Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-10-01
WOODBURY.. THE CHOPPER"

Billy WOODBURY., the Republican
candidate tor Congress, as our readers
know, used to be, not many months
since, a blatant Democrat, who, during
1.-The la:e onpleasantness,' favored "a
more vigorous prosecution of the war
ON the Southern side. His sudden
conversion TO Republieani>Io. and the
name thereof, is well understood in
the western part of the State. In East
ern Nevada his antecedeuts are not SO
well known. The following. from
the San Francisco Examiner, will serve
10 throw some little light on his rec
ord:
There is no accounting for the per-
sonal political perver>onS OF come
of the people of the land OF Sa-e-brush
and Sharon. Now there's tile Hon.
William WOODBURY.. of Virginia City.
lust nominated for Congress on the
Radical ticket. When Beecher's puri-
ty vas assaulted SO cirmcunstantiallv,
our faith i'll human nature IA sub
jec:ed to q scvere strain, but its chords
were snapped a>under on receiving
the Geographic account thai William
Woodburn was the chosen of the Rad
teal hordes OF Nevada for Repre.en-
tative in Congress. Our soul is pent
up with agony tor the fall of William.
Ii ever there was 4 faithful disciple of
the men OF rs, we thought William
was the a but. Temporal mUiUHtHr
ct nos mRtuHtUr IN aus. We believe
that is the correct Latin quotation to
make under the sad circumstances;
but ii it be misquoied the HON. VIM.
WOODBURY. can set lis ri-lit, for he j, Il
ripe classical scholar. We beliye he Is
a'graduate of MaynoGth, or q xoWcS,
or Stonyhu:st, we do moi exactly re
member which. 1t is our impression.
however, that the same cassie shades
which sheltered Professor Daniel
o'Connell, of the Post. in his scholastic
youth witnessed the earliest throes of
Williams mentality.
Like the Professor of the lost, the
nominee of Nevada is 4 poet. Per-
haps as sweet a bit of yersitication As
we ever perused.. we read Years before
we had the felicity Of knowing the
subject of this notice, and it was en-
titled The Vale OF Avoca,' by Viii
liam Woodburn, the Identical gentle
man whom the Radicals OF Nevada
have destined tc political destruction.
But his poetic soul Will never have a
chance 10 y q i'll the Capitoline dome
az Washington: and yet. under other
auspices. we might have wished ste
cess TO HIM.
The poem referred to, though SUI
gcstive of Tom Moore'S Injecting of
the Waters" is quite a different con-
ception. WOODBURY., we believe, first
saw the sunlight a the confluence
Of the Avon and .Avoca. Beside being
a creator of ver>icles, William is an
amateur SOngster of no mean merit,
and during the war, upon festive occa-
sion>, when surrounded by %congenial
spirits, he was Won't to air his mellitlu-
Gus vocal organs in chanting the re-
frain:
"Hurrah! hurrai, for the tonny blue la.
That bears a single star
There are morethings in heaven and
i'll Nevada than are dreant of in III
philosophy. Among these undrean.t
OF things are the sonIer>auiting OF such
men as Will. Campbell and VIII
WOODBURY.. We do not wonder that
when W. w. Bishop was beaten for
the nomination he looked a>kant fol
the absent nominee, and ~"indHlged i'll
Incorporate language He, Radi-
cal OF Radicals, who had barred his
breast to the foe en- the bloody Hill.
sides and in the cory CANYONS ot
Washoe from 81 to d.. cast aside fo,
this noopb ! who was. ddrino aU thf
dark DAYS of the rebeIlion.ra sym.
pathizer with the Souih. am uncom.
promising adherent Of the peace
Democracy, a blatant opponent Of al
hone and sinnw. and nlnmh IN IN,
hearts core.
1t vas lust too much for even the