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A. A, SARGENT EDITOR,
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 29.
——
"Whig State Reform Ticket. —
For Governor,
WILLIAM WALDO.
For Lt. Governor,
HENRY ENO, of Calaveras.
Justice of Supreme Court,
TOD ROBINSON, of Sacramento.
Attorney General,
DAVID K. NEWELL, of El Dorado.
For Comptroller, :
GILBERT E. WINTERS, of Yuba.
For Treasurer, :
SAMUEL KNIGHT, of San Joaquin.
For Surveyor General,
SELIM E. WOODWORTH, of Mont’r’y.
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
SHERMAN DAY, of Santa Clara.
Compromise.
California is peculiarly the State of compromise. The only thing that can give
cohesion to its social or business life is the
continual enforcement of compromise.—
Men from every section here congregate,
prejudice encounters much attrition, and if
not worn away is beyond remedy. The
great mass of men readily coalesce in the
active pursuits of life. The same rule
should be observed in politics, and must be
enforced if the good of the whole State
and all classes is looked to. Further, the
people of the United States have just set
the sublime lesson of an entire reconciliation of what were deemed almost incurable
sectional divisions by compromise in which
the greatest and best of all parties and
sections united. Upon the basis of the
compromise as upon a national platform,
every shade of opinion in referrence to
minor questions may be based, and thus,
the fundamental law being established, other questions not trenching on that, may be
jegitimately dealt with.
Such being the compromise as established by the voice of the nation through its
ablest representatives, shall the spirit of
that compromise be observed, or shall it
be treated as a mere bagatelle of legislation, without usefulness or meaning. We
contend for the former, and most peculiarly in California, to correspond with the
temper of the times.
With these prefatory remarks we beg to
call attention to the nominees of the ‘democratic’ party of this county for the Legislature. The spirit of anti-compromise
reigns throughout the whole. The sectional question is broached and acted on
in its most comprehensive and practical
form. The nominees are all taken from
one section, and several of them entertain
the more violent views of that section. We
believe it right to have only cool, respected, moderate men for lawgivers, and these
equally taken from the various sections of
the Union. Itis not right to prescribe
any class of men because of their birthplace, and any party that attempts to do
so will be defeated in the game. It is
said the question of north and south was
not raised in the convention. No man
shows his hand at a game of ecards. If he
is making all the tricks he is satisfied.—
He will not hazard his game by showing
the plan of it. Where was the negessity
to declare the purpose of these movements
in the convention when the object could
be accomplished without it—when it were
better concealed. If we understand the
influences at work in that convention the
selection of men all from one section was
not the result of accident. Intelligent
democrats declare men of other sections
were carefully excluded, and that they will
not support the ticket. That no northern
man whatever, though such men as Chase,
and Carpenter, were presented, could get a
show on the ballots. Whatever the influences at work the result is evident. Compromise was forgotten, and that great body
—majority—of voters, northern men, were
contemned, their convictions disregarded,
their candidates thrown overboard, men
most obnoxious to them put on the ticket,
without even a word of apology or concession. Witness the following table, showing the former residences of the ‘democratic’ nominees to the Legislature : J. T. Crenshaw, Tennessee,
H. P. Sweetland, Tennessee.
W. M. Mason, Mississippi.
I. N. Dawley, Georgia.
W. Wadsworth, Georgia.
W. H. Bostwick, Georgia.
Where, we enquire, are the representatives on this ticket of the great and hardy
west, with its growing power and glorious
energies? Where of the Middle States
those monuments of commercial enterprise
and brilliant achievement? Where of
New England, with her schools and education, her arts and historical renown? No
man from these could get a footing on the
ticket. Chase, classically educated, gifted
with rare genius, who once barely missed
election to the United -States Senate
was coolly voted down for a gentleman
from Tennessee. He was a Maine man!
We will not follow down the list. Enough
is apparent on the surface to evince that
compromise and liberality had no standing
eround whaterer on the ticket. Will
rvestern, middle and northern roters allow
themselves to be thus hoodwinked, their
predelictions and principles be trampled
on, and themselves treated as of no account
in the political scale? It is time to teach
intolorants of every description a lesson——
that those who make party an engine of
sectional views should depend on their own
resources. It isa notorious fact that a
great effort will be made in the next Leg.
