Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-27
NE1aHBoRLY TALK.

tnat journal 40" any otner lournuI cah
exist in the neighborhood, is the only
query that goes beyond the comprehension
of our conceited contemporary. At the
bottom Of long-winded editorials on China,
Asia and Africa earring the "nigger
question y, it regularly places piquant
paragraphs of criticism against such and
such audaciously surviving newspaper
who, in the judgment Of this Washoe JEFF
freys, has been guilty of such and such in
sufferable mistakes or crimes. And so the
column is brought up, day after day; the
writers being very evidently in the conf
dent belief that they are thus righteously
lashing an inferior race for superior
guilt" Occasionally we have retorted
upon the Quarto, in our poor way,-after
the itemizing style Of the ~assaulter. We
now propose to consider at more extended
length the claims of that journal as put
forth in its latest issue.
To begin, we have a hurrah about its
circulation. Whether it puts down its
own subscription list accurately or no, we
have have not, Of course, the means Of
judging. Taking it as acceptedly correct,
we can say that it ~iagrantly lies in stating
the circulation Of the News. We presume
that it has a greater circulation than the
News in Virginia City. 1t is very reason.
able to suppose that it has. 1t ought, by
virtue of its age,-if its conduct had been
judicious and true,-to have a subscriber
in every pioneer Of the locality. But we
have a piece of intelligence respecting its
circulation which it has not vouchsafed
the public. The Virginia Enterprise is
the only paper in the State that is gener-
ally ~patronized by the traitors that dwell
among us. AS, unfortunately, there are a
large number of secesh in Virginia, this is
a point of importance" Tod Robinson
and Tom Williams, ct id omne genuS,-all
take the Enterprise. Such characters are
very far from being subscribers to the
News; and the presumption is that they
do not patronize the Union. The Enter
PRISE has the patronage of the Copperhead
Sheriff, procured through its lick-spittle
praise, and the county officers of the "a
September birth give it their united favor.
This cause and source of a precedence in
circulation can not be denied; and to the
Enterprise it has no suggestion Of shame.
Advertisers may, however, take notice
that beyond county officials, paid largely
from official revenues, and with the excep-
ton of the few prominent secesh lawyers
and bankers, the Enterprise Copperhead
circulation is among a Democracy whose
future is an importuned credit, and whose
principle is never to pay an honest debt.
Gas the Enterprise now pretends to be a
Union paper, out and out, debts to its
carriers from Copperheads are not, strictly
speaking, of the honest order.)
Furthermore {: the Enterprise, which is
commonly spoken of as "in readiness"
at any time to become the organ of the
Copperheads should they grasp the rPins
of power in this State, and which has
been recently advising the Copperheads,
How to do it." this same sheet contains
structures upon our political conduct as
calculated to disrupt the Union party y
Pretty good, isn't it: Because we express
our preference for a Congressional candi-
date, and express our conviction, in a
pleasant but no unkind manner, that an
other candidate will not meet with sue
cess, we are read out Of the quarto school
on terms of improperly and mischievous
behavior. 1t is the custom in the East
and in the West" even so near as Cali
fornia, for Union papers to announce
their choice for candidates for all and
every office; if they see fit so to do. This
is the first hint that has been shed abroad
from any newspaper l%uminary, that It is
ill-advised to do such an act. And
this comes from the Enterprise! We
have, indeed, expressed our preference for
Col. Sumner for Congress; q man we
have known for many years, of whose
consistent political position we have long
had knowledge; whose history, political
and personal, we feel confident will bear
the scrutiny of right thinking Union men
here or elsewhere. We published the fact
of our favor toward him on our own re-
~sponsibility and at our own motion. But
in what word Of ours is there a suggestion
or hint that we will not support the regu-
lar nominee Of the Union party? Col.
Sumner has said. in scriptural phrase,
that he never intended else than to abide
by the decision Of the Carson Convention.
A life long advocate of the principles now
upheld by the Union party, he is not the
man, uOI aiS HS PSAoohoA ouPPoANSAo AN
character of men, to ''bolt" from q Union
Convention. But this was all known
and appreciated before we set it down
here. Yet it is a fit and pertinent %rejoin-
der to the fling OF this mornings quarto-
however much it may now seek to evade
or deny the palpable significance of its
latest remarks to which we refer. No
man in this or the adjoining counties, we
undertake to say, has ever expressed a
doubt as to our support of the Union
nominee. We have heard many men IN
quiring if the Enterprise would support
the Union ticket this year. Take that
fact TO your consideration, Mr.. Quarto,
before you pirate of disruption again.
How long was it before the Enterprise
came out with the Union ticket last year
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