Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-26
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From the salt Lake Telegraph, Feb. Ill
Asa majority Of our Nevada neigh.
bors wish to come into closer fellowship
with our citizens, and as they assert
that Congress is willing if they are, we
may just as well name a few things that
we shall require from the good people
Of that State on their union with US. A
good understanding at the beginning of
an alliance may prevent much suisse
quent unpleasantness, and it. should be
remembered that although our people
are the most liberal in the world in
many things, yet, when it comes to
principles dnd matters vitality connected
with the welfare of the community, it
will be-found that we are as sticklish as
the Pilgrim Fathers and as infexible as
Washington.
In the first place we shall expect our
neighbors to honor the first great COM
mandment-to be fruitful and multiply
and replenish the earth. We shall re-
quire them to. till and make beautiful
the surface of the earth, instead of
spending all their energies and skill in
burrowing into its bowels. God did
not intend men to become moles alto.
gether, even for the love Of silver and
gold. Our people would feel ashamed
Of a city with the houses huddled to-
gether higgledy piggledy, and unreliev-
ed by a single shade or fruit tree or
shrub, or u rod of flower or vegetable
garden. You see the consequences of
the two systems-Utah, cultivating the
surface ofthe earth, sustains her inhab-
itants comfortably, and pays her way
h%onorably; Nevada, digging into the in
terror Of the earth, makes a tremendous
blowing about her enormous wealth,
but actually staggers on the verge Of
bankruptcy, and to keep we'll on her
feet is obliged to crave the assistance Of
Utah and try to impose On this Territory
the burden Of paying Nevada's debts
If we do, we shall expect ''shent per
silent" profit and mean to have it too.
The other part Of the commandment
must be attended to also. We shall eI-
pect u neighbors to begin to be fruit
full, to increase their families, and fill
their valleys with their own offspring,
h~onorably begotten, and paternally &C
kn~owledged. All abuse Of the sexual
powers must be swept clean away as
soon as possible. We cannot on any
account tolerate houses of ill-fame,
prostitution, adultery, or seduction.
We are death on all those criminalities
and on all indecent theatrical and other
exhibitions. This may be a bitter pill
for Nevada, hut our terms must be COM
piled with. We do not compromise in
those particulars They are essentials
to our sort Of good society. 1t may be
all very well for our ~neighbors to enjoy
a different social condition, but it does
not suit our people. The people here
about lift their heads far above all low,
grovelling, social customs, and endeavor
to live as becomes reasonable and re-
sponsible beings, observing the natural
use Of and Divine intention in regard to
the senses, not burning in their last one
toward another, as is so common
throughout Christendom. .a
We might present further conditions,
but perhaps theabove are sufficient I'M
til Nevada shall signify her acceptance
Of them. If there is to be an alliance
between this Territory and that State,
our people will be greatly DESTROYS Of
improving the Nevadans as much as can
be, and if possible raising them up to
the high moral standard Of Utah, q
standard so exalted that most Of the rest
of mankind dare not dream Of reaching
it, but, 6nding'it as they suppose be-
yond their reach, like the fox with tho
grapes, spend considerable time and
wind and ink in d%epreciating it and all
the really praiseworthy attempts Of our
people to reach it.
Nor is there anything unreasonable in
this request of ours, for while our Ne
vada n~eighbors are shut up mostly under
the shadow Of their Sierra, any little
shortcomings may possibly be some
what excusable, as nobody knows much
about them, but when the people Of that
State emerge from their obscurity and
form an alliance with so great and noble
and renowned a people as those Of this
Territory, n corresponding greatness
and noblcness of character may justly
be expected.
Moreover, it will be exactly right and
not justifable to be grumbled at, if we
kindly and charitably overlook the past
peccadilloes Of our neighbors, and help
them to pay off the grinding debts which
they have contracted in the days Of their
wild oats extravaganza and recklessness,
that they for the future be put on their
best behavior, rs will become them on
allying themselves with such q sober;
industrious, moral, and every way eI-
cellent people as ours.