Grass Valley Correspondence.
Grass Valley, July 21, 1853.
The fact that you have so able and
piquant a correspondent in this village, as
my—and ially the ladies’ esteemed
friend “ Pike,” has kept me from often
venturing to offer you inconsidered trifles
from my nibless, worn out pen. In sober
prose, or in the regions of fancy, there ‘is
little left but to follow the example of
lovely Ruth—to gleam in a well governed
islature to effect a division of the State, . field, but with no consideration to comand the introduction of slavery. It is as mand the reaper to leave some stray
well-known that systematic efforts have
been and are being made to pack conventions and secure the return of men to the
Legislature favorable, sub rosa till elected,
to these schemes. Thus only southern
men are put on the ticket,and of these,
where it can be avoided, only that few who
are believed by the wire-pullers to favor
these moves on the political chess board.
We shall allude to another question declared by democrats to have influenced
these nominations, at another time.
M’tte Lota Moytez.—The people of
Nevada have been entertained the past
week for several nights with the performances of the eccentric and accomplished
woman whose name heads this note. The
houses have been crowded with an enthusiastic audience, at double the usual prices.
The lady has exhibited herself here in her
most gracious mood, and shown that where
the Jesuits and other annoyances intrude
not like spiders on her arrangements, she
can be as sunny as any of her sex. She
has reversed many prejudices that had obtained against her in the public mind, (of
course all emanating from the malignant
“fathers long legs” that crawi over the
path of merit,) and will leave here with the
good wishes of all devotees to amusement.
She giyes a farewell concert on Saturday
night, when she will of course have a
crowded house. Her speeches are not
the least piquant part of her entertainments, and take an audience by storm by
the pregnant hits they contain. Lola has
made a decidedly successful visit to the
mountains. Her two supporters, Mons.
Chenal and Eigenschenck, are most accomplished performers, and of themselves a host
in entertainment.
key If the State Journal thinks anything we put forth on our own responsibility, is “nailed to the counter” by an
annonymous denial, it is mistaken. Further, if that paper wishes to open and continue the present campaign as it did the
last by blackguardism and porsonal attacks
on its opponents, it may have the game all
in its own hands. We shall pursue our
own course, uninfluenced by and careless of
its opinion, being well sure we declare of
matters under our personal observation
only the literal truth.
Rae Grauman and Josephson have completed their fire-proof building in the rear
of their store, and are now enjoying the
security it affords. It is a fine piece of
work, and able to resist a volcano.
yea. The Whigs of Grass Valley have
organized a Waldo club, and are going
into the canvas with great spirit.
clones thie
Dacverreotyrist.__We have recently
examined several likenesses taken by G.
DD. Dornin, our popular young friena, of
notables hereabout, and have never seen
daguerreotypes that equal them in style
of execution, tone or color. He has verily
caught the sunbeam, and learned to delineate with it at will. A picture of
Mons. Chenal at his favorite instrument,
the piana russe is we think his chef
d’ ouvre. Our friends at Grass Valley
will be pleased to learn he is having a
suite of rooms fitted up at that place for
his art. It isa great feature to have so
skilled an artist in their pleasant town.
Wuirrep.—_A man by the name of
Frank Rivers was pretty severely pounded
at Grass Valley on Friday, by a miner,
for some supposed insult given some time
previously to a friend.
wee. We entered this canvass, as we did
the last, with a design that as far as county
nominations are concerned, where every
one has the same means of information as
ourselves, we should indulge in no personal
remarks, confining ourself to general principles. We shall regret to change this determination on the occasion of attacks personal to ourself. If we are compelled to
change our ground by any vituperative opposition, we give fair warning to gentlemen
in glass houses, we do not throw the first
stone. We will treat you with courtesey
as long as you allow us to do so.
yea.Dr. Moore informs us that the
thermometer stood at 99 in his office on
Wednesday, one degree higher than it had
reached before in that spot this year.
we The Grizzly Water Co. at Cherokee declare a dividend of $5000 or $100
per share in our paper this week. This
looks prosperous. The ditch runs through
a valuable mining section, is owned by
some “‘ first-rate” fellows, who deserve the
dimes for their enterprise.
