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Title: 1865 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 627 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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GRASS VALLEY UNION JANUARY 14, 1865 43 ourselves as becomes a man and a gentleman. We shall deeply regret to be compelled to do so on the public streets. Mr. Ridge knows where to find us any time his courage prompts him to need our services. An Outsider’s Opinion. Church Street, Grass Valley, January, 13th, 1865. Editor UNION: I have listened today to scores of persons who were talking with the friends of the vile wretch that disseminates the filth of traitors in our village and vicinity, who unhesitatingly declare that that brutalized Indian of the “Moral Pestilence” is a low, cringing coward if he does not one of three things:— Ist, Challenge you to fight him as though he was actually assuming to be a man, and a gentleman, instead of a biped, with all the characteristics of a Hyena, or; 2d— To apologize and own his reason to be carried captive by the frantic impulses of his fiendish or brutal nature, or;—3d. To leave town and thus own himself a coward, and yet possessed of some traits of feeling akin to shame, and self conception of his deep degradation. Everybody (almost) think him a low and shameless coward if he does not challenge and fight you, as gentlemen are supposed to do. . . . Permit me to insure, that if you should accept a challenge from the hyena-like Indian, your friends do not think the conditions of the fight equal in any respect. You are regarded by friends and foes as a gentleman, while the Indian is looked on by all decent people as a thing, more like a fiend than a man... . The Sentiments of the Union Party. The copperheads, to serve their cause, have long endeavored to bring the Union cause into disrepute by asserting that the Union party have waged war on the South, for the sole purpose of enforcing the principle of negro equality; and that it is the chief desire of all Union men that negroes should be immediately clothed with the right of suffrage. The following views of the Marysville Appeal, the leading Union paper of the State, on this subject expresses the opinion of every true Union man: “The war on slavery has not been made on principle and from love of the black race, or a desire for their elevation. We have made war on slavery purely because slavery made war on the Union. There are those, however, who would hazard all to advance the status of the negro. Already it is proposed to amend our Constitution, admitting negroes to suffrage. The advocacy of such a measure is highly impolitic at this time. To close this war and bring it to a happy end, we want unity in the North; and the introduction of such radicalism, during its existence, has a tendency to divide the Union strength, and in the end inure to the success of the rebellion, and the perpetual enslavement of the negro. War for the restoration of the Union is the one great question, and let us first dispose of it. When Union and peace are restored, let political moralists advance their platforms and divide the people into parties. But the present is no time to discuss negro equality. Negro suffrage is a question we can decide in this State at any time, and has no National significance. The war is not being prosecuted to ameliorate the condition of negroes in California, or anywhere else. We think the Union press of California will discourage all such discussion at this time.” QUARTZ MINING.—The Transcript says that— “Tt is estimated there are not less than three hundred men engaged in taking out quartz within a mile from Nevada city.”