Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-11
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DAILY APPEAL

CORRESPONDENCE VI Td6 UAlLI A111Ab
The Editor Of the Carson fSevsdsl Appeal
has written 80 that paper = letter which con-
tsins :he followins-r National Republican, Sd.
WASHINGTON, DC.
MIR. EDITOR: The yearly custom of
strewing with floral offerings the rest
in. places of our dead soldiery, re-
minds me Of the contrast presented by
that spectacle to the custom of con-
uuerors who " took captivity captive
and monopolizins each to himself that
which we now hcstow with impartial
hard among The many, caused their
own selfish pathway to he laid witt.
flowers and
THEIR stn.Rc. AMBITIOUS BEoWS
to bear alone the crown OF bays. But
we do things better now. We, the
people, are not led by any con4uering
hero. We are not dominated by any
influence save our conscience, our
honest convictions, our love OF our
fellow men and our determination to
maintain that priceless jewel for
which our forefathers fought, the sa-
cred boon Of representation as a con-
dition precedent to taxation - "iife,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
and to maintain intact the purity
and honor of our now happily reu-
nited country. The
DowS-TRODDEN ROMANS,
when Caesars fortune was ten times
tina, of Commodore NanJerbilt's, who
is dying.) and to which the opu!ence
of the Astors is as but ilea-blte
when Nespasia was powerful enough
in wealth and the labor of mems hands
TO build the Coliseum when Train
built monuments, Caligilla watered
his horse promiscuously and Nero
PLAYED All untimely violin, there were
no great transcontinental railway sys-
toms to bless the people, no Western
Union Telegraph companies to filter
our news for US, no Boss Tweeds and
no Clymer's investigating commit
tees. They did not have the glorious
ballot, which executes the freeman's
will AZ lightning does the will OF God,
cash in hand at ten dollars per men,
Der Of the club they held no prima-
ries they wailowed not in the full
GLEEFULNESs OF UTTER DEPRANITl,
neck deep in the filthy pool of poll
tics, as they do-in England. No,
sir. They were downtrodden peo-
pie. and, while suffering themselves
10 be dominated and tyrannized over
bv open-workinS, self-asserting, pal
pable, recognized rulers, they were
wanting in the the blessed boon of an
independent press, with its subtletI es
and its zeal in the destruction of all
its rivals in power. A people who
preferred Caesar, or who did not re-
sist a Caesar, (which is all The same, }
arc to be looked down upon through
eighteen centuries by a people whose
. largest monument is :. system Of COM
mon schools, which teach each man to
| read his morning paper and bless the
hand which smites into the earth
IsCHoSEN REPRESENTATIVE
| in the halls of legislation, and de-
uounces every man a thief who has
not purchased the price of silence, OF
made it a gainful thing to praise him.
| Look how a merciless press tore in
| pieces the character OF James g..
| Blaine, until through the very fiery
furnace Of assault and denunciation
/ lie has wrung a tardy, but none the
| less honest, reparatiOn at the hands of
/ the gifted, but erratic and ingenious,
chief of the New York Tribune. Let
those mock vino will, and, pointing
with envious fingers, past Whitelaw
Reid, to the grim spectre Of Jay Gould
looking over his shoulder and guild
ing his pen, exclaim, ooh! there's
the man who
GIVES BAIL OF BLAINE's INNOCENCE"
the intelligent people of this country
who read the Tribune, and righteous
" mistrust his accusers and his sheer
ing critics, will sustain him as against
all his malignant foes. But the busy
devil OF an unholy inquisition has
come home to plague the Democratic
party at last. Holding, for the first
time in fifteen years, majority in the
House of Representatives. they have
been compelled by force of public
opinion to dismiss in disgrace their
Confederate Doorkeeper, and while
their Chief Clerk, Adams, rests under
damaging accusations, they behold