Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-04
"Circumstances.v

ishingly illustrated in the course
pursued by the Virginia onion. From a
warm advocate of the Constitution and
the formation of a State Government, it
suddenly hauls down that flag and hoists
the standard of uncompromising opposi-
ton. 1t says:
| We believe that, under all the circum-
stances, the best thing which the Union
| voters OF Storey county can do, will be to de-
/ feat the ratification of the Constitution. This
advice differs entirely from our position of 4
week OF two since, bit matters hare reTy
much changed SiHcT that time. We may as
/ well state right here that we expect to see our
cOtemporaries attribute this change in the
I position Of the CniCw TO the fact that one Of
( its prOprietOrS, Mr.. Church, was at one time
a candidate for State Printer, but withdrew
! from the candidacy disguised with the ele-
mentS which obtained controlOf the Conyen-
ton. We expect, we say, to hear this, and
will give the advocates of the Constitution the
! benefit of all they can make out of it. We
don't intend to waste any space during this
| campaign in defending the consistency of the
! CRioR. We shall present, from day to day,
an array of facts and figures in opposition to
State Government at this time. Such Of
/ our contemporaries as shall to dispute these
facts and attempt the task Of disproving our
arguments, will receive our attention aud a
reply. Such rs choose merely to abuse the
Union for changing front, will receive no re-
/ ply. We do not intend to be driven from the
subject BY any side issues or personal attack.
We do mean to try and defeat the ratification
of the Constitution, for the reasons We shall
/ presently set forth. We don't mean, in any
subsequent article upon this subject, to de-
vote much il any space to defending our con-
SiStency. Those who have no better answer
To our arguments than shrieking out incOn-
SiStcncy, may enjoy all the advantage they
can obtain by doing so.
To say the least of it, the foregoing is
very remarkable declaration to be made
and position to be assumed by a journal
making any pretenSions whatever to a
leadership of public opinion. 1t states as
plainly as words can do, that the failure
of one of its proprietors to obtain at the
hands of Convention a nomination that
he sought, has caused the Union to COM
plctely change front upon a question of
great and vital import to the people Of
this Territory, and to the whole nation.
1t says it expects that this charge will be
made by its contemporaries We shouldn't
wonder. 1t is hardly necessary, however,
for its contemporaries to say anything of
the kind. The people o. this country are
reading people, and great many of
them have been in the habit of reading
the Union. That paper has been
well and ably conducted, and the
community had acquired habit Of look
ing into its columns for information and
instruction upon the leading topics of the
day. What viii the public think now, of
that Journal, as reliable guide or ad-
wiser: 1t, in its issue of yesterday, coolly,
deliberately and unblushingly signs with
its own hand the libel upon its own char
acter as a newspaper deserving of any
confidence whatever. 1t says to the
people, 1.-THE arguments which appear in
the columns Of the Union are not to be
conidcd in as the real sentiments of its
editors, nor as based upon any actually
existing facts. Whatever is written herein
is written to serve the private interests,
ends and aims of its proprietorS, to whom
the public veal or public calamity is
matter of no consideration whatever.
The Union is not published as a medium
of information to the public nor an honest
counsellor upon matters of public con-
Germ. 1t is an engine paid for and sup
ported by credulous public, to further
the private ends of its proprietors, and
its services are ever upon the auctioneer's
block at the command of the highest bid
der. 1t makes no pretcnsions to sincerity,
in its statements or its arguments, and
charges of inconsistency and corruption
are UNDECIDED, cause no blush of shame,
and will be admitted as true without an
answer" What do the people think
what can they think, of journal that
thus writes the brand of shame upon its
own front: With what force will its fu-
ture arguments strike those who have
been reading that newspaper for weeks
past: VIII the people who have
read that paper with respectful attention
and listened to its counsels upon the pres
ent great isSue-will they be ready to be-
feve that the rawlings of disappointed
mercenary are the really sound and cor
rect views upon the subject, and that they
have for weeks past been made gulls,
asses and fools: We apprchend that so
far from the pupular sentiment being
twisted and reversed by this self-branded
organ of private luminosity and revenge,
that sentiment will be one of profound
disgust, mingled with degree of morti-
fcation that sheet so corrupt had ever
Swayed it for a moment. The Union is
going to deal in ''facts and figures" now;
so, at least, it says. Who will believe It's
facts p who will be convinced by its
Figures = The opponents of the Con-
stitution are welcome to the mighty in
fuenee of the self-damned organ of John
Church s. Co.
HuNG on TO THE LAST - Notwith-
standing the Virginia Union, last week,