Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-11-23
Treason Takers.

IN our oar-roomS ana otneT puOllc places,
constitute one of the most vexatious and
intolerable nuisances, which patriotic citi-
zans are compelled to endure. Others
can be avoided, but this is an ever-present
source of irritation. The few examples
which have been made of these mouth
traitors have had but little effect in sup
pressing them, and the officers of the law
seem to be imbued with peculiar deli
cacy about doing the duty which the law
requires of them in this particular instance.
A poor drunken devil lying on the side
walk sleeping away his debauch when
everybody else is in bed, does very little
harm to any one save his miserable self
Yet such one is mercilessly seized and
due punishment awarded. while the bla-
tan. rebel, with a heart black with trea-
son, and his hands, perhaps, red with
patriot blood, renders the sidewalk, the
public resort, or the hotel table, pur-
gatory for loyal men, and does so with
impunity. Occasionally it happens that
some soldier, for whom primary political
meetings have no terrors,. seizeS one of
these braves and walks him off to mill
tary station, much to the satisfaction Of
the community at large, and greatly to
the indignation of the Copperheads. Then
do we hear much discussion Of great
Constitutional questions, and loud denun-
Citations of the military despotism of the
Abolition Administration !" A case in
point is that of Mike Brannan, arrested
recently in Carson, incarcerated for few
days at Fort Churchill and released upon
taking the oath of allegiance. He was
hardly out, however, before he recon-
menced his rebellious uproar and was
again arrested, but liberated upon condi-
ton that he leave the Territory within
thirty-six hours. No sooner had the
news of his first arrest reached Aurora
than the treason-mill, in that town, fired
up and put on full head of indignation.
"Too FAR" was the heading of the lead
ing editorial of the Times that day. 1t
"has no sympathy with drunken, brawl-
ing FOOLS" etc. etc.-of course not O.;
"we submit that this mode of proceeding is
entirely prong." Ofcourse! Then comes
long rigmarole about that beloved " Con-
stitution of the United States" "no war
rant for any such a proceeding" "the
civil law prevails in this Territory" etc.,
etc., ad Hbitum. A wonderful amount of
respect and veneration has Mike Brannan
or the editor of the Times for the Consti-
tuition and the laws which are invoked in
his behalf! This very brawler about Con-
situations and laws is this day cripple
from a wound received in the commission
of felony. The less he has to say about
law, the better it will look, and the less
the law has to do with him, the better he
will be off. He wants to know by what
authority Brannan was arrested; and the
Carson Independent gives him the required
information as follows:
"Several months ago, the President, as
Commander-in-Chief Of the Armies of the
United States, and in pursuance of law, issu-
ed his proclamation, commanding U. s. Mar
shals, SheriifS of Counties, and ali officers Of
the United States and State officers, to arrest
all persons attempting to thwart or dis cOur-
age the enlistment of volunteers or induce
desertion. Captain Johnson has a recruiting
office in this city, and this Mike Brannan, by
his reasonable denunciationS, was discour-
aging MISUNDERSTANDING and damning
every man who would volunteer in the SER
vice of the Government. We do not pre-
sumo that he did or could exercise much in
fuence; but no such creature should be al
lowed to ventilate his treason within the lin
its of the loyal States and Territories. Con-
seauently he was arrested and turned over
to the military authorities at Fort Churchill
and all the loyal people say amen!
twill be seen that by the proclamation
referred to that the power to make these
arrests isnot only conferred upon the civil
authorities, but that it is made their i'm
perative duty. Were that duty done
faithfully, the editor of the Times would
be hmping around some fort with sand
bag on his back, instead of brawliug trea-
son through the columns of his in-look-
ing, badly printed and worse edited sheet.
The number now before US, is filed with
every species Of scurrility, sneers, and
abuse of everything loyal. without sim
gle decent paragraph as an offset. Itraves
about the Brannan arrest, abuses Stark
aud Stearns for making Union speeches,
sneers at the signifed intention Of Gov.
Nye to take part in the war, and so on to
the end of that days chapter Of the volume
Of treason it is quietly allowed to scatter
abroad through the Government mails.
He wants law-let him have the full bene-
TT of it. 1t is his sort of people that laws
were made for.