Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-20
LETTER FROM wAsHOR CITY
WAsHoR CITY, Aug. II, 1866.

EDITOR GOLD HILL News AS q toar
member of the Union party, as n who
has u~nqualifedly sustained the Union or
ganization during the four years struggle
for National existence, I think I am enti-
tied to reply, through the columns OF a
Union paper, to any attack that may be
made against my political actions and
opinions. I therefore ask you to permit
me, through the columns Of your valua-
BILE journal, to notice, as it deserves. an
abusive article lately printed in that filthy
sheet, called the Eastern Slope, or Slp-
bucket, as it is known among re-
spectacle men In Washoe City. That
sheet is the mouth-piece Of a certain as
pirant for Senatorial Eye gods !! or Con-
gressional hon6fs, and is published OK
p,e,sly for the purpose of Eliminating the
slang the would.be United States Sen
ator, or Congressman, or Ambassador to
the Court of St. James, may choose to
dictate ; the real manager and inditer OF
its editorials, well knowing that the editor
is just the tool to suit the vile and licen-
tious purposes of the creature behind the
tripod. An article in the issue OF the
Stop, dated July %, 1866, is a specimen
Of the tone and style of the sheet which l
have above ftly characterized. nj
sheet makes a practice Of slandering the
character of citizens of this place ; and
when, for such dirty and dastardly
conduct, public opinion rises strongly
and hreateningly against it, the nomi-
nal editor will leave town, with the under
standing that the real editor 10 to make an
apology during his absence, and so save
the concern and its ostensible proprietor
from consequences that sometimes result
from the indignation Of IN outraged COM
munity. Such is the conduct OF The
twain in numerous instances. Is this the
way to conduct a public journal? Is a
party to be built up or kept together bysuch
kind Of proceedings-when men who do
not agree in all things, and especially,
perhaps, on personal aspirations, with the
managers of a pretended union sheet, are
to be made the target for dirty and BIAS
phemous abusef
Now in regard to the article Of which
I have spoken. 1t was written, or insti-
gated, by the would-be U. S. Senator, OF
Congressman, or Ambassador, and COM
mences by deliberately lying about Judge
Bennett. And. mark it: it mocks his
form of prayer! Who. but an indescriba-
bly licentious wretch would be guilty Of
such a thing? Is it not enough to make
a respectable citizen cover his face with
shame to see. in a professedly christian
community, the language Of prayer dis.
torted and ridiculed in the public print
And why is this gross and indecent ar.
ticle written, or instituted, by the would
be Senator? Simply because the persons
intended to be injured by such writing
sustain the policy Of the President OF TIT
United States, and insist that it is TIT
policy upon which the war was waged
Let any man oppose or deprecate such .
policy as much as he may, is it q crime tc
support it; Or, could the advocacy o
any policy form the shadow Of a shade o
excuse for the style Of attack on private
character and religious manner which Il
held up to ridicule in the article the Slof
printed in the issue / have referred to
Ny name is lugged into the article, al
it has been from the same quarter on oc'
casions before, in connection with insinu
alton about copperheadism and secession
lists, as terms applicable to those whc
think and speak Of present political mat
tiers as I do. Now / wish to say, in reply
to that, that l have voted with the Unior
party since the commencement of the re-
bellion, and any man who calls me
secessionist, or intimates that I have any
sympathy with treason, Is a liar, and th'
truth is not in him. I trust l am under
stood. l am eminently responsible for al
that l say.
7 am a conservative Union man, ant
agains, the radical, Thad. Stevens fac
ton, supported by the would-be Senate,
or Congressman, his serf Of the Stop, anC
those for whom he is VIGOROUSLY q repre-
sentative IN Washoe. And, / assure you
you cannot find a man in this County
whose political a~ntecedents, before thu
war, were with the Democracy, who, sine
the war commenced, has been unfaltering'
ly with the Union party, who does no
entertain conservative Union sentiments
and is n o ~inaexibly opposed to the "rad'
ical" schemes Of all such scullions al
dump their SANDER into the Eastern Stop
I am an unconditional Union man-al-
ways have been-always will remain so
and, therefore, cannot affiliate with TIT
Slop-ites; and I think it worth while tc
thoroughly expose the source Of the licen.
tious articles in the sheet that is permitted
to be published here, and brand the author
before the public as he deserves. I think
it high time. some one in Washoe City
squarely and openly expressed a just opin-
ion of the sheet, whose character and con
duct I have briefly reviewed; and, with O
sense of public duty. thus performed, as q
Union man, l subscribe my name,
FRANK Cook.