The Nevada journal., 1854-08-18
Denver & Co,

On Thursday evening of last week
Messrs. Denver, Bradford, Mcdaniel, Wis
tied us, for the purpose of enlightening the
people of the mountains on the subject of
their duty at the neat election. The prin-
cipal points in their speeches., were "a
National Bank'' "the Tariff" "the SUBJ
Treasury" THE Nebraska Bill" and I'D
G.. Broderick."
These men, as fthey had come down
from former age, and having lost sight of
all the advances of the times, and the
changes brought about by the natural
course Of events, regard themselves as still
fighting the old issues of 80 years ago.
Well, let them fight on. In their young
days, they learned certain code of politi-
cal ethics, and as it requires too much
mental exertion to keep up with the prog
ress of the present enterprising age, they
must necessarily go back, in imagination
to their own generation, or relinquish their
profession.
The time has been when the wings
thought National Bank necessary for
the regulation of the Currency and to
facilitate commerce. But that time has
passed, and it is no longer part of their
policy. A Tariff sufficient to meet all de.
fciencies in the funds of the nation, with
discrimination in favor of home manu-
features, was part of the great American
system, conceived and advocated by Henry
Clay. He lived to see it become, though
in modified form, the settled policy of the
National Government; acquiesced in by
every American citizen, and to see the day
that no political demagogue could be found
that dared to question its benefits.
The Sub-Tresury system, formerly
pet measure of the locofocos, has exploded
failed from the absolute impracticability
OF the scheme, and abandoned by all its
own advocates, and it would scarcely be
possible for Messrs. Denver & Co., to re-
Suscltate 1t now. 1t is one of the exploded
tolies OF the past generation, which should
sleep in peace.
As to the Nebraska Bill, they may have
all the glory they can win from that. Il
Is one of those schemes which are always
beng hatched up by demagogues and
which will universally receive the hearty
support of all base and unprincipled men
50 long as 1t seems to receive the sanction
OF popular opinion, but which, when it ex.
plodes, they soon find means to disown and
prove they always opposed. 1t is an ex-
pertinent, setting at defiance all those COM
promises recently established "a advocated
aud sanctioned by such men as Clay, Cal
noun, Webster and Benton, a violation Of
good faith forced upon the American peo
PIE without giving them an opportunity to
De heard on the subject, and calculated. not
to alIay, but to increase ten-foId the ex.
ol'elhent on the ever-troublesome question
oislavery. And we now venture to saw
two years will not elapse until mora than
ene'halt OF IFS present advocates will either
hnd means to disconnect their names with
IT, or wish they had never said thew favored
it.
AS to the capacity of the abovenamed
tToup of politicians, they were all nro.
nounced by those who heard them as third
rate men; Denver is particularly designa.
ted as being in point of talent so far be.
meath the capacity of mind that ought to
represent California in the National Lecis-
latnre, that his election would materially
essen the estimation in which she is now
held by the world. The present condition
and wants of California demand oh,o od,o
Gates IN our national councils, and to select
the weakest pot-house politicians to fnl6ll
those duties, would not only be foolish but
even suicidal. But as their chances of
success do not exceed, as we learn from
good authority, zone in one hundred thou
sand, or 'the same as their chances of being
struck by lightning" it is useless for us to
multiply words on the subject.
We aud the public generally have
learned to regard Gen. Denver, in one
other light. He Is d,selist : He has