Daily Alta California, Volume 29, Number 9902, 18 May 1877 — EDITORIAL NOTE. [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL NOTE.

The New , York Sun, . one . of the leading Democratic organs of the United States, is carrying its zeal far beyond the .bounds •of ;? common ;, usage ' or common decency. In a late number (we quote from the Philadelphia ; Hulletin) the Sun used the following language : £iJ'« The most important duty now incumbent upon I the people of tbo United States ' is ; to •bo deal with the first fraudulent President known ', In < our history that there shall never bo another of the kind. As.j« In the performance of this duty ordinary soolal ' considerations ; may sometimes ' have .to give way ; but no such consideration Is of any importance comI pared with the \ preservation of Bepubllcan institutions and Democratic self-government.' , ' >. << An honest king is better than a fraudulent President. The American people fought seven ': years' to get rid or their honest king. Getting rid of their ''fraudulent President will neither be 10 long nor to difficult a process." That is meant to urge the assassination of President Hayes,' if it means anything. Is the editor of the Sun a rogue or a fool ? And do the people, of New York oity intend to make themselves responsible for the ■ folly or J •villainy' by their patronage ? Charles H. Bryan, who died at Carson City on Monday, was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of California in 1855, to fill the vacancy made by the death of Alexander Well:, and occupied the position for less than

a year. That was, we believe, the only office he ever held in our State, whioh he left soon after the discovery of the Comstook Lode, to take up his home in the land of silver. He was a native of Ohio, and a brother of John B. Welter's second wife. While in California he made his home in Marysville.