Asuer cooled the weather considerably
the past week by means of ice creams. He
has recently added a bar to his saloon.
sheaves as a reward to the diligent
eamer. :
The sultry heat of a mid-summer day,
unrelieved by the shower of the morning,
(consisting of a few hundred drops,) would
certainly render the labor of writing impossible, were it not that the advent of the
the divine Lola has stirred the inmost soul
of Grass Valley, waking from lethargy
those in whom Gabriel’s horn would fail to
envolve a sign of life. The echo of the
tempest occasioned by so august a presence,
could be heard last evening through the
bounds of our lovely berg, drowning even
the clatter of the eternal stampers : and tonight—well, sufficient it is that we enjoy
the good that God sends us, and not anticipate the greater blessings yet in store
for us, the humble worshipers of the beautiful in Nature and Art.
Do you remember how “lang syne,” (it
is three months, is it not?) I had the temerity to call in question the honesty of
Marysville in regard to the plank road enterpise, saying that we of Nevada had
been fooled witha nicely arranged game of
bluff? What do you think now of that
bég-souled city, situated at the head of
navigation? After réalizing a heavy profit, in the advance in price of real estate—
equal at least to the cost of the road—the
public spirited citizens of Marysville, cave
in leaving the unsophisticated people of
Nevada in a state of wonder at the addroitness of the play.
Would you believe it? Yes, for your
“ nbelief” always stuck out far enough to
hang your hat on—after sending up two
honorable deputations, and giving us a
list of subscribers, ready and able to
pongala down the brads at call, to the
amount of $200,000, as a stimulous to our
efforts—after all this, and after the exhibition of unusual spirit and courting on the
memorable 11th of June, what sum do you
suppose the patriotic citizens of Marysville
put down, when asked bona fide under
legal organization? You can’t guess, in
ten times; so to save time I will tell you.
On dit that the leading “ merchant,” whose
name js on the Boncombe subscription for
$10,000, with an understood pledge to
double the sum, if necessary to the success
of the Road, in a spirit of true Marysville
liberality put down $5000—and after a
month of travail, this gentleman stands
“solitary and alone” on the commissioners,
books! Don’t you think the prospects for
a road to Marysville are particularly brilliant—and is not Marysville a model city ?
with commercial honor, and indomitable
energy seldom witnessed in so youthful a
town? Goto; let no one hereafter doubt
any pledges made by the great rival of
Sacramento.
Permit mc to congratulate the public of
California on the happy change of administration in the Nicaragua Steamship
Line. When the comfort health and lives
of so many are involved, as is the case in
this immense tide of human travel between
the Atlantic and Pacific, how important is
it that adequate safeguards be placed
around those who are compelled to trust
themselves to the care of others, under circumstances of comparative helplessness.
The route to the States via the Isthmus of
Nicaraguo, is beyond all question the
pleasantest and healthiest, yet the mismanagement and mepepenny of Vanderbilt
and his agents well nigh bro’t it to the
verge of ruin. The purchase of the steamship lines on either side by the Accessory
Transit Company, is an event worthy of
public rejoicing. With many of its officers and managers in N. Y. and its agents
in Nicaragua, I have the pleasure of a personal acquaintance, and now that they
have obtained entire control, and by unanimous vote of the Directors ria themselves
of the Vanderbilt encumbrance, the route
will not only be restored to favor, but the
travel upon it almost supercede the pestilential crossing of the Isthmus of Panama—
so fatal to thousands. I have been twice
over the Nicaragua Route, and speak by
the book when I say to all who intend to
go to the East--go that way by all means.
The twelve miles land travel are but a
pleasure trip through a beautiful country,
and a road equal to any in the world,
while the scenery on Lake Nicaragua, and
down the San Juan River in commodious
steamers, will be a source of lasting and
pleasant recollection. I feel almost tempted
to re-write a sketch of my first trip across,
that your readers may appreciate, in advance, the satisfaction to be enjoyed. The
present agent of the Line at San Francisco.
