Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-12-04
WHAT THE COLFAx PARTY THINk
OF OUR PEOPLE.

Among the laoies composing tue party
who accompanied ice-President Colfax
10 his visit to Virginia City and Gold
Hill, last August, a Mrs. L. G. CAL
houn, a most talented correspondent Of
the New York Tribune. In q letter to
that paper she thus speaks Of our neigh
borhood and people:
have said that in material good they
have comprised great successes.
never saw in the East such superfuous
slaboratsnsss of dinners and breakfasts,
nor such useless profusion of silver aud
glass. The emphasis Of their hospital
ity lie, in those things because the wo.
men have not gotten beyond them.
This worship Of the body, too. olunts
their more delicate perception Of a hne
ceremony ; and l saw q beautiful and
accomplished and royslly-attired woman
take a whisky straight" with twenty
men, her husband, gsutlsman-like and
scholarly, seeming to see nothing oblec-
tionable in the noisy gaod-tellowship.
Because tho women are apparently on
Just the same plane as tho men, they are
really lower +; aud, loving and faithful
as Americans almost always are, they
fail Of being wise wives and mothers
and s%weethsarts, in just as far as they
fail Of being wise women. A very
thoughtful and quiet man said to me,
" l am glad this question OF woman SUI.
frage is coming up to us here. what
ever good or i'll turks in 1t, the very
suggestion of it must make our
women think, and the necessity Of a
decision will do them good. We have
been too busy to see that we were teach.
ing them to be dolls-vsry dear and
fond dolls, of course-and now, when
We have more leisure and should like
companions, behold, what we have
moulded that we have" Everybody
who goes thither from the East makes
littls speeches to them about their won.
derful pluck aud prosperity, their gram
deur and freedom, their achievements
and triumphs, aud general excellence.
Every word Of praise that has been
uttered l echo. Dauntlss,uess, il 1t has
only hssped up riches, 10 a splendid
quality, but It is such q little part OF
manhood. It is only the base on which
manhood is built.
Nevada is such o young aud free
limbsd STATED She has no memories OF
an unclean past to live down. She has
no old prejndices to OUTAGE. She has
no conservative public sentiment to hold
her back. She can so easily be richest
among tho nation in tho thoughtful
manliness OF her men and the gracious
w%omanliness OF her women But they
are not wise or kind who tell her that
she has won her place in o fine civiliza.
ton, aud who crown her with quickly.
fading bays, and bid her rest. We have
much to learn from her of courage be-
fore danger, and cheerfulness under dis.
coursgement, aud uuselfsh giving and
loyal friendship. But she has ten times
more to leari Of US, of fneasss and cul,
ture, and sweet home influences, and
simplicity, and gracious manners.
The people Of whom | have spoken
thus frankly, said to me, ever so many
of them, "Shall you write about US 2
and when I said Perhaps" they al
answered, "Tell the truth about US
even if it is hard, but don't forget tina
we have warm hearts," As il | could
ever forget that, remembering such
golden kindness of them And if il
were not that they have such splendid
capacities Of growth in them | should
never have said that they wero dwarfeC
and warped by the cheap successes o.
their lives. Nor do | mean that we did
not find sweet aud manly men
But l have tried in all these letters Ia
tell, not what I fancisd it would be po'
lite to see, but what | saw. II BY chance
any of those far.off friends should have
read this screed thus far, will they have
patience to read a little further and re-
call this story Of earle?
Cnrle was a misshapsn dwarf Of Ar
thurs Court. Day by day, for ionG
years, he besought the knights to smitt
off his head, but they loved him, and
would not for the world have harmed
hair thereof. One day he came to Ga
waiue and said, " Il pray thee, Gawaine,
strike off my head )" aud Gawaine said,
"Nay, | love thee too much But
when he saw tears on the poor crea'
ture'. face, moved by a great impulse
he smote, and there rose up, not the de-
formed earle, but Sir Garlic, hand
soonest of the knights, who had been
the victim of a cruel enchantmsntr
which could be overcome only wheu
some friend should love him enough to
,mite. think the moral Is that not one
AZ ma orows to his full stature till friend.
ship is hone,t enough and tender enough
TO break, with wounds if need be, the
snslI or our vanity and insulation.