The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-16
SENATOR ME AND THE NEvADA-
4 VIGILANfES.

g~ressional Globe of April We find
the reported debate which occurred
in the Senate about the time the ku
Klux bill was pending before that
body, and the Vigilance Committee
was strangling citizens at Virginia
City. The debate was characteristic,
and brought out the peculiarities
and infirmities of several Senators
very forcibly.
In the first place Nye appeared in
one of those tragic tricks with which
he is wont to startle the Senate, for
which he has, gained more notoriety
as a stage actor than as a statesman.
The trick has been played several
times by the Senator suddenly
Jumping up in the midst of a prosy
debate, with a telegraph dispatch in
his hand, which with great anxiety
pictured on his co%untenance. he has
asked to be permitted to read as of
the greatest importance to the coun-
try. This dispatch has always
proved to be some bloody outrage
committed by the bloody ku hluX
down South-which in fact had been
carefully written by the Senator him.
self or some one in Washington, and
carried about in his pocket for a
week or two, while waiting for a IA
vorable opportunity to Introduce it
with the proper dramatic aeeompan-
iments. On this occasion the docu-
ment proved to be a letter from one
in North Carolina burdened with the
old song. 1t was read of course,
and off went the Senator ON one of
his sky scrapers. When he had con-
Guided the following conversation
occurred, preliminary to the intro
duction of extracts from the Carson
State Register and the Territorial
Enterprise:
Mr.. Blair. The Senator from Ne
vada is so much grieved by what is
going OH in North Carolina that | de
sire t divert his attention from that
sad theme, and l send up a paper to
the desk. and desire the Secretary TO
read it, giving an account OF some
affairs that have recently occurred in
Nevada.
Mr. Nve. Yes. sir. and they were
all Democrats. | have read the list of
them. I know all about them.
Mr.. Blair. should require much
better testimony than the Senator'S on
that point.
Mr.. Nye. 1 want the law to apply
in Nevada as well asin North Carolina.
Mr.. Blair. l AIN afraid we shall
have to re~territOrialize the State of
Nevada, and thus lose the services of
that eminent gentleman. II ms people
90 on killing each other in this way
much longer. I hope the Secretary
will read the paper.
Mr.. Nye. They would not take the
honorable Senator from Missouri in
my place, at any rate.
Mr.. Blair. God forbid that they
should. in your place. I~Laughter.l l
should desire somebody eise's pace.
Mr.. Nye. They are sharper than
that in Nevada.
Mr.. Blair. The place You have
could not be filled. Task the Secretary
to read the paper. l do not want the
Senator to She'd all his tears gratui-
tously for North Carolina. Let him
look At home.
Mr.. Nye. Read on. assert now
that they are all Democrats, every one
of them.
Here we have a United States Sen
ator in his place declaring hat the
Vigilantes of Virginia City were all
DemOcrats-every one of them
The Territorial Enterprise at Vir-
ginia City, the other day furnished a
column, more or less, of argument
to prove to the satisfaction of a cred
ulous public that there never had
been any Vigilance Committee in
that city; that it was a myth, and the
victims, including the one hung, were
the objects of a hoax. Now which
of these parties we're e~ndeavoring to
play upon the credulity of the pub
lie? Senator Nye says the Vigilan-
ties were all Democrats. How did he
know? How did the information
reach him SO speedily? Was he in
communication with them? Had
they taken him into their confidence