Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-19
THUNDER IN THE SKY.

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horizon and the low rumblng of the
thunder afar off betoken the coming of
the storm, so do the gloom that darkens
the brows of our citizens and the deep
murmurings of popular discomfort por-
tend the approach of fierce storm of pub
lie indignation which must ere long burst
upon the heads of those to whom the evil
condition of affairs in this Territory IS
most distinctly traceable. As has tune
and again, been said by ourselves and our
cotcmporarieS, the dead and ruinous stag
nation of all the leading business interests
of the Territory is, more than to anything
else, attributable to the condition OF mat
ters in what are ironically termed our
Z" Courts of Justice" 1t is not alone that
from vexatious. inexcusable, if not cul-
pable delay in the disposition of hundreds
of important mining suits, vast numbers
of mines which would now be in active
operation, employing hundreds upon hun
dreds of now idle meI, are to-day tied
up with injunctions or occupying an uu-
certainty of tenure that renders the risk
of working them too great, until some de-
cision has been made upon the conflicting
titles. 1t is not alone that the utter hope
lessness of obtaining decision for years
to come, under the present condition of
the calendar, deters citizens from apply
ing to the Courts for relief in causes of
difference that are daily arising. 1t is
not alone that the doors of our court
houses are shut, and our judges wander
ing hither and thither in search of health
or pleasure or in the transaction of their
own private business, while that of the
people is neglected and ruined by delay.
1t is neither Of these that is the chief
cause of gloom and evil foreboding, the
reason why the name of court" is men
toned with disgust, of Judge" with
loathing and scorn, and those of Law
and Justice" have became by-word and
a mocking. 1t is because the impression
has been forced upon the unwilling minds
of the people. has spread abroad through
the whole mass of the community, and has
taken deep hold upon their conviction,
that is ineradicable, that from the highest
to the lowest, in every department, the
Judiciary of this Territory is CORRUPT.
Be that impression true, or be it false; be
it Just or unjust, that such an impression
prevails in the breast of nine citizens out
of every ten who give the subject
thought, let any man who doubts ask the
irst ten of his neighbors that he meets.
The existence of such a conviction in the
public mind, is calamity equally terri
ole to the interests of the country whether
it be true or false. Has this universal
conviction been spontaneous generation,
without any shadow of creating cause:
We apprehend that such thing were i'm
possible. The seed of this suspicion has
oeen planted. narrowed and watered into
a vigorous growth by a thousand acts and
circumstances and conditions, capable,
perhaps, of satisfactory explanation by
those upon whom the suspicion rests;
out with cool, insulting, exasperating con-
tempt of public opinion, left unexplained.
Charges, direct in their nature and most
direct in their application, accompanied
oy minuteness of detail, which, uncon-
tradicted as circumstantially and minute
ly, necessarily carry conviction of their
truth, have either been passed silently by,
or answered C) by a paltry, fiat, simple de-
nial, such as is fled by pettifogger "for
delay" when his defense has no merit.
These Judges, thus accused, have houted
the people In the face, laughed to scorn
their demands for explanation, and treat
ed with cold derision their complain
ings. They defy the people, whose dear
est rights are charged to have been spit
upon and trampled under foot, and dare
them to produce their proofs before tn e
United States Senate, to whom alone the
Judiciary are amenable." Proofs indeed
The crimes with which the Judiciary of
this Territory are charged, are not like
those of the fearless and unmaSked
who bids the traveller ''stand
and deliver" or the murderer, who
strikes down his foe in the light of day
and before the gaze Of the multitude and
who trusts to the feetness of his steed and
the trustiness of his weapon for his immu
nifty from punishment. Their crime, if
they are guilty at all, is like that of the
masked midnight thief, or the stealthy
adulterer, whose guilt must be shown by
the multitude of connected circumstances,
which, when no link is missing, constitute
proof irrefragible, satisfactory and indu-
bitable. Such proof is said to exist in
this Territory to-day. Its outlines are
in our hands, and in justice to the people
among whom we dwell, of whom we are
a unit, bound by the ties of a common in
terest, we have it in our mind to lay be-
fore the public, facts susceptible of proof
circumstances undeniable, and conditions
as palpable to the eyes as that the sun is