Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-10-03
FALSE, LIBELOus AND INSULTING.

FALSE, LIBELOUs AND INSULTING.
In its issue of the 2Sth ult., the Yir-
ginia Independent gives as fine speci-
men of bombastic balderdssh as we have
met with for many day. Here are
some specimens
The meeting was the spontaneous ex-
preston of a CALLED community OF free
American citizens, who, from q comph-
cation Of circumstances, have been led |
step by step into thraldom by band Of
conspirators, reduced body and soul into
a state of vassalage, compelled TO act as
their taskmasters ordered, and almost
even forced to think as their tyrants
thought, and SO by degrees were their
liberties being circumscribed and their
chains too sorely aud indiscreetly riveted
until murmuring burst into indignation
and indignation into rebellion and deh,
ance. were II NOT
for this wise provision, our fellow-citi-
zens, of this State in particular, must
have been driven ere now TO measures the
most violent for the protection of their
liberties, for the suppression of domestic
tyranny, the destruction OF despotism
that has become almost chronic from too
easy liberation and for the overthrow OF
bold, undisguised corruption, which In
yades every household and poisons every |
institution. Corruption |
here, as throughout the nation, is the |
enemy of the hour-the bold, unabashed,
aggressive enemy-worse than Cesarism;
worse than rebellion; more insidious in
its deadly effects on the power and
strength and life of q nation than fire and
sword. Hurl the tyrant from his throne,
or let the people henceforth be content
to bow their heads in submission to
every officer from Governor to police
man.
Judging from the above excerpts, a
stranger to the State of Nevada would
imagine its people to be q race Of helots,
ground down with oppression and the
prey Of so many callous-hearted task
masters. Now what are the facts
of the case? They are these:
That the mass of the people
of Nevada form the freest, most
independent community on the face of
the earth. Those among them, who
gain their livelihood by manual labor, re-
ceive higher wages and are in a better
and more prosperous condition, than
their brethren on any other part of Gods
green earth. II that were not the case,
would those people continue to live on
the bare storm-beaten declivites of the
Comstock, or in the isolated canyons, the
sandy wind-swept wastes, or barren
mountain sides, where are gathered the
principal settlements of Nevada? The
physical aspect of Nevada has nothing
in it to allure the tide Of emigrants who
are seeking homes or homesteads. Its
mountains are bleak and bare; its valleys
are mostly sandy wastes, scorched, bar
rem and dssolate. The State has nothing
but its mineral wealth to reward the re-
searches of the adventurous prospector,
or repay the investment OF capital. See.
ing this, is it likely that large popula-
ton, remarkable for its intelligence, its
knowledge, its enterprise, its undaunted
courage, would remain in a region
that was naturally so forbidding,
"to be reduced, body and soul,
into state of vassalage;" "for
corruption to invade every house
hold and poison every institution" to be
"tyrannized over by every official from
the Governor to policeman" Would
bold, adventurous community like the
citizens of Nevada, prompt to repel
insult and avenge injury; would they
submit to all this outrage? The thing is
preposterous. To the people Of Nevada
the outpouring of such turgid, bombas-
tic rhodmontades, serves simply as q
laughing stock, as ridiculous bugbear,
as weak invention Of the enemy, who,
like the Chinese want to make up in
noise what they lack in force. The only
injury that such stilted diatribes can do,
is to lower the standing Of the people of
Nevada in the eyes of outsiders, who,
not knowing the facts, may think there is
some truth in these insane rhapsodies.
Looking at these absurd Nominations in
that light, they become positive insult
to the whole people Of Nevada, for they
are stigmatized as set of manacled
serfs, when in reality no other people in
the world are so truly independent, and
are so jealous of any infraction on the
freedom of thought, speech and action
than the much maligned citizens of this
State.