With
villains to preserve t,e State-not to
enrich yourselves viii its plundcr and
from its ruin Tell us not of designs
frustrated, of raseaIity unrewarded.-
We know of but one recompense for
your business, and after the manner of
the amounting of Saul by Samuel ye
would have anointed them with tar and
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