Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-17
"The Flag He Hated ~

talent, nor responsibility by his daily
walk and conversation, left that State at
an early stage of the rebelion-a hcgira
which we presume caused as little regret
as that of any man in the whole State
could have done. Where he went, or
what he did after he got there, was and is
a matter Of very little actual moment to
the world at large; but from the position
TO which he had been elected by a mis-
guided party, and the notoriety he ac-
quired while lying for weeks with his
neck in a halter, in the prison of the
Vigilance Committee in San Francisco,
he has been rather more noticed by the
public. His whereabouts has been from
time to time matter of speculation, and
he has been reported in such variety OF
places rs to entitle him to the same title
as his friend and pitcher, Ned MCGOWAN,
"the Ubiquitous" There is class of
men who seem to be proud of some de-
gree of familiarity with this man, and
who would fain have the world believe
that they are in constant and confden-
tial communication with him in his self
imposed exile. OF these is the editor of
the Folsom Telegraph. Albeit, the editor
makes much ado about certain doughty
deeds by himself supposed to have been
done in bringing the war of Mexico to a
triumphant termination, in attestation of
his present loyalty and in refutation of
very general charges to the contrary, there
is u tone pervading his articles which
speaks louder than any of his protesta-
tons. In order that we may do Mr..
ALKALINE no injustice, nor be chargeable
with distortion or Misrepresentation, we,
in all fairness, give an article of his to
which we now most particularly refer, en-
tire. 1t is from the Telegraph of last
Saturday:
GONE TO REJorS HER HrsBAND.-Mrs.
Terry, wife of ex-Supreme Judge David s.
Terry, and family, sailed last Thursday week
from San Francisco for Mazatlan, for the
purpose of joining her husband, who is To-
Gated in business there. What i splendid
time the hcll-houndS have had i'll tracing out
Terry'S movements from California to Texas,
from Texas to the Confederate army, with a
Brigadier-Genera'S commission in his pocket,
how he was captured by the Federals in one
of the late battles, then how he wasn't cap
tured, but had been discovered, BY some rer-
erend liar, in acts of cruelty to Federal ne
grocS and other prisoners; then how he had
been placed at the head of the rebel guer-
rilla forces in the Mississippi Department.
All these stories have been circulated by a
vicious press of this State, and as many
times contradicted by the fair press, but they
still "harped." We have the information,
from what We consider reliable, that Judge
David S. Terry is in business in Mazatlan.
That his whole soul, sympathies and desires
are closely linked with the destinieS of the
rebel Confederacy, we know to be fact, and
in consequence of that fact Terry was too
honorable to remain longer under the protec-
ton of flag which he hated, and he left the
country.
Now, the whole column preceding that
from which we clipped the foregoing, is
devoted to denial of charges of disloy-
atty made against him by the Pajaro Times.
Mr.. Avaline uses very strong language in
his editorials; but the strength appears to
US to lie rather in the epithetS he uses,
than in his arguments. Calling people
"babbling scribblers," is no answer to a
charge of disloyalty, and offering to flight
three at time" disproveS nothing. There
are infinitely worse and meaner men than
Mr.. Alkaline who could, single-handed,
whip a ten acre lot full of men just like
him. Mr.. \. places much stress upon the
fact of his having been III the Mexican
war. So was JEFF Davis, and probably
did nearly as good work in the campaign.
Benedict Arnold did very good service
for his country in the early days of the
Revolution, but he stopped over" Won
derfully before it came to close. As we
have said before, the general tone of the
Telegraph is open to decided objection,
and breathes spirit of anything but sim
cere attachment to the loyal cause, and if
the sentiments of the editor are truly 10y
al and patriotic, as he AYERS, his way of
showing it, and his choice of language is
most decidedly unfortunate.
The very article which we have quoted
above, with regard to Terry, is an instance
in point. We submit to any candid man,
or set of men, whether the hand that
wrote and the mind that dictated that
article, are loyal and true. He is speak
ing of man whom he acknowledges to
be an undoubted and avowed traitor and
rebel. And yet he speaks of those who
have from time to time traced this rebels
whereabouts as "hell-houndS" "rever-
end liars" and "a vicious press" Is a
man "hell-hound," or a press "vicious,"
because he or it speaks in terms condem-
natory of an ayowed enemy of the Gov
eminent, under which those who thus