Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-22
BOYS PLAY.

BOYS PLAY.
The sore-headed political Clique VINO
failed to connect in the Nominating Con-
ventions, succeeded in raising On outcfY
against the Constitution sufficient 10 oe-
fat it The arguments against 1t, which
,o,d with the mass OF the people, were the
r1arse taxing the mines, the poverty OF
the Territory. and its inability to support
, State Government. These were all the
war cries that had any backing whatever
that could be dignIfied by the name Of
argument. Al the rest was the mcrest
twaddle, balderdash and clap-trap. The
idea that the supporters and representa-
tiycs of the Constitution were set OF
political hacks" and those opposed to
it, the pure, the patriotic and the unde-
filed, was too outragcOusly absurd for
moments consideration. The very names
of the chief opposers of the Constitution
fairly ssunk with political rottenneSS and
corruption, and to hear them hurting
cpithets against politicians" was enough
70 make horse laugh. The great one
idea of " taxing the mines" was the chord
in the popular heart which vibrated at
the touch of the opposition; the people,
like all other people, dreaded taxation;
they were ready to believe the worst that
was said of the mine-taxing instrument;
they did believe it, and they voted accor-
dinghy. The Constitution was damned
by an overwhelming vote that may
almost be denomiuated unanimous.
Bueao! The voice of the people is the
voice of God" In humble submission TO
the Divine will, as it comes TO us ex-
pressed through the prophets OF the hay
ward, We bow in silence and in resiSTia-
ton. Not so, however, the prating dem
a.ogues who raised the mighty storm of
opposition. The cheap, the lovely, the
much-ad1nired form of Territorial Govern
mens, which they did unto the people so
greatly magnify, suits not these sometime
loathers of the loaves and fishes Of polltl-
cal power. \ State Government was
thing to be hated, deSpiSed and rcpudia-
ted, only so long as in that Gorernment
they were to hold no seats Of power and
place. \ State Government Is now their
strongest hearts desire; and we shall
have neither rest nor peace until these
men die or emigrate, or the question of a
Safe Government is definitely settled, be-
yond the power of resurrection. Right
upon the very heels of the late over
whelming defeat of the Constitution,
when (if the ballot-box is entitled to.
more respect than Il baby's rattle boS)
five-sixths of the people have declared
that State Government is a thing = be
stamped under foot and crushed oatAof
sight and thought and mind as nuisance
and an outrage, what do these boss State
Haters do now: March straightway TO
Carson, and endeavor to force through
the Territorial Legislature bill to submit
this very question to the people again IN
the course of the next six months ! The
corpse of that slaughtered Constitution is
not cold in the grave to which it has been
CONSIGNED, before these hycnas are Dig
ging it up again. Like the Spaniard with
the skeleton of Inez de Castro, they
would now ask the people to enthrone the
rotten carcass, crown il and bow down
before it in alteration. 1t is an Insult, and
throwing dirt and garbage at the very idea
of the principle that the people are capa-
bic of self-government. The man who
broached the idea should be taken out IN
the sage-brush, liver tied to his coat-tail,
and the dogs set after him. If the ridic-
ulous measure should pass the Legislative
Assembly, and in pursuance thereof the
people should, next summer, vote for
State Government, Congress would and
should reject it upon the ground that the
people of this Territory were set OF
tickle. brainless idiots, who neither knew
what they wanted, nor were capable OF
being intrusted With the control of their
political concerns.