The Nevada journal., 1859-09-30

ened by his enemies; it was the con-
sequence Of intense political hatred.
His death was political necessity.
poorly yelled beneath the guise of a
private quarrel. Here, in his own
State, amorg those who witnessed
the late canvass, who know the con-
tending leaders, among those who
know the antagonists on the bloody
ground; here, the public conviction
is so thoroughly settled that nothing
need be said. Tested by the cores
pondence ITSELF there was no cause,
IN morals, in honor, in taste. by any
code. by the custom of any civilized
land, there was no cause for blood.
Lst me repeat the story it is as brief
as it is fatal A Judge of the Su-
preme Court descends into political
Convention it is just, however. to
say that the occasion was to return
thanks to his friends for an unsuccess-
full support; in a speech bitter and
personal he stigmatized Senator Brod-
erick and all his friends in words of
contemptuous insult When Mr. Brod-
ick saw that speech, he retorted. say
ing in substance, that he had hereto
fore spoken of Judge Terry as an
honest man but that he now took it
back. When inquired of, he admit
ted that he had SO said. and connec-
ted his words with Judge Terry s
speech as prompting them. So far
as Judge Terry personally was con-
concerned, this was the cause of NOR
tai combat there was no other.
In the contest which has Just ter
minated in the State. Mr.. Broderick
had taken leading part he had been
| engaged in controversies of very per
sonal in their nature, because the
subjects of public discussion had i'm
volved the character and conduct of
many public and distinguished men.
But Judge Terry was not one of these.
He was no contestant; his conduct
was not in issue; he had been men,
ton ed but once incidentally-in re-
ply to his own attack, and, except as
it might be found in his peculiar traits
or peculiar fitness, that he could seek
any mans blood. When William Of
Nassau, the deliverer of Holland, died
! in the presence of his wife and chill
dren, the hand that struck the blow
was not nerved by private vengeance
When the fourth Henry passed un.
harmed amid the dang eers of the fie q
of Ivry, to perish in the streets of his
capital by the hand of a fanatic, he
did not seek to avenge private grief
An exaggerated sense of personal
honor; weak mind with choleric
passions, intense sectional prejudice
united with great confidence in the
use of arms these sometimes serve
to stimulate the instruments which
accomplish the deepest and deadiest
| purpose.
Fellow-citizens One year ago
to-day performed duty. such as
perform to-day, over the remains O
Senator Ferguson, who died as Brod
erick died, tangled in the meshes o.
the code eft honor. To-day there il
another and more eminent sacrifice
To-day I renew my protest to-day
/ utter ours. The code of honor i
delusion and a snare it palter,
with the hope of true courage ant
binds it at the feet of crafty and cru
ell skill. I. surrounds its victim will
the pomp and grace of the process
ion, but leaves him bleeding on tn,
altar. 1t substitutes cold and delib
crate preparation for courageous ant
manly impulse, and arms the one t,
disarm the other: it may preven
fraud between practised duelists VII,
should be forever without its pale
but it makes the mere "trick of tn,
weapon" superior to tbe noblest caus'
and the truest courage. Its pretenc'
of equality is a lie it is equal in al
the form, it is unjust in all the sub
stance-the habitude of AIMS, tn,
early training, the frontier life, tn,
border war. the sectional custom, tn,
life of leisure, all these are advanta
ges which no negotiation can neu
tralize, and which no advantage cal
overcome.
But, fellow citizens, the protest i
not only spoken, in your words and il
, mine it is written in indelibie char
acters.; it is written in the blood o
Gilbert, in the blood of Ferguson, II
the blood of Broderick and the in
scription will not altogether fade.
With the administration of the cod,
in this particular case / am not her,
to deal. Amid passionate grief, le
US strive to be just, / give no cur
rercy to rumors of which PERSONAL,
I know nothing there are other tri
bunais to which they may well be re
: ferred. and this is not one of them -
But ] am here to say, that whateve
in the code of honor or out of it de
mands or allows deadly comba
where there is not in all things entir,
and certain equality, is prostitution
of the name is an evasion of the sub
J stance, and is shield blazoned witt
the name of Chivalry, to cover th'
malignity of murder.
| And now, as the shadows turn to
ward the East, and we prepare t,
| boo. tlooo xoo. - IL.