The Nevada journal., 1859-07-08


cisco National.-are striving to make
capital out of the recent difficulty be-
tween BioderickI and Perley, to the
disparagement Of the former. The
truth may be spoken at all times. We
intend to examine into this difficulty
and submit our views to the public.
In the first place, there is a differ
ence of statement about what Mr.. Brod-
erick said from which Mr.. Perley took
offence. We are informed from au-
thonty present at the time the offend ng
remarks were made, that DIR. Broderick
merely said he chad esteemed Judge
Terry hitherto the only upright man on
the Supreme Bench, but was now obliged
to change his opinion''-a remark which
certainly may be construed as compli-
mentary to either Field or Baldwin
But for the fact that Judge Terry day
or two previous had used harsh language
concerning Mr.. Broderick, this construc.
ton is much the most legitimate that
can be given the language. A reason
for believing that the statement of our
author may be correct exists in the fact
known to every acquaintance, that D.
w. Periey is of highly sensitive and
excitable temperament and keenly alive
to every remark that would touch his
own or the character of his friend how
ever remotely. We >hink it probable
the remarks of Mr. Broderick were de-
signed to apply to Judge Terry; but it
did not belong to Mr.. Perley to call the
language in question, especially in q
public place and in the presence of la
dies. Neither did it become Mr.. Perley
to use opprobious epithets in suck
presence, and it occurs to US that his
excuse for not resorting to force at once
to redress what lie calls wanton insult
is but poor one. A gentleman who
knows so well what etiquette requires in
the use Of arms should also know the
proper use of language on like occa-
sions. But be that as it may, the offend
ing remarks Of Mr.. Broderick at worst
were no more reprehensible than those
of Judge Terry in a public assemblage.
AS near as we can figure. it is about tit
for tat between Terry and Broderick.-
If one of Mr.. Broderick's friends had
arisen in the Lecompton Convention at
the time Judge Terry was saying I'M
civil things of Broderick, and tax en- ex-
ceptions, he would have been in big luck
to get off with whole head. We do
not believe Mr.. Broderick should be
dogged to death by Judge Terry's
hounds and Judge Terry escape with
impunity though guilty of the same OF
like offense.
But there is another point in this af-
fair we started out to make. Mr.. Kew
en-, the friend of Perley, lays great
stress upon one of the extraordinary
| grounds of refusal to fight Mr.. Perley
| advanced by Mr.. Broderick-the differ
ence of position, or it may be called,
rank. The San Francisco National and
other papers CT the same stripe, re-echo
the bark of Mr.. Kcwen. We have a
nut for these enemies of Mr.. BroderIck
to crack. They will remember that
once on time one John B. Weller
made very gross reply in the House
of Representatives to a speech of Hon
Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania, in
which the word ''lie" figured often and
conspicuously. They will remember
that Potomac" the correspondent OF
the Baltimore Patriot, reported the Ian.
guage of Weller and showed the gross
ness Of it on paper in its most garing
meanness. A few days after Weller
met "Potomac"-Mr. Shivley-behind
the Speakers chair and pounded him
though very small man, numerically
Shivley challenged Weller, and here oc
Cured a circumstance we desire some
of our Lecompton contemporaries to bear
in mind. John B. Weller refused to fght
Shivley on the ground that amembel
ofCongress could not condescend to meet
a newspaper reporter. The rule Weller
laid down was.there must be an equality
of position between the parties-the
same rule Mr.. Broderiek follows. Mr.
Kewen thinks it extraordinary, and
every cur in the Lecompton pack yelps
"extraordinary" that Mr.. Broderick
| should not allow man he has wantonly
insulted any honorable redress. How
was it in.Weller's casel Mr. Broderick
used language-Weller blows. And
vet Mr.. Weller declined giving the