Georgetown weekly news., 1854-10-26
GEORGETOWN NEWS.
THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1854.
MI. Octavien HOags is our authorized agent
for the Georgetown Ne,cs at San Francisco.

L VI tne laSG elgnUeen m0nInS we nave
been pretty close observer of the proceed
ingS and political bearings of the two great
parties in our national confederacy, and
from the light in which we have viewed the
general conduct of both parties, we are not
at all surprised at the position which they
respectively occupy among us at the pres
ent day.
A strict adherence and loyalty to party
and to party principles consolidation and
perfect organization of forces and num-
bers, has been the invariable policy of the
one; while general improvement in the
condition of the country, and reliance in
the integrity and propriety of their princi-
pies for success, without regard to organi-
cation or compact, has been the mistaken
and consequently unsuccessful course of the
other.
The consequence Of government like this
must be evident to every observant mind.
1t is tbs arrayal of system and combination
against the single handed and unsuspecting
tradesman. 1t is the organization and mar
shalling of a powerful army, controlled by a
supreme head, whose argus-eyed genius is
ever watching his victim like the poised ca
gle, that in an unguarded hour he may
pounce upon his defenceless head; while to
oppose this we find nothing save the daily
avocations and home labors of the peaceful
citizen.
Thus organized it has been the successful
policy Of the one party to create dissensions
in the circles of their unsuspecting oppo-
nents, while, at the same time, they have
actually mtimidated them into the belief
that they were in hopeless minority, and
that their only hope consisted in the forma-
tiOn of false and unnatural alliances which
have invariably proven themselves as fatal
to their interests as the deadly simOOm of
Sahara to the lives of the unfortunate and
wandering adventurer; when at the same
time the truth WQS here-had they main
tanned their integrity to the interests Of
their party, sovereign and free from all en-
tanglements; had they relied upon the strong
arm of right and truth, and with manly
courage have proclaimed it to the world,
that by this they would liUe, or by this they
would die-then, at this time, instead of be-
ing governed or rather held in submission,
by demagogues and factionists, we might be
realizing that glorious millennium which
the Scriptures prophesy of us, when every
man can eat peacefully Of "his own vine and
his own fig tree while there would be no
one who would dare molest us or make us
afraid. Alas such has not been the
policy of our party, and as reward we
are now eating the bitter fruit Of our own
folly. Cowed, subdued, afraid to turn Ell
ther to the right hand or to the left-grasp-
ing at every straw that floats upon the fl
thy surface of political seas, and to our
shame, ready to jump on the backs of our
most inveterate foes, in the vain hope that
we too may gid our faces and fatten our
purses upon the brass buttons and epaulettes
of the ''powers that be-"
Such has been the condition of the two
parties during the past election; such has
been the condition in many of the Atlantic
States; such has been the condition Of Cal
ifornia, and basely and ingloriously has it
been manifested in FL Dorado county, with
in the last few months. We do not so
much blame the Democratic party for their
triumph, as we do ourselves for suffering the
defeat. The truth is, that IN consequence
of the terrible dissensions in the Democratic
ranks, torn and mutilated as they were, by
demagogues and factionists, had the Wing
party been but once fully aroused to a sense
of their own interest, as well as of their own
strength, we should hare conquered. For
this year at least the battle is over and we
have lost, and we must confess that we are
not so much surprised at IL Wheh we reLlenl-
Der the depths of abandonment and reck-
lessness to which the majority of our party
had sunk.
But if the Democrats have defeated us
again, of this last we can say of them, what
the Americans said of the British at the
battle of Bunker Hill-@their victory will
yet result in their defeat" The Wing par
ty are awakening to a sense of their true
position, and like the aroused lion, it will
shake itself for conflict yet to come.
Relying solely and unitedly upon its ouen
strength, it is yet destined to prove itself
worthy the noble ship in which with ban
ners all unfurled and masts erect a Clay and
Webster sailed, untarnished into a port of
tho biohest national and worldly honor The