Capt. Garrison, was a resident for several
ears at Panama, of the well-known and
bighly popular firm of Garrison & Fritz,
and from ample experienee knows the
wants of California passengers, and how to
provide for their comfort. With gentlemanly agents and officers, and steamers
unsurpassed for speed and comfort a long
career of success, founded upon well-earned
popularity, surely awaits the Nicaragua
Line. Pardon me for saying so much—
which I felt prompted to only that I have
seen so much suffering from the rapacity
and niggardliness of the Vanderbilt administration on this route.
The change in the proprietorship and
management nf the Nicaragua Line, so far
as it has thus been rendered more worthy
of public confidence, may very easily be
neutralized by a false economy in failing to
make it known to the people through the
advertising columns of the interior press.
For so many years an active member
of the fraternity, I find it as necessary to
my existence to have my desk loaded with
newspapers, as to be supplied with daily
food ; and consequently my office is visited
by numbers who wish to see on what days
the steamers sail. The absence of any
announcements in the mountain papers. by
the Nicaragua line isremarked with .sur= Fsuppose,however,Capt.Garrison has
ad his hands full in cleansing the’Augean
Stable, of his unpopular predecessor, and
has not had time to attend to all the details of so great an enterprise.
An interesting experiment in quartz
operations will soon take place in the
working of Berdan’s Crusher and Amalgamator at the Lafayette Mill, where one is
now being put up. Of the result you shall
be apprised of in due time.
ours Truly, J. WINCHESTER.
——
B@s~ If any one has borrowed or taken
a file of papers from this office, he will
oblige us by returning it immediateiy.
Bas We learn from a gentleman that
a violent hail storm prevailed on Friday
last on the divide between Bear river and
South Yuba, above Washington. He represents the stones to have been enormously
large.
J. I. Sykes, Esq. was elected Justice of
the Peace at the late election in Grass
Valley. He will make a good magistrate.
Supervisor's Laws.—We shall publish
next week, for the information of Supervisors such portions of the statutes as refer to their duties.
Bay-The Union says stock stealing is
very prevalent from the vacant lots and
eyen the yards about Sacramento.
yea. The people of Grass Valley justly
complain that their powerful and growing
township has no representative on the
“ democratic” county ticket.
y64.Thic editor the Marysville Express,
Col. Rust, does not dare to take the course
of aman and admit, or the alternative of
directly denying what we said in our paper
of the 15th. If he denies it we will prove
him a liar forthwith by responsible witnesses. But he hangs round the verge of
the matter, trying to sneak out of the position his habit of tattling has got him into
by low abuse of ourself. When he deals
with men let him drop the airs of a fawning sycophant and the evasions of a detected criminal.
Whig Mecting,
The Whigs of Nevada township assembled
at the Court house on Saturday evening last.
On motion of H. Davis, Esq., J. N. Turner,
Esq., was called to the clair and A. A. Sargent appointed secretary.
The following gentlemon were appointed
delegates to the county convention of Baturday next:—
Hamlet Davis, Wm. Lindsey, Jas. Fitz
James, E. F. Burton, C. H. Seymour, J.S.
Wall, G. W. Dickinson, J. N. Turner, Louis
Ferrera, Geo. Palmer, E.G. Wait, A. A.
Sargent, Dr. Jesse Moore, R. Little, Jas.
Aiken, Jas. Whartenby, G. K. Reed, Capt.
W. K. Weir, J. Williams.
On motion it was MResolved that delegates
be requested attend in person, but that they
have power to serve by proxy, and the delegates present have power to cast the whole
vote.
The greatest unanimity characterised the
proceedings.
