The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-09
THE TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
AND The K. K. KS.

AND The X. II. hS.
In answer to our heterogeneous, the
Territorial Enterprise OF yesterday
SAYS. first, that we ''mlsrepresehteu
the character and purposes OF the
committee of Safety" i'll Virginia
CITY. lin referring to it as a mob, ana
as lawleSs and ineXcusab.e IN Its oO-
fects as the ku kluN organizations OF
the South" The will or decree OF a
moh or multitude, is a substitute Tor
the common or civil law, Is lynch law
ormob law, and the execution OF lha'
decree is lynching or mobbing, ana
the ..persons composing unlawfu
combinations" engaging Ill the eNecu
ton of such DEGREES constitute a mob.
No man but a downright idiot, totally
IGNORANT of the English language,
will deny that the acts Of the Virginia
Committee have been ''lawiess." AS
to 1.-The purposes OF the committee
we are perhaps not as well posted as
the editor of the Enterprise, and have
therefore to judge of them solely from
the acts Of the organization. FROM
the fact that it has, as an "unlaWlul
combi1Haion," possessing sufIicieht
strenrth to defy the law, attempted TO
intinlidate law officers and law abiding
citizens, we should judge tina Its
purposes" We're not the most com
mendabIe. That the Virginia CITY
Khan is as lawle>s and a
times more s.inexcusable i'll its objects
than the Ku Klux organizations of the
South" must be patent to every uh'
yreiudiced mind. In that city the
officers and Courts have met with h'
obstacles tuntil the Committee was or
-anized}; the property holders III
men most interested i'll the welfare o
the city. have not only enjoyed all tn
rirhts pertaining to American citizen
shin. but have participated III maxim:
the laws aud have chosen their oWl
officers to execute them. In the Souti
il is different. There the propert.
holders, the crest mass OF Ii peoPi
fitted by education TO make W an
the ONLY people who have any mate
rial interests at stake, are d~isfranch Sc
and prescribed. They are neither a
lowed to participate IN making IL
laws which govern them and apprec
ate or depreciate the value OF the
property, nor IN choosing officers
known fidelity and capacity to eN
cute them. Therefore the tax payll
class of the Southern people ha'
some excuSe-a very plausible one
for THEIR lawlesSnesS i'll reSortinG 10
..hirher law" the will of the peofl
than the written laws OF ignorant II
s,roes and itinerant carpet baggefS,
regulate their local affairs. II L
tax paving people of Virginia i
were prescribed by the General 90
eminent and held in suhjec;ion
hayonets to one-sided laws enacted
such men as Hefferman. Willis al
the expatriated, they would then ma
the same excuse for the laWleSS az
of the Committee Of Safety that III
initiates those of the Southern ]
Klux-no more. AS the case stant
the Committee has no excuse WI
ever for taking the law into It's o'
handS-much less for its intlinldatl
threats against ministerial officers Il
iaw-abidin- citizens who express tn
disapprobation of lawiessness.
Secondly, the Enterprise says Il
our remarks were impairment, in II
we know nothing oi the necess
which broacht the CoImmitteetogetfl
There was necessity-urgent hecess
for he enforcement OF the law
u,oinia Ci,y. and there always
been under Republican rule; butth
.as no necessity for a violation OF
law bv those very men who nave
,-,peted their duty. The Enterpr
assumes that we are attempting
lecture the people OF Storey, and s.
it is .~.effrontery to attempt to lectuf
community of ten thousand lnielilg
people" If this be so, then the ecu
of the Enterprise must be the III
shameless and i%mpudent knave in
;stence. for his insoleut II audacl'
cffrontery in lecturing Il comtnur
of eight millions OF intelligent PEG
for the past six years.
OPPOSE GRANT.-The Nepubli
rentral Committee of New York Il
ainr Thursday eveuinC last