Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-12
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IEGE,

are honest and whose privileges are
assumed with motives centcred in private
interest combined with the common good,
is such As to secure to us a africndly public
attention and confidence which will
enable us to become an untiring repre-
sentative Of an entCrpriSing, thoughtful
and liberal people. No institution has
higher claim upon the community than
the Press, when it Is fairly conducted for
the advantage of the virtues of the COM
munity, and we viii consider it our duty,
aim and privilege to offer means of good
to all of our neighborS; so that while
they are enjoying this advantage they will
be actuated by proud spirit of iberality
sufficient to the just maintenance and
improvement of their daily newspaper
representative. 1t is not our duty, not
our aim, not our privilege, to engender
disturbances, or to help up factions, or to
advance the vices of party, or to use our
columns for creating enmities to be pro-
longed by personal controversies. 1t is
not our duty. not our aim, not our priv
ilegc, to depend upon the general support
while we strive to support special and
monopolizing interests, or to overrate
politicians, or to defend corrupt officers,
OF to aid any oppression Of poor men and
workingmcn, or to contend for broad dis
tinctions between capital and labor, or to
put blind on our own opinions to follow,
commend and flatter selfish and deceptive
leadership. Is is not our duty, not our
aim, not our privilege, to float our prcju-
diccS among the prejudiceS of others and
call them testimonies of infallible judg
ment; it is not our duty to question the
right of free thought and free language,
but it is our privilege and duty to observe
and oppose the abuse of that right which
cannot be part of enlightened and last
ing liberty unless it be held under a
decent and voluntary restraint. No man
is so free by the intention and operation
of constitutional democratic and republi-
can guarantees, as to be permitted to in
suit and agitate the community by habit
ual openne>S of expressions void of manly
constraint, neighborly ciyility, proper re-
spect for the different sentiments prevail
ing around him, and gratitude toward the
source and continuance of extensive free
dom and perfect citizenship.
The chief interest in all this land of
atfiuent wonders is material. The bases
of us all in the physical, mental and social
application, are precious metals. Illimit-
able gold fields surround us; interminable
silver veins course beneath Us, and innu-
mcrable varieties of valuable minerals
slumber on their vast beds in waiting for
the irresistible arm of labor and the dis
solving force of enterprising moneyed
capital, to break down their rocky chamber
doors and let them out to flow in sur
passing commercial richness over the
world. This is the shining center of
thought and purpose, but happily it has
not the power of absorbing all thought
and COMPRISING all purpose. Mingled
with the strain, toll and activity are public
spirit looking comprehensively to order
and law, and various political opinions
and deep feelings, the best of which is
that of patriotism. 1t is our duty, our
aim and our privilege, to say with the
majority, that the government ought not
to be revolutionized, for it has done no act
to warrant revolution or largely expert
mental measures; that rebellion is entire
" unjustiiable, and that all the circum-
stances of our national and independent
existence Internationally demand and
nationally require the fullest eXertion of
the national energies to Subdue con-
Spiracy which is nightly risen to shatter
and divide the Republic without reason,
without justice and without proof of re-
sulting benefit to any section. 1t is our
duty, our aim and our privilege, to say,
that the national government as 1t Is, Is
good enough for us, and too good for the
many who accept the blessings it bcstows
and thanklessly, recreantly and rancor-
ouSly say, that treason and dlsunlon are
better. The government is good enough
for us-our forefathers helped to frame
and fight for it, and were satisfied with
it. Our fathers gratefully accepted it,
cherished it and were satisfied with it.
Imbued with the descending love which
they held for it, and seeing it not decay
ing, not enfeebled, not oppressive, but
rising in glorious power and expanding
benehcence, we are satisfied with 1t. 1t
protects us and we will defend it; admi-
ration for it impels Us to respect its
agents who are faithful, and to condemn
those persons of every class who disre-
gard their obligation to it; respect for it
causes US to support such measures as the
constitutional authorities may deem ne
cessary for its preservation. 1t Is our
privilege and aim to sanction the fact that
the Constitution is the sole guide In Peace,
and that Necessity is the guide in War.
We want war while the nationality and
the government are in danger; We will
want Peace when she can come arrayed
in spotless national honor, and bearing
along with the starry flag of the Union
the assurance of long and pleasant stay
with all our States and among all our
people. ~
UNExAMPLED PREssURE.-We have
been "out-generaled" in all our plansfor
the first issue of the News by the singular
kindness of our advertising patrons. The