Mapison WALTHALL, a gentleman well
known in this state,and treasurer of the relief
committee in 1850, writing from Stockton
to the Sacramento Union, after drawing a
picture of the great distress of the emigration
in that year, and of the inadequate means set
in operation for their help, says :—
“It was under this state of things, that
Capt. Waldo determined to devote his all to
the relief of the distressed, against the remonstrance of friends at such an act of personal sacrifice.
was fixed on it, and he went under the patronage of the committee, not only with unanimity, but the greatest cordiality, and any
vote of thanks might have been given him
for the noble deed which he had done, and
none at that day questioned the disinterested benevolence of the act, and the personal
sacrifices he had made; and it does seem
that every noble impulse of the human heart
should prompt those, for whose political benefit the recent attacks are made on Capt.
Waldo, to come out and speak for what they
would have said for William Waldo when
they audited his accounts and recommended
to the government to pay it; they have the
power to stop this s!ander, and they are conscious of its entire want of foundation; and
if they do not stop it, they will be justly
charged with being ascessory to a foul and
wanton attack on an innocent and injured
man, with this difference, that the accessory
will be much worse than the principal, because the former know of their own know!edge that the charges are false, while the
principal may, and perhaps does to seme extent, believe them true.
Mapison WaLTHALL.
Srrikes are yery common through this
State. The brick masons at Sacramento
and the “long shoremen” at San Francisco
are making a demonstration.
An officer passed through this city yesterday morning, having in charge a Mexican, whom he was taking from Marysville
to Jackson to be tried for horse stealing.
We learn by a passenger who came in the
stage last evening, that immediately upon
their arrival at Jackson, the Mexican was
taken from the hands of the officers by a
crowd and hung upon the nearest tree.
The whole affair had but taken place as
the stage passed through Jackson and we
are consequently unable to give particulars.—S. Journal.
Heavy Prorits or a Water Coxpany.—lIt is said the Grizzly Company,
which supplies San Juan in Nevada
county with water, have realized over
35,000 for water rents within the last three
months. The water is rented at one dollar per inch. Sluices are used entirely for
washing. Some are over 1200 feet in
length.
Lecxy.—A colored man, named Hull,
residing in Moquelumne Hill, drew a
splended lot of diamond jewelry in Duncan’s Raffle, valued at $1000.
Oxe or tHe Lumps.—At Chip’s Diggings, close to this place, a lump of pure
gold was-taken out one day this week,
which weighs over $1000. Messrs. Crowder & Co. were the finders,-Echo.
But it seemed that his heart }.
Carr. Watpo i3 a plain working man,
not a speech-maker, as Gov. Bigler well
knew when he addressed him an invitation to
meet him on the stump. ‘The letter was
written, doubtless, with no expectation that. engage in a discussion with
Capt. Waldo would accept, under the circumstances, the invitation, and that some caprtal could be made out of the matter. Dut
the Capt. has shown that if he don’t gas on
the stump, he can wield a pen with so muc
effect that Mr. Bigler made nothing by his
motion. Mr. Waldois an unpretending man,
of sound judgment, good information, most
excellent common sense, an honest man, the
noblest of God’s work, and in California,
among officials, apparently the rarest He is
no politician, reeking with the spoils of office
like Gov. Bigler, but a man of the noblest
sentiments, the most enlarged beneyolence
and humanity. When his fellow citizens were
starving amid the snows of the Sierra Nevada, he did'nt stop to make speeches, but
rushed like a brave and good man, to their
rescue, carrying with him for their “aid and
comfort,’ all his earthly substance.
But Gov. Bigler may congratulate himself
that he postponed extending the invitation
until after both himselfand Capt. Waldo had
made their arrangements for the campaign,
for were Capt. Waldo to go with him, and in
his plain way tell the people what he had
done for the suffering immigrants and their
wives and children they would hiss John
Bigler from the stump. Every voice would
be raised for the people’s friend, William
Waldo, for Governor. They would say there
is the man to rule over us. He is one of us,
isa working man, is a good man, is an honest man, has worked with the shovel and
the pick, and he is the man who shall receive our votes.
We copy the above from the Sacramento
Union, and from our personal acquaintance
with the Captain, feel a confidence in his
ability to upset the wily schemes of honest
John.—JDfarysville Herald.
New Stace Lixne—Mr. Conner has
put in operation the past week, a regular
stage line between this City and Gracs
Valley. The carriages and horses are
handsome, and in good condition, and
make the trip three times a day each way.
