The Nevada journal., 1857-12-18

articles on the subject. The indigna-
ton in Sierra is natural A citizen very
much respected was slain, they believe,
without sufficient provocation. The in
dividual who committed the deed has
been arrested at great expense, tried,
convicted and sentenced by an unbiased
jury. The people of Sierra, like all
other good citizens, desire to see the
laws executed and the convicted punish
ed. They have SO expressed them
selves, as they had a perfect right to do,
in public meeting assembled, and have
published to the State their opinions,
which doubtless are honestly entertain
ed. They have. however, published a
groundless apprehension that Governor
johnson intends to pardon Butler before
the expiration of his term of Office.
There is no foundation for such sur
mise as that the Governor intends to in
terfere further between the condemned
and his executioners, and as to the re-
port that those of vigilance proclivities
have thus far interposed to save the life
of Butler, it is as utterly untrue as the
pen that wrote it is puerile. We learn
that no petition in behalf of Butler has
been circulated either here or elsewhere,
but that the leniency extended the con-
demned by the Governor, has been
mostly obtained by the efforts of min
lister of the Gospel and the prisoners
counsel, and we have yet to learn that
a majority of these were in any way
favorably disposed towaads the Vigi-
lance Committee.
The position of the Governor on the
vigilance question is a sufficient refuta-
ton of the charge, let alone the over
wrought and misrepresenting articles of
the San Francisco Bulletin against But
ler. In that paper Of the 14th inst is a
leader, so strained and extravagant in
statement and style as tina; the truth in
it may be said to be wholly swallowed
up and lost in Misrepresentation. Where
is the authority for stating "the whole
country breaks forth in an angry pro-
test-in Sierra, where the murder was
committed; and in Nevada, where the
murderer was onvicted-the press and
the people, with one voice denounce
this exercise of Executive clemency."!
So far as the statement applies to this
county, we unhesitatingly pronounce it
incorrect. There has been no excite
ment here in consequence of the respite
of the Governor. Nearly all who be-
lieve in Buffers guilt, and acquiesce in
the Justice of his sentence, are satisfied
so long as they believe punishment will
be eventually meted out to the offender.
There is no reason to sappose pardon
will be granted Butler by the present
Governor Of the State. The people are
satisfied of this, and far from filling our
streets with oaths and curses against
the Executive are quiet and content.
The Bulletin raises howl about the
money of Butler having its influence T!
This will BE- news to his counsel, who
for the time spent in bis defence would
like to know where the cash or property
may be found to remunerate themselves
out Of it. 1t would be deed calling
out their gratitude, if the Bulletin would
send hound to smell said money out
But of what use rs it, to notice farther a
long article make up of such expletives,
as murderer, villain, double-dyed assas-
sin, the gallows, human gore, hangman,
Death, He'll and Damnation, strung to-
gether with hifalutin and plentifully in
terspersed with fly marks and notes of
astonishment :
From first to last we have never lifted
finger to save Butler for one hour from
the fate that awaits him, and rarely, We
ry rarely, have we appended our pat
ronymic to petitions of pardon however
numerously- they may bc signed or res
pectably SO. We never favored a too
liberal use of the power vested in the
Governor. for the benefit of those under
condemnation. and in reference to the
respite of Butler occupy precisely the
position we have all along maintained,
The only object of this article is to re-
prove tendency on the part of some of
the newspapers to falsify facts in con-
neetion with the affair.
Mr.. EDITOR In common with other
taxpayers l have an intense anxiety to
learn she magnificent plan in the brain
of ga" of the Democrat, for getting the