New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-08
GaNerninn Cnlifnrnia.

were offered 20 morrow 70 each Of our Democrsilc
youth Of fifteen 70 twenty, We suspect there would
be found no boy and not many girls 80 modest a.
to refuse it through distrust ofhs or her abilities
rural village that coudnot produce three good
mechanics even al their own appraisal, viii readi-
ly turn you cut the raw Material for a dozen law
givers and governors.
OF late this general proclIyiiy 70 tbs trade Of
governing has found the best Il ED for us theore.lc
demonstrations on the soil Of California. There q
new region, with newly discovered and vaguely
developed capacities, is suddenly attracting to It's
bosom swarms Of eager sdventurers from half the
area Of the globe. population not exceeding
fifty thousand IN September last VII probably be
swelle1 TO Half Million By November next and
perhaps TO still greater number. Yankees, Euro
peaas, Mexicans, Sandwich islanders Chinese,
Australians S0uth Americans Asistic Russians
win hurry thither and interminge with the
miserable remnant q Aboriginal savsges and the
incident, half barbarous shrinking Of native Cai'
fornians who wholly or partly Of European an
cestry. We shall there witness the incandes
cence aud Capitalization Of new community on
a scope hardly para.leled since the Building Of
Dhuri Nhs tlifttfhs iNt hNtAfif N4lN NNhAih- hta
the strong will be largely represented in that new
social csldron, but the ignorant, the weak and the
simple will also be there. The'vrtnons, the hon
est. the thrifty will be there 50 will the reckless
dspraved and dis.ipsted Vice will stalk unbush
ingly for a season, and horrible crimes WILDE com
mitted. The fanatics who denounce Government
as a wanton usurpa,ion and the os1se Of the evils
II pretends 10 cure or 1T least repress will have
chance 70 see If their wilfulness will let them
at all, the allacy Of their notions and the absolute
necessity-at least until the greater me- ority shall
be better educated and shielded from temptation
than now of resolute, powerful peremptory Gov
eminent. California will teach useful lessons
If we are so wise as 70 observe and heed them.
But when Government is named there are many
among us not yet emancipated from Old World
ideas Of governing-who have no no idea OF 1t aside
from external force-trom material terror Cab
lornia ex posed to crime aud violence, they truly
PREMISE and therefore must be protected as If
Nicholas or Mehemet Ali were its sovereign. We
must send thther plenty Of hired soldiery and ep-
auetted shoulders and brass ordnance and cannon
balls and grape and shrapnell shells, and thus In
sure the preservation OF order and personal safety.
But, gentlemen saying nothing yet OF the heavy
cost Of trans portstion how DO you propose to hold
your soldiers to their colors after you shall have
waited them to the Land Of Gold To justify the
the heavy expenditure you urge the wondrous
productyeness of its Mineral Region must con
tinue if not increase for your ornaments are
asked for on the presumption that California is the
richest placer on earth. Dispel this presumption,
and our army might as well be sen, to Oregon
ay better for there is smoldering savage hos
tility to rule in Oregon but none in California
Now suppose Five Thousand Regulars transported
10 California. and paid even thirty dollars per
month, with fair ratlons and clothing, do you sup
pose a majority of them would be kept IN bond
while IN the mountain eens and rayines all around
them men were digging an ounce Of gold each per
day Is there any reasonable hope that one third
OF them would hold on Consider the materials
Of which armies are too generally oomposed-or
indeed, consider any human materials exposed to
such temptation-and Judge what is to be fairly
calculated on Remember that the troops to be
useful cannot be kept in garrison. but must he out
patrolng the Mineral Region tracking out ohen-
ders epprehending deserters and protecting the
wagon ms on their passage from the seaboard
TO the diggings and back again To our mind, the
movement Of any considerable body OF troops TO
the Paciiic-ndeed. OF any troops at all-would
be a most prodigal folly. II the Government
would send the whole Army there, giving every
officer and soldier the option to leave the service
and dig, agreeing never to bill up the ranks thus
thinned out, we might agree to the transfer, but
not otherwise
Instead OF undertaking to govern California by
the sabre and bsyonet our plan would be to tell
the tens of thousands rushing thither, Men gov
'ern yourselves, Most of you are intelligent aud
capable you go there TO make and save some
thing you have ell a common interest in good
order and equal Justice Whoever robs or Injuries
or defrauds is the deadly enemy Of ninety nine in
every hundred Of you. The land is ours but You
are free to use it, the gold is ours, but you are
free 70 dig it go, then. and take il. but make
ample provision among YOU for the security Of
life snd property. Establish courts, adopt laws,
organize patrols and deal Justly with offenders,
and we will deal as generously with you as can
reasonably be asked Such sthe spirit IN which
we would provide for governing California.
That offences. outrages. crimes, would still be
committed, We DO not doubt for human nature is
far from perfect, in California or elsewhere. But
by taking this course YOU put the country fairly
on its good behavior, and compel the vigorous ex
ercise Of the power OF the community for general
good Instead of five thousand soldiers. poor
amid wealth. and without a stake In the country
they are required to protect, you have ten times
their number OF hardy, active, intelligent men.
familiar with every lurking place, stimulated by
selfinterest and self preservation. covering the
whole inhabited region as with net, and readily
communicating from one end Of the country to the
other BY requiring each man to act as policeman
one day in each monitor each company o.. thirty
men to furnish one regularly for that Purpose-you
would organize by May force Of three thousand
ethcien, men, Inch would be swelled by Sepiem
Der to at least ten thousand This force might act
as maicarrieTs, traln-conyoys, Sc as well as Nil
tary aud Police and would be worth twice their
number Of hired soldiers IN the latter capacity.
When the land shall be surveyed and broaght into
market, 1t would be very proper to acknowledge