Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-07
THE WEATHERCOCK.

With each succeeding day, the whilom
mouthpiece of the boilers changes its style
of attack and defense, and gives some new
excuse for its detection from the cause for
which it had for months been so stout an
advocate. What it will at last settle
down upon, as the real cause of its malig-
nant opposition and word-eating policy,
it is difficult to imagine. For weeks and
weeks it had ably urged upon the people
headoption of the Constitution, an instru-
ment which it could hardly find words of
hyperbole sufficient to praise, and in its
reasoning in favor of the immediate for
nation of State Government, used argu-
ments so forcible and unanswerable as to
drive from the lists every attempt at refu-
tation. Those arguments stand to-day in
black and white, the most powerful, con-
vincing and unanswerable, of any that
have yet appeared in print, and although
the proprietors of that paper have, in petty
spite and malice, adopted a policy which
brings them under the ban and scorn Of
every white man in the community, those
written arguments still stand recorded in
the minds of the people, powerful, logical,
and unanswerable still. When it first
laid aside the garb of reason and right,
and published to the world the fact that
all these able arguments had been written
with a mercenary view, and were the
offspring of the brain and not of the heart,
or rather that the heart was never con-
suited in that establishment, it announced
to its astonished readers that all the argu-
ments adduced, and 4" facts" stated, were
false and fallacious. 1t then denounced
the Constitution as an evil thing, and a
State Government as costly calamity, to
be by all means eschewed and avoided.
To this end, it commenced system of
stating what it declared to be facts,
and entered into series Of contradictory
mathematical calculations, and these it
calls "6gures." When this fact and
figure programme was taken hold OF
roughly, and fell in tattcrs at the grasp,
that department was farmed out to "cor-
respondents" and the editor of the hour
took refuge in facetiousness and ridicule.
That feeble weapon was found to be
sword of lath, and this mornings issue
comes out with sort of flank movement.
One column is devoted to libel of this
paper and the Bulletin, and the other
nameless thing, headed "Look Before you
Leap" This is piece of proverbial ad-
vice which the Union has failed to profit
BY; else it had not been hopping about
ike a flea on hot rock, after its manner
of the past week. 1t commences this
leaping article thus:
"While there was prospect for the peo-
ple to become benefited by the adoption of the
Constitution we were in favor Of its adoption;
but now that it has become a stubborn fact
that in ratifying it, the people will throw
themselves into the clutches of gang of un-
scrupulous politicians, We are most decided
/, opposed to it. We are and have always
been opposed to politicians, and we shall
always oppose them"
So it appears that the facts" that the
Union has been furnishing its readers
with for the past three or four days have
been foul calumnies after all, and the
Constitution is really good one, and
that State Government is what the
people really need; that the Union is in
favor of both, or rather would be, if the
nominees of the State and County Con-
ventions had only been to its taste.
"Lord Lord how this world is given
to lying" Talk about Paddy's flea, Jack
O'Lantern, and all other unstable, uncer-
tain, hopping, wriggling, slippery things
the Union beats them all. To follow it
is hopeless; argue. it will not; its du-
plicity and utter want Of honest principle
it conEesses without 9 stsmmcr or blush.