The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-22

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to worm himself in among gentlemen.
After committing various petty dep
relations which were either unknown
to or were overlooked by the police,
he vas picked up by a newspaper firm.
To those who had never known him
before he seemed a prodigy; his pecu-
liar style of personal abuse of oppon-
entS. his utter disregard of truth, his
ineffable and his AFFECT cow
ardice, marked him as a human mon
ster OF remarkable makeup. He was
courted by that class of men who may
be termed mOb-rutfianS-that class
who shirk personal responsibility but
are keen to incite a mob to pounce
upon those whom they personally dis
like and fear. The city in which he
settled was largely composed of this
class Gas subsequent events have
shown, and this skulk was actually
picked up and electedto the Territorial
Legislature. One ofhis first acts there
was to introduce and cause to be i'll
stautlv cad Il first and second time.
considered ~engrossed and passed, a
bill for the payment of $4,000 for a
certain piece of ground, without re-
curing "A good and sufficient deed, and
without even providing that the per-
son to whom the money was to be paid
should transfer the title to the prop
erty. The money was paid, as directed
by the bill. to the repnted owner OF
the ground-and tothis day the public
does not know how much of that $50
600 the introducer of the bill received
for his part in the transactions; but the
public does know that the man who
introduced that bill on the 18th of
February. 1864, has since branded
nearly every member of every sue
ceeding Legislature as a horse thief,
because the title to the State Prison
was not good! Being the scape-goat
and ~scavenger OF a political clique
which assumed to control one of the
great political parties of the State, he
was furnished with an appointment 10
office, but still presided over the col
aims of a nee powerful and int1uen-
tial newspaper until its influence Mas
either totally destroyed or became
negative, and until his own party,
wiucing under his disgusting black
guardi>m and shocked by his utter
disregard of truth and IN de
cency, has gone to the wall under his
m~ini>terings. For years he assaulted
the character of the best men in the
State, and did so with iInpunity. for
however provoking a skunk might be,
no ma would give him a kick. His
own tilthiness protected him until he
came To think every n feared him,
while the fact was they despi>ed him.
fact thai some of the victims of the
helli>h lustS of this moral monster
have Outlired the temporary shadow
cast over theiisiiveS, and are now re
siding in the saIne town, prevents US
particuiariZing certain cases that are
we'll known i'll the particular portion
of the certain Stale which is cursed
with his presence. 1t were natural
that such a cowardly sneak should be
come a brutal tyrant over Il woman:
should 60 to his home night after night
IL bea>tiy state of intoNication and
there vent his accumulated spleen
upon one whom he had sworn to
protect; it were natural that a
pariah with such wolti>h instincts
seek to drag down to his own
degraded level every man of good
in his State. And above all.
it we're natural that il creature who
privately boasts of his triunIphS in de-
>troyin- the domestic happiness of
more than one home; who publicly
that every mans character Is at
his mercy, because he has superior adj
NantaSeS for Sianderliig, and others
no hance to defend; whose un-
appetite> have been satiated
by >poiiatiOn; who has fattened upon
lntidelity to the state and Toasted npon
>lander-we repeat, 1t were natural
that such a creature should he the first
10 rush into a Vigilance Committee :
'or self protection. and cry stop ,
and it We're natural hat such I
al incendiarv should attempt 10 incite i
he mo against ~ who has the
means and The courage to defend him
self against the assaults of such a no |
orious assassin of character. by at +
emptiny to blacken his reputation by }
nnuendo and by mi>repre>enting his +
to one species of lawtess- +
less and putting it i'll the light of il
license of another species.
The above Is Il true picture of one of i
worst men with which society on
his Goa has ever been cursed. and
We hardly think the editor of the En- ,
will accuse us, ever by his =
avorit innuendo, of having been ain
With" the character in order to have
the information given. 5