The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-19
b DIFFERENCE.

Migrants, murderers and incendia-
~ries," says the Enterprise of yester-
day. Similar committees of safety
have been organized in Southern COM
munities for precisely the same thing
composed of the taxpayers, whose
lives and liberty as we'll as property
have long been menaced by carpet
bag Republican politicians, numbering
military commissions and negro
militia, and colored incendiaries like
those who testified to their own incen-
diarism before the Congressional COM
mittee. When one of those Southern
committees, in the absence of law and
in self defense, deals out merited pun
ishment to a vagrant, murderer or in
cendiary, the Enterprise and papers
of that ilk blaZon the act to the world
as another horrible Ku KluX outrage
and denounce the taxpayers of the
whole South as rebels and traitors.
But the Enterprise says the ku kluN
of the South are not taxpayers. This
bare assertion of the Enterprise, put
forth at this late day and for a particu-
lar purpose, after il has for years de
nounced the whole native white popu-
lation of the South as ku klux,
scarcely calls for Il denial-its faisity is
so self-evident. Another remarkably
bald-faced assertion of the reckless
quill-driver of the Enterprise is this:
Here lin Virginia Cityl peaceable
citizens and property owners are
seeking to protect themselves by as
law" Could falsehood be more bare
faced or brazen? and does not the
editor of the Enterprise insult the in
telligence of his readers by asserting
that the taking of a prisoner from the
officers of the law by armed force,
and the numbering of that prisoner,
is assisting in the administration of
the law" But this assertion is of a
piece with that other in the same SEN
tence, that ''in the South gangs of
restless non-producers are engaged in
numbering and plundering peaceable
citizens in defiance of the law One
is Just as true as the other; the animus
is the same of both, and by this reck-
less misrepresentation of transactions
under its very nose the u~nreliability
of the Enterprise i'll speaking of affairs
in the South may be easily under
stood. But there is a large class-all
the Ieaders-ot the Republican party
who resort to the same impudent and
reckless means to deceive the people.
They are the same in the sanctum or
in the halls of Congress.
Here are some questions asked by
the Enterprise, to which we take pleas
ure in appending Are the
members of the Committee of Safety
in this city overthrowing the safety of
persons or prOperty?" They certainly
are-both by their written threats 10
law-officers and law-abiding citizens,
and by violently putting beyond
reach evidence which could have been
made available in the conviction Of
other incendiaries, whom the Com
mittee by its secret and mysterious
workings shielded from the law and
Justice and thereby encouraged to go
on with their destruction of property
whenever members of the Committee
NAV require their services in that line.
Are they composed of soldiers i'll the
late rebel army?" No; we should say
they new saw IN army, for soldiers
do not band together under the
double disguise of darkness and masks
for the purpose of strangling prison
ers. ''Do they interfere with the oper-
atoms of the courts of justice?" They
do; they do more, they interfere with
Justice itself, by taking prisoners from
the hands ofthe courtSand SuIumarlly
strangling them to keep them silent
as to the misdeeds of others. ''Have
they subverted civil authority" They
have; by forcibly taking prisoners
from the civil authorities. "And,
finally, does not the editor of the
Register insult the Intelligence OF his
readers by comparing the committee
of citizens in this city to the rebel or
carnations of the South" No; we
may have insulted the ''rebel organl-
zations' by such a comparison-but
our readers, both inside and outside
the committees know that there is a
cessity for such organizations in the
South than in Virginia City.
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