The Nevada journal., 1859-02-11
SENATOR LANsING.-From a private

pronounced by the individual whose
name heads this article was character
ised with defamatory language against
this paper. The report of the speech
did not appear in full in the Uhiom and
was not ineligible at that.
l We are informed that the chameleon
Senator took it upon himself to stigma
tie the NEVADA JOURNAL as an aboli-
ton organ from its establishment to the
present time. Well, we care nothing
about the charge one way or the other.
Any language the changeling can use
will not affect us i'll the least. We do
not and did not hope for anything better
from such a source. A thing who will
be guilty of abetting an attempt to force
a damnable constitution upon resisting
people would not scruple TO fasten an
odions name upon an antagonist. So
we are not surprised at the remarks of
Mr.. Lansing. Neither do we greatly
wonder at the want of discretion he has
manifested, however much we might he
astonished to see the same defect in
any individual of reputed good sense.
We have sometimes upon land an exhi-
bition of the peculiar properties of the
cuttlefish. Mr.. Lansing gave his fellow
Senators one of them in his foray upon
us. He hoped by coioriag the water
about him by his own blackness to es-
cape himself, and direct the attention o.
his fellows to another who inhabits a
clearer element. He will sigually fail
We are sorry for him and would not
aim another stone to the weather-cock
that all the boys are throwing at. but to
vindicate the truths Of history, aud, out
Of our pure love of order, to keep things
in their proper places.
Mr. Lansing was born and reared
amorg sharp gables turned to the street,
and his early admiration for the rampant
little tin fellow that surmounted each of
the aforesaid gables is supposed to have
had a wonderful influence in the forma-
ton of his political character. Dnubt.
less he would like to leave the impress
S on upon the chivalry by whom he is
surrounded and whose Distinguishing
features he would affect, that he comes
from that stock of mercenary Mynheers
who landed the first gang Of cussed Mig
gers on the shores Of James River. We
beg to assure the venerable Senators
abont him that it is no such thing, and
that the time was, and not long since,
when he would have been glad to fix
upon the minds of the progeny of the
Pilgrim Fathers that he was of a differ
ent breed of dogs.
Why, let us examine the relative
procl yities Of that individual and our
self to aboIitionism, since he has the
want Of policy to make the charge
While he was member of the "North
Star" and teaching neophytes to repeat
till they learned it by heart, most SOL
emn oath to support for office no man
born south of Mason and Dixon's line,
his recruiting sergeant came to our camp
and went away as empty as he came.
Lansing was in and a teacher. We
were deemed not sound and could not
have got in if we would, and would not
if we could.
There's the difference between u.s.
Let the world know it. Were it ne
cessary to vindicate ourself from asper-
sions coming from such source, wo
apprehend the above is enough.
But there are other facts going to
establish the character of Mr.. Lansin.
for veracity-facts concerning the char
acter of this paper before our four
years editorial control of it began-and
facts too which will come home to the
| poIlJ VIII IlCll WI. hdpuCuo
to be at tdis moment. or rather a0as three
days ago, connected. NJ. Lansings
assertion on the floor of the Senate was,
if our information be correct, that the
Nevada journal had wallowed in the
mire of Abolitionsm from its establish
ment to the present day"
The founder and editor of the Jour-
Nails the present largest owner in the
Grass Valley Nationals paper devoted
to the Administration of James Buchan.
an. How does he like the compliment :
A successor was one Doctor Alban, who
clings in every exigency to the beav-
lest part of the Democratic party, as a
greeny at sea in storm hugged the
anchor. Of course he sustains "our
venerable President. How does he
like the compliment About the same