The charges are low, and the accommodation by the line very great. There is a
great deal of traveh between these two
points, and the enterprise will be well sustained. ‘The stages start from the Nevada
Hotel, and returning from the Beatty
House. McRoberts is the agent.
Panama Rovte.—The remarks of our
correspondent, J, Winchester, “upon the
rival routes we publish for several reasons.
The principal is because we deem Mr.
Winchester rather a spoiled child of the
press, it having been his vocation for years
to wield the pen, and we give him license
we should not grant to others from that
fact. Our own impressions are decidedly
in favor of the Panama route. We have
travelled it several times, and can declare
after these opportunities of observation
that the company having control of it, and
especially the agent, Capt. Knight, are
most solicitous for the health and comfort
of their passengers, and have furnished conveniences far ahead of what the other line
can hope to equal for years to come.
Caxpy.—D. Sands & Co. of Sacramento will accept acknowledgments for
some boxes of very fine varieties of candies.
Our friend Foster, formerly of the firm of
Foster & Asher, has became a partner in
this house, and will be pleased to see his
Nevada friends at their establishment on
J street. See ady.
OG We are informed by the agent that
Miska Hauser wiil visit this place in a few
days for the purpose of giving a series of
musical concerts, of which due notice will
be given. He is noted as one of the greatest
performers of the age.
Ww. W. Hawks, Esq., Whig candidate
for Clerk of the Supreme Court at the last
State election, and one of the most talented
and promisiug young lawyers in the State,
has resumed the practice of his profession
in San Francisco.
We learn from Mr. Casey, of this place,
that the Irishmen of this county have raiseda purse of $1000, to be presented to
Capt. Kendrick, of the American barque
Otranto, for assisting the Irish patriot
O’Donohue, who was so long confined in
Van Diemen’s Land, to escape to our own
free republic.—Shasta Courier.
Business in our midst, says the Stockton
Journal of Monday, appears to be reviving.
Our trade, that three weeks ago, appeared
to be absolutely dwindling down to nothing, now wears a tolerable lively aspect ;
and our merchants again bear about them
a contented look, Stockton, we believe,
has passed the dullest period of her existence.
The Stockton Journal says that Freeman, who was im plicated by Dawson as an
accessory in the robbery on Mormon Island, had his examination before Justice
Baine, on Saturday last, who ordered him
to be taken to Sacramento for trial. He
leaves this morning, in the custody of the
officers, and attended by his attorney —
Dawson who was shot by the Sheriff in attempting his arrest, is not dead and will
probably recover.
The Shasta County Whig Convention,
to nominate candidates for the various
county officers, was to assemble in Shasta
city, on the 23d inst. ~
The Miners’ Advocate says, that on
Monday night last, no less than five or six
dwelling houses, shops and stores, were entered, and property stolen therefrom.
Sranpep.—A difficulty occurred between a Mexican and Chillian, at James’
Bar, on Sunday last, which resulted in the
former cutting the latter, inflicting several
dangerous wounds. The Mexican was arrested brought to Mokelumne Hill and
safely lodged in jail.
Mr. Waldo was to address the citizens
of Columbia on Saturday night.
aE eR
Mr. Bigier and Mr. Waldo.
We furnish below an interesting commentary upon the efforts of Mr. Bigler to
Mr. Waldo,
and the motives of his movements. Itisa
fact known to every one who knows Mr.
Waldo, declared ;by his friends, and by
himself, that he is not a fluent off-hand
public speaker. That he is a good writer,
his recent letters show; that he is a most
honest and benevolent man: no one can
deny. He is a man of fine intelligence,
and common sense, but no orator. Aware
of this latter fact, Mr. Bigler and his
friends have inferred they could make an
easy game of him on the stump, and therefore have assumed a bullying attitude, to
take him, as they hoped, unawares, or put
such inferences as suited them on his silence. Determined to test the sincerty of
Gov. Bigler in his assertions that he was
ready to discuss State or National questions, the following note was sent to his
lodgings. It gave the opportunity™ he
asked for. Ifhe is the pure patriot that
he says he is, why need evade the invitation,
and take refuge under the wing of the
county committee. By his vanting offers
of discussion with Mr. Waldo he implied
great confidence in his own abillties. But
the result shows he acted on the same principle as that on which a quarrelsome man
annoys a supposed physical inferior, who
may be greatly his superior in other re
spects, to get a fight from him, and steps
back the moment @ champion enters the
ring. The committee who take him in
charge plead his ill-health. If he is able
to speak he is able to hear a reply. They
do not wish him to be “annoyed.” If it
will annoy him to have his remarks
logically reviewed ori the spot before the
crowd who hear them, it must be because
he knows they will not bear a reviewal.
