The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-16
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WASHIN GTON:
MONDAY MORNING. JULY l6. ls49.
THE CALIFORNIA APPOINTMENTS
AGAIN


to the worst motives. The relations be-
tween cause and effect, impulse and ac-
ton, are distorted by reason of their moral
obiquity Of vision. tits SO with the Union.
1t beholds every demonstration upon the
part of the Administration through jaun-
diced and distempered medium. Acknow-
Lodging no obligations of sincerity itself,
and wholly cut loose from the inconvenient
restraints of truth, it is incredulous OF the
existence of such virtues in the minds OF
others. If Wing is appointed to Office, It
is prescription; if a Locofoco, it is chicane-
ry. 1t gloats over the marvellous accounts
from the gold regions, and Judging others
by its own inspirations, it is incapable OF
supposing any one beyond the temptation
of using the foulest means of translatlng
the wealth of the ''placers" to their own
pockets. 1t is no wonder, therefore, that
it continues to attribute the California APP
pointments to a mercenary and corrupt
purpose, for it recognises no higher one
even in its dreams.
With the most conclusive proof before
it that the requirements Of the public ser
vice demanded the despatch Of Indian
agents to New Mexico and California, and
that the only possible hope of executing
the revenue laws in the latter Territory
depended upon sending collector and
assistants to San Francisco, under an es-
cort already equipped for that point, and
that the security, nay the salvation of our
countrymen and countrywomen migrating
to the Pacific side Of the Sierra called
aloud for the help of Governments con-
tinues to regard the orders given by the
President, in obedience to the injunctions
of law and humanity, as corrupt and
fraudulent diversion of the public moneys
to the uses of mining parties. Well, let
it. It only shows the profundity of the
abasement to which the Union has sunk,
when no ray of elevated truth, no CLEAN
of moral light, no glimmer of the radiance
of fellowship among men can penetrate its
murky, dank, and dismal depths.
But, fertile as the malignant invention
of the Union is, it could not make out its
case without misquotation. 1t pretends
to cite our remarks when il says that we
were not informed whether any Of Col.
GOLFERS party were connected with the
revenue service or the post office. This
is as nigh the fact as the Union ever gets,
and consequently it is untrue. The pur-
port of what we said was, that, of the fif.
teen persons reported to have gone out
with Mr.. COLLIER, we did not know if all
of them belonged to the revenue service,
or whether some of them might not be at.
tached to the post-office service. The
misrepresentation of the Union was toe
transparent to require correction, and We
have only required to it now to show thai
even that gifted child mendacity could no
get along without adding forgery to false
hood.
The Union says we start immaterla
+ issues. What issues are thesel W.
started none, unless the Union thinks tn,
succor to American citizens upon the prai
ries and through the mountainous regions
traversed by the emigrants, are matter
beneath the care of Government. Fo
what better purpose can our troops be sen
across the continent than to intimidate tn,
Indians, protect our citizens, collect in
: formation, and make secure the advance
ment of civilization and the arts of civil
,, ization over intervening and distant tracts
! No doubt these are immaterial issues +
the Union. That paper cannot compre
ltIIl lOW OH col Soh NNAh AiO'h VIZ S'i'iA
/, of dollars to the voice of distress, tn
0 prayers of the needy, and the supplica
+ tons of the unfortunate to be redeeme
from the jaws of destruction and death
t Nor can it conceive how General TAYLo
. could send the public wagons with foo
: for the famished and helpless children {
suffering, when they might have been de
spatched to the gold mines and freighte
9 with coin for his private Golfers. II ha
: but one idea in connexion with Califol
T nia-gold If the public service require
n expeditions to be sent there, il exclaims-
= goldl If our treaty obligations demand
,e movement on the part of Government,
= = cries out-godl If our own people, wal
dering across the plains, ask for prote'
ton, it replies--goldl And to the prayer