It did not take the state administration long to find out that their bull-dozing tactics could not intimidate the Federation into hoisting the white flag. But if the military could make no impression on the Federation, they could at least harass and annoy them; and with this laudable object in view, they placed a censor over the Victor Daily Record, the official organ of the miners, and thenceforth the Record had to submit copies of its daily editorials to the military censor.
As a result of the actions of Governor Peabody and General Bell, conditions in Teller County, Colorado, were so unique, and presented such interesting pictures of legalized anarchy, that it is a wonder so little attention was paid to them by the lynx-eyed reformers of our country.
It is equally a problem to understand why the President of the United States, who is such a great hand at making and unmaking republics and righting far distant wrongs, despite the fervent appeals and prayers of the workers of Colorado, turned a deaf ear to all entreaties, without saying a single word of reproof, without doing a single act on behalf of outraged justice.