A man who wishes to deal only in truth,
who is conscious of his right, fears no annoyance in the dissection of his positions.
Falsehood and cowardice only shrunk from
the light and fear annoyance from free
publie discussion,
As to Gov. Bigler’s having no control of
the mecting, it is absurd to suppose that
an occasion got up because of his presence
would not be ordered according to his
wishes. The.gcounty committee must believe him very weak not to indulge his willingness for discussion, if he evinced any.
The correspondence shows the value of
Gov. Bigler’s professions of a desire to
fairly discuss his administration, and so we
commend it to his admirers here and elsewhere.
Nevapba, July 27th, 1853.
70v. Bigier :—Dear Sir: You areannounced to speak this evening in this city.
From the correspondence between yourself
and Mr. Waldo we take the liberty to infer
that you are willing to discuss “State questions” with your political opponents. We,
therefore enquire if it will be agreeable to
you to allow this evening such gentlemen of
the Whig party as may he designated to
speak to the meeting at the conclusions of
your remarks, reserving of course a right
to respond. Believing this course will
subserve the cause of truth, we await your
answer, which we beg may be given at as
a moment as practicable.
We are respectfully yours
A. A. SARGENT,
Member Whig State Central Com,
G. W. Dicxixsoy,
Member Whig County Com.
Nevapa City, July 28, 1853.
Messrs SarGcent and others :—Your
challenge of the 27th inst. was received and
in reply we have to answer, that Gov.
Bigler expresses his willingness to comply
with your request, but he having no control over the meeting, and having proposed
to meet Mr. Waldo at any time and place
in political discussion, we do not wish
him to be annoyed by Mr. Waldo’s proxies, especially, as his health (as you are well
aware) at this time is very feeble, and also
as we wish him to devote his remarks to an
undisturbed investigation and exposition
of his own political views. We are ever
ready, however, as heretofore to meet at
any other time appointed, any speakers
you may have, by those of our party of sim
Uar grade, and discuss freely any issues you
may wish to make. We are authorised to
say, however, for Gov. Bigler, that he*will
irrespective of any other business Or appointments meet Mr. Waldo at this place,
at any time your committee may designate
Respectfully yours
W. G. AuBan,
Chairman Dem. Central Com. Nevada co
W. J. Kyox,) Members Dem. co.
8S. S. Green, Central Com.
Nevapba Crry, July 28, 1853.
Gov. Bia.er :—Dear Sir: We had the
honor yesterday,to address to you a note asking if you were willing to discuss questions
of “state policy” with your political opponents, and ifso ifit would agreeable to you
to allow some gentlemen designated by
the whies’of this section to follow you in
your remarks, reserving to yourself the
right of a rejoinder. To this we have from
yourself received no answer, but several
gentlemen, without stating they write at
our request, inform us, they do “not wish
im (Mr. Bigler,) to be annoyed by Mr.
Waldo’s proxies.” We had done you the
credit to suppose you desired ag much to vindicate principles as to meet Mr. Waldo
—and that your anxiety te mect him is
dictated by a degire to have both sides’ fairly presented. We assure you we will, if
desired, furnish you a foeman worthy of
your steel, and the “proxy” of Mr. Waldo
so far as entertaining the same sentiments
make his such. They also fear you may be
disturbed in the “investigation and exposition” of your views. The proposal] simply was that you were to occupy the stand
till you had entirely concluded, and then,
after the remarks of the person selected.
were to have the right of rejoinder. BeAlas a acne
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