Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-28
GENERAL WEIGHTS FAREWELL

General Wright has issued farewell ad-
dress to the people of the Pacific coast, in
which he takes occasion to fire shot at
what he dominates ga radical press and
its eo-laborers," and "a hireling radical
press, which, under the specious guise of
loyalty, would not hesitate to crafty its
pruriency for fame by doing all in its
power to plunge your country into all the
horrors of a civil war" Our neighbor Of
the Enterprise, applying these remarks of
the retiring General solely to one particu-
lar paper in San Francisco, to which with
some slight modification they might per-
haps be very justly applicable, endorses
the sentiments very heartily and pitches
into the "Ho'cLr' pretty savagely and
extensively on its,own hook. We are not
profound admirer of the paper in ques-
ton ; we do not fancy its arrogant as
sumptions of Divine inspiration, infalli-
bility, and the dlctatorial tone that it sees
ft to assume over the affairs, public and
private, of the world at large, and the
Union party in particular. Its fulmina-
tons and manifestos rather forcibly re-
mind one of those of the Emperor Norton,
whose imperial prerogatiye is undoubtedly
a fixed fact in his own mind, although the
world at large utterly fail to see it. Had
the thunders of General Wright been
launched solely toward that paper, We
should, If not excusing him, at least re-
garded his proclamation as having been
written under very considerable provoca-
ton. It is the fact, however, that the
course pursued by that officer, ever since
his assumption of the command of the
Department, has been such as to bring
him under the strong reprobation Of the
loyal people of the coast. He has been
openly charged with CopperheadiSm, and
has been rebuked for his too evident SYM
patty with that crowd, through the
columns of almost every loyal paper upon
the coast. This feeling of indignation has
been as general as the sentiment of loyal
", and has found expression in hundred
different forms.
1t is a fact beyond the possibility of
successful contradiction by General
Wright or any of his friends, that the
news of his removal from the command
of the Department of the Pacific, was
hailed by the people of the department
with an expression of exultation as gene
raj as that of O victory of the Federal
arms. We are we'll aware that it is not
the best taste to rake up old causes Of
complaint against an official, after his de-
hnquencies have been passed upon by the
Government, and he removed from the
position of ofense. The General has,
however, seen fit to stir the offensive heap
and if it make stencil it is his own fault.
He rankles over the fact of his removal,
and attnbuting it very correctly no doubt
to the representations of his incompetency
and improper conduct made by the press,
he vents his rancorous but harmless spite
in a sweeping denunciation Of the whole
loyal press of the coast. That's all right.
We hope he feels better-relieyed in his
mind, as it were. He is entitled to the
full benefit of his Address to the Peo-
ple," and as it has not yet appeared in
any of the Territorial papers, we give it
entire:
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE Pa
cIFIc, San Francisco, Cal, June p, 1854.
To the loyal citizens Of the Pacific coast
On the eve of my being relieved from the
command of the Department Of the Pacific,
it is deemed 4 proper occasion to take re-
Prospective view of the three years l have
been in command. When / first assumed
command Of the Department, embracing all
the States and Territories west of the Rocky
Mountains, was not unmindful of the high
trust reposed in me BY the Government; and
the following communication, which adj
dressed to the Adjutant General of the Ar
nv, after the expiration of the first year of
my command, will exhibit the course had
thought proper to pursue, and which has
been persistently followed during the whole
period OF my administrator OF mintary a.
fairs on this coast:
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTxEST OF THE PACIFIC
Adiutant General United States Army,
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