Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-31
THAI CArNHoY AFFAIR AGAIN.

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The editor of the Enterprise is mis-
taken in his supposition that " both of
the proprieters Of the SENTINEL
were away attending a Democratic
meeting aud the number Of the
paper containing certain coui-
ments upon the Enterprises version
OF the Cainhoy affair was written up
by some n else" The article was
written by the present sole editor, the
Junior partner of the concern, who
is alone responsible for everything
that appears in the paper during Mr..
Cassidy editorial d~isconnectiun there.
with. We did not assert that the En-
te,pr1se editor changed the telegraphic
account of the Cainhoy affair to suit
his political views, but we did
say, and now reiterate, that We pub
lished the dispatch az it came 10 us
from the hands of the operator and
that it differed in every essential point
from the account published in the tel
egraphic columns of our Virginia City
contemporaries discrepancy which We
could not understand considering the
fact that both journals receive their
press reports through the same me-
dunn, viz: the Western Union Com
pany. We would not willingly do
our Comstock friend injustice, aud we
cheerfully accept his denial that the
dispatch alluded to was garbled or
distorted in any manner in the Enter
prise OIL e, and attribute the incongru.
ity to the Telegraph Company's news
colIator who must have sent Us a
different report from that furnished
the Republican organ in Virginia.
That version, however, was the
correct one, is c~onclusively proven by
subsequent accounts from South Car.
DINA, in the shape Of statements from
the most responsible and respectable
people in the State, Democrats and Re-
~publicans, who eInphatically deny that
the whites were the aggressors in any
of the late race collisions in that Com
monwealth. The Enterprise does us
gross injustice when it says that we,
by our silence, have justified the afro
cities of swhite scoundrels in the muir
der of black and white men on ac-
count of their Republicanism. This
editor must have a very treacherous
memory if he fails to recollect that less
than nine months z he himself,
through the columns Of his paper, COM
plimented us highly for the manner in
which we denouced an outrage of that
character committed, we believe. in
Mississippi. 1t is true we do not place
implicit confidence always i'm the SEN
sational reports Of outrages in the
Southern States, which are sent by the
Associated Press on the eve of every
important election, as experience has
taught US that they are to be taken like
muskmelon-wiih a considerable guam
titv OF salt; but whenever we have be.
come convinced Of their truth, which
WI have in some instances, we have
never failed to denounce the perpetra-
tors in the most unmistakable terms,
no matter who they were or to which
party they belonged. In this instance
we were positive that Chamberlain's
'Colored Militia" were the aggressors.
and expressed ourselves accordingly,
and subsequent developments have
more than justified the severity of our
comments. Than the writer, there are
none perhaps better qualified to testify
to the natural goodness of the heart
which beats within the breast of the
editor of the Enterprise, when its pull.
sations are not disturbed by the fever
ish throbs Of partisan prejudice and
hate ; and whom We alluded to that
organ it was in reference to that condi.
ton and without any intention Of
giving offense to its owner-whom we
regard as a living illustration of the
pernicious effect of radical Republican.
ism upon the moral constitution of a
naturally kind hearted, just and con.
scientious man.