Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-18

EDS. NEws-Sirs Your correspondent
"Mincr" has taken up this subject in very
gentlemanly manner, and as If DESTROYS Of
getting at the right Of the matter. Now, on
this subject, we disagree, and hope to be
as DESTROYS of getting at the right of it as l
think he is. By an exchange of ideas it can
best be ascertained who is right; but all this
slang of Copperheads, ETC., only rscoils on
those who use it, especially when applied
to the hundreds who are Union men
and yet opposed to the adoption of the Con-
stitution. Nevada is composed of men who
think-they are not boys-and as this is
free country, they know no one to whom they
must most respectfully bow.
"Miner" says: admitting that State
organization is desirable, and the main OBJ
ject of the people of this Territory in the ac-
ton they have already taken, is it wisdom for
any one to think Of backing right down at
this stage of affairs :" There is no backing
down. The matter of taxing the mines was
sprung upon the miners by set of politi-
clans. Do you suppose that any man with
this as his purpose would have gone from
Storey county to the Convention, had the tax
alton question been up: No! They would
have had to have pledged themselves to oppose
it. Now, If 4 set Of politicians choose to stab
our vitality to the heart, are we compelled to
90 for the Constitution because we want to
be State? If we vote this Constitution
down, we can form another without it, and
then be State; and the delay occaSioncd
thereby will work good instead of evil. The
whole thing was 4 stab at Storey county, and
as it stands, serious one. The great advo-
Gates of this clause, were : Larrowc, Of Lam
| der county, who wants to be Supreme Judge;
Judge North, of WaShoc county, who wants
to be Governor ]. Nicely Johnson, of Orms-
by county, who would accept Of the position
Of Senator. Again: "Miner" says this is
argued against by the very class Of men who
! are the very ones, seemingly, to him, who
are to be benefited by it. Now, lsprofesS to
belong to that class taking a short-sightcd
view, and for the reason that others Of whom
he speaks, as well as myself, have more cap
ital i'll our business than we have in mines.
But, taking broader view: the general de-
preston of things consequent upon taxing
everything, is the depression Of every branch
of industry. Suppose this wholesale tax is
put upon mines, out of whom will it come
Mainly the laborcr. Put on your addi-
tional tax, and down comes labor. Every
man now, has stock in his possession, which
he is ready to stick in the stove, and when
he knows that he has not only the burden Of
assessments, but taxes too, he will soon drop
it. This talk of leaving it to the Legislature
to define what a mine is, is only putting
yourself in Il trap-let the miners settle that
question by voting against the Constitution,
and next time sec that snap judgment is not
taken. We see by telegraph, that the Gov
eminent is seriously contemplating the tan
ing of the mines. If they do tax, it will be
on the productive ores, and to this l say,
amen! the Government wants revenue, the
mines are Government property andI they
have right, but, when it comes to the tax
ing of mines, Everything simply for the sup
port of set of politicians for one, it gets my
No! A splendid argument is used by one
Of the Virginia papers-wc want State be-
cause We want a representative in Congress,
to raise his voice in opposition to the Gov
eminent taxing the mines" consistency
thou art jewel" This is glorious patriot
ism. They would tax the mines to support u
set of politicians, but they would not tax the
mines to help the Government to put down a
rebellion, which sought to destroy the great
est Government on earth. Out upon such
logic and patriotism. Miners look to your
interest, and digest well the smooth argu-
ment Of those who want glory and you to
pay for it. COSMOS.