The Nevada journal., 1853-03-04

and bring it 10 bear by the weight OF d.
rect threat.
The value Of tha! threat depends upon
another consideration. Whence does San
Francisco derive its wealth and Importance
Solely from the interior counties. Upon our
trade tits dependent for its very existence.
1t may talk lofIily Of the Difference due to its
property, but that property is the accumula-
ton Of profits from its inland trade. If that
trade was to cease tomorrow, and some har-
Dor by conyulsion of nature was created
more convenient Of access to the mines San
Francisco would fall as rapidly as it has
risen, struck by q paralysis so sudden and
fatal, that only by its Wondering ruins, or
tradition, years hence, would the visitor know
it had existed. The vast amount of goods
purchased for use in the mines for which gold
dust is exchanged has been the means of en-
riching San Francisco merchants, building
its fine blocks Of buildings, and giving drcc-
ton TO the wings of ocean commerce to its
harbor. The proud preeminencc of San
Francisco has no Inherent cause save as a
depot for ihe whole mining counties. From
small town the discovery of the mines, and
the great interests that grew up in the midst
of them, raised San Francisco at once to ri.
val cities well located on the Atlantic side.
The trade of San Francisco with the South
compared with the North is nothing, and
with the North it extends every day.
The Herald may deem the concentration
of property at San Francisco makes it the
more prominent field for the tax gathcrcr-
But the interests OF mining counties are cv-
cry day consolidating. Permanent cities are
growing up, and as soon as some tenure shall
be fixed in the land, for farms and building
lots, the yield of taxes of these counties will
vastly increase.
But it is madness without method for San
Francisco to talk of separating itself from its
markets by State line. Its interests are
too much dependent on the North. We
smile at its threats, when all its own intor-
csts are arguments against division A di-
vision OF the State giving San Francisco to
the South, would stimulate the natural feel
ing which the citizens of every nation and
State possess, that Of desiring the possession
off large emporium within their own limits.
Saucclito or Bcnicia or some other point
would be fixed upon as the great city of the
North. The northern portion Of the State
would feel pride in building up its own
great city, and Withdraw its trade from the
rival city of another State.
But the threat of the HauM as an alterna-
tive to the Introduction Of property quail
fcation, is idle from another consideration.
At the last convention held in the South in
favor of a division, San Francisco was unan-
imously rejected from their portion of the
State, and placed north of the proposed di-
vision line. The South won't have the city
of fshopkeepcrs, They reject San Francisco.
1t is exceedingly simple for San Francisco
papers to hold threats of separation over the
North to enforce concessions, when those who
favor division will not take that city off with
their portion. The prize the Nor!h will lose
the South thinks no gain. Nor would it be,
They want no such influences to neutralize
the action of their sparsely populated coun-
ties. The only resource San Francisco has
is to set up a State in its own county. The
South won't have it-itw won't have the North
so ctGcun a son gout,