Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-04-06
NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
Senator Formerly Billy Stewart once
remarked, in No. Q Of his anti-North SER
mons, that there had up to date Of his adj
dress been over two hundred murders
committed in Storey county. and not a
single conviction. Since that time there
has been one man found guilty Of the
slaughter crime he committed-sentenced,
reprieved, commuted on sentence, and
pardoned. That is the way the record
stands to-day. Murder. in Storey county,
i, not merely one Of the fine arts, as De-
Quincy has elsewhere named it; it is one
Of the popular practices OF the region.
Captain Sam Brown, c~ivilizer OF the great
American Pah- Utes Qnaugurated and
crowned as such on George F. Jones'
piazza, by the Chinese compiler Of the Pc
.res,)-Cspsain Sam Brown, n~oswishssand-
ing all his aboriginal high-mightedness is
no sooner detected in stealing a chest Of
carpenter tools, than civilization Is
postponed, the wheels Of the car o. en-
l~ightenment are blocked, in order that q
fictitious sentiment Of retribution may be
sa,iased by Sans stated playing Of bean
poker at the State corral! Here is caste
oppression for yous I, may be that If
Sam had shot down the carpenter whose
implement trunk he lifted, he. being really
copper eolored, would have been hung.
This, however, is the meress superstition ;
and even this is not warranted BY any
thing Of past history.
It has been a firm set saying of writers
OF acknowledged merit, that no commu-
nifty j, truly civilized until there is a just.
impartial, certain administration of the
criminal law. This is all fudge. There
has been a saying: speak nothing bu,
good Of the dead; or, only mention his
good traits; or, speak not at all of his
character. This was ridiculous. When
a man dies q natural death. it is perhaps
well enough to deal leniently in comment
ing upon his life and habits. But If a
man il shot down like . dog, then talk OF
the affair as if the murdered man was only
dog, or no better. This reconcilcs any
weak sentimentalists in community to the
brutal manner Of his taking of. Hence
it is good policy ; tending to the harmony
OF society.
"Society," remarks Whipple, "is but
an arena for the brilliant exploits of its
outcasts." To some persons, this remark
might seem paradoxical, or incongruou,
in its very terms. We know better, do
we not. We know how it must be in
certain other, distant portions Of the coun-
try: "All the wise men are in the Insane
Asylums, ard all the honest or true and
bsave-hearted men are clanking letters
and pounding stone in prisons" Not SO
with US. To the contrary-exactly.
We have always opposed Vigilance
Committees. They are the worst evils, of
anarchy character, that can be gotten up.
A mob merely for to-day-one that has
no systematic and cold-laid method Of life
and action-is not to be compared, in its
moral enormity, to Vigilance Committee.
We deprecate. we deplore, We denounce
such organizations! Better suffer exceed
ing great evils for a long time than resort
to them for the securing Of ultimate peace
through some sort or fraction Of instituted
Justice" to assassins. But they Will
spring up in western. outskirt commune
ties. In San Francisco, one of the most
diabolical species Of Vigilance Committees
arose, after six or seven years Of "civiliza-
tion.'-a Committee worse than any Of
its enumerated predecessor. Many men,
hers Of that Committee thought they were
doing Gods service in enrolling them
selves in the ranks Of the Destroying
Angels Of mobdom. How have they re-
pented Of it since: In dust and ashes !
Vigilance Committees. in communities
settled 30 long as six or seven years, grow
out Of the non-edministration Of criminal
law, In its integrity. Different from the
like named bodies in places settled but
Yesterday. In the latter they are almos,
expected, on the Juror Of the moment. In
the former, they come, when they do, as
suddenly o. in Montana. bu, they are
really the fruits Of long suffering, long
meditation. In neither case are they in
the least excusable, to u mind; but
looking at the world as it is, reading his
tory, appreeiating influences that long
operate dormantly among masses OF men,
tho prudent citizen endsavors to Sc
cure . commanding sentiment in favor OF
meted justice in criminal courts, in ives
tern countries, lest the day OF swift reck-
onins be precipitated ; and the majority OF
the public stand BY and say " Amen J" to
soma deeds Of unlswfulness that have .
funeral for . fnis.
Some affairs in Idaho, Montana, Ari-
IONA New Mexico, and, perhaps, Colo
rado, have lead Us to make these remarks. |
We apologize to ~ readers for attending |
to things 50 far of; not having the slight.
est legitimate title to mention or allusion
in our columns.
Our mines continue to yield grea, guam
titles Of bullion ; Pahrannsgas is said TO bs
. big country /; and much as we hear Of
the rsvivins secesh feeling in New Orleans,
. fellow wal Kissed and pelsed, lately,
from the Varieties stage. for singing one
Of the traitor songs that has been applaud
cd in Virginia city. as. r.