Year: 1878

There is no more miserable spectacle i

 the whole range of human misfortunes tha

 to witness the agony of one whs has me

 with defeat and after availing himself c

 every means within his reach, finds tha

 his remedies are all useless and vain. Tn

 Enterprise of Friday pipes most pitoous

 ly, and futters feebly like pigeon shot ii

 vital spot. Were it not that we are natu

 rally tender hearted aud averse to holding

 up the frnltics, miseries, misfortunes ana

 weaknesses of others to the gaze of an uE-

 feeling public, already jeering at its impo.

 teuce, we should be tempted to reproduce

 hero, at the expense of the monopoly of

 time and space that should be devoted to

 matters of more importance, a column or

 two of its vapourings as an exhibit of the

 fecbleness of its defense against our just

 criticisms on its infamous assalt on Judge

 Silent, political inconsistencies, etc. But

 we are not vindictive, as it tries to be, and

 so let it go into oblivion as gently ss pos- sible, and with as little intolerance to the few meurners, who are following it to the shades, as Is consistent with the due observ- ance of the amenities of the profession on % solemn an occasion.

 The tissue of falsehoods that constitute the warp and wool of the publications to which we allude are SO transparent as to carry with them their own refutation; when they are refuted there is nothing left but a ghastly skeleton with the life all gone, and as we never publish dead matter, we have concluded, upon reflection, not to copy it. One statement, however, we may properly allude to for the purpose of more emphati- cally branding 1t as an infamous falsehood, ts the one that assumes that MT. Morgan frightened representative of the MINER into "denying sev sral truths, appealing to Judge Silent,n etc. by "reverberating" his opinion which is represented not to have been hattering io the author and publisher of certain statement in the MINER con- meeting Mir. Murgsn in some way with an infamous article that appeaRod m the En- terprlse. The fact Is the MINER never con- nected Mir. Morgan with any such publica- | tion, nor did any one connected with the l MINER ever consider him idiot enough to | have written 1t. What Mir. Morgan did really say was that the article in the Enter prise, upon which the MINER commented, was ssilly and in bad taste. aad any man who said he either wrote, dictated or ad- vised it was d--d har.n A sentiment in which we sympathized with him. and com mended the manly spirit in which he said it. We, too, thought then, and do now, that if anybody should say that we robbed the stage, wrote for the Enterprise, or did any other disreputable thing. we should brand ouf accuscrs as liars; but as no body. to our knowledge. had thus accused us, any more than they had NIT. Morgan, of any such infamous business, we let tae matter pass apd thought little more of ii, until we saw the distorted version alluded to

 The almost oaily allusion to some power behind the throne, which in its insane rawlings it imagines is firing the heavier shots from the MINER battery, is another feature of the impotent rage of the Enter prise, that we will merely mention as one of the idiosyncrasies of lunatic, born, no doubt, of principle adapted before the Editor went entirely crazy, of allowing l others to direct him and write in their own interest for his paper. Having got the habit and idea so fastened in his mInd he | imagines now in his lunscy that all papers , are conducted on the same principle. I

 What is meant by the political twaddle $ in which he indulges, and imagines some Dne who seeks office, claims to be Repub- ican and is yet neither the one thing nor f Inc other, we are at loss to find out. If . there is any question as to the political sentiments or affiliations of any individual ! member of those who write for the MINER, J pr if there is an office within the gift of the q people of Yavapai County that one of them would lave, if . certificate were made out md rendered to him, we are deceived both ] n ourself and employees. We have been 2 ,cguiicd into saying more than we intended bout so trivial matter, but our sympa- . hies were aroused at the wincing of the Q rallied jade, and we felt that few words of comfort were due. Is the time shall ever come when wo are \ crccd by stress Of circumstances, or other rise, to seek an. attorney to defend us gainst some future publication. which may 2 ossibly be as far ahead of us in ability as , he MINER is of the Enterprise, we shall " to exercise better discretion in the se- f; sction of an advocate than the Enterprise n Id yesterday. in

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