Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-23
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Last Saturday, we had an article "''n
the above heading. in which we sa IS
views concerning. that wordy spselss :
patriotism. which finds its vent In "
RECLAMATION and hish-soundins fesola-
ton. which taken all in ALL amount N !,
bomely phrase to "all talk and no c'der'
IT, - r.,.,0rs,t of yesterday morning over
NC N therefor, in a long TRADE, which
:; nA !. mixture of the same species Of "ban-
~" that we have spoken Of, and per-
.On.l vindictiveness against Speaker Tozer.
:, commences as follows:
aMuch to our surprise, the Gold Hill
News Of last evening attempts defense Of
the Speaker Of the Assembly in his oppo-
sition to the patriotic resolutions passed by
that body on Friday last. The editor of that
journal, whose loyalty cannot be doubted, is
forced BY the task he has undertaken into
the unenyiable position Of a lukewarm advo-
cate Of the national cause and an indifferent
spectator OF the great life-struggle Of the Re
public. We are satisfied that he does not
echo the patriotic impulses Of his heart in
donominating these resolutions as 'bun-
combe; : and we are also satisfied that he
would have been among the first 70 direct at
tention to the neglect, had no resolutions Of
the character been presented; but be is COM
PEELED in his defense Of the Speaker to call
them buncombe.'" n
It was with the fullest confidence that
our "loyalty cannot be doubted" that
we ventured to dissent from the useless
waste of time by our Legislature in dis.
cushions over the verbiage of bombastic
resolutions neither required by the ext
gencies of the nation, nor necessary to the
establishment Of the loyalty of the State
of Nevada. Had our political soundness
been of a more questionable character, We
might have taken the course pursued by
the Enterprise, and given to the world
column or two Of "spread eagle" Asst
our "defense of the Speaker of the As
sembly that is all CANNON. We do
not owe Speaker Tuzer dollar. or a favor
We are neither his hired nor volunteer de-
fender. He happens to view this mouth
patriotism with the same contempt, ano
the bad English of these patriotic resolu'
tons with the same modification as We
do. But he is not alone in his sentiments
There are others, both in the House ant
in the Senate, who take the samt
view. We have not in the past, moi
shall we in the future, trim our sail:
| to suit the wind, blown BY any particu'
lar Legislature or any party. We speak
our own sentiments, with perfect indif-
ference as to whether they may suit Tom
Dick or the Devil. We say of these reso
luGons, that as q specimen of English
composition, assuming the Importance O
State paper, they are disgrace to the
intelligence and education of this people
We say that in their tone of dictauon
emanating as they do from State which
in population about equals the.sixth ward
of the city of New York, they are prepos'
terously absurd. We say that for peo'
pie, whose Constitution is founded on the
principle of paramount allegiance to the
general government. to talk about what
they will and will not consent" to, i
another gross piece of absurdity. We say
that the loyalty of the State was establish
ed beyond question at the last genera
election. and that reiseration Of that ex
preston is not necessary at this time
We say further, and again, that we hav'
. more abiding faith in the loyalty ant
true patriotism of those who devote theil
energies and the peoples time and none,
to practical legislation, than those whC
waste their "lives, their fortunes, anc
their sacred honor" in passing private
franchises and buncombe" resolutions
All this we say, and those who don't ik'
it, can take the less of it.