Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-03-06
LETTER FROM COL. SUMNER.

Talk Of slow coachesl On yesterday
we received the subjoined letter, which
is dated at, and, we suppose was dis
patched from Carson on Saturday, the
23d of February. Although We have
no leave to publish it, and although it
contains objection to any public reply
from the author to the nice folks Of the
Enterprise, we cannot forbear putting it
in print; trusting for our apology to
the Colonel on the approval of many OF
his friends will give to u action. 1t
is written in the freedom Of friendly in
tercourse, and as such will, perhaps,
show to the public, better than in any
other or more studied communication
the proper sentiments of the Colonel in
regard to comments from that verscious
and loyal (?) sheet, the Enterprise:
SENATE CHAMBER,
CARSON, Feb. %, 1871
Ny DEAR LYNCH: Yours Of day before
yesterday has only this moment come to
hand. | will inquire in the State
Library for the book you mention; and,
il I find it, I will have the pages to
which you refer copied, and the manu-
script forwarded to you Immediately.
hardly think | shall find the book, how
ever.
As to your suggestions that l write
a public reply to the Enterprise article
on the minority report, l am Of the
opinion that it is unnecessary. don't
think there is an intelligent mau in
Storey county who gave their state
ments concerning it n moments SIN
cere belief. I suppose you have read
the report. Ifyou have, you notice that
the editorial referred to is q gross and
absolute Misrepresentation. The whole
stock in trade of that concern is lying
lie, lie, lie; to lie about persons whose
independence and honorable conduct dis
tresses them, or for the paudering OF
whom they are subsidized, is their reg
ular business. The public know this
we'll. Our report Was a general objec-
ton to the form of the proposed repeal
ing law; involving no question whatever
as to the merits of the Civil Rights Bill.
We might as well pass similar laws for
every other Federal statute, Of common
application. The bill has been consid-
cred in Committee Of the Whole, and
the Senate were so clearly Of the opin-
ion that the Minority Report was correct
that it was re-committed to the Judi
ciary Committee on an agreement by
the chairman hat he would make it a
specific section-repealing law-meeting
the objections, and the only objections,
presented by the minority. bill has
since been indefinitely postponed by the
Senate aud the Colonel and Proctor's
report is therefore fully endorsed by that
body; whose members are nearly as loyal
and honest in their history rs the Enter
pri,e,-ED. NEws.1 You remember that
for two years | have tried to get a bill
through the Legislature allowing all
persons to testify in civil as well as in
criminal cases. Clagget opposed the
bill bitterly in '65. You remember how
the Enterprise charged me with being in
favor of negro suffrage, two years ago!
What common liars they are. 1t don't
cost them a scruple to lie all round the
circle. They enjoy the largest amount
of conscience liberty, in this respect, Of
any sheet ! ever knew. They are ram
| pant on me now, owing to chagrin
at their terrible defeat last Spring,
in attempting to pack the city
convention, and again last Fall,
because | would not move from my pri-
mary associations for their benefit,
though | knew | vas to be betrayed.
The recollection Of those things make
them bile with impotent rage. So they
froth.
have been told recently that the two
present editors Of the Enterprise are mu-
~lattoes. Is that so? guess that amt
so. I guess that is a story gotten up on
no other shade Of foundation than that
| they look like Africans. If they are
mulattoes, they ought to speak we'll OF
me; for | have always been a friend OF
their race, so far as a white man decent
" could be. Yours,
CHAs. A. SUMNER.