The Nevada journal., 1856-09-19
"Queries" Answered .sby A. A. Sargent"
NEVADA. Sept. 18th.

Queries" Answered 'fby A. A. Sargent"
NEVADA, Sept. 18th.
Sundry queries are proposed to me in
the Democrat of this morning, which l
willingly and fully answer. The ques-
ton involved is, in my opinion, one of
"vital Importance, and l desire to avoid
no responsibility for either my past
course or present opinions.
1st. l do not believe the "oficers
elected by the American party last year
to be fools and knaves, (neither honest
nor capable,) } or that vigilance commit
tees should be organized throughout
the State to evict them" Neither do
know that this "is recommended by our
party papers generally" or that the
Bulletin or True Californian have either
recommended this, or belong to "our
party"
I'D. IF elected to the Senate, II WILL
oppose the payment of "all printing re-
ferring to the Vigilance Committee" ex-
cept as provided for by the following
provisions of law, even though the effect
is toinjure certain democratic innocents,
the Nevada Democrat among the num-
Der, who have been running up bill of
thousands of dollars against the State,
in hopes an anti-Vigilance legislature
will pay the bills. Section 1st, of '.An
act concerning official advertisements,
and to provide for their payment, page
S4 of the Statutes of 1856, reads as fol-
lows:
SEC l. All advertisements notices and proclamations
by the Governor and other officers behalf of the
State shall be ordered published by the Governor in one
newspaper only and the State ha be liable to paw
or any other and every officer is prohibited
paying for such other publication out of any moneys be
longing to the State Prooidd that proca
nation of rev ard may by him be ordered published
not TO exceed four newspapers and notices by the Trea
surer for the redemption of State Warrants Bonds
may be published as now required by law.
In defiance of this law, all the anti
Vigilance papers of the State, and some
others, have been publishing for months
document purporting to be procla-
nation, also, orders of generals of mill
tia, and some of them a speech of Gen.
V. E. Howard, called report-making
a bill to be paid of forty or fifty thou
sand dollars, when the legal charge
should not be more than three thousand
dollars. l will oppose, with all the en-
ergies and abilities ! may possess, if
elected, the drawing of money from the
State Treasury for this illegal purpose,
and defeat the cormorants who are so
greedily lowering over the treasury, un-
der the name of "innocent third parties"
Id. / believe the prevalence of crime
in San Francisco, the rule of bullics and
ballot-box suffers, by which the will of
the people at the polls was invariably
defeated, the prevalence ofrufianism, by
which forty bodies were picked up in
the bay in one month, ostensiblv the
victims of man traps, the acquittal of
Ieep-stained murderers in the Courts
by packed juries, the crowning act of
devilism in the assassination of Mr..
King, called for the Intervention of the
people in their own defence. That the
Vigilance Committee was organized to
remedy, and did remedy these things,
and approve of their action as "wise,
polite and humane" and eminently JUS
tifable by the first law of nature, and of
common, civil, and statute law-the law
of self-defence. That the history of
their course shows that in all cases they
awarded fair trial, and full privilege
of hearing to the accused, and made
an example of no man not notorious for
his criminality; and that the action of
the Committee in its direct results, "con-
duced to the safety and happiness" of
the city of San Francisco.
-4tf. Believing that the spirit of JUS
tice is of more Importance to the CON-
munity than the forms of law-that it
is right to oppose tyrants and murderers
even to revolution-that when the judi
cial station is used not to punish but to
protect crime, it is the right of the peo-
pie to protect themselves, l have been
found the friend of the Vigilance Com
mittec, and desire no one to misunder-
stand me in this fact If elected Sena-
tor, l shall oppose with whatever power
God has given me, the efforts | believe
will be made to harrass and outlaw the
Vigilance Committee, and | will favor
an act of oblivion for their benefit, to
give complete rest to the people of San
Francisco upon the matterJ AS District
Attorney have had no occasion to act
unon the suhiect and &c n;cfr